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let's go to millie, who's in california. good evening, millie. you're on the air. >> caller: hi, vinnie. this is millie from wildemar, california. i am a 70-year-old woman -- >> you sound so young, millie. not that 70 is old. but you sound like you're 30. >> caller: oh, thank you. i feel like it sometimes. but i just have been so affected by michael's death. i've listened to a lot of country music and missed out on michael jackson's music. >> are you starting to listen to it now? >> caller: pardon me? >> are you starting to listen to it now? everybody is downloading this music. have you been listening to it? >> caller: i haven't been yet, but i will be. >> make sure you do it, and make sure you tune in tomorrow because it's going to be quite a tribute to michael jackson. thanks so much, millie. we appreciate it. >> caller: and his song of "gone too soon" just applies too much to him. and i miss him. >> thank you so much, millie. we appreciate it. those sentiments are going to be shared by folks all around the globe. don't forget, michael jackson,

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milly martini bratton is the editor in chief of "brides" magazine.couple. good morning to all of you. it's getting exciting. okay, before we get to the business of choosing the wedding bands, let's talk a little bit about our bridal party attire, because, america has voted, and without further ado, they have chosen look number -- drum roll, please. work with me. number -- three. the collection by priscilla of boston, the dress. and the seersucker suit. so nick, let me ask you, because you haven't had a lot of say so far, do you like the look of the seersucker? >> it's cool. >> it's very elegant. >> i thought it would look cool in my wardrobe. >> and for a plaza wedding, it couldn't be more perfect. what do you think, leigh? >> i think it's very vineyard. napa valley feel. very summery. so, i think it's going to be perfect. they're going to look gorgeous in it. >> beautiful. all right let's get to the business, now. thank you to you all, our models and our gorgeous ellie berger modeling in the dress. i'm like, who is that? i know her. oh, yeah. let's

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millis package is working its way through the economy. -- the stimulus package is working its way through the economy. there is no way that a stimulus package will address the problems they have in california and other states. that problem is not economics. >> any bright lights? >> we are talking about the green shoots in the economy. green shoots are the season of the locust. this is a steep recession. i always thought we overestimate the influence of the administration on this economy. it is a $15 million economy. we blame the president if things are bad and praise him if things are good. the best evidence is how little this stimulus has had. it will have almost no effect at all in this recession. we are in the deaths and the stimulus money will hit after the trough. >> i think charles is right. in february congress allocated $780 billion to help the economy recover. a little bit has been spent but we have lost 2 million jobs since then. we were also supposed to have these jobs are ready and apparently they were not ready. but we are not putting people back to work. unemployment is gett

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. >> paul: one milli. that's the numr of americans whve caught the h1n1 virus since the flu swept thcountry in april with infectiontill spreading, the government is aggressive working to get avaccine out to thpublic. the admistration also hosted a summit today at the natial initutes of health to be sure americans are ready foa potential flpandemic this fa. health anduman services seetary katherine sebelius is ging the states and the publico stay vigilant and the feds are launching flu.gov, website with tips and information on theirus. >> susie: sebelius and t obama administraon are also pressuring congrs to come up with healthce reform bills bere the august recess. earlietoday i talked with sebelius about that. my first questn: despite all e cost cutting concessions fromospitals insurance companies, and drug firmis that real refo? >> well i uld say that cost reductions are a piece of it but what wre tying to cost ductions is a higher quality system. what we know is whetheits in hospitals or too often in do

an apartment building may seem like an unlikely cost for a diplomatic rift, but in the complicated millies, it is a point of contention between israel and the obama administration. >> a dilapidated building in east jerusalem, once a hotel and land once owned by a famous palestinian leader. it is now at the center of another route between the obama administration and the government of benjamin netanyahu over settlements. the israelis want to build settlements here. on land they occupied since 1967. washington says that will not help the peace process and wants it stopped. netanyahu has come out fighting. unified jerusalem is the capital of the jewish people in the state of israel, he said yesterday's cabinet meeting. our sovereignty is non- negotiable, and that meanshe president of jurors on can buy apartments in any part of the city. but the palestinians want east jerusalem for the capital of their long-for state. they believe it is one of the key final issues. >> this means that the efforts that are being exerted, it undermines the credibility of those involved in making the peace process

chargewith protecting the health and natal environment of millis of americans, she is confronting somefe country's biggest ecological ills to date. i sat wn with administrator jackson to fnd out what her top prrities are at thepa. >> la jackson: it's clean air and ean water, the fact that it's the year 200and in many areas of is country, we're starting tfeel real stress about wer supply. fit off, who gets it? 's a scare resource. >> bonnie: well,hat's been the history of t west, right? figh over water? >> lisa ckson: yeah, and now wee starting to seit here. you know, we saw therought in the southeast last yea so it's very fre in people's minds ... a problem that many of thought over the years, "oh, well, maybe we're a bit immune to it, since we don have deserts," and nowe're starting to see that. that's the firstanifestation of a future that we have to start to guard agast. that being sd, the solution is actually not unlike energy. we waste a lot of ter in this couny. it's not just cause we, you kn, leave the faucet on when we brush our teeth, ich hopefully wre not doing, but because mu

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. >> i cannot stand here as your goveor and allow the millis of dollars and all the time go waste so i and allthe title of goveor. >> in other words, you can take this job andhove it. befor wetart on sarah palin, whseems to inspire great devotion or bile in equal msure, let us look at the governor throh a different lens -- her uniqueness. you are in an airplane,t crass in a wildeess, you, nancy pelosi, and the goveor of alaska rvive. who would you ust more to build a fire to keep you warm, attract some game to be you and leave you back t civilization- nancy pelosi an sert -- or rah pali? >> and bring home a fish to eat. >> itakes a better dead. >> i bet she could eat one live, thats how goodhe is. she is a very great talenbut shes unprepared anif she left office becaus of the he in the kitchen, the attacks on her andtri that is understandable andeasonable. she had a calculation that this would sehow help publicly galatia's i never nd. it coulde the end of for career. america has seconds acts in politics,ike nixon, bushe imagineshe could be like a reagan in theorld and is in the970's,

officials es timate many ha tatretithn , uth to 1 milli people have actually been infected. 170 have died. today, government officials urged americans to be prepared for a new outbreak when cooler weather and school returns in the fall. lisa stark reports from washington this evening. lisa, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, charlie. well, we heard today for the first time that the federal government expects it will have a vaccine against this flu ready by the fall, and it's likely to ask millions of americans to roll up their sleeves before flu season hits. hundreds of health officials from around the country were warned today they do not have much time to get ready for a resurgence of the h1n1 swine flu this fall, the start of the traditional flu season. >> it is not gone. it is continuing to spread. it is in 102 countries. we have it in every state in this country. >> reporter: underscoring the seriousness, president obama took time from the g-8 summit in italy to phone in. >> we want to make sure that we are not promoting panic, but we are promoting vigilance and preparatio

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the busch gardens roller-cote re b wrre than 29 milli it in 25 years. last year -- the last ride is scheduled for september 7. the california octuplets and six siblings are headed for tv. nadia suleman has signed an agreement for each of her children to start in a reality show. the children will collectively earn about $250,000 over three years. contracts require a judge's approval. the show is slated to begin filming september 1. take a look at your weekend planner. if you look for a good deal, over 200 properties will hit the auction block today. it is in the independent ballroom of the grand hyatt in d.c., located at 1008 st. nw. and the seventh annual big train this ballgame gets under way this evening. proceeds will go to habitat for humanity of montgomery county. begins at 7:30 in bethesda. and finally, children will show off fashion to raise money for charity. the 14th annual i am somebody fund-raiser kicks off this afternoon, benefits and a foundation providing assistance to families and individuals encountering setbacks. it is at the clinton li

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. >> the associated press has fact checked that and says it does not apply to this 245 milli$245 overhe next decade they're willing to give to doctors increasing their medicare fees. is there room for interpretation? >> this visit to the cleveland clinic today actually illustrates just how complicated this issue is. the reason the president is visiting the cleveland clinic is that they've been very successful in going to this new model rather than fee for service for doctors. they call it fee for value. it's actually improved the medical outcome, but at a lower cost. when peter orszag was asked yesterday why we didn't move completely to a fee for value, he said we don't have enough knowledge about how that would work. so that illustrates the fact that everybody knows the current system is broken, hugely exspentive. but nobody really knows how a new system would work and that is going to be the president's challenge today. and going forward, to try to offer more specificics to reassure people. >> ezra, what's your sense on this? when you're looking at the plans that the house democrats

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they have one in custody, and here you have the for her rin men ster david milli ban saying if he's mistreated there's consequences. the face-off continues. >> reza, we appreciate your reporting. thank you very much. >>> in the meantime in central america, high drama in honduras tonight. zelaya ousted one week ago anyway coup took out from dulles airport. he's on a jet bound for the capital of honduras. the announcement that zelaya was returning home sent cheering supporters into the streets, but it is not clear, not at all clear zelaya will actually arrive or what will happen if he does. a live report from carl penhall just moments away. >>> in just two hours president barack obama leaving for russia and a two-day summit with medredev. ed henry is in moscow with a preview for you. >> reporter: the president's first stop here in moscow, all about trying to warm up the u.s./russian relation smip which got downright chilly in the bush years because of tensions with putin, mr. obama and top aides talking about hitting the reset button and has out reached to the current russia government has been

original cost per year supposed to be 725 milli$725 million whe passed it '06, it's going up towards 1 barry bonds. massachusetts health costs rising 12% a year since passing universal coverage. that turns the logic of obama-care right on its head. let's bring in the real deal squad, tanya acker, lawyer and huffing post blogger and the others. greg knapp, let's start with you. what do you think? i think the cost is far out of control and obama has us convinced he will be able to cut costs. >> the first bills were so bad anything looks better. not a trillion or 2 trillion, $900 billion. party time! it will cost more than mentioned as it always does. taxes up, services down. you look at obama's own words he wants to slow the growth of services not just cost, services. i don't want that in my health care. >> tanya. >> the services he wants to slow are some administrative inefficiencies. these are -- >> that's not it. >> that's a big part of it. >> we will see savings when we get the costs under control. >> and theness to le ness to lt pediatrician wants to get paid for. >> this is what

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t the economy has lost six a milli jobs since the recession began in december 27.d given the most recent unempyment report-- another 433,000 jobs losin june-- ce president biden defended the package thiseek. he said the bigger oblem was the deh of the recession. >>and so the truth is, there was a misreading of ju how bad an ecomy we inherited. now, that doesn't i'm not-- it's now our rponsibility. so theecond question becomes, did the ecomic package we put in place, iluding the recovery t, is it the right package given the circumstans we're in? and we believe its the right packa given the circumstances we're in. > ifill: but republicans don buy that argumenor talk among house mirity leader john boehner made that case th afternoon. i found it interesting over the last couple odays to hear the ce president, vice president biden, d the president mention the ct that they di't realize how difficult of an ecomic ciumstance we were in. now this is thereatest fabrication've seen since i've been in congress. i've sat through the meetings at the wte house with the present an

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more than 1.6 milli people registered for tickets, d only 8,750 mes were ch. nbc's michelle kosiki join us live. i suppose a lot of fans aren't so concerned about t custody batt, but where do things stand asar a jackn's millionsnd which direction is this headed? >> reporter: well, you said the right word millions. that's why this is soou are n and so portant, and we're not evaing about millions here, buthundreds of millions, possibly a half a billion dollarwhen all is said an done. itas kind of a crazy dayn court. re than a den lawyers were present representing vario sides,nd there was en a littit of an uproar this morning when a dbie rowe lk alikealked by causing t glal press to swarm around her and to r. it wasn't her. just a look alike. we know both sides here, the executors named in mge's wiicha jackson's ll and his mother claimed a viory. temporary conol of the estate are i the hands o michael jasos attorney and a former manager of his. but katherine jackson's people also said, well, you kno what? the judge did ke thunusual step of wanting to ensure that

the germans and the japanese when churchill said if we had started earlier, we uldn't ha lost the millis thatwe lost becaus we delayed and what rusk said-- and iquote a memo in there from him-- i never saw the memo until i ben to wri this book. rusk said to the predent in july of '65, "mr. president, if we don stop them there, if we don' prevent loss of vietnam, there ll be a cattrophic war." he mnt world war iii. i think that w tally wrong. today. then i dn't. i s concerned. now, why was i concerned? i'm sorry to take so much time but this is very important. >> rose: time we've got. >> i've gonehrough world war ii in three or four years. i had seen... after we won the war ihad seen the siets take over poland, hungary, czechoslovakia. i'd seen them try to subvert the established gornments of france and italy. when i camto the pentagon... i s there seven ars. in august of '61 the soviets tried to take berlin and when i lled larry ngor sd, the supreme aled commanderin europe, he sat in my office to ask how this was going to evolve he said " may have to use nuclear weapons." think of it. in

that people would feel a little remorse and feel embarrassed and not get million dollar or multi- milli million dollar bonuses. if shame does not work, i think one proposal i put forward is to make sure that at least shareholders of these companies know what they're executives are being compensated. that may force some reductions. for banks that are still receiving taxpayer assistance, we have a set of rules that gives us some control on reducing unwarranted compensation. in terms of the last point you made, which is the possibility of fees for transactions that we want to discourage, that is one of the ideas that is going to be working its way through the proce process. i think, at minimum, what we want to do is to make sure th that -- to the extent the federal government is going to have to be a backstop, just like the federal deposit insurance corporation, what everybody's familiar with, fdic, the reason you put your deposits in your bank, you can have confidence they're insured, that's paid for through bank fees, we may need to make sure there is a similar mechanism in place for som

you know, 12, 15 milli already have a plan out the, 10 or 12 million ma more than $75,000 and could pay for . ten million are not u.s. citizens but would say the million people who a uninsured coupled with the ct issue fo everybody are the two issues th we should address and today. >> rose: where do y see the health ce proposal of the administration that' making its way through the house anthe senate and theenate finance coittee and wt's happeni over on e house side? where is it today and has it lostomentum? >> you kw, first of all, is impoant for people to understand-- and howard d i were talking abouttarlier-- there are three committees in the house d two in the senate so far we've n seen the hlth care plan reallyhat it's going to be. so anythinwe say, the principles areut there. that's cgress, and thas where the action is. the president ishe cheerleader. i'm not minimizing it,ut in truth the prident can't control what thi body... e unit states senate, is doing. >> ros should the president have prented a plan he wantd? >>t would have made a big diffence but he looked back to 1993 anda

the very impressn she's made onle the tors, she's going to make the millis of americans as they watchhe hearings, she is going to be approved by a large margin. >> y heard senator mccain oppoto the idea of an investigation into the alleg torture during the bush ministration. where do you come down? >> i generally believe tha wit the prident and john mccain is looking forward not backwar, but when there are egrejs violatns, you can't brush them under the ru i think that the attorney general to look for egregious violations, ich is what he is doing now, is the right thing to do. is sarah pali the future o theepublican party? >> iuess i shouldn't jud and let them fight among themselves. >> what do you think? do you think she's qualified to be president? i think themerican peopl saw he and they saw problems in terms of preparation and knowledge things, but,ou know, three and a half years away is a lon time aw, so i'm not -- >> youe hedgingour bets, but you are very cloly alned. here it is from "field and stream" the political odd couple. there th are. senator sumer and governor palin, bot

morrison sign add one-year contract with a report 1d$.5 milli million.e has four 20-goal seasons. >>> in golf at the u.s. women's open, veteran christie kerr who won in 2007 leads the way by one stroke at 3 under par. you can watch the third and fourth rounds here on nbc 4 this weekend. that's your "sports minute." i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >>> warning for virginia cyclists. obey the rules of the road or you could get a ticket, and ttnb ticket couldoea td fou toi psnt or more onous yr dr'seriv nscens it happened to eht cyclist in loudoun last month whoever were taking part in a charity riechld jane watrel has our report. >> reporter: cyclists beware. if you blow through a stop line like this one the long arm of the law could reach out and write you a ticket. >> that's what folks have to realize. they have an obligation to obey eikverybody seel.e n .be heldoule aabntcc le mo rodh.ybnt appenedtas l ht month when cycoost tskas to tkh road for a charity ride. eight cyclists got tickets for running stop signs. he got twooff. the rest pled guilty, p

. >> this is costing a lot of money. 2.5 milli$2.5 million. the city has a budget deficit.ow will you pay for this? >> we are using a lot of on-duty personnel. the lakers parade ended up being paid for private donations, and i know city council members are reaching out to see if business members can help out with this one. >> you are working with the dea and the state's attorney. are you any closer to finding out who gave michael jackson the prescripti prescription? >> we are talking to a number of doctors, a number of friends, and until we get the toxicology reports back to give us a definitive cause of death, we are hampered by that. but we're expecting that within the next week or two, and hopefully it will point us in a direction to allow the investigation to come to a conclusion. >> is his personal physician, conrad murray, in the clear absolutely? >> no one is in the clear at the moment. we are awaiting the toxicology reports, and i can anticipate that that will accelerate the investigation once we have that information. >> chief william bratton, thank you. good luck