edie magnus went to montreal to take a look at how canada's system works. >> reporter: it is morning in the cardiology department at the royal vic hospital, part of the magill university health center in montreal, canada. this doctor is preparing to operate on his 47-year-old patient. >> she's going to be undergoing coronary angiogram to assess the patency of her coronary vessels. are they open, are they blocked. >> reporter: there's a can tell you about heart, about his patients, about the state of cardiac care today. but there's one thing he doesn't know and doesn't need to know -- what it will cost to fix her. >> everybody who comes in, they show their medicare card and all their services are free, from beginning to end. >> reporter: marilyn caplow is an administrative director at the magill university hospital. the administration of health care in canada is surprisingly simple even for the most complicated cases. >> we're not negotiating with insurers. we're not negotiating the value of different procedures with insurers. we're not paying a lot of people to make certain that ever

i personally went to montreal to receive recommendations from that meeting.is the asian portion. as i was saying before we were not alone. this plan could not have been developed without a contribution of the post disaster needs assessment team. which worked for weeks to help us to size up the scope of losses and damages and it suggested means to take up the many challenges caused by the q uake. of course the plan can only echo suggestions and recommendations because, for one thing, these initiatives are very recent. some of them took place last weekend only, but also because the choices have to be made, often difficult among the options. it doesn't mean, of course, that the consultation process is terminated. quite the contrary. at every stage we will need to listen to better adapt and find solutions, ideas that we can share together. we said from the outset that pragmatism is guiding us in making our choices. all we are trying to do is improve the fate of our fellow citizens. may i first of all make a preliminary comment that this plan sets forth some actio

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there's a choice we're maki making ♪ >> reporter: diana ross has been replaced by a young woman in montreal ♪ send them your heart ♪ so they know that someone carcare s ♪ >> reporter: and for dion warrick, this receptionist in santa barbara, california. their community is the brain child of lisa. >> there are people who have regular jobs singing and not singing. there are people who are, like, hairdressers or working as a cashier or a waitress or what not. ♪ there's a choice we're maki making ♪ ♪ we're saving our own lives >> reporter: she found their little entries on youtube, e-mailing her favorites, and sending them an instrumental recording of the song. >> people that are singing in, like, closets and bathrooms, some people with mikes, some people without mikes. ♪ let's start giving >> reporter: within 24 hours, 57 singers from all over the world sent her back proof that they care about the tiny planet, too. ♪ make a better day ♪ just you and me >> reporter: e-mailing their amateur videos, no fancy mikes, no million dollar recording studio. no quincy jones. so, lisa edited them together

verne: francis-cedric martel out of montreal. he will be at the free-throw line.nd "the road to the final four", the coordinator of basketball on cbs, coordinating basketball on cbs, coordinating producer of cbs sports -- bill: chuck, went out of town. verne: yeah. charles knows his hoops. and a foul is called. well, just look at the air under these basketballs. bill: utterly amazing. the trajectory is special. great confidence. gets it on the right shoulder. you see that rotation. he is always squared up and ready. plus he can put it on the deck. he is a strong individual. pretty impressive with the numbers. verne: butler has fouled out. he is a red shirt senior. in his final appearance for the richmond spiders, unless something magical happens for them, butler leaves with 14 points and completes his career. grew up not far from the campus. his dad, jeff, mom, ruth, they are here. his father was a leading scorer for richmond in his junior and senior season. bill: fifth foul, shoulders droop. you know it is the end. so final, so fast. but what a terrific run he an

our next guests are an amazing rock band from montreal who just released their third album, "the besnardss." please welcome the besnard lakes. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ sunlight seems so bright lonely days no light no light ♪ ♪ ♪ old ghosts in a line evil in the mine ♪ ♪ ♪ ageless indian can you cast an offering 'cause some of us have to hide all night ♪ ♪ spanish and indian can you make the people reign 'cause some of us built too high ♪ ♪ oh, why dim the lights dim the lights ♪ ♪ ♪

see them live, saturday in boston, monday in montreal, my thanks to ted danson, kara dioguardi, air!eers and applause ] ♪

united nations' meeting later this month, where aid pledges from an earlier, post-quake conference in montrealwill be solidified. on the ground in haiti-- eight weeks on from the quake-- the rainy season has come early, adding to the misery. already-cramped camps-- turned into a squalid mess-- are ripe for festering disease and a possible second catastrophe. >> ( translated ): look we don't have any other place to go. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands displaced by the january quake live in the sprawling tent-and-tarp cities around the capital-- port-au- prince. though officials say nearly half have received some type of shelter, they face a future as uncertain as haiti itself. in the champ-de-mars camp outside the shattered presidential palace, aid workers recently registered the displaced, and tried to persuade the weary homeless to move elsewhere >> this means that preparing maybe their home sites, cleaning the rubble, maybe preparing some other safer places, because rainy season is coming and it's really not safe for the people to stay there. >> reporter: president preval himself will soon

. >> reporter: and it was felt from montreal to nebraska, cuba to bermuda.his is the church building. this was severely damaged in the earthquake. >> this is one of the most magnificent churches in charleston. st. michaels episcopal church. the bell tower separate with a huge crack through the side of the building. >> reporter: amazingly the church was put back together with earth quake bolts as were many other buildings in town. so these are the earthquake bolts? >> these are charleston's legendary earthquake bolts. what you see on the side of the building is not the earth quake bolt itself. that the long iron rod that runs through the building. >> reporter: what are we going to see at the fort? >> you're going see the effects of the earthquake. >> reporter: retired geology professor has spent decades researching the 1886 quake. he says the fault zone is deep and runs rights through nearby historical fort dorchester. >> you can get an idea of the earthquake which caused this to break and moved this one towards -- in a right lateral sense. sorry, in a left l

we had gone through the montreal and calgary olympics with no canadian winning a gold medal. alex billideau broke that drought. there were a few other notable medals and then i think people just enjoyed being an olympic city. sport as side, corporate sponsorship aside, debate about costs aside, people just wanted to come down and find out what they could see. and there were pavilions that they could visit. there were attractions like a zip line strung across a couple city blocks. we learned one thing about vancouver, people don't mind lining up here at all. they were lining up 7, 8 hours, for example, for the zip line and not complaining at all. >> woodruff: we have heard a lot about how hockey mad canada is and how canadians are. so foing that, how big a deal was yesterday's win, especially beating the u.s.? >> well, i don't know that there is a supporteding event in the united states, even with the super bowl, even if you were to have a game 7 in the world series, even with michael phelps's incredible performance in beijing, i doubt there is a single sporting event in the u

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raffi in montreal, ask not what sarah palin can do for john mccain, ask what john mccain is sufferingtes, she can help him lose. mccain needs to stay home, it seems he has a learning disability. the woman lost for him before, and he's calling on her before. she is only in it for herself, she even ban doabandoned the al people. tom writes, put a democrat in the seat, she's got some experience in this area. mike writes, i qualify this as an assisted suicide. and sandy writes, i'm sorry, cnn, i had to turn you off when you covered the palin speech, she makes me ears bleed and causes melting of the brain. poor mccain, i used to have so much respect for him. if you want to read more on the subject, you'll find lots of it on my blog, cnn.com/caffertyfile. >> jack cafferty will be back, shortly. thank you. >>> we'll take a quick break. much more of our coverage after this. [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's new motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sle

athens in montreal lost billions and had to raise taxes. in vancouver the final price tag is unknown with estimates from 6 billion to $9 billion. most of that was spent on infrastructure, a new skating oval, a highway to wiftler and a light rail line to the airport away critics says replaces a 20 minute cab ride. >> the big problem with olympics is that governments use these games as an excuse to put forward massive infrastructure alspending that leaves a legacy of tax debt. >> reporter: most cities have seen less tourist bump. >> we have a new database about everyone who contacted us about the olympics. >> reporter: some the benefits are intangible, like what is it worth to be considered a world-class city. yet with all of the uncertainties, people are lining up to take center stage. bidders in lake tahoe, are making a bid to host the olympic games in 2022. >>> coming up the unemployed get more tough news. why some help from the federal government ended yesterday. >> what she is saying is that the queen told her that javon was going to be