. >> npr and l.a. times. >> we got the whole roster out there. give us your assessment of the caucus tonight and what you told them and how much they listened? >> this issue is obviously taken seriously. i came over here, the caucus was supposed to be over, it was still going on, discussing this subject with a lot of support for addressing this. i don't want to talk about what members said in the caucus. that's for them to raise. i can talk about, you know, the polling that we did, and what i said, which was, essentially, this is an issue in which about 38% of the country supports the republican position to extend these tax cuts. which is ten points below the vote that republicans are getting right now. so this is an issue that drags them down. it's an issue that helps democrats. it is an issue that i believe democrats want, it creates a framework of choice, and it defines the two parties. it's a defining issue. democrats need that, both to build turnout, but more than that, to create a real choice. not a phony choice. it's a real issue, it's rea

joining us now is matt miller, npr host. matt, where would you begin to address the structural problem? >> i guess, we've got near term problems and longer term problems. the near term problem, part of it, as you know, dylan, because the big debt bubbles finally burst in the financial bubble, it's going to take tile for us to work the debt off the system. but long-term, we have got to take on the establishment and status quo in health care and education, in a lot of the key aspects of american life where costs are going through the roof much faster than incomes and you know, the middle class lifestyle is increasingly out of reach and we've got a medical industrial complex that's sort of rigging the system in favor of all the providers. we've got a higher education industrial complex sending the cost of tuition through the roof far faster with hikes there than people can afford. we've got a 12 industrial complex that's essentially resisting change to make our schools better and it's going to take more of a radical revolt if w

. >> for example, guy raz from npr popped into town and he reported things going on in the arab community>> who is your army, these young college-aged men chant. hezbollah they respond. who is your leader? nazrallah they say and many carried placards of the leader. >> raz said there was a thousand people chanting that in the streets of dearborn. >> in nearby dearborn, home to a large community of lebanese immigrants, protest rallies against the israeli invasion of lebanon happen daily. many have slogans comparing israel to nazi germany. it's rhetoric like that training long-standing ties betwe detroit ace jewish and arab communities. >> those are real issues and i don't think it's up -- i think it's to the media to report those sort of things. we'll do it as a jewish news in order to file it in because our community's concerned about it but i think it's a concern of all of us. >> one of the things being arab, americans don't understand us. >> i think the americans are the most educated in the world and the least educated about the word. >> i had a lady come up to say i can't believe you a

i had a net glenview npr's san bruno is dry trade for still waiting for water. if you can bring in some water. we have an active hydrant at claremont and concord also a patient with severe third degree burns at the 1500's block of claremont we will require an ambulance at that location. to listen to all of the audio dispatch had to our web site www.kron4.com. stay with kron 4 news as we continue our coverage of the san bruno gas line explosion. it still had a look of the pipeline danger and risky lines that could be near you. heavy duty truck, have some heavy duty demands. like enough horsepower and torque to get out of just about any situation. a payload that beats the other guys flat out. a frame sturdy enough to bear up a max towing capacity that's over 10 tons. and a braking system tough enough to bring it all to a stop. heavy duty demands? gentlemen, your truck is ready. baccalaureate. correct. [ audience groans ] since this competition has been continuing for 48 hours and we have yet to eliminate anyone, it is the decision of this board to declare all 20 c

we have martha woodruff who's an npr reporter. dr. alan berger writes a column.n, we have chat rooms and we encourage... our drive right now is to encourage people to design their own chat rooms for their own group so they can have... we have teens, texas teens. teens in recovery has a chat room. so you can invite anyone to your chat room. there's an open forum for chats on the front page. there is an experts exchange where you can get this kind of information, where you can just get educational information. but mostly this is a social networking interactive site for people in recovery helping others. and is it free? it's totally free. very good. it's totally free. we're on a major marketing drive right now to get sponsorship and membership levels, but it is totally free. excellent. and cynthia, talk to us about e get going and teen get going. either site if we start with teen get going, if you were a parent and you had some questions about, well, i found something in my son or daughter's room. let me see what this is. you can go on the teen get going site and th

she's hosted npr's "news and notes" program and is the driving force behind the web blog pop and politics. dan rather has spent his life in news and is a highly acclaimed reporter and news anchor. he's covered major stories of our time for cbs news and now anchors "dan rather reports" on hdnet. welcome to you both. >> thank you, frank. >> glad to have you here. very different career arcs, perspectives. let me start by asking you the big question: are the media today serving the public interest? dan, what do you think? >> overall in the main, i think yes--less so than has been the case in some of our history, particularly in the period beginning just before world war ii and continuing into the mid nineties, but overall in the main, yes. journalism, particularly journalism at its best in the best traditions of the american press, serving the public good. >> farai? >> i think it depends on who you are. the biggest divide i see in who gets served with what news is actually a class divide. i feel like if you are middle or upper middle class wealthy, the way that news, particularly--take someth

here's scott simon of npr. >> on this labor day weekend we might give some thought to what it's like to be without a job, having no job does not mean having no work. your children must still be fed, bathed and ferried to school which is a lot of hard work, but you have less money for food, gas and the new shoes your children need for school. it means that if you have a toothache, you might pretend it will go away until it becomes a sharp pain. then you have to see a dentist but may not be able to buy a new winter coat. you may be sure that your family loves you but worried they'll start feeling sorry for you and wonder why you have to be the one person in ten who doesn't have a job. you may blame politicians, brokers and bankers, but in the middle of the night, you might turn your eyes to the sky and wonder what you did, didn't do or should have done. this labor day we might salute the millions of americans who don't have jobs but who in many ways work harder than ever. >> some powerful words. our thanks to scott simon. >>> and we took note that during the bruising recession of the e

the npr analyst juan williamss us.>guest: think to johnson and vietnam, and you could see the members of the administration going at each other, and eisenhower, people are at each other's throats getting rid of generals and the like. here we have a situation that is interesting with the military versus military. we have chairman of the joint chiefs, for example, mullen, saying his deputy is going behind his back to get to the white house. that is very interesting, you thinking those guys are not open the same page. or you think about the idea you have a special envoy holbrooke arguing that the plan the president is putting out is in the working and the vice president biden saying this is the the egotistical bastard and then blair is arguing with rahm emanuel who saying you are telling us things just to cover your butt in case there is an act of terrorism in the united states. and blair is fighting with general brennan, the national security advisor, over that christmas bombing attempt. remember that? how this is put fo

>> because we were listening to npr, i'm smart, and right after my husband and i got married and ladybirdf an amazing beautiful story about her and her beautification projects and how she was just sort of this incredible american woman and my husband turned to me and said, that's such a great nickname, lady bird. call a kid birdie. that's so cool. and we kept it, like, in the back of our minds. when i was pregnant. p, he was really gunning for birdie. i had a whole thing -- >> jimmy: with a shotgun or -- >> no, but i had a whole thing about how since i grew up with the nickname it's really hard to name your child like that's a name and then call her birdie. every first day of school and your substitute teacher and you have to constantly -- which is what i had to do the whole life. so if we're going to call this kid birdie, it's not anything but birdie. >> jimmy: her legal name is birdie? >> her legal name is birdie lee silverstein, yeah. >> jimmy: birdie lee silverstein? >> she's going to be like the first jewish country singer ever. >> jimmy: wow. >> that's where we're -- that's what we'

host: npr reported that after years of on and off civil war between sudan, they will vote if it should become an independent nation. no one is sure what independence will look like. after nearly half a century of course, they are expected to vote. -- century of wars, they are expected to vote. guest: they have been enslaved by the north and marginalized. i think the people of southern sudan feel the best option for them in terms of the self- determination and living a life of democratic governance should be independent from the north. they have had a couple of civil wars. we are trying to avoid the third one with this referendum. the south would succeed -- secede from the north. there would be a boundary established. there is a 1956 boundary line. that was that the north-south founder ray -- boundary of an independent state. institutions are fairly weak. but most of the oil reserve lights -- reside in the south. part of the comprehensive peace agreement is for the north to make it more attractive to the south. they did not sell. it is likely that people will vote for secession. >> inde

not selling sophistication here doctor, you can go to npr for that. just giving you the straight story. gerald: obviously, oprah will not be at stewart's rally october 30th, she will be attending the bold fresh show in connecticut. i hope she has her tickets, because they are going fast. gerardo: i commend you for your outstanding book pinheads and patriots. thanks for putting your country first. i appreciate that, thanks for reading the book. finally, pinheads and patriots the tv edition. as you may know stephen colbert testified in front of a y last week mocking the system. some democrats are divided on whether that was wise. >> my great grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the atlantic to see this country overrun by immigrants. he did it because he killed a man in ireland. that's the rumor. i don't know in that is true. i would like to have it stricken from the record. >> i think his testimony was not appropriate. i think it was embarrassment for mr. colbert, more than house. >> he was called by democratic chair of the subcommittee. >>

from mexico city, we learn the latest on the arrest of an alleged drug lord from jason beaubien of npr. >> lerher: we have another in john merrow's reports on the washington, d.c., schools. tonight he looks at a new test for teachers. >> how can you possibly have a system where the vast majority of adults are running around thinking i'm doing an excellent job when what we're producing for kids is 8% success. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown updates the story of new orleans musician and scholar michael white, five years after katrina. >> i went through a serious period of depression, of anger, of many different kinds of emotions. and then i came to realize the most valuable thing that i have i never lost. it's iide. it's that music tradition. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the psid

with their penetration and the number of ears that they reach and there is no liberal talk other than npr, could they bring her over the top and erase this deficit? what do you think? >> well, the big buzz in delaware right now is the possibility that congressman mike castle, whom christine o'donnell defeated in the primary, he's considering a write-in candidacy. he's got till september 30th to file either way. i predict he will not do so for two reasons. number one, he's not that kind of guy. the candidates who win in wright-in elections are more outspoken, more flamboyant. they're characteristaricatures. in 2010 is unreasonable republicans and the second reason i don't think that he's going to run, speaks to your point, it's the sheer math of it. if two candidates in election the winner needs 50%, plus one vote. if there are three candidates in an election, christine o'donnell could scare off as little as 30%-something of the vote and win. >> yeah. >> and as you know, witches can be very scary. >> holland cooke, great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. thanks so much.

and an npr commentator. erick, what do you make of this, on fox news saying everyone's attacking her and the media is getting in the way of her campaigning? does that -- does that strike true to you? >> look, this is a campaign and she's playing to her base. she's mobilizing the base. the base thinks there's a liberal bias in the media. some of the questions and answers, some of the attacks, so-called attacks in the media play to the base. they rally them, make her look sympathetic, and she can get people out to vote based on this, and you know there are a lot of republicans in washington patting themselves on the back today because the media is so focused on christine o'donnell they're not looking at other republican candidates and they're all thinking, glad it's christine o'donnell. >> i get the hatred of the media and stuff, but to hear a major candidate for the u.s. senate saying, they're hurting my campaign by asking me questions and they're taking pictures of my dad on the lawn, i'm certainly sympathet

npr says, facebook is down, work productivity is up, u.s. climbs out of the recession. >> they're like "onion" headlines. >> either facebook is down or mark zuckerberg set everything to private. >>> coming up, talking about the 1980s movie blockbuster. >> the new "wall street" movie opens today, we'll see how life has changed since the original. opens today, we'll see how life has changed since the original. we'll be right back. chubby checker: hi, i'm chubby checker. a new twist in the law makes it easier than ever to save on your medicare prescription drug plan costs. so what are you waiting for? go to www.socialsecurity.gov and apply for extra help. it's easier than learning the twist. >>> welcome back, everybody. "wall street: money never sleeps" hilts theaters today. the sequel to oliver stone's big hit from 1987. >> manage michael douglas returns as gordon gekko. here's david wright with a look at what has changed and what has stayed the same since greed was good. >> reporter: the new "wall street" opens with gordon gekko getting out o

npr says, facebook is down, work productivity is up, u.s.mbs out of the recession. >> they're like "onion" headlines. what they feel like. >> oh, they're really good. either facebook is down or mark zuckerberg set everything to private. >>> coming up, talking about the 1980s movie blockbuster. >> the new "wall street" movie opens today, we'll see how life has changed since the original. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back, everybody. "wall street: money never sleeps" hits theaters today. the sequel to oliver stone's big hit from 1987. >> of course michael douglas returns as gordon gekko. here's david wright with a look at what has changed and what has stayed the same since greed was good. >> reporter: the new "wall street" opens with gordon gekko getting out of jail. >> one watch. and one mobile phone. >> reporter: the well-dressed equivalent of an unfrozen cave man. in a world that's now greedier than he ever imagined. >> it's about the game. >> reporter: a lot has changed since the go-go '80s. ♪ i've got to have faith >> reporter: the to

. >> on npr this morning, sports analysts said about you that we may be now entering the nadal era. could be the great ees tennis player of our time. do you think of this? >> no, that's too much. i don't normally -- everything was unbelievable more than i ever did. and, so, just -- just an honor for me and unbelievable for me and more than i am expect. and right now it's what i say before, keep working hard to be in the final round. >> well, this is hard won. you look really good with it too, don't you think? >> nice looking. beautiful. congratulations. >> thank you. >> i can see why he can hold that tennis racquet. that's a pretty good grip. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >>> as we mentioned before, al is out today and under the weather. chris cimino is in for him. >> congratulations. >> tennis player. >> why the pillow? >> for you, up all night. >> i have. >> you need a little rest. >> don't put a pillow in front of me. >> this is gorgeous. this is for you. it's the 50th anniversary. >> doesn't look a day over 49. >> beautiful. >> let's get the weather picture. th

joining us now, npr senior correspondent juan williams, kevin madden is also here, former national press secretary for mitt romney's presidential campaign. kevin, let's start with you. there seems some, i don't know, conventional wisdom if you want to cul it that, that the tea party support will be a huge deal in the primaries, but it won't amount to much on election day. what do you think about that? >> well, i think it's going to amount to a lot for different candidates across the country, but if you look at delaware as an example, delaware is not really the microcosm of a state that we would look at where we'd see big tea party support generate a lot of enthusiasm or will help a republican in a general election. it's a little bit more of a moderate state, it's got a history of sending republicans to the house and to the senate who are more of a moderate ilk, so in a state like delaware, it's going to have less of an effect in the general election should somebody like christine o'donnell get through the primary process against mike castle. jon: juan, as you well know, the tea party act

remember npr for china? now we're underemployed or lost jobs. look at the tearive with mexican goods. scrap the treaties. the jobs will come back and fund social security with the stuff we're importing. and i'd love to give your guests two examples of what's going on. the first would be educated people. let's look at price waterhouse in tampa, florida. they're taking 600 accounting jobs and putting them over to india. where are these guys going to find these jobs? take a look at whirl pool that took tarp money, back in jul, closed the plant in indianapolis with 10,000 workers, they're moving it to mexico. put tearives on everyone of those driers and washing machines. the jobs will come back. that's the sucking sound that we're seeing and it's draining social security as well. put the tarives on and you've got a win-win situation. host: thank you. heather? guest: well, thank you for that comment and question. another thing that comes out in the poll is that americans do want us to see a policy focused more on exports. i appreciate your concern ab

host: npr reported that after years of on and off civil war between sudan, they will vote if it shouldome an independent nation. no one is sure what independence will look like. after nearly half a century of course, they are expected to vote. -- century of wars, they are expected to vote. guest: they have been enslaved by the north and marginalized. i think the people of southern sudan feel the best option for them in terms of the self- determination and living a life of democratic governance should be independent from the north. they have had a couple of civil wars. we are trying to avoid the third one with this referendum. the south would succeed -- secede from the north. there would be a boundary established. there is a 1956 boundary line. that was that the north-south founder ray -- boundary of an independent state. institutions are fairly weak. but most of the oil reserve lights -- reside in the south. part of the comprehensive peace agreement is for the north to make it more attractive to the south. they did not sell. it is likely that people will vote for secession. >> independ

. >> on npr this morning, sports analysts said about you that we may be now entering the nadal era. could be the great eest tennis player of our time. do you think of this? >> no, that's too much. i don't normally -- everything was unbelievable more than i ever did. and, so, just -- just an honor for me and unbelievable for me and more than i am expect. and right now it's what i say before, keep working hard to b in the final round. >> well, this is hard won. you look really good with it too, don't you think? >> nice looking. beautiful. congratulations. >> thank you. >> i can see why he can hold that tennis racquet. that's a pretty good gr. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >>> as we mentioned before, 53 >>> good morning. here we've got lots of sunshine. good weather foraryland and the district of columbia. all across the region we have temperatues climbing into the 6 0s. more of the same tomorrow. looks like it will become increasingly cloudy on thursday. there's a small chance of passing shower on shir, perhaps friday morning. dry this weekend. looks like terrific we