he was suspected of ork straighting this earlier bombing on her convoy after she returned from her exile to run for re-election shortly after landing in ka rashy. suicide bombers were believed behind last summer's bombing at the marriott. pakistani officials confirmed the assassination. >> according to my information, this is true and he has been taken out. >> this taliban commander spoke to his family. >> his four aides and his wife were also killed. >> by a precision-guided 500-pound bomb by a drone and with human intelligence provided by the pakistanis, u.s. intelligence officials say there is a high probability he is dead and now are waiting for phone intercepts from the tribal areas confirming his successor. among those being watched, this man shown here and three others from the tribe. this former spokesman for pakistan's military fled to the u.s. when his family was threatened by the bombers. >> a suicide bomber was sent to my place, and they have been sending me threatening letters to kill me. >> the pentagon and white house say they don't have d.n.a. evidence masood was killed.

ne li during the stand-down, o wh orke wothn tracks are given additional safety training, and it will last for four days. >>> president obama travels to new hampshire today for a town hall meeting on health care reform. the president will highlight how a proposed health care overhaul will affect workers who have insurance through their employers. president obama is also expected to discuss how the plan would ban insurance companies from denying coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. >>> well, a big meeting on the could help to shape the future of the chesapeake bay. epa officials will meet with activist and other concerned citizens at saint phillips episcopal church in annapolis. they want to establish how cleanup goals for the bay can be reached and pollution restrictions better enforce. president obama wants a new cleanup plan by the epa by september 9th. >>> thousands of residents in maryland and the district are appealing their property tax assessments because of a decline in home values. officials say more than 20,000 homeowners are currently challenging their assessme

tavis a nationwide,orking together to improveinancial literacy and the onomic empowerme that comes with it. >> ♪ nationwid isn your side ♪ >> and by contribuons to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [caponing made possible by kcet public televion] tav: couple of quick prograing notes. due to thereaking news of senat kennedy's sng, our conversation witc.e.o. ron williams wll air tomorrow night. nd he is aritical voice and alth care debate, opposed t the public option. he will explain. that full conveation airs tomorw night on this program. also on the end the program, edrd brooke and african- american republican who served alongside ted kennedy in the u.s. sete. tonight, i am pleed to be join by congressman john lewis, a civirights pioneer and longtime georg ngressman to knew a worked th senator kennedy for many years. congressman lewis, ne to have youon the program, sir. >> am delighted and pase to be with u tonight. tavis: it i suc an hon to have you won i wanted to have you won for a umber of reaso, not the least of which was your numr of years working th senator kenne

genuiny hope that by the early summer of 2010, unemploymentis going down and people are going back to ork and hiring is going on. >> we are probably going to see e stimulus package, which people discredit, work itsay into t enomy. >> if market been arou f the frenchevolution, he would have been guillotine operar. >> certainly, he has the credentialso enlighten me a little bit. >> the story of thambridge poli officer w busted the distinguied harvardrofessor ase was trying to get inthis own home is now two weekold. the sameconversation has been going on all over america at th week. charle you spend someime at harvd. how much othis is town v gown? a lot of it is. hathe classic elents -- white working-class, the professor of an elite university. but it is the president whon fused racism into this situaon where i do no think it isted, and i ink he is the one at fault. i thi the best comment t of all of ts ishenry gates, who said oicer crowley, whene is not arresting you, a really ni guy. >> the bondin over beer that happen on thursday is probably a good thing. i do think, though, that there wa

and that'she way america orks is giving ordinary people a choicenstead of having t oice made for theminsurance companiesnd congresspeople and bureauats. vis: speaking of ngresspeople you don't think anof these persons, members of congress, whenthey come back to wo in a matter of days, are going to have been spook by all thi hue and c in these town hall meetings and therefe not cast their vote fothe public option? >> i think at the end of the day they'll d what congresspeople are supsed to do whi is work stuffut. the only difference is the republicans won't at the tablbut conservatives a moderates wi be in the form of blue dogs. i said, i think when we talked last week i said i thought the ue dogs made the bill a better bill and connue to think it's gng to be a very good bill at the end. it won be perfectut it will be a real piece of reform that's badly needed. i think the president's plan, i said thimany times, the president's plan in the campaign was the best health carelan i've seenn 30 years in this business and what something like that ishat's going to finally be p in pce. tavis:

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party and websites they are going through and some of the private organizations that are helping to ork kes straight all this. it is pretty much the same everywhere. government, u than asia. >> both parties, from time to time have used those kind of bumper slogan speaking points as they say. >> they are phoney as they relate to this bill, which has been a couple of years in the making on euthanasia. there is no provision for this. there is an opportunity for a doctor to be paid under medicare if his patient or her patient chooses to seek counseling on about do they want to be tied to a machine. do they want a living will, whatever. on socialized medicine, the government owns no facilities and hires no physicians. >> what happened when you told them that? >> only jeers and attempt to refer to provisions in the bill by line and verse with whatever they had been given, to deny it was true. there was never any willingness, any give-and-take. i became convinced we could write that bill any way one would want to write it. noing would satisfy them. i would like to make this point. they were wa

what did you think of the way it was ork xes straightened and what it mayor for tell about a possibility of the change in direction with pyongyang? >> i think as savannah was saying that a lot of communications went through the families as well as through what we call the new york channel, which is the state department to the north korean mission in new york. clearly it was very successful. while i think a lot of it may have been a done deal before president clinton went, we shouldn't take away anything from president clinton because nothing is a done deal with the north koreans until you are actually in country. as you remember, never a done deal we brought back the names of those missing american servicemen. in terms of the path ahead -- >> exactly. >> i think it helps to rachet down some of the tens we have seen since the nuclear test he is and the missile tests. all those these two issue, humanitarian mission and six-party talks are directly related, there is clearly an opportunity window here for the north to re-engage with the united states. >> victor this happened this outreach wi

they are accusing a specific conservative health care executive of ork kes straighting these protests. that's why we have invited that executive, rick scott, to join us here and he is going to be here in just a moment to try and defend himself. first, let me bring in eric boehler of the liberal media watchdog group, "media matters." good afternoon. >> yes. >> is this thing orchestrated? >> there is nothing wrong with activism and rallies people for a point of view and having your views heard. it is ironic, here we have a town hall forum and the entire premise is to shut down any conversation, any debate, yell and heckle and scream and sort of chase congressman to their cars. that being orchestrated and it has nothing to do with health care. it is tapping into, you knee, sort of a radical minority which has a deep-seeded hatred of barack obama. >> look historically, it is the united states. isn't this what our descendants did who founded this country in boston? >> this is not the new england town hall meeting. >> why not? >> because the whole point is not to get up as have as many loud

ve fine replicans, colleagues well, that rlly nt to make thenstitution rk and find ways to try and orkogether. i've trd that in the uteded states senate, i'm trying it no i'mery port gnat to have a good colleae, senator enzi is our rking member, he was the chairman.as and we're working very clely together and we're hopefully'r tting things done. we'll bdown just bew the suace but we'll be gettinge' some things ne. and i think tha's the way it ll be. we'll be up at the top, too, to sound o. but in the meantime, hopefully 'll get some thingsone in these areas: education, health, hers.he >> rose: there have ben many eloquent thin said about teddy kennedy and more wi comeke certainly betweenow and the time of his funeral and for a longime because i is the arc of a life that found meaning a expression in the unite states senate where he changed not oly the country but individu lives with his wo in the sete. so we republan and areciated that servi inhis program thisevening. thank younioroi j us.oi see you next time. oi captioning snsored by rose mmunications captioned by media aess group at

preredness, prevention one are the thingse've heard so muchbout,washing hands, taking careo stay away from ork and places like tat if you think you ma be sick. but there's also this question of a vaccine. howvailable will that vaccine be i time tory to head off se of these numbers? >> we, it's important for peopleo know that disease hasn't gone away. we continue to see transmissiothis summer and we're currentl at higher levels ofnfluenza disease than would b expected for this time year. but do thi that over e next severaleeks as school kids retu to classes we'll see increases. and we know thate won't have vaccine before school kids are back i school. there already back in school. so we have a number of weeks to months whre we'll be needingo use other inrventions. but were work, carefuy on vaccine development, testing and planning to implemt the vaccination progra at tis point we're expecting to belaunching a voluntary vaccation program in the middle of tober. so it's ve iortant before then for people t remember those important steps ey can take, washing their hands, staying home when they're s

>> i would like to know i lose my current job or i becomill and can no lger ork, what's it rlly goingto ffer to me that isifferent om the status quo? >> reporter:ob chureaus a veterinarian who quies the reform effts might make the healtcare system worse th the status quo. >> i fear it wl be like heah care i canada and england. it will take long timeo get thingsone, to get dagnostic treatment dnz and t geturgery done, that yououldn't have the se relationship with your doctor that you woul previously that something would happen they would have cerin guidelines whepeople are old and over a certain age that if they hav cancer th're just going to gi them hospice care, things like that. that'what i'm aaidf. >> repoer: greg and jean dillon are retirees. greg was an architect, jean a hospital admistrator. they are registered replicans but voted for barack oba. th support the idea of reform bu are concerned about how fast it's being done. >> i guessas complicad as i think health re is in covere and issues and techlogy and bilge issues, i wish they could slow down, have a litt bit more concrete

. >> i think "mork and mindy" went back to ork. >> maybe, i think at least one of them ended up in rehabhat, on "mork and mindy"? >> yeah. >> don't forget to watch scott, stacy, as well as mike and me on "options action" friday nights beginning at 8:30 p.m., starting tonight, very exciting night. >>> coming up next, earlier today we received an e-mail from jerry in baltimore would any of the traders be looking at lows ahead of the results next week? karen has got jerry's answer when we come back. [ engine powers down ] gentlemen, you booked your hotels on orbitz. well, the price went down, so you're all getting a check thanks. for the difference. except for you -- you didn't book with orbitz, so you're not getting a check. well, i think we've all learned a valuable lesson today. good day, gentlemen. thanks a lot. thank you. introducing hotel price assurance, where if another orbitz customer books the same hotel for less, we send you a check for the difference, automatically. >>> welcome back to "fast money." we're live at the nasdaq market site in new york city's times square. time to an

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. >>> ork, listen to this story, you know, if you're sitting on the couch, whatever you're doing. just watch this. a whites-only bathroom in the city of brotherly love? two workers claim it has been that way for a decade at a philadelphia waste transfer plant, and now, they are filing a complaint against the city. they say john gill, the superintendent at the northwest transfer station kept a very close eye on who was using what bathroom. >> water cooler in his office, and he used. and the whites go in there any time they want to. but no one can't go in his office. >> blacks can't go in there? >> no. just don't walk in his office. >> it's the difference of going one flight of stairs to the bathroom where all the white employees go to go five flights down where all the black employees go. that was very degrading. >> the city solicitor's office which is defending the case denies the allegations in the complaint. here's what they say. the officer leaked a statement to cnn saying quote the city does not discuss active litigation but believes these claims are meritless and their lack o

. >> i think "mork and mindy" went back to ork. >> maybe, i think at least one of them ended up in rehabet to watch scott, stacy, as well as mike and me on "options action" friday nights beginning at 8:30 p.m., starting tonight, very exciting night. >>> coming up next, earlier today we received an e-mail from jerry in baltimore would any of the traders be looking at lows ahead of the results next week? karen has got jerry's answer when we come back.k. >>> welcome back to "fast >>> welcome back to "fast money." we're live at the nasdaq market site in new york city's times square. time to answer your fast messages. we've got a message from jerry in baltimore. he writes would any of the traders be looking at lows ahead of results next week? karen? >> i think lowe's is lukewarm. the p/e is expensive. if you want to be in the home builder space, i know joe wouldn't like it, but i would, centex would be the trade. >> time to highlight the best calls of the week. take a listen. ♪ the heat is on >> as the scorching summer rally turned into a month-long heat wave, the "fast money's" traders hotte

they are among 43 peoe named in indictments unsealed inew ork and chicago. mo are still on the loose. three of the suspected kingps allegey oversaw a sprawling distribution network. nearly 200 tons of cocai and large quantities of hein were reported shipped into the u.s. in washington, attorn general eric holder id the charges stem fr two decades of criminaactivity. >> these cartelsre not abstract organizations opating in faroff places. th are multibillion dollar networks fneling drugs o to our streets. what invariably follows these drugs is more imes and more violence iour communities he audacity the cartels' operations is tched onlyy their sophistation and by their reach. >> lehrer: holder saithe u.s. is aggressivy hunting down the cael leaders so they can stan trial in u.s. cots. ssachusetts senator edward kennedhas asked state lawmakers for a faster way ck his successor, if it come to that. kennedis battling advanced brain cancer. current massachusts law calls for a scial election 145 to 160 days after theeat is emy. but in a lett, the democrat asked tha

it's believed baitullah mehsud ork traited the assassination of ben na zir bhutto. >>> well, we do have some encouraging numbers from the latest jobs report. unemployment fell last month for the first time in more than a year. but in the president's words, quote, we have a lot further to go. elaine quijano joins us now from the white house. elaine, what is the president saying about it this morning? >> betty, the president is cautiously optimistic about these latest job numbers. they showed a drop in the unemployment rate from 9.5% to 9.4%. now that is the first time it's dropped since april of last year. nevertheless, white house officials certainly aren't doing any victory laps just yet. the president did talk about these numbers in his radio address, his weekly radio and internet address. take a listen. >> this month's job numbers are a sign that we've begun to put the brakes on this recession and that the worst may be behind us. but we must do more than rescue our economy from this immediate crisis. we must rebuild it stronger than before. we must lay a new foundation for future gro

a grieving family mourns the loss of its pate tree ork. >> we just needed someone to hang on to. and teddy was always there. to hang on to. >> a celebration of his extraordinary life with songs, story and laughter as the kennedys prepare to say a final good-bye, "today saturday," august 29, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning, everyone, welcome to "today" on a saturday morning. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm amy robach. it has certainly been an emotional week and so many people have paid tribute to senator kennedy from the very important to the every day average american whose lives he touched. >> we saw the flag-draped coffin. 50,000 people have filed by the last couple of day. last night could amount to an irish wake. great story, laughter and an honor and tribute to senator kennedy. we'll talk more about that coming up and also the shocking and incredible detail answer an 18-year long kiss knapping ordeal. jaycee dugard reunited with a mother she lost so many years ago and the man accused of kidnapping and raping her, all reportedly undergoing cou

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