>> reporter: we're here in paducah, kentucky. too many people around here who are opposed for reforming health care. >> i'm for the idea, but i don't think that congress and the president have done a good job of disseminating the information. i'm just hearing a lot of flak and not a lot of meat and potatoes. >> reporter: what about you? >> i think right now we have a lack of choice. i mean, health care's expensive. i mean, the average costs of the coverage i found more often than not are more expensive than the actual care. i would think any choice -- any viable choice would be better than what we've got now. >> reporter: what do you think? >> my understanding, there is about 48 million people that's not covered. those people need to be covered. >> well, my husband and i are two of those 47 million plus that aren't -- don't have health care. and i'm not talking insurance. of course, we don't have insurance, but i want health care. my husband has diabetes and he just had a bout with cancer. what insurance company is going to cover

we left paducah, i last talked to you we were leaving paducah and heading towards east st.is to missouri. but we had a conversation, we are having a conversation about health care and are calmer and a lot more civil than these town hall meetings. we pulled to paducah and had a conversation with people about health care. there was a little gazebo by the side and the restaurant across the street and here's a little of what we were told while we were there. >> my husband and i are 2 of the 47 million plus that don't have health care, i'm not talking insurance. i want health care. my husband has diabetes and he just had a bout with cancer. what insurance company is going to cover us? if i get sick today, where do i think i'm going? i'm going to the emergency room. who is that costing? it's costing us the taxpayers. if they have to tax me more in order to get health care, tax me, tax me, tax me. i am willing to pay. >> let's talk about the 47, 48 million number of people who are not insured on this country. >> i would love to drive a hummer, they're cool cars. i can't afford one

we ended up in one interesting place in paducah, kentucky, northwestern kentucky just on the illinois border, and had a bit of a town hall meeting. one of the women was formerly a congressional candidate. she was a democratic candidate who ran in the last election and lost but had some very, very strong views on health care. here is a bit of a taste of what she told us. >> my husband and i are two of the 47 million plus that don't have health care. i'm not talking insurance. of course we don't have insurance, but i want health care. my husband has diabetes and had a bout with cancer. what insurance company is going to cover us? there aren't any. if i get sick today, where do you think i'm going? i'm going to the emergency room. who is that costing? that's costing us, the taxpayers. so if they have to tax me more in order to get health care? tax me. tax me, tax me. i am willing to pay. >> i have to tell you, poppy, you can see a larger version of the interview which is worth seeing on cnn money.com. there were people who really didn't agree with that at all. they were saying they'd lik

when we stopped in paducah, kentucky, i had a very civilized, very normal conversation with some folks about their fears and hopes for health care reform, christine. have a listen to this. >> reporter: we are hearing different things from people wherever we're going but i haven't found too many people around here who are opposed to reforming health care. >> i'm for the idea but i don't think that congress and the president have done a good job of disseminating information. i'm just hearing a lot of talk. >> reporter: what about you? >> i think right now we have a lack of choice. i mean, health care is expensive. the average cost of the coverage i found more often than not are more expensive than the actual care. i would think any viable choice would be better than what we've got now. >> reporter: what do you think? >> my understanding, there is about 48 million people that's not covered. those people need to be covered. >> my husband and i are two of the 47 million-plus that don't have health care. and i'm not talking insurance, of course we don't have insurance, but i want health care

ali velshi on the road in paducah, kentucky this morning.h care reform. or call the show hotline, 1-877- 1-877-my-amfix. >>> there is a look at the swastika on this sign. it happened after a contentious debate about health care. >>> welcome back to the most news in the morning. you saw it here on "american morning," a georgia congressman in a heated back-and-forth over health care reform, then he finds a swastika painted on the sign outside his office in atlanta. congressman david scott says he believes it happened because of the health care debate. he joins us live from atlanta this morning to talk more about this. thanks for being with us. i'm sure it was a very disturbing sight. when did you first see it and when was your reaction? >> well, i saw it when i got to my office, my staff woke me up in the morning and said what was on there and then as soon as i got to the office i saw it, i was just simply appalled. this symbol represents the most heinous period in world history. indicative of man's greatest inhumanity to man where nearly 6 mi

so louisville got 3.25 inch of rain before paducah over four, almost four and a half inches. that's what's happening west of us through the ohio valley. here, the hayes, the humidity, all building out ahead of our nest weather system. so 90 degrees the temperature. the longest stretch of consecutive 90 degree days this summer, only two. last summer we had seven andes can tell that you looking at our seven day forecast, we've got at least four days down the line thatill be 90 degreesbe back to back. so 90 the current temperature right now across the area. let's take it to the maps. 91 down south of raleigh, north carolina. 84 cooler in new york. look at the 60s in cincinnati. that's where all those showers answer storms are. the dew point temperature, an indication of moisture of four degrees. wait until you see what this weekend is looki like. so a bit more heat and humidity with dew point temperatures in the mid-60s came. dry close to 70, perhaps above 70 degree this is upcoming weekend and into next week. so 93 is the temperature. the heat index temperature an cross will be

paducah, kentucky, 54 degrees. look at cincinnati down to 55. tallahassee, florida, tied a record that 53 degrees. and here we are with our dew point at 60. we're still seeing that drier air continue to come in. tomorrow, dew points into the 50s. unlike friday, i'll show you great pictures lateron. really things are quiet. early this morning, there were showers for our friends in southern maryland. ocean city, a pretty good week coming up. look at the monthly rainfall in ocean city. four inches. later on in the week and the weekend, folks will have to keep an eye on perhaps another tropical storm. here is what's left of hurricane bill. you can see that it's now become just a nasty storm in the north atlantic heading toward ireland later on tonight and torrow. and what a job forecasting. this was the track of bill. i wanted to show you the forecast from the folks at the tropical prediction center. back on wednesday, a week ago, here was the forecast for the next three days and here was the -- there was the actual track. there's the forecast. so t

she was in paducah, kentucky. the gentleman you heard from was altogether a dinner party we got a few people together in kansas city, kansas, and we had a conversation with him. we've had differences of opinion all along in the week, and we still continue to. but the tenor of those conversations tends to be very civil and respectful, and we're encouraging more of that. so if anybody's here at the iowa state fair, come see us, the cnn express is right outside at the grand stand. tweet me, we can keep talking about this. the more we talk to people, the more we understand what their concerns are about health care and the questions they want answered. so we can bring them here to cnn and hopefully the people that have the answers can share with our viewers. >> 46 million americans uninsured. it seems a lot of people agree something needs to be done but they just don't want it rushed through the halls of congress. >> reporter: that's definitely a theme that we've picked up on. now, i think there are two perspectives on

we'll probably make our next stop, paducah, kentucky, so about 200 miles. we've got about three hours driving ahead of us. we're talking to people about the economy and health care. i have to tell you, tony, we're getting some great discussion, some great commentary from people, real concern about health care. not as hot as the kind of discussion going on at the town hall meeting, but lots of different opinions. >> it's interesting. i'm wondering, are people viewing this health care debate as essential to the overall debate that we're having about the health of this economy and any potential recovery for this economy? >> reporter: well, you know, it's a good question. i'm trying to get a sense of it. i really do think that most people are seeing it as two different things. we've been talking to people about health care, whether they think, as you said, is it a right. should it be fixed? is now the time to fix it? is the administration doing it the right way. on the other hand we're having a discussion with people about the economy, saying are you feeling be

you're in paducah, kentucky, right now, ali, and trying to get a sense of what talcs out there thinkf this issue. >> reporter: yeah, we went through tennessee, now we're in kentucky. just over my shoulder, actually, over the river is southern illinois. and it's a very different debate on the treatments of america that we've been having so far. there are people that are concerned about health care. they feel like this mite be one of the most important debates this country has ever gone through. but there seems to be a sense of lack of information or misinformation. there are some people that feel the administration hat not done a good enough job about what this is all about, and this is handing the conversation over to people who are saying this government option, in public health care is about. there seems to be a sense that most people are gootherring their information through media ports or things that are not directly related to what is a actually being proposed. here is a gentleman we spoke to just minutes ago. >> you hear all the rumors. >> like from where? >> you know, on the n

listen to this from paducah, kentucky. >> this appears to be a healthier debate than a lot of the town hall meetings that some of you have seen on tv, which has not been getting to the point of debate. it's a shout fest right from the beginning and there doesn't seem to be a hearty discussion. why? >> i don't -- it seems -- it just distracts from the issue. and it's really disturbing because it's a complex issue, and if something is going to affect us for the next generation, we do ourselves a disservice when these town halls turn into this, like with claire mccaskill in pennsylvania. it's a very complex issue. our health care is 16% of our gdp. it is way too high. we're higher than any industrialized country. and yet when we're trying to fix it, we tend to revert to this, i don't know, lack of intelligence, and it's really not doing anything. >> what's the -- is people don't know what it is, they're not able to research it? is it, as somebody told me earlier, radio is influencing this, the media coverage? >> we're afraid. we're all afraid that we're going to lose thing something. we'r