policymakers reached into the covered and pulled up platt amendment. they pull out washington's centralizing responsibility. like teddy roosevelt and taft today we insist cuba's leaders are misbehaving, that they are violating their citizens' human rights and the united states cannot stand buy quietly and allow this this behavior to continue. and that brings us to the third believe in the cuba ideology which underlies both the neglect and commitment to uplifting. the existential core of our policy towards cuba today is our view of the region's inhabitants as a retarded a branch of the human species. they are backward. my generation's work for latin americans have been under developed which is a polite way of saying backward. or as a u.s. ambassador report from havana as the cold war was beginning in the 1940's she said cubans possess the superficial charm of clever children at that under the surface they combine the worst characteristics of the spanish and negro cultures, laziness, cruelty, your responsibility and inbred dishonesty. it is probably a si

president obama platts -- president obama's the plan, van hollen says, will provide health care to all. >>> they really do not belong here. >> attention was in the air as jim moran faced skeptics. he held a meeting in reston. police escorted several people deemed too disruptive out of that auditorium. the crowd was split, some calling for reform and other booming set -- booing moran's support of the president's plan. >>> adam is tracking all the changes in our first forecast. >> it has a name. it is danny. it inot the most organized system we have seen. there is some disorganization, but it should come together in the next couple of days and turned into a hurricane by the weekend. let's get a close look at this. maximum sustained winds estimated are 47 miles per hour. notice the past. itul shod th s west, take a turn to the north, and thenkirt s near or anglo the east coast of thedit states, possly clcl the outer banks. that would be by earda surat morning. as effects fore effects for ws d be a chance fors rain, cudlos, and wind gusts this weekend. we're expecting a nice day to day. re

>> platts record them and fell on them and their natural environments where they are inspired to playere is no separation between music and people. on concerts' you have tickets and they stage. somebody plays a song and somebody else can watch -- walk by and have it live changing experience. tavis: let's talk about the larger goal for the project. it is not just something inventive and innovative like recording 100 people in their natural habitats. there is a purpose behind this. >> the purpose is to inspire the planet. during a time in the world in which there so much division, we need to create things that bring us together. we believe that music and inspiration are two great ways to remind us that we are all together on this planet. one of the musician said that this world is ours. it is not his or hers or theirs, it is ours. when we can inspire people to do something bigger than themselves, it helps us leave the world better than when we found it. >> this for me is a philosophical question that i debated for years with a friend of mine. it was about the present power of music. you

pl river further west in the platte river valley, the country drew out -- dried out, firewood became so scarce they had to use buffalo dung to fuel their camp fires. the water along the platte was so slow and stagnant they sometimes had to get mosquito larvae out of it. they began to go slow grades and their oxen began to fail them or to show signs of failure so they had to start throwing their possessions overboard from their wagons and these were people who many of them their parents or grandparents had fought in the revolution. they were almost all from new england. particularly, in the smith party. and the furniture they were carrying with them were colonial cherry wood -- the kinds of things that if you were on antiques road show today would, you know, fetch enormous sums these people were throwing overboard right and left to lighten their wagons to ease the burden on their oxen. and tempers began to grow short. then they arrived at fort bridger in wyoming and they heard there was a group ahead of them called the donner party and i should mention that the smith party was the las

a big one was in platts burg, new york, and it was called the platts burg movement.the elite college students of the day would spend their summers training to be military officers, and many of them did become military officers. and, in fact, after the war the rotc as we know it today really traces its roots back to this movement. >> so was there a grassroots movement to get into the war? was it, was the war popular before the americans got into it? >> the war was popular with some people, but i think one of the things that most people forget about world war i was that it was verity -- divisive. and a lot of that division and contest has kind of been forgotten in the years since then. >> where did your book, uncle sam wants you, come from? >> the book actually started from a puzzling group of people. so in a footnote of another book i found reference to what were called slacker raids. and slacker was the slang term in world war i for draft dodgers. and slacker raids were carried out by a group of volunteers, mostly middle-aged men over draft age, who would go around i

what we're expecting according to the platt survey is for an increase in crude supplies of about 1.5 million barrels. gasoline supplies expected to be down. distill lats supplies expected to be higher. refinery runs continue to fall down to about 84% capacity. that cut in refinery run rates happening week after week has had somewhat of an impact. the surge of about 20% or more in both gasoline and heating oil futures. natural gas, the story there today had to do with colorado state university's hurricane forecast. they lower it had once again saying now there will be ten named storms, four hurricanes. that is well below average for the usual atlantic hurricane season. a lot of short activity in that market and always a lot of volatility there, as well. what's interest with the dollar still basically being flat is metals continue their momentum rise. gold up 7% since july 9th, silver up 13%, platinum up 14%. >> i could stand here and tell you that interest rates for the most part move higher today and they've been very buoyant in that regard but i like to be proacti proactive. why are

under the proposal that max is working on, more than 100,000 medal platts montanans will get a health care tax credit. more than 200,000 montanans will have access to a new marketplace where you can easily compare health insurance options. nearly 30,000 small businesses in montana will be helped by new tax benefits as well. and we will do all of this, we will do all of this without adding to our deficit over the next decade, largely by cutting waste and ending sweetheart deals for insurance companies that don't make anybody any healthier. [applause] so, the fact is, we are closer to achieving health insurance reform then we have ever been in history. we have the american nurses association and the american medical association on board because america's doctors and nurses know how badly we need reform. we have broad agreement in congress on about 80% of what we are trying to achieve and we continue to work on the other 20%. we have an agreement from the drug companies, who violently oppose reform in the past to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors. aarp supports this pol

military officers and in fact after the war, the rotc as manila today traces its roots back to this platts berkman. >> so, was there grassroots movement to get into the war? was the war popular before the americans got into it? >> the war was popular with some people but i think one of the things most people forget about world war i is that it was very divisive both entering the war and how to fight the war after it starts and a lot of that division and contest has been forgotten over the years since then. >> where did your book, world war i and the making of the modern american citizen, come from? >> the book actually started from a puzzling group of people, so in a footnote of another book that fund reference to what were called slacker raids. lacquer was the slang term in world war i for draft dodgers, slacker raids were carried out by a group of volunteers, mostly middle-aged men, overdraft deutche who would gore brenton cities and small towns and try to track down the draft dodgers in their communities. i thought this is just an usual. people volunteering to enforce the draft, literal

. >> so much on the platt for the white house, foreign and delaware, health care, these issues. lots to tackle. we're going to tackle the movies coming up. >> a look at your weekend box office. now a look at insomniac theater. two very different movies to tell you about. one about love and one about love of food. >> it certainly was a love of food. this is a movie i had been waiting for. i think so many people had been waiting for because of meryl streep. she did not disappoint at all. you're watching the adaptations of two best selling memoirs unravel. you can see julia child. she's traveling with her husband, a foreign diplomat in france who is later investigated for ties to mckathyism, which the movie does a great job of explaining. and you're following julie powell. she hate her day job and is sick of seeing her friends get promoted again and again. julia powell decides to cook all 524 recipes in 365 days of julia child's. >> but you can always put it together and you alone in the kitchen, who's to see -- >> pearls in the kitchen specific. >> you just have to practice. >> i'

i'm talking from bismarck to pierre, down to north platte, temperatures 95 to 100 degrees, it is goingr. now, the big picture is going to show you that front along the east coast i was talking about will bring the showers and the storms out there, but then you make your way out to the west coast. we're looking at the 70s around the san francisco area, skies looking pretty decent for this time of year.ma >>> you know, i realize i might have been a little remiss in finding out where megan is from. where is home for you? >> texas. >> texas? all right. i like that. all right. megan, thank you very much for being here. let's get over to dave. >>> thanks, lonnie. up next, they flip, they flop, and they fill up with germs. warnings about popular footwear when we return. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. every day abou30 women in the u.s. learn that they have cervical cancer. that's why i chose to get my daughter vaccinated. i chose to get my daughter vaccinated when her doctor and i agreed that the right time to protect her is now. because it's about prevention. (nice) gardasil is the

platt says they're expecting a build. on pace for a record inventory by fall.metals are up across the board. let's get to rick in chicago. >> shac, you know, it begs the question to be asked, do you think the equity markets have been saddled up tight to the fundamentals? well, maybe they're looking to the futures, some experts are saying. maybe crude oil is looking to the reality of the future being painted by equities. if you look at the future of the option today, hey, if you were brave enough to participate in a ten-year note option in front of a fed statement with asset purchases being the key topic, hey, you're doing pretty well, because the yield is lower than the originally released $3.70%, 3.50% yield. you have a tidy little profit. we'll have to see. the current has steepened a bit, but no surprise there. steepening just means that long maturities aren't as well behaved on the way up or the way down in terms of yield. the dollar continues to be a big story. whether you believe prosperity is arriving in you were or not, the dollar is certainly giving it

even if it's a drawdown, less than expected according to plakplak platts, you might see a major pricei want to take a quick look at gold. what's lying in the face of a stronger dollar has turned negative as well but not by a whole lot. keep an eye on that dollar. when it comes to the oil trade, everything is focused on the numbers to see if the expectations were just way off because the api numbers blew it out of the water. mark, back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> a political icon senator ted kennedy passing away late yesterday. age of 77. president obama calling kennedy a great leader who served nearly 50 years in the senate. our chief washington correspondent john harwood has more. john? >> mark, you know, ted kennedy was a lightening rod in many ways, a polarizing figure in some degree because he was such a staunch liberal but also beloved by many millions of people around the country and by many people in washington who were friends. president obama just a few minutes ago on his vacation at martha's vineyard expressed his grief with those people with a essential resonance of

our system of checks and balances demanded judge platt not take on a roll of policymakers because our great american tradition of checks and balances envisions political and social battles be fought in the legislature, not theenvisions p battles be fought in the legislature, not the judicial branch of government. judges much check their biass at the door the court house. judges and just ass must wear blindfolds when interpreting the constitution and administer justice. i have been a member of the senate judiciary committee since 1981. unfortunately i believe judge sonia sotomayor performance at her judiciary committee confirmation hearing left me with more questions than answers. is imperative that the nominee persuade us that he or she will be able to set aside one's own feelings so he or she can dispassionately administer equal justice. yet i am not convinced that judge sonia sotomayor has the ability to wear the judicial blindfolds and resist having personal biases and personal preferences dictate her judicial method on the supreme court. president obama clearly believes judge soni

. >>> and platt plot to kill al qaeda-linked terrorists planned to take us u.s. troops at a huge american base in kuwait, during one of the holiest months for muslims. >>> i'm wolf blitzer in cnn's command center for breaking news and extraordinary reports around the world. you're in "the situation room." >>> it's one of the roughest days in this month that either will make or break efforts for health care reform. today, a town hall forum featuring president obama could have turned ugly, but he didn't back down. and it didn't turn ugly. he forcefully defended his ideas, thumbing his nose at krirt ickes and pushing back at what he called rumors. >> for all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary. what is truly risky is if we do nothing. if we let this moment pass, if we keep the system the way it is right now, we will continue to see 14,000 americans lose their health insurance every day. your premiums will continue to skyrocket. they have gone up three times faster than your wages, and they will keep on going up. our deficit will continue to grow, becaus

the platts began in 94. eve nicki take the 9/11 commission, he had to know.so, how was it that patrick fitzgerald cut a deal with him arrested him in 92 years before 9/11 and never got the plot out of him. that is a question i would like to ask if patrick would show up at a forum on booktv or me me anywhere. 9/11 report, they have a very, here is what they say. the embassy bombings as early as december 93 operatives began casing targets and nairobi. he provided guidance and training to extremeness at the fruit muskin bergland including some convicted in the 93 attack. the easy team included a computer expert hugh ronnettes were reviewed by al qaeda leaders. there is not much more about ali mohammed in the 9/11 report. none of his meetings with fitzgerald, snook green offence all of those years, none of that is in the 9/11 report. why should we care? here is the point. remembers things trading? remember the story i told you. napoli knew that nosair was in the blind shakes terror group. september of 1999 fire marshal ronnie book of who was not only a hero at th

other justices in the conference room because there's no question about about the platte tuds we say about interpreting the constitution and statutes the supreme court makes a lot of laws. they make a lot of laws and we have to trust their values that they are within the mainstream and within the bounds of what this country has stood for and should stand for in the future. i vote aye. thank you, chairman. >> thank you very much. and senator franken. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman, i want to join my colleagues in thanking you and the ranking member in the way you've conducted this hearing. i'm going to speak more about this on the senate floor so i'll keep my remarks brief. the nomination of judge sonia sotomayor comes at the critical moment for the supreme court, the current supreme court has consistently struck down and questioned long-standing critical protections for americans. and i'm talking about individual rights, individual protections, individual liberties. i think some of my colleagues said this best. as senator feinstein mentioned, this supreme court ended a 30-year

under the proposal that max is working on, more than 100,000 medal platts montanans will get a healthare tax credit. more than 200,000 montanans will have access to a new marketplace where you can easily compare health insurance options. nearly 30,000 small businesses in montana will be helped by new tax benefits as well. and we will do all of this, we will do all of this without adding to our deficit over the next decade, largely by cutting waste and ending sweetheart deals for insurance companies that don't make anybody any healthier. [applause] so, the fact is, we are closer to achieving health insurance reform then we have ever been in history. we have the american nurses association and the american medical association on board because america's doctors and nurses know how badly we need reform. we have broad agreement in congress on about 80% of what we are trying to achieve and we continue to work on the other 20%. we have an agreement from the drug companies, who violently oppose reform in the past to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors. aarp supports this polic

[applause] platts talk about the other fiction stuff. if you are in medicare, medicare will get better. medicare is great. -- let's talk about other fiction stuff. we're going to create savings where we take those savings and then we make investments into medicare to strengthen benefits, to strengthen medicare so that it truly does worked for all of the participants that like medicare. before i came here, i visited senior homes before coming here this evening. i ask those seniors about medicare, and i will tell you something, they were likely my medicare alone. i said that is exactly what we're going to do. that is another myth we're going to clean up. then there are others. we have created in this plan, what i described as an exchange, a marketplace for insurance. remember i talked about small businesses that are struggling to pay health care? individuals whose for whatever reason are not able to get health care on their own? we're going to create what has been described as a health exchange. it is like the marketplace. think about goin

under the proposal that max is working on, more than 100,000 medal platts montanans will get a healthare tax credit. more than 200,000 montanans will have access to a new marketplace where you can easily compare health insurance options. nearly 30,000 small businesses in montana will be helped by new tax benefits as well. and we will do all of this, we will do all of this without adding to our deficit over the next decade, largely by cutting waste and ending sweetheart deals for insurance companies that don't make anybody any healthier. [applause] so, the fact is, we are closer to achieving health insurance reform then we have ever been in history. we have the american nurses association and the american medical association on board because america's doctors and nurses know how badly we need reform. we have broad agreement in congress on about 80% of what we are trying to achieve and we continue to work on the other 20%. we have an agreement from the drug companies, who violently oppose reform in the past to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors. aarp supports this polic

under the proposal that max is working on, more than 100,000 medal platts montanans will get a health0,000 montanans will have access to a new marketplace where you can easily compare health insurance options. nearly 30,000 small businesses in montana will be helped by new tax benefits as well. and we will do all of this, we will do all of this without adding to our deficit over the next decade, largely by cutting waste and ending sweetheart deals for insurance companies that don't make anybody any healthier. [applause] so, the fact is, we are closer to achieving health insurance reform then we have ever been in history. we have the american nurses association and the american medical association on board because america's doctors and nurses know how badly we need reform. we have broad agreement in congress on about 80% of what we are trying to achieve and we continue to work on the other 20%. we have an agreement from the drug companies, who violently oppose reform in the past to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors. aarp supports this policy and agrees with us that re

sterling, i would suggest, and moving up the ladder to climb with each platt -- passing anniversary. i do suggest that she spent her many final years champion and her husband. we know about the episode of her incarceration in a sanitarium when her only remaining child, robert, during her -- his mother might do herself armarmy, confid her. again, i do not think she recovered from that. she was at war with herself. she failed miserably in the court of public opinion. she was brilliant and lot of what once. her husband -- we do not have the thousands of pages of records, we have very few letters, but we have letters from her son, robert, who collected his mother's letters. there are rumors that the great at his home were full of ashes of correspondence. we do know that they did disappear. we do not really have much in which to give you testimony of her wit and intelligence, but from her writings, i assure you that she was a woman who loved her husband deeply and she is sustained his growth to greatness. that she was a woman that stepped outside the boundaries of her time and suffered fo