is it tort reform or what dog talked about, portability and pre-existing conditions? >> i totally agree with what doug just said. the fundamental problem is that there is no example in history of what the democrats want to do, to get portability and pre-existing conditions, et cetera. the way you do that is lift the government regulations that are creating a partial monopoly. the democrats refuse to understand that. there is something genetic with them. they don't understand the free market. you can solve 90% of the healthcare problems in this country with a two-sentence bill allowing interstate commerce in health insurance and that way the price of health insurance will go down. eric: i agree with you 100%, interstate congress commerce and tort reform. many people point to massachusetts has the model system for healthcare. glenn breaks down mass-care in a nutshell. glenn: for years, progressives have pointed to massachusetts as the success story when it comes to universal healthcare, but is the three-year-old plan, crafted by democratic lawmakers and republican mitt

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the commission has come out with a phased approach of getting it down to two-day portability. we think it could be some tweaks that would improve the competitive environment around telephones. >> we had an article in our news letter this morning that he is working on a truth in billing proposal. as you know, on the hill there has been longstanding interest among some senators on the commerce committee for some type of national wireless framework. this is all to help customers know what they are getting, what they are paying for. what do you think about the kind of item, and how would it affect your company? >> i also have not seen the details on it. it is interesting, at least on the telephone side. the comcast digital voice product is as clean and simple a product as possible. our basic comcast digital voice product is if you pay a certain amount a month, you get all long distance included, you get 14 delineated services with no extra charges, so our bills are clean and simple. >> no one complains about them? >> no one complains about them, and the product is very simple. one

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it reaches, it grabs, it's collapsible and it's portable. it goes wherever you go. get it free while supplies last. declare your independence call now, you'll be glad you did. call the number on your screen. bret: today's release of the only person ever jailed for the bombing of pan am flight 103 21 years ago has sparked outrage from victims' families and objections from the white house. correspondent amy kellogg explains why a convicted terrorist is now out of prison. >> he got to go home, something none of the victims in the bombing of flight 104 never got to do. he was released on passionate grounds because he is dying of prostrate cancer. he is the only person convicted in the lockerbie bombing which killed 286 people. >> it made me physically ill. this is not justice. this is the abrogation of justice. >> pan am 103 was torn apart by a bomb over lockerbie, scotland as it headed to the united states. he served 8 years of a life sentence, about 11 days for each person he was convicted of killing in the terrorist atrocity. it was the scottish justice secretary who

over the past year was the verizon cable retention marketing dispute where dealing with number portability where when a customer, verizon customer would call comcast or time warner and say we want to switch from verizon to your service, but we want to port our number, we want to keep our same telephone number, comcast or time warner or whoever the cable company was had to give notice to ve verizon that, oh, customer a wants to switch over to comcast, and we need the number to be ported. and verizon in taking advantage of a one or a two or a three-week interval for porting that number would then give that information to their marketing department, and their marketing department would call the customer and try to convince them to stay. in our view, that was a breach of the confidentiality provisions of the telecom act, the fcc found in our favor, and verizon appealed that case to federal court, and the federal court sustained the commission's action. and then later in the year we had a number of days of -- actually this year we had the number of day that is the bells had to port telephone nu

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. >> this panasonic is the world's first portable blu-ray portable. you could watch your movies on the go. comes with a stand. it is very expensive, $800. it is debatable on whether you even need it. most of the laptop's we're seeing come with blu-ray players already installed. >> sites like facebook and twitter get tens of millions of fans. but not everyone is sold on them. 87% of adults preferred dealing with other adults in person. half of the respondents said they do not even use social networks. it appears netflix can see the future. they can now tell you which movies you might like before they are even know it -- even made. the site will predict how many stars you might give these movies. helpful for planning movies in years in defense. for more iormation, log onto the tech page at abcnews.com. those are your tech bytes. i am vinita nair. >>> 5:21 is your time. 70 degrees outside. >> heavy hitting in d.c. >> later on "oprah," the 900- pound man. what life is like when you're battling obesity. with her son off to college, liz turned to target for

the debate inside the beltway an among democrats is about portability, it is about cost. that's a real debate that's happening. the debate now in the polarizing red versus blue culture war, one that he's going to be fighting as long as he's president, as long as he's head of the democratic party, so i kind of think the white house, for now, believes, guess what? these town halls, it's table catnip. you heard robert gibbs yesterday saying, hey, almost blaming us in the media for ginning this story up, creating this made-for-reality tv news, whatever you want to call it. and instead focus on the debate they have to worry about in congress which is getting a bill through and hope that eventually we just wear ourselves out, that we punch ourselves drunk. you snow use more box is metaphors. punch ourselves out and just stop covering these town halls. >> basically come back to portability -- >> or go back to not covering it. >> or guantanamo or something else for that matter. >> exactly. >> chuck, thank you. jonathan's staying. >>> next here at the "morning meeting," south caro

kind of push for employers to insure people and reform in terms of pre-existing conditions and portability in other words, they're going for a health reform bill rather than a big, big bill that would have a big public program involved, public option. it looks like it. still a possibility of a co-op. what do you think is going to happen? >> you know, i thought it was surprising this morning when we heard about tom delay being on "dancing with the stars." i thought it was not surprising that the administration is backing away from the public option. there's been a lot of signals that that is not what they consider to be critical. that's not something that they go to the mat for, and it's probably not something they can hold onto if they want to get the support, not just of republicans, but of some conservative democrats. so i thought we saw this was kind of a reality check on what the final package is likely to look like. >> clarence? >> that's true. they never had the votes in the senate for the -- >> they never had the 60. >> exactly. and i think the administration decided it's time to le

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projectors that can be worn or, well, embedded into the clothing, or embedded into objects that are portable center that means that in the future, you can make a phone call from the palm of your hand. or, you can find out that your new friend, they are a student, who works in the media lab. >> there are some privacy concerns. the idea is that the information that people see, they are all information that you have made available. and if you do not want to share anything, you can opt out. derek? >> it's like your own personal heads up display out there. i have to ask you the question we all want to know, when? when is this really going to be available? >> well, there are certain parts of it that are available right now. so some of the applications you saw, you could down load today. some of them are not coming out for a few months and a few more years as well. >> very cool stuff, thank you so much for that. >> well now, consumer alerts here for them and the back-to-school supplies. they are focusing on the environmental health, saying tobgsics school supplies on the ste s.shve l they found hig

and then clean up this crap about pre-existing conditions and portability. and all that stuff. historic. that could pass the senate -- >> and i think obama -- >> but can he sell that as a victory? >> who does he have to sell it to? who won't take that as a victory? >> a lot of people will say he tried to get government control, now he's scaling back. it wasn't for lack of trying. >> that wouldn't go well for him in a million years. >> i agree with you, and i can't see how liberal democrats will vote against something like that which does 60% of what they want done. how could you vote against this? >> what's this 100 votes that will vote against the bill if they don't have the public option? >> that's baloney. >> i think it's posturing. and we saw jim coop over today, a moderate. he was positioning himself as the guy who wants the public option. you know why? if they don't get it, he won't be blamed for it. >> who's going to call it -- well, public option. that fellow was doing that -- >> did you notice that? >> sure. and he lied -- >> let me ask you, you don't like making predi

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it reaches, it grabs, it's collapsible and it's portable. it goes wherever you go.get it free while supplies last. declare your independence call now, you'll be glad you did. call the number on your screen. president obama: i took a trip to elkhart, indiana, today. elkhart's a place that has lost jobs faster than anywhere else in america. the unemployment rate went from 4.7% to 15.3%. in fact, local tv stations have started running public service announcements that tell people where to find food banks... even as the food banks don't have enough to meet the demand. as we speak, similar scenes are playing out in cities and towns across america. glenn: this is the most important series of shows i have ever done. i encourage you to pass them around. we will have a full recap in my free newsletter, including today he's talk on obama he's national security force, his civilian security force o.t. talk about is army sergeant david belevia, director of warrior legacy foundation, author of "house to house." matthew spald something here, drek, director of the simon center for

weighing in at under 3 pounds they're popular for their portability and price.. >> it's a great choice for high school and middle school students as a primary computer. >> reporter: because they don't have a lot of memory, they are best suited to basic internet sur everring, e-mail and note taking. >> you're sacrificing something. >> absolutely. you're sacrificing a number of things. >> reporter: a tiny keyboard can be hard to type on and they run a bit slow. >> i wouldn't play any games with it. >> reporter: but that's the trade you make for portability. samsung -- if you're going to outfit your student with one of these, adding memory is a must. >> put the new one in. push it till it clicks. you're done. it's about a two-minute operation. >> reporter: most people also want saft ware, a carrying case and perhaps a dvd drive. that drives up the price. >> you're into the computer for under $500 with the software that you need. >> reporter: for college students it can be a good second computer and says washington with the integrated web cam, a good way to keep in

it reaches, it grabs, it's collapsible and it's portable. it goes wherever you go. get it free while supplies last. declare your independence call now, you'll be glad you did. call the number on your screen. bret: south carolina governor mark sanford says he will not be railroaded out of office, responding to a call from list number two that he resign. jonathan is live in south carolina with an interesting day in southern politics. good evening, jonathan. >> interesting indeed. it began in the 11th hour, at 11:22 a.m., lieutenant governor andre bauer called for a news conference, calling reporters scrambling to the statehouse. at that news conference, bougher called on mark sanford to resign saying the serious misconduct that has been revealed along with lingering questions and continuing distractions make it virtually impossible for our state to solve the critical problems we are facing without a change in leadership. governor sanford's extramarital affair has put him under fire since june when he disappeared for five days to visit her in argentina. since then, san

it reaches, it grabs, it's collapsible and it's portable. it goes wherever you go.t free while supplies last. declare your independence call now, you'll be glad you did. call the number on your screen. >> we're focusing on how to get bipartisan support and how to get members of both parties who want to work on comprehensive healthcare reform. that's what we're focused on. >> they have, from the very beginning, tried to go it alone on this, much to the disappointment of we republicans in the house, and certainly the american people. bret: over the weekend, the administration looked like they were setting to negotiate away the public option government-run health insurance. now it could be set to go it alone. at least that's what the new york times said on the front page today. democrats o set to seem to go it alone cite resistance of the g.o.p., and also we heard from the senate majority leader, harry reid's spokesman saying "we will not make a decision to pursue reconciliation. this is the process of the vote, until we have exhausted efforts to produce a bipartisan b

bucs they saw something different and i felt wall and started to peel back portable wall and a gentleman was and there. >> meanwhile, howard county officials are still trying to figure out how he staged an escape while handcuffed and shackled in the back of a patrol car. >> this man did not want to be placed in the county jail and he decided to escape. we have now had the time to review to see if there was any policy failure or any violations. some of our deputy sheriff's cars have protective barriers and others do not. >> of the wounded deputy is recovering at home. according to the sheriff, he is a 36 year veteran and intends to return to work as soon as he is well enough. >> the two teenage suspects arrested for beating an elderly fisherman are being held without bail. the 17 year-old and--- and 16- year-old are charged with attempted murder. he was attacked while fishing early tuesday morning. the teenagers fled in the victim's suv but crashed a short time later. >> investigators have released a preliminary report of a small plane crash that killed two people earlier this month. that

allow individuals to have a health account that is theirs that can be portable, that where they don'tpany to give them their health coverage, as opposed to, as well, relying on the government, which is really the way the democrats are going. so individual health accounts. make them tax deductible. empower consumers. over time, over 10, 15 year, we will have the most sophisticated medical consumer in the world. it will take time, but that is really -- that is one solution which we tried to do. it didn't go through. but i'll tell you, the only solution isn't a trillion and a half dollar program. >> but i'm curious, these health care accounts, they're kind of like 401(k)s. that's the way i understand stood it. we've all soon what's happened to those. >> well, no, see, what happens now is that a company, a corporation, will give you health care and the corporation gets a tax benefit. if an individual like myself goes and tries to get my own health care account, empower myself and my family and make sure that i can take that to another company that is portable, that is with me as long as i

public school students will head back to class on monday, and some of them will have to be in portable classrooms. eastern high school in northeast will undergo renovations for the entire academic year, so lessons will be given in trailers surrounding the building instead. studen we talked to did not seem to mind. >> i like it, it is ok. it will be a new experience to be in a trailer, so -- >> i think it will be more nicer, more decent. >> right now eastern only serves 11th and 12th graders. the old gym will be used for basketball and band and also as a cafeteria. >>> and rockville based company says its swine flu vaccine can be produced in weeks instead of the months that is standard. it will be a couple of years before approved for humans. that means it will not be available to help the current pandemic after the government slashed the number of vaccines that will be ready by mid october. >> the start of the school year has been accompanied by several cases of swine flu. a serious problem. now that the cdc has announced the nation is one month behind mass producing a vaccine. instead

that's not portable. that's not something that they can take with them. so i don't know how much of that is in the total. but the amount of debt they have on the two properties is only $225,000. so they have plenty, it appears to cover that. one of the things that they may want to think about in reducing their insurance is to perhaps get rid of the term life. i know term life is cheaper. but because their debt is long-term debt, they may want to have that whole life, which they'll have for their entire life, to cover that. but really what they need to do is talk to a certified financial planner who specializes in life insurance planning. and you can find one at naspa.org or spanet.org. that's a good place to look. also insurance agent, an independent insurance agent may be one they want to try to find, as well, to talk to them. >> you know, it's interesting. with your employer coverage, a lot of people don't know that you can actually sometimes take that with you. you have to talk to the insurer when you leave that job. but particularly if you have some s

sometimes peanut butter comes in a portable two-tablespoons serves, with cutup fruit.raisins can go anywhere. your string cheese goes anywhere. of course your beverage, you want to stay hydrated on the field. >> you said it's not a bad idea to mix it up, dinner and lunch for breakfast? is that right? give the kids something that they love at nighttime. >> your job as a parent is to provide a lot of healthy nutritious options. the job of the child is to choose how much they eat and when they are going to eat. you want to have a lot of healthy foods available. take your kids shopping and involve them in the process. talk about foods that are healthy as to helping them grow healthy and strong. because that's what kids relate to. >> say hello to the family watching out there. >> hi, everybody. >> catherine, thank you. >>> as we get older it gets harder to stay fit. coming up, why we are living longer lives and what we can do to live until the ripe old age and stay in shape. >>> and as your kids head back to school, are they wearing the right kind of shoes? helpful tips so

it reaches, it grabs, it's collapsible and it's portable. it goes wherever you go.et it free while supplies last. declare your independence call now, you'll be glad you did. call the number on your screen. bret: looking live at the white house, it is a friday afternoon in august. the president has just left for vacation, and the white house has told us late this afternoon that the administration expects the federal deficit to be $2 trillion, bigger than previously estimated. now, you see the old estimate, $7 trillion, and now the new estimate is $9 trillion. the news coming late in the afternoon, and, of course, coming as the administration and the president continue to push health-care reform, and the cost of that factoring in a senior writer for "the weekly standard," syndicated columnist charles krauthammer, and juan williams join us. this one was a big one. it is tough to get your arms around $2 trillion more. it is 2000 billion more. >> that is why the word trillion ought to be abolished. it does not have the gravid tass, the enormity, of the numbers of zeros t

some time you see that this is an access or portability or a cost issue.ou need to think about these things as being all interrelated. it would be great if we could just have the luxury of dealing with one problem at a time, but we don't, unfortunately. we know about the strengths of the u.s. healthcare based on the research of the last dozen years or so and about the weaknesses. we know that we're going to have to work and a lot of different arenas just to deliver on something that sounds as simple as access. that is what these bills are about. let me move through my slides here. i will quickly talk about the obama administration's reform framework, that top priorities, an emerging details. and now have nine minutes. here we go. there is not an obama plan, notwithstanding what you read, even in the "washington post," which praised the obama plan. but there is an obama framework in which the bills coming out of congress are being organized. you see the attempt to address all of these issues, reducing the high administrative costs, reducing the rate of grow

we want portability. i'm worried about our health care plan because i did have a problem with cancer and i'm worried i'll never be insured again. i'm worried about all kinds of things. why don't democrats seize the initiative and say there's basic things we can do as a government and a people we ought to do with this president. >> there's a principal reason is there's a tension or even a contradict between president obama's inside strategy and his outside strategy. looking to learn from clinton, the inside strategy has been to give the legislators in the house and senate the maximum flexibility to put whatever they need in each bill to get it out of each chamber and into conference where they can try to forge it into a consensus product. the cost of that, of not really ruling things in or out, is that there's no specific bill he can take to the country and say if you support health care reform, you are going to get "x," "y," and "z." even yesterday meeting with those six bipartisan negotiators in a proces

if you don't have a job, alex, what good is a portable health care if you can't afford it. think what the president needs to do is rereprioritize what's important to the american people. fix the economy, mr. president. first and foremost. and do what you said you were going to do. reduce the fraud and competence and with medicaid and medicare and have you done a lot. don't overreach on health care when the economy is the most pressing problem. >> you don't think these things can be done hand in hand? mine, it is not like you can -- with health care, part of the problem is the economy as well. i mean, you have to fix one to fix the other. they can go hand in hand, don't you think? >> when you are focusing on one-third of the economy when two-thirds are ailing your priorities are screwed up. what the president has to realize is you can walk and chew gum at the same time but putting all your emphasis on the wrong problem. the american people, first and foremost, need jobs and they need security and they need to educate their children and feed their families. that's first and f

. >> portability. >> portability. it deals with those things, but it doesn't try to expand coverage to all the millions of people, whether it's 15 million if you count it one way or 46 million if you count it another way, who don't have it now. can he do it two step? >> i think that's the only option he's got because he's not going to get that big program right now. i think take the elements of it that both parties support, majorities of both parties support, enough to get it through, and go ahead and do it. the problem is he starts off would you like to have a public option? sure, everybody. would you like to have universal coverage? everybody always loves that. when you put this big huge, complex, contradictory thing out there, controversial thing out there, republicans hit it, the blue dogs hit it, everybody hits it, and all of a sudden people become aware of the specifics they don't like. it's been going down ever since, and now he's at a point, chris, where i think he has got to do just what you're saying because

if you're wondering how they eat in the right spot, we're told that they're using a portable electric fence. >>> a brave bank teller faced a robber and tackled the man a few blocks away, but his quick action apparently violated policy. the teller was expecting maybe a reprimand for the broken rules, but instead, he was let go from the keybanc there in seattle. >>> let's check in with meteorologist bernadette woods. that line of storms that came through today were so strong. >> very scary looking. there was rotation on the radar. we haven't heard any reports of a funnel cloud reaching the ground. >> but some waterspouts. >> a waterspout was spotted by someone, so we have tried to contact the weather service. don't know if they're investigating that one. they're not investigating the one in cecil county because they're saying it was a funnel cloud but did not touch the ground. a lot of scary moments after a week of wild weather. want to take you to first warning doppler radar. fortunately everything is starting to clear thow. is the line of thunderstorms in pennsylvania. it is barely a

insurance companies, so that if you have -- people who have that now and like it will be secure, portabled permanent. people who accept that -- >> but you have to have a market. >> the left will be angry, but the president will hold his left anyway. >> the democrats will not pass a health care bill because they want to help barack obama. they will do it because there is pressure to get a health care bill passed. there will be terrible blow back if they fail to do something. i think you will see in somewhat more of the uninsured covered, not the 45,000,002 are uninsured now, but more of them covered. we will see regulation, in double but more competition in the system -- regulation that will put more competition into the system. whether it is the public payer or another, the coop measure, some kind of competition will be introduced into the picture. people will be covered for pre- existing conditions. those things will be part of the new system. >> 1.1 nancy pelosi excepting $200,000 from the company's b. if you cannot take the money and drink their brews and sleep with the lobbyists and v

but i still see their efforts at fairly substantial reform, not say just simply health care portability. >> well, carl, my reporting tells me the same thing. let me ask you another question, though. >> we talk to the same people. >> exactly right. democrats have 60 votes once al franken was seated. now they have 59 because the senator is gone. if, in fact, the massachusetts legislature does not change its laws and we have several months in which there are only 59 democratic votes, how much of a difference in this process does the loss of that one vote make, or is it not so much? >> you know, in some respects it's not so much. obviously, having senator kennedy here personally would have been a major difference just in terms of his personality, but there was a recognition in the senate that he wasn't going to be able to vote especially later in the year. they've sort of accepted 59 which makes their attempts to get one or two republicans that much more critical. senator olympia snowe obviously of maine becomes very essential here and they'd like to get at least another one because they co

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will see a front pushing through, and as the front approaches with all the warm unstable air, the portable is there to get showers and storms but not a lot of that has been sparking off west of us. we have seen a little activity trying to gather strength but most of the activity is over virginia andes l. west virginia. we will get showers and thunderstorms in central pennsylvania but rights now a few high thin clouds and if anything starts firing up they will fire up in the next hour, hour and a half but as the sun sets that helps lessen the potential for severe weather. here's what's going on the bigger picture as far as temperatures. 84-degrees rights now baltimore, 83 i harrisburg, hagerstown. timing this on out on futurescan it looks like we will see showers move through tonight possibly and tomorrow morning we have a remain shower possible and then we start to clear out in the afternoon looking at sun and clouds and more sunshine on friday. the seven-day forecast 79 degrees tomorrow, 50% chance for you, ever morning showers clearing out in afternoon, 84 on friday, a beautiful day to k