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>>he proem is not a ttical issue. is tt this wee rhetoric met reality. the president hol a press confence in which speaks for an hour ande promises us more coverageexpanded coverage,ecure coverage, lifetime ofoverage, cannot ever ny you coverag at no cost. yes, a cple of millionres will payn extra stax. it is obviously impossible. he numbers don't add up. e cbo had a fata blow what it said iwould cos$1rillion. thats a problem thatno one can solve, and unt it is soft there wl not be anythg near a bill >> far be it for meo take all e joy out of what charles just said, but for annouing health ca reform dead is premature by the end of the year, you'll get something. you hav a five commite chaien still working to produce a bill. it is the nature of things that all theey issues stt to come to head. now ty he to come to grips with the ha part, the cost. evening out t cost curve is gog to be difficult,ut everybody knows that. the thing that will be a huge backlash -the thing is th there wi be a huge backlas against cgress if they failo do somethi about health ca

d then the bigger proem, even besides consumers not being able to spend becau they don't have jobs,s that there's no availablcredit out there-- not for consumerand not for sma business a even big companies are findin very egregiouserms wall street when they want to go for a loan. >> paul: so you feel thearket is far too high considerinwhat the economy is dng. >> that' absutely right because have a jobless recory if, indeed, we do have a recery. >> paul:hat are earnings telling you? we have seen pretty decen rnings, have we not? >> no, haven't. to m thoseearnings were a farce. they'r an absute joke, and the reason is ey're all about cutting cos. many ways, it was really earningshat had to do with unemployment-- people were ld off, coanies cut theat out, and in some ways that was good. it was effectivend many corporation needed to dohat, but at the end of the day, only 22% of all compaes that had ported really had sales that were the sam or up. the to line wasn't there. >> paul: interesting observatn. the fed's latest beige bookut tawd shotz the recession becoming lesssevere in mo regi

we we too far with that ideahat's partf our proem. we beganed chairman woulde reluctant to say any opinion abt the markets. because he didn't think he could match the russ come of the market. that was a big mistake. >> crlie: we conclude with the look at the microsoftahoo! deal. >> yoo! is disbanding. ey're search team, their engiering. and disbanng the team which but their adrtising engine to sell a. the happen to be some of the most aspec of engineering in the company there. really yahoo!ants to be top intern company has to have the engineering ops to keep doing that. so it's going missout on that, it will save money by these people >> the big problem hereis tt yahoo! really, they wald away from theost interesting fight on the iernet right nowhich search. and they handed it over to microsoft for less thanny of the previous deals that were on the table. >> also moving in the ars that are qui threatening to crosoft. using e profits in searc to t in to operating syems, in to onle appcations, they threat the cash cow businees like offic

how is the healthcare reform likely to address the proem of funding dicare? right, the funding challenges are very real, but actually, the health reform pla that is moving throu the house would significany improve medicare's scal status adding five years of le to then medicare trust fund which is currently scheduled toe insvent by 2017. so aually, medicarcould be the self-nner ofealth reform becausit could contribute to medicare's fiscal streth over a period of time. d that would be a great thing. >> suzannenow, we can't talk about mecare without talking about part d wch is the prescription drugportion of medicare. now, will health care reform and the types of reforms that we're talkg about address the problems of part d? >> well, um,t's a possibility. it's too ely to know. the drugenefit as you know has been in effect for littlebit morehan three years and one of the issueshat isust real problem is the coverage gap. the bill that is moving through the house does try to close this coverage gap wch would provide real relief to seniors en they get that point whe

of the proem is that the re ower in the world is vladimir putin, he is callg the shots.y disagree it instantly, it is vladimir pin who wi. putin is the real ruler becaue russiansike the way that he putthings. th like hisoughness and anti-americanism. i think obama was trying to sweet talk the russians a ttle bit. like this one, we do not like this on that is not going to wo. tavis: how does he sawhat problem? the money he solveshe problem recognizing it as a unified leadership he makes progress by lstening to what they both tellim about russia's security concerns a tried to respond creatively. tavis: let me shift now tohe book, because we haveeen talking about iran already. the book is about, connected to iran. give me the top line on th book. tavis, inhis new and novel, the increment," i imaginthat an iranian nuclear ientist who for mplicated reasons, but really bause heetests the regi that is running ian, he decid he's goingo share nformation with the cia, dropped a dime on the nuear program. he does it by communicating wit the cian the internet. you can go to the cia'

but that reputation s tarnished by the proems of muni bond insuro, the credit isis and the impact of the recession. as wcontinue our series,"viving the economy what'shead," munis are making a comeback. billion dollars a week, every weekas poured into them since e start of the year, despite some ooing worries. >> reporterthe murmur of ices and telephones. thsound of municipal bonds, being boug and sold. th's what brokers at south- florida-basef.m.s. bonds are focused on. founder mmy klotz says the phones have been rinng eadily, with a lot more intest from potential customers since st year's stock-market meltdown. >> they noticed a distinion beeen bonds and equities, whh was that bonds continued pay interest no matter what thmarket value was. and that left impression on people that ey won't soon forget. so we've seea lot of new buyers gravitate tour market. >>eporter: that's not to say that muni bonds were untouch. late last year, prices pnged and elds soared as insurance companies and other institions sold mis to raise cash. attracted buyers likwarren buffett, who doubledhe size of be

the basic proem is the underlying inflation in health care which is driven by perverse incentives, to give people the tests. they want the tests, they don't have to pay for it. if you don't touch that issue, you don't touch health care and barack obama has been perfectly clear and perfectly bold in talking about this. but there's not a single piece of hgs, with the exception of the widen benefit that addresses that issue. >> that would put a tax on health care benefits people already get. >> we get. especially the rich people get benefits which he don't pay taxes on. most economists say you got to address that because that pushes costs up. they won't touch it because unions get these benefits and don't want to give it up. >> i look at the success of johnson, way back with health care. he'sed guy that got medicare in. people love medicare. it costs a lot of money, but the seniors, no matter how right-wing you are, i know people in my family, they don't mind taking every bit of this thing. is it a winner for the president and possibly a loser down the road? >> it is how you meare the go

he's not leadi the globe in solving this proem.and the bill that he is backg actually, we believeundermines the ability ofur negotiators the united states, and the rest of the world, to tually agree on a treaty thatill allow us to solve this proem. >> ts problem cannot be addressed with, yoknow, half meases. you can't go halfway. and say, "oh, wee done some, and nowe've solved this problem." this issue, you know, clime change is so uent right now. the timeframe thate have is so crical. that we have to take t rongest steps possible. >> moyers: but you'vbeen in washinon ten years now, with friends of the earth, right? what do u say to pple who argue that, given the cuure of washington, you can't have a perfect bill. >> i don't think that wee oking for a perfect bill. u can have a compromise bill that still gets wh needs to be done through scien. d the perfect can't be the enemy of theood, but the perfect can't be belowhat scnce is telling us. so if it's not gettinghe job done, then it's...ou know, why arwe, you know... then we need t

our opinion if not we's talk about what happened in t 50s, 40s, and 60see and you won't solve this proem. ve seen a lot of cases, cas throughout this country whe we saw otions and weaw personal frame of referencethat we n't solve the problem. we don't look at is were araining standpoin and take a look at wha at -- those officers are being taught in e acade and the enrichment trainingnd what they are taut to do, this inciden will reoccu ifyou don't change the policy a training, rituals, beliefs and values of people that are the law enforcement industry. that's what i amaying about this incident. >> professor akom does have brack man have to handle an encounter with theolice different froany other amican? no, i think that we should al be handling encounters with the poli by following exactly what the police say. at the same time, i think that raise profileins a -- racial profileing is a rampant probl. an that we need to very much be focused on making surehat raal profileing, i.e.,he criminal suspici of a people based on race, it has -there is psychological impact th i think th we need to c

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i don't ink the proem is prop .he problemis we put a cap on the percentage real estaten the state of california given the high cost of reestate. we are actually numbe 10 in the amou of property tax paid by all californians, which is number 10 in t nation. ando if you have r of prop 13, whichs what you hea warren buffett was suggesting. you run the ri that no commerci eity or manufacturing entity will sink foundations in the state of california because the know they will bassessed and we will tax you more. the thing is to create a reserve fu. we should have de that in 20. i drafte the proposition that went to the legislare in that year. it was turned down by the people in an initiative, b that's what we needed. >> the oblem is politician and people, everydy lovesto spend money. wh you have lots of it, people spend it. > i wa t continue t conversation. tom, we will take a quick break and then we will come back on calirnia, and when we g to the point whe the u.s. taxpayer ispending billions to sacramento. we will be ba

it's n thelavery proem. it's a proble of anybody who is the other. somebody who is not like u and i thin that a factor. so it'snot barack obama's blackness it's not that he's n blue-eyed and blond-haired. that's -- because that's the way that amerin presidents are supposed to look. >> endit there. nina crush a ev. it was aleasure. thank y. >> thank you vy much. >>>from china tonight, extraordinary scenes of violence in a far weern region of that country, mo than 150 people had been killed. more th 800 injured in riding of what ban at provinci capitalnd spreaded to the city of kashgar. worst violence in decad. our report comg from abc stephen mcdonald who is in beijing. >> rorter: police struggle to control the streets of t regional capital region, rum qu. and thattacks weren't only restried to cars and buildings. han chinese who wer passingy were attacked by e crd. one woman fell to t crowd a was not spared the government blames uighurs abroad for omoting the clash which started yesterday. >> translator: this is typical incidentf beijing smashing and

y think you have a temr that proem? >> no, sir. i believe th my reputatiois such that i ask the rd questis, but i do it evenly for bothides. >> supreourt nominee sonia sotomayor playit cool. >> basically > people used the cia as a whipping boy >> y is congress leaning on the cia >> yes, it was 40 years ago that an american fit set foot on the moon. >>that's onemall step for man, one git leap for mankind. >> repubcans have been saying that the president's alth-care pl is drafted -- as drafted what rate the bank and this week thhead of the congresonal dget office seemed to buttress the argument the president sa reducing alth-are costs isssential but uglas elmendorf says the legislation and the sete will do just the opposit. >> on the contrary the gislation signifintly expands the feder responsibity for healthare costs. >> but the president says doing nothing about health care is not an option. >> t price of doin nhing about health care i a price th every taxpayer and every business and every family will have to pay. >> health care re

. >> as they move to the second floor, that is when the water supply proem was noticed. >> the say it took nearly two hours to get a reliable stream of water. t home featuring an extensive collection of art was a total loss. the washington store authority in the process of replacing the aging fire hydrants says low pressure is common in many locations and is working with the fire department to figure out what happened. >> we are testing the system and we will get together to see what happened. >> neighbors say that the low water pressure has been a concern, now even more so. >> it is a definite concern if there's not enough water to put out a fire. >> nobody was home, nobody was hurt, but nothing is left. >> i think i would be devastated. >> she is reportedly due back this evening. we are told that peggy cooper cafritz has been up in nantucket. officials will not know the cause of the fire for several days, but we are told that many residents want the water pressure issue resolved. greta kreuz, abc 7 news. >>> one dozen local teenagers who were quarantined in china are returning home.

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. >> hers the proem. theroblem is, your unployment is not only gone up to 5% and people say it's going to cross 10%, yr work week is shortening. ople areorng less hrs. ere's no wage increases out there. and 70% of our econom is bsed on consumption. so, this is whyt's very bad news forhe president when he drops belo50% in ohio, and we're 16 months off from an f-ar election. people are sayin look,hen is the fundamental economyoing to rn around? we know unemployment'going to lag by nine months. >> the point is, though,we have to step away om being a consumer-driven economy. we have to make things again. pat, i know you believe in thi >> i'm 100% with you onthat, morris. there are opportunities ohio right now. >> morris, to that end are we seeing evidencef all those promises that were made that 're gog to bui the united states infrastructurewe're gointo get people out tre on the jobs they're going to be rebuildingries and roads on dog all of thosethings that would create jobs and help the infrastructure? >> w

represon can take mny forms and too many nations, even those thatav elections, a plagued by proems witheoplen poverty. no country is goin to create wealth if the leaders exploit th economy to enrich themselves. or the police -- police can be bought offy drug trakers. no busins nts to invest in a place where t government skims 20% off th top. or the head ofhe port authority is corrupt no person wants to live in a societwhere the rule ofaw ves way to the rulef brutality and bribery. th is not demracy. that is tyranny. evf ocasionally you sprinkle an eltion in there. and now is the time for that style of governance to end. in the 21st century, pable, reliable, and transparent institns are the key to success. strong parliaments, honest police forces, independt judges, an independent ess, a stng private sect, a civil society, those are the things that give life t democracy, because that is what mters in people's every day lives. time and again ghanians have chosen constitutional rule over au autoacy and shown a democratic spirit that allowshe strength of your ople to break through. we see th

gethose negotiaons starte the proem right now is tt you don' have all the docrats on board. what speaker pelosi knows, though, is sh has 40-seat cushion right now, so she can lose some of tse blue dos, she just can lose 40 coervative democrats. >> woodruff: wasit always going to be this hard? or has sometng happened that made it ev harder? >> i think we always knew this was going to beard -- and speaker losi said, this i the legislatve process. of coursit's going to look like this. the problem is you hve a president, rightnow, who wants to be able to sell a health care pl but there is nothi definitive rght now, it very nebuls, so once -- as it sits out therend sits o there and sits out tere without a real defition, it makesit easier then for republins to define it and defe it simy, as you saw in the pieces unworkable, as costing too ch money and not goi to solve the health care crisis. >> woodruff: jes morone, for some perspective, ts is not the first time a president s had a hard tme getting heal care form. >> tt's right, judy, we he been doin this since 935, harry truman r

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and his personal proems like allegatns of child moltation.admirers such afaisal janjua from london said tho aspects of jackn's life were umportant. >> we've all got a darside and unfortunately for him, it s exposed for evybody to know abut it. they cldn't leave him alone and let him be. where i me from, we don't care too much about that yoknow. it s about him loving us and being kind to theorld. d he was trying to set an example that we shou all follow reall >>eporter: costs for policing and servic related to the jackson memori are likely to approach four million doars, accorng to city officials who are grapplg with a half blion dollar budget deficit they are hoping to t private donatns from jackson fans to pafor at least some of the expenses. >> what was impornt for me todayas a safe situation tting people in and out. we ve as many police officers as we need here. we want this to be a fitting tribu to michael jackson. reporter: yet it's also hard to get away from the fact that theity s more than a half bilion dollar deb >right. wee broke. th

s there been any late developments on cit and its proems?o thisis a major small business lender th has been desperately pleading with the government f aid. the government said no yesterday. today the cpany has been pleading th its own investors itto ovide aid. and those negotiations are still ongoing. the coany had set deadline of tonight for its inestors, basically, to ree to provide more money on top of what they have already inveed. >> lehr: now explain to us wh cit is and what it do. it's not a bank b it's -- it's close. >> it is close. it grew up sort of to compete with bank. a lot of small busesses have trouble geing money from banks. i ink we all kow small businesses come and go. they are prety risky investments. a lot of them don't work out traditionally banks have been rectant to makethose types of high-risk loans. c grew up to fill that vo. the companyborrows money on wall street and giveit out to small busesses. and it plays a critical ro in the lives of about one million compaes. >> lehrer: one milln companies. >> a million comni

there's nono ethics proems that ve any mer. >> andrea, t tse are the guests yohad earlier today speaeaking about the palilithing dhe fbi ststatemente have, which was verynusual which was put out today, thehey usually do not commenon possible pendingng investigationsns, but ey did say therere wasbsoluty no truth to thosose rumors we're investigagg her or getting ready to dict her. specia agent eric gogonzalez sad in phoneintervw satuay. that's's an unusual statemenentt does s seem toave cleared up th. jayewton small inanchorage, is there any more informatationo be pickeke up there about w this cisionas made and why? >> hey, lawrence. ll, look, she's gone mpletely m.i.a. she's ignoringg al mededia requests a a there been a lolot of memedia thas d dcended inhe anchorage/wasilla areaea. she's going onan anal family fishing trtr, they call it fiing karch an she's vising llages in western alaskaka and she's t ararnd, b there's a lot lawmwmers he who hahave been t talking about how just miserablble she's been, asas ana was aying. she'had a really, really ugh session. she's bebeeneally withdwn aft

( trslated ): there are regions around theorld where the prence of nuclear arms would create huge proemsand these are areawhere we should concentrate o efforts, together withur american parers. >> woodruff: medvedevid not directly me iran, but mr. ama did, when it came turn f his response. >> in thmiddle east, there is de concern about iran's pursuit onuclear weapons capability, not simply becse of one cotry wanting nuclear weapons, t the fact that if iran obtained clear weapons, it ian almost, it is almost certain that other countriein the region would then decideo pursue their own progrs. and we wod then see a nuclear arms race in perhaps the mt volatile partf the world. woodruff: the u.s. has cit that threat as jtification for placing aissile defense system in eastern europe. but russia opses any such planand there was no official resolution today. >> the difference that we' had habeen on the specifics of a ssile defense system that th united stateviews as a priority not to deawith russia buto deal with a missile coming in from iranr north korea or some other ste, and that it's import

but was this -- is this kind of a distillation righnow of the same proem that she brought with her to th ticket last year as much as she may have excited the people who were probably already gointo vote for her se of it, the relt in the other direction was just aintense and thus, you lose independents d centrists and pele who do just naturallshy away from polarization. >> well, what with really happened the is that john mcca undercut his own gument. it was aut sarah palin, but in talking out the campaign, keith, it was ally more about john mccain. john mccain's caincard to independents and centrists was, i'm the guy with more experience and beer judent. and of course, after the sorof lost wnd in st. paul with sarah palin, the next twmonths were the long hanger, the long political hangover. and john mccain's judgnt was undermined by sarapalin's qualifications and prereess to be a heartbeat away from the presidcy. and in that sense, she destroyed the tiet she was picked to save. >> with the number that was in that polabout gop support for her,or the presidency in 2012, are we seeing, yo

and,f course, the iranians are very much worried aboutheir own internal proems. rose: i assu we've communicat to them to stopt, aren't we? >> i think the iranians are very we aware of our concerns about this malevolent influence. >> rose: my... i assumeeneral petraeus told em, actually. op it. >> i don'tant to confirm any individual dcussions, but i ca assure you the iranians ve beenade well are of our concerns. yoknow.... >> ros what are the nsequences if they don stop? >> well, i mean, you know, the ir wants aetter relionship withs, with the world, there are a few thingsthey've got to do, starting with the nuclear program. but so they've got to, i think pl a morroductive role in ir. you know iran and iraq need to have a good regulationship in the long r but it' got to b based on mutual rpect. and those us whoive in the green zone occasionallyget ese 107 millimeter rocts coming in. in som cases coming rit into where we live, and they're all made in iran, weould sort of like tsee the iranians do someing about that. >> rose: speaking of tt, you almostot killed the

an so that is a polical proem. and then to me the lger probm is notnly how are we going to pay the 1.3 trillion for this bl but how do we reduce healtcare costs overl, health care inflation. and to me there is plenty -- democrats are again any competion, and so we are splendidly agreed we will not control heal-care costsnd tt is something we is agreement on. >>ehrer: what is your read on that. >> wel, i'm not quite clear as gloomyas vid but that is saying something. i'm still pretty gloomy. i thinkhis was a bad week for health care. i think it was a we that actually would ha benefitefrom president obama's presence. it's reallyime for him to sp up and talk about what he believes nes to be seen in this bill. >> lehr: take it away from the congres >> not take it away from the cogress but assert hmself bit more. e has talked vry eloquent about the need to have meures to bend the curve as they like say, on controllg costs which not there o is n there in any adequate measure in the provincials that wve seen so far. and t

. >> pun's not the proem. i mean, if putin dappeared tomorrow thing would not ange. pew stin a manifestion of a mood a aeaction. chryia uses the word "appeasent." don't consider it to be apasement when a nation says "we don't want mility bases on r borr," partilarly military bases that represent a cotry with which we' just conducted a 40 year cold war. that's not about appeasement, it's about something else. the expansion of nato has bn a tastrophic mistake in every rega. not a ngle country safer. let me justnd by sing this. what happened last august, 2008 which we cald the war between russiand georgia in that little province geora was also proxy american/russian war. right on russia's borders. nothg like that happened during the cold war. two cntries laidwithin nucleaweapons are suddey fighting on ones border. in our history never. that's wt the expansion o nato brought you. it's a bomb waiti to go off. goes off in a small w in georgia and itan go off again. >> i di do agree very muchith rystia's point that this is my vw a strife contest between dernizers and outrea

i have a proem quoting this guy, but he is family member, you kn.er know how much intrigue there is with these gu. here he is on the "tod" show this morng goi after his almostormer -- well, his almost cnt mother-in-law, ich is not surprising in american life eith, a fight like this. but here he is. >> almost, was going to be. >>he means a lot to me. you know, i'd do just about anything for, but i really dot think i would vote forer if she ran for president. >> do you believe she's equipp to be presidt? >> yesnd no. >> uh-huh. >> i mean, she's vy smart, but i just don't think she can hale the stress level as governor. i don't think shcan hale it as psident or vice president. >> there's your witns,at. we couldn't nd kato kaelin. >> what i said this morning -- th kid down to the creek and hold his head under war until the thraing stops. >> think she may have been winner in that one, the moer-in-law. >> what e you having this guy on television -- this ne of r oblems. shs up there with these ethics charges, she's got this stuff on the "todayshow. >> i'm

people know thahat proems of this seriousness canante turned around inix months or nine months. ne of the president's strerengths a s his extraordinaryy cananr the president has bebe hones with the e americ people about t the enororty of the c challen and the amount of time i i will tak to turn thihis around. then t the presint yesterday in his radio addddress said t ts recovevery act hasorked as intendnd. is he leveling w with th americn people? well i'm se the preredent is doingng everying that he can to try to help thihiseconomy. >> but is he leveling? he being straight?? >> well, h he is either not leveling now or hee wasn't leveli at the time of the passage of the stitilus pacacka becaususthey sd the maximum unemployment would be at 8%. ththat's wha they told us. it's 5%, going too 10%. they said most t these p projet werere shovel-ready, and the moy would go out v vyquicickly. we know now that hasas n happeneded, and en that % is a little deceieiving becse it hasn't been us. whathey promised uss would be the result of the s smulus in a short-termrm and has t turned o not t

anit's not easy and i'm not saying the aren't proems and there won't be additional prlems, but, again i think 's in the right dirtion and i the fact that the troops a ouof the cities is a very good signa good sign for iraq's ability take over tir own security and a gd sign for our troops to come home and come home with a sse of amission well done. so i think we'reoing to keep working thisnd i'm not saying we're not going to have a oblem next tuesday or someing like that, but we're going to keep at it. >> rose: andhathappens ifn this election next years there a referendum voted by the iri citizens sing "we want the americans ouof here by the e of 2010, n 2011"? >> well, actlly, according to the security agreement, they can have a referendumut they would have to notify us within a year and then a year latere would be out soif they had the refendum and the best that could happen, really, is... i mean,eople votinfor that refendum is if we would be out when we said we're gng to be out. so don't think we hav a problem now on the referenm. i thinkwe're here according to curity agreement. i t

. >> and the proem, o,is let's just face it, mike barnicle,eople in missouri, claire mccaskill's stataterevved up. if they e this as a a didistrac straction, they are agaiainst it. >> theought many line is thaha bs, jobs, job that'she prinple thing going onn amica. and the k k element of tthe healthare debe this year, and th o obstacl this yar are thee same as they werere 16 yea ago. thee politital question is why? why after 16 yrs are we stil dealing and h have not confnfnt or solv t most -- >>>> health re is theost expensive thing you can n do in the e american government. mber two, ththis is a real problem if you wan to call it th, in l legislang reform, a a signicant mjority ofof current health care policycyholders are sasatisfied th at they have. have to geet upver 60% didiatisfaion in current health care policy holders before youet real strong montumo change. >> and you alsoave the past. five or six nths, andd perhaps the esident could have passed is easililynfebruary. pat chanan, we sa ronald reagan g slaughterered in the mid ter inin 1982, and it could happen again. anit comes do

reporte oneor proem the seety faces is north korea. knowdging that thebama administraonas chaed i approach ihe last month. fromhe oside it s to me after the latest missi launch t rhetoric omhe ited stas s aled back bi >>o we wen't gng to gi e noh koreans th tiactionhey we looki for which is to y levate em ain tcenter stag >> rorter: but that's re sht. i mean from the begig he obamadminiraon when ty first tested lhes, the rhetic seed most ely ke t bh administration a didn't doh good sos it a rea shiftha you ded toial ck? well, wt 've seen is thi constant demand for atteion, and e it the mother in m or t experience that'v h with smahin and unrulyteenagers and people who are mand ntio don'give ito them eyon't deserve it. th arectg outn a way to nd a message tt is not a message we'rintested receing. >> reporter:retary clinton says shesn know whether north korewill go ead a ch of ng-rangeissile soon but sprisingly pled any ssrom thnort korea nation. >> thererealhreat u kw th o alliesan andth kor are very concernebuhare inform they wch what

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but critics say he's coming up with a way to deal with the homelessness proem. new york city has come up with a controversial solution to a nagging homelessness problem. one-way tickets, sometimes for entire famies with children, to places they have relatives. places like florida, for $858. puerto rico for $484. paparifor r $6,300 for aamilyy f ve. and enouth a africa, for the last two years, new york city has relocated 564 families, by plane, train and bus, to more an 24 states andnd 5 continent at a cost of $500,00000 a year. this program is now being hotly debated on b blogs and cable ne shows.s. and ridiculed by rush limbau >> i wonder if they give them any cupcakes for t the p plane flight. >> reporter: mayor bloomberg points out that relocacation is much less expensive than e $36,000 a year that it costs to keep a family in a new york shelter. >> keep in mind, nobody's forcing these people to go. they want to go. >> reporter: some advocates for the homeless are critical. >> all they're doing is shifting the problem to another municipality. >> reporter: cit

part of the proem was on sunday when peoe got the e-mailhis ey had been osen, in this random selectionhey had to quickly figure out how to get here an pick up their ticts we don't know what tse numbers will be. they are also saying tens of thousands peopleayhow up and try to be part of this collective mourning process and saying good-bye. >> what about thisissu of whether or not fans might b asd to foot the bl. >> there's lot of discussi, as you can imagine right now, abouthe cost reachin possibly t $4 million. latest estimate, close t four times as much as the original estimate. yeah, they a sayingause the tickets areree especially for the people that will attend th, that they should coribute some. they are asking aeg, the owner of staples center put forth the money, saying the council pson will profit by holding this event. y not put up some of the money. if they don't do that vontarily, they may be forced to te some kind of legal action to get the money. >> nbc's lee anne gregg reporting live. >> theyre donating to pay for president obama ticket back from russia. >> ce on. thanks -

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it makes me angry that some washington, d.c., paper and also a reporter would demonize a proem that keeps america's heart beating. it is a patronizing and dead-wrong description and it offends mends the people i am privileged to represent in rural kansas. but i want to tell shala, ms. murray, i'm never going to stop fighting these hospitals, no matter how many deals the american hospital association cuts with the white house, no matter how many ugly articles are written here in d.c. i'm rather amazed at the deal at the american hospital association allegedly cut,15 billion cuts to senior citizens. waning, americans, it's your medicare. going to be more rationing, when doctors say, i'm so, i can't afford to continue. that's the target now on the finance committee, medicare. i never thought i would see the day that that would havment but i'm not going to stop fighting for these hospitals and here we have the american hospital association -- i'll tell, the kansas hospital association, mott mo hospital association, other hospital associations are not happy with the national association when y