roe. mr. roe: i think, mr. speaker, i go back to when medicare first began about -- in 1965, there was a problem identified in america where we had a group of our citizens as they became 65 years of age and older that didn't have access to quality health care. so a plan was put in place to access quality health care. in 1965, mr. speaker, the medicare program was a $3 billion program. there was no congressional budget office at that time. the estimates, that in 25 years, this would be a $15 billion program but turned out to be $over 100 billion. in 2010, $550 billion. we also as has been pointed out in our previous hour by our friends from the black caucus that we have a tremendous deficit, borrowing 42 cents of every dollar in this country. i came to washington -- i practiced medicine for over 30 years and i realized that we had a serious problem, not just in medicare but in health care. we came to work in health care reform and the doctors' caucus, not one of us was consulted with the affordable health care a

. >>> hundreds of people gathered in a local park to commemorate the lives of four members of the roeamily who died in a crash last weekend. we explain what happened at the extraordinary and quiet ceremony. >> reporter: hundreds from frederick county virginia gathered at clear brook park most with balloons. they came to remember the four lives lost on june 26th when an allegedly drunk driver smashed into the rear of the roe family's stopped car sparking an inferno that killed mark, amanda and 11-year-old caleb and tyler who would have been celebrating his 5th birthday on this day. there were no speeches at this memorial just quiet condolences, for surviving family members, messages of sympathy were written in old fashioned composition notebooks and quiet remembrances occurred among acquaintances. troop leaders for former girl scout amanda roe. >> she was one of the quiet ones it is fitting isn't it all these voices are being raised for her. wonderful wonderful person. >> oh, yes always had a smile. >> yes. >> and curly red hair. >> yep. ♪ happy birthday dear tyler >> the crowd spontan

really angry about is that any time those laws that cannot hold up to the law of the land which still is roe v wade it's going to close them money to fight these legal. well it's really insane tell us about your campaign you're on the road on this right now. i am what would i you know as you said this assault has just reached a fever pitch and myself you know i am fifty years old and i've used play internet since i'm sixteen and every woman i know has or everyone i know either know someone who has or has and sounds and the fact that this funding is getting cut i decided you know what i have this skill i can get onstage and i can make people laugh and for some reason time people pay money to see it so i thought why not go on a road trip and start raising money doing my comedy to help at least plant here to keep keep some money coming in because at this point. i don't know what else to do i feel like this is all that's not going to stop on the legislative level so it if i go to town to town and anywhere between you know two hundred six hundred people are coming out to see my shows and they loo

>> the supreme court made clear in "roe v.ffirmed ever since states can ban for women's health abortions later in pregnancy, but they have to also have an exception for women's health, and the problem with these bans that are passing is they don't have that health exception. for women who are in difficult circumstances and need to have a later abortion. they are not very common, but for those women that need them, they are important. >> i want to show you some data which follows this issue very closely showing there were just 20 enacted abortion restriction laws in 1985. also that number this year has jumped to -- jumped in 2011. when you look at the sort of numbers, right here on the screen right now, what does this mean for "roe v. wade"? >> well, what it means is the end game for the anti-choice forces is to reverse roe, but in the meantime what they are trying to do under the radar screen is chip and chip and chip away so that there are fewer doctors providing abortion services and that abortion services are harder for wom

this is elect roe plated galvanized. it doesn't give you a thick enough coating. >> so what happens it corrodes and if you expect it to stay together, you will find it to corrode. it corrodes very, very fast. do not use either common nails that are uncoated or connectors or elect roe galvanized connectors. ok. let me pass this around. i won't pass the arsenic around. i'll just pass these around. >> and what happened was they were making playground structures out of the arsenic based pressure treated wood and kids were coming back home with these high levels of arsenic and someone figured out that they were going out and playing on play structures that had just had rain on them. the rain leaks the arsenic on. kids rub their hands on the wood and where does the kid put their hands? on their mouth and they were getting high arsenic level. so they just banned it. saying there's no safe way to use his stuff and keep it away from kids or dogs. >> so we will also look at one or two metal frames, decks and balconies. our first s

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. >> the funeral for the roe family is scheduled for thursday. the suspect remains jailed without bond. >>> a warning for this holiday weekend. police will be watching out for drunk or distracted drivers. virginia state police say 75% of the uniformed officers will be patrolling for monday. the maryland state police are adding 75 extra troops on the road. d.c. police say you can expect to see increased patrols throughout the city as well. >>> preparations continue on the national mall for the big fourth of july holiday. crews were busy setting up for the fireworks spectacular. people attending should remember to expect high security. bags will be checked at the entrance point. metro is running extra trains. the fireworks will start shortly after 9:00. >>> what will be whether be like? let's go to steve for a preview. >> we a little bit of everything on the way for the next 24 hours. we're watching a cool front develop. it is 92 x reagan national airport. look at the doppler radar. there is western maryland. this is where the isolated showers are

six stocks fell for everyone that bros roes. >> the traigs -- transportation security administration and fbi investigating a big security breech. someone got a stun gun past airport screeners and on to a plane. and it was discovered in a pocket. airline passengers are shocked someone managed to get it through security. >> they won't let you carry makeup? i don't see how snun smun got on with a stun gun. >> and halts off? belts off? that is amazing. >> and fbi says it doesn't appear waits intended to be used in an attack. they say they do not know who brought it on board. >> the chp and caltrans launched a campaign called move over. and they want us to remember state law requires us to slow down in road construction zones or face fines. this is after three caltrans workers were killed in three months. drivers can expect to see more officers in construction zones as well as visual reminders to move over or slow down. in other words a lot of signs. >> coming up... another way to think about the salt in diet there. is another nutrient that could neutralize the feekts and we'll have a pho

so i was around before roe versus wade. i have seen the horrors of illegal abortions. i have done hysterectomies on women who have been perforated, infected. fortunately, i have never seen anybody die, but that was an occurrence in the past. there were wards on our service for strictly care of septic abortions. i told myself when i went into practice i wasn't going to ever have to see that again. and i didn't. and we practiced abortion care as well as routine obstetric and gynecology care for over 30 years. and everything was fine, until a couple of weeks ago. >> are you -- sorry. go on, sir. i'm sorry to interrupt. >> well, the time line on these regulations is bizarre. today is june 30. we first were notified of the language of the restrictions on june 13. we sent in our application on june 14 because we were ready and we had reviewed what we had on the 13th and had planned for some guidelines, and we submitted our application and everything was fine until the 20th, when we received 30 pages of additional architectural guidelines that were drawn up by the secretary o

the states are hacking away at roe v. wade now. i knee all three abortion clinics in kansas are planning on fighting this in court and a woman now has to go to missouri for the nearest abortion clinic and if that's not undue burdened i don't know what it. >> if you have to go out of state, that's good case. thank you, from the "huffington host." >> thank you. >>> the president of the center forereproductive rights, filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of one of the abortion providers in kansas. give us your sense, and thank you for joining us tonight on this. it looks to me like this is an attempt to outlaw abortion effectively. is that how you see it? in the state of kansas? >> yes. absolutely an attempt to outlaw abortion in the state of kansas. these are medically unnecessary rules that were put into place in a kind of bogus procedural way, and our clients are not going to be able to provide abortion service tomorrow morning until we get into court tomorrow afternoon. >> what happened -- i won't let you or me make the argu

clover dale, roe neck park, and union city are on the list. they are among the handful of bay area cities where they are legal. fire works are illegal in oakland and anyone caught with them can be fined up to $1,000. the oakland police department is setting up an anonymous stipline for people to report any illegal fire works. (510)777-8814. there will be some barrels set up at fire stations where people with drop off the fire works. you can find a list of those collection sites on our website it's all under the right now section at ktvu.com. >>> berkeley school board is taking action to reduce the number of guns showing up on high school campuses. the plan includes increasing the number of police officers and security guards on campus. there will be be tighter screening for all school visitors. the board decided against installing metal detectors saying they are castly and inefficient. police have seized half a dozen guns this year alone. >>> there is a set back in the treatment of injured giants fan bryan stow. stow's family said brian was sc

so nobody knows if more roe is stabilized. in the heart of more is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want to stick close the book on more go no no never. said to seven hundred kilos on plutonium and buried in our soil. and i ask myself is whether it's worth having children or superman when they are faced with a tragedy. and that's good indeed happen. to know. it's a few because from their knowledge would take would be a tsunami what after. this when i heard him talking about the legacy on judical. computer i saw my daughter. going to kissimmee pier and i thought if i don't do anything and janelle one day she will blame me that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat cauldron and struggle for my country's independence. for the one.

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she supported the supreme court's ruling on roe v.which made abortion legal and she supported the equal rights amendment. she openly discussed her breast cancer and mastectomy. >> there are women all over the country like me, and if i don't make this public, then their lives will be gone -- they're in jeopardy. >> reporter: after they left the white house in 1977, betty ford faced another health crisis. >> my family saw the problem, and they got professional help to come in and help them do what we refer to as an intervention. >> reporter: she had become addicted to both pain killers, and alcohol. after her successful treatment, she opened the betty ford center in rancho mirage, california, to treat others with drug and alcohol addiction. the couple spent much of the rest of their lives together and out of the public spotlight, but the nation saw her again during the state funeral for former president ford, her husband of 58 years. through it all, betty ford faced the challenges of life with the grace and poise of a dancer. scott pell

wrote a number of books including calling for the overthrow of the us government based on his view of roe v wade our view because at that time i was involved and i describe in my own book sex mom and god and since got out. of abortion rights and so michele bachmann comes from a segment of evangelicalism that is radical even for evangelical christians she someone who is a fundamentalist literalist about the bible and in the best of all worlds from her point of view the u.s. would become a kind of a theocracy so she has a dedication to the democratic process as long as it gets even joke of christians like her elected but then she says she got into politics because she heard the call of god telling her to get into politics to save america and or bring it back from what she regards as the brink of a secular disaster and you know i'm not being facetious when i say maybe we don't really want people in political leadership positions who hear voices so when you have people who say god has told them to leave the country a red flag ought to go up when you combine that with the sort of. theocratic a

common sense on this issue because a free report for starters rule of the one nine hundred seventy three roe v wade case that abortion was illegal in the u.s. so governor you can just compare a painful and a personal decision that a woman makes about her own body to a criminal act that's just offensive but gentle of his buddies seem to have absolutely no problem trying to restrict freedom that seems to be a trend in louisiana in fact that dates back centuries you might recall back in april we brought you a report on how new orleans police and prosecutors still use nineteenth century laws to prosecute the what they're called crimes against nature and they often deal with sex acts between two consenting adults new orleans uses those laws to target prostitutes and some of the laws on the book make oral or anal sex punishable by twenty years in jail so in order to avoid jail time a city just finds of her thousands of dollars now it's a money making revolve based on an old law written when morals and society were much much different that law was actually overturned in the last few days so what is

president obama, moments ago, in 9 roes garden. >> roes -- in the rose garden. >> today's report confirmswe mow. we still have a lot of work to do. >> it's important for us to fund mentally affix our spending problem and debt problem an to help get our economy moving again. >> reporter: the teaching jobs, police jobs, firefighting jobs really are impacting so many people across the country. we're not immune to this in the bay area. a lot of talk of jobs numbers this weekend. likely sun at the white house, when the president and congressional leaders meet to talk about the debt crisissant debt ceiling. back to you. >> thank you, scott. >>> :18. there's also more -- 8:1. here's also more fallout from the fallout hacking. one eddie ter was arrested -- ed ter was arrested -- editor was arrested. the ceo is addressing the staff members who can the hacking. the paper says the revenues from its last edition will go to charity. >>> 8:19. a group of teenagers caught on tape looting a gas station. >> an they've never been in trouble before. it was cube of shocking. >>> -- it was kind of shocking. >

was very influential in the united states in having the federal communications commission put aside roe ules and regulations that who granted that kind of media consolidation where one in or primes can own the newspapers and the television stations in one city but i think the deeper question here is not just about the silliness of the british media which is the well known for many many years i think you just said good thirty years you know people have looked at the this secretary there i'd choose the british tabloids but i would make an analogy that goes much deeper than than just the competition between various media barons and if you look at illegal a small news on a big battle with that some of his competitors you know it's the theme of their control everything fading from more controlled but i think more deeply and we can make an analogy i think on an international scale between what happens in takeovers so the united states and britain took over iraq and who do they bring the power who they employ they employ with close loans and i think that same thing has happened in the tabloids

opposition to abortion as much as we now take for granted is a relatively new phenomenon you know when roe versus wade came down in one nine hundred seventy three there was tremendous catholic opposition and outrage but evan jellicoe did the modern intellectual movement was still in its infancy and there just wasn't that much outrage you know jerry falwell had a few years earlier been chastising martin luther king for getting involved in politics you know there was still a sense that it wasn't for the church to involvement to involve itself in kind of worldly matters now what really you know who is a built in evansville coal and a historian of the movement at columbia university has argued and i think correctly that we're really awoke kind of sleeping out until called giant and basically you had a huge evan helical resurgence in this country in the one nine hundred seventy s. and in some ways it was part of the same spiritual upsurge they gave us you know lots of different facets of the counterculture of the new age movement some of those searchers speak a what they called then jesus freak

are saying roe's adjust to the capital requirement. you know, this is an empirical question that is tested over time. i think the somewhat better view but not -- not perfectly so is that capital requirement increases resilience in the system and i don't think the other is a trivial view and like i said, lot of smart people have it. i think the basic approach that we've taken in dodd-frank that basel has taken and that we're likely to take in the future and the view that i think is a better view suggests that roe in the sector will go down as a result. and that risk will go down as well. in terms of concentration, i would not have viewed that as a cause of -- sorry, as a consequence of dodd-frank. there was concentration built into the system as firms fell into each other's arms in the financial crisis. and now we're dealing with that. >> now we're pushed. >> yeah, i'm sorry. i didn't mean fall like it was an act of god. they fell when pushed into each other. >> correct. >> i think the search for yield has something to do with that as w

prosecutors say that there was insufficient evidence the 1920 roe were arrested after the shooting fridayce believe a gain related argument erupted into gunfire right outside of the young girl's apartment where she was hit. jeopardy host alex trebek is recovering after chasing down a burger and a set francisco hotel. heat apparently woke up and saw the suspect leaving that is when he took off after the 56 year old woman. while he was chasing her he snapped his achilles' tendon. the caught the burger and recovered the stolen items despite the entry he still managed to host the national geographic world championship today. carlos could be sliding into home plate in san francisco, the outfielder for the new york mets has been traded to the giants. all that is needed is his approval of the deal. gary will have more coming up and sports. >> an act of kindness comes to a horrible end, a father, husband and minister shot in the head and now in grave condition. we explain what happened and talk with those who know him in the community. >> he is a very good man, very churchgoing man, his wife very

public funeral service will be held this afternoon for a santa rosa teenager. 14-year-old taka may roe died from alcohol poisoning. police say she had been drinking vodka at a slumber party at her home. the services begin at 2:00. >>> time now 5:33. orlando florida court hearing gets under way in just a couple minutes. zanata gonzalez says casey anthony ruined her reputation by giving police her name. attorneys for gonzalez want to force anthony set for questioning before she is set free. we will let you hear about casey anthony's upcoming release. >>> back here at home police in oakland are giving us new information about a burned body found in the rock ridge neighborhood. a man walking down ivanhoe road found the woman's body. she may have been killed some place else then her body set on fire in the rock ridge neighborhood. police have not told us the victim's name. they are contacting her family members first. >>> also police say the man who's body was found near a san jose golf course was not the victim of foul play. a fisherman found the body in coyote creek. they are not sure how

i don't care about education, i want to be a hardliner on immigration, i have no real economic make roe plan here will not win well, though he does look good in cowboy boots. >> that won't be his message. >> let me say about it him, i don't get him. it doesn't ring authentic. on the one hand it seems very fancy, big city, he dresses well and looks good, but there's a hee-haw far right-winger. is isn't cohesive. >> with the best job creation record of any governor in the country. >> let's have some fun. newt gingrich, a million in debt, an off-camera event this morning, david plouffe had this to say. calling romney a contortionist for distorting the president's handling. no the surprising the spokesperson hit back saying, quote, we understand the difficulty of working for a president who who is challenging herbert hoover's place as the job terminator's place in history. if he'd like -- mitt romney will debate president obama anytime. talk about swagger, david corn. >> mitt romney is trying to take his mind off the primary and go right ahead to the general. when obama -- >> that's smart.

. >> bill: you don't want roe v. wade revoked. >> nor do majority of americans, bill. >> bill: i'm telling you the traditional core of the republican party opposes you on almost every social issue. >> let me tell you what the traditional core of the republican party wants this time. jobs, low gas prices, national security they want it in 2004 and that's what they want would in 2008. people like you who try to divide our party on social issues, that is not the way forward for the republican party. we need to be united 80%. >> bill: did you say people like me. >> reagan said 80% ally is not my 20% enemy. people like you. >> bill: stop it i'm telling you the truth and you can't handle the truth. >> you can't handle the truth. >> bill: you can't handle that truth. american individualism and hoover is going to win it she is going to unite everybody. let me know when that happens and can you come right back in. plenty more as the factor moves along this evening. another undercover investigation showing union members in det

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so a lot -- roe versus wade. it was a very tumultuous time in our country. we'd also gotten title 9 which was june 23rd, 1972, where federal funds going to private or public high schools or college or universities would get equally spent on both genders for the first time. so you know, i know if you live outside of the united states, but it's huge. now we have more women at universities -- actually it's about 57% on average are now women at the universities. 57% on average are women. >> but you were -- i have to say, very instrumental in changing the whole view of women's rights. forget just tennis or sport. >> but it was visual though. it was about men and woman. everyone got to emotional. men were emotional. it brought out the worst and the best of everybody. >> when did he challenge you? >> we didn't have cable television then either. we didn't have anything like that. >> set the scene for the bobby regs. >> he was a former number one, won the triple crown at wimbledon in '39. he was one of my heroes. we'd only started women's professional tennis in 1971,

maybe in some parts of the country they've heard about roe v. wade in other women's rights issues.what would be the main cases you would like to see the kids become aware of and the k-12 experience? what seems -- i mean for example, you mentioned the very start trends with regard to african-americans have a separate but equal. what cases would you like our kids to grow up knowing? what doctrines which are like them to be wary of? of the 20th century was brown v. board of education, you know, the supreme court struck down the separate but equal cause in know, which in 1896 had laid out the legal basis for racial discrimination and racial segregation in america. the separate but equal.tran in which all walks of our american life was racially segregated, you know, based on the notion that the legal fiction that blacks are inferior and that their separate treatment by the law, you know, definitely stamp of that of inferior that was discarded. our economy was based, housing, public education was discarded or the supreme court in 1955 in the brown case and it changed the face of america

father francisç shea's books on calling for the people to overthrow the government and unless it sent roe decision to take choice away from women. this element is prevalent in the united states right now, and we can't kid ourselves, because it is extremism under the form of christianity. >> thank you, frank. >>> and now, like the fall of communism, some are beginning to suggest that multiculturalism has had the day. in the last few months a number of world leaders from prime minister david cameron in the uk to chancellor angel la ameria mm germany have spoken of the fall of this. and just as europe have developed a single currency and tried to be a unified union of cooperative states, many leaders are doubting whether such an approach is feasible and they are pulling back. anders breivik railed against cultural marxism and develope e a psychopathic hatred for anything he considered anti-nordic, but this country, too, has had a share of its psychopaths from ted kaczynski to timothy mcveigh, but america is exceptional in allowing differing groups to live in relative harmony. why is that? wh

. >>> did jim roe feel bad about stealing an old high school friend's identity? who had died in a tragic accident? you decide. >> i feel badly for how his parents feel, i truly do. and i can't say anything to them that's going to make them feel any better. but if steve were alive, steve would laugh his butt off at this. he would sit there and howl. >> he says he needed an air-tight new identity to work his magic on the microsoft guys. but for most of his cons, he just made up any name he pleased. >> i rarely used any i.d. i mean, once you've been to a bank three times, they no longer ask you for i.d. make sure you hit the same teller every time. smile and wave at the vice president even if he doesn't know you. he'll wave back and then the teller says if he knows so and so, he is okay. >> are you thinking this consciously when you do it? this is the plan, i have to wave at the vice president? >> yeah. >> little wheels going all the time. >> not one little wheel in there. big, major heavy duty high-powered wheels in there. wheels that he admits just crushed his vic

i'm trying to conserve roe versus wade, i'm trying to conserve a lot of things.ted. but is the gop kind of skeptical about this? are they upset? is the establishment concerned about perry entering this race? >> i don't think so. i think rick perry may be the best candidate do winter nomination. if you go down the check list for all the things you need, tea party support, evangelical support, but also main stream support. and again, he is a governor, americans like to elect governors president. like michele bachmann for example, is a member of the house. herman cain has never been elected. so you know, rick perry really is sort of the whole package that republicans really might get behind. i think he will get in the race. if he gets in, i think he'll be for real. >> you might be surprised but rudy giuliani said something that i agree with. even a broke clock is right twice a day. he said that republicans should get out of people's bedrooms. how do you think this plays with rick perry and the prayer meetings and with the michele bachmann and her statements about ga

there was recently a wonderful staging by alex roe last fall at the metropolitan playhouse in the village. now, in many of those earlier plays uncle tom was falsely presented as a stooped, obedient, old fool. and that's partly where the uncle tom stereotype came from. eva's death in those plays was frequently a syrupy scene in which the actress was hauled heavenward by rope or piano wire against the backdrop of angels and billowing clouds. one might think that such spectacle would defang stowe's revolutionary themes and turn "uncle tom's cabin" into a laughable piece of harmless entertainment, but actually this didn't happen. after all, the play is always about race relations and the wickedness of slavery. and so this theme had riled up many southerners before the war, and then after the war during the long period of jim crow -- that period of legalized segregation that lasts from the 1880s right to the early 1950s -- many white supremacists during that era found "uncle tom's cabin" really, really threatening. a very, very dangerous novel. most notably, the popular southern author thomas

she publicly endorsed roe versus wade. called it a great decision. they considered her too lib ra. it caused gerald ford problems in 1977-78 they were critical of her. >> how comfortable was she talking about her own problems with addictions? she spoke out on so many different causes. but what was your sense about her talking about her past, difficult past? >> she was very easy with it. i think she knew that she had a responsibility once coming out to help a lot of others. there's no telling how many people she helped. how many people eventually came through the betty ford center. all through her doing. that's the most famous rehab center in the world. and she started it. she did it all on her own. she had wonderful assistants helping her at the end. we had her on many times with the person who headed the ford center. and she was very, as doug pointed out, she was a gorgeous woman and a beautiful family. they were a very -- they had problems, of course, as discussed with the marijuana. but they hung together. they were as close a family as you will see ever in the white house. >> a