williams is actually appeared on rosenberg's site as a guest blogger. now if everyone else could get along so well. >> well, the two sides have a little more time to work out their differences. the "real world" is expected to continue taping through september or october. >>> the watergate hotel made famous by presidential scandal failed to attract new buyers at a recent auction. the neighbors are hoping that complex rich with history will reopen. tom sherwood has the story. >> reporter: at the watergate flower shop, joe has been the manager for 25 years selling to visitors, residents, and before it closed two years ago, the watergate hotel. >> we used to get a lot of business from the hotel. i mean not only the hotel itself but also the guests staying and the events they had there. >> reporter: inside the walls of the watergate complex, a unique washington community of high end apartments and a multilevel shopping plaza, residents and business owners look past the political history that made watergate famous. >> it is self-contained. we have 55% garden

wiggins appeared on rosenberg's guest as a guest blogger.f everyone else could get along so well. due popt circle, keith garvin, news4. >> the two sites have little time to work out their differences. "the real world" is expected to continue taping in the dupont circle home through september or october. >>> coming up, president obama makes his case to the nation for health care reform. wendy and jim handly are next with "news4 at 6:00." >>> one month to the day of the deadliest accident in metro history. the transit sysm still trying to assure riders about safety. >> a program that give people money for their old cars about to get under way. >>> a new discovery could provide information about the mindset of the man responsible for the virginia tech shootings. tonight president barack obama will discuss his health care plan before the entire country. in a prime time news conference. good evening, everybody. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. jim and doreen are off tonight. the president is trying to keep the pressure on congress to act soon

the san diego business is being run by three men with criminal records, incling this man, brian rosenberghe went to prison in 2003 for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme in baltimore. can i ask you what's going on here? our san diego affiliate was ordered out of the busins by the company prison, mike trap, who has a criminal record for lying to a federal grand jury about a huge ponzi scheme. late today, the company called in an industry shredding company and gave them boxes of documents to be destroyed. the chairman of the federal trade commission offerfour pieces of advice to avoid being scammed. if they are asking for money in advance, if they claim a 100% success rate if they say, pay them instead of their mortgage, or if they are connected to the government, forget about it. hang up the phone. >> all right, brian ross, reporting, thanks very much. >>> and we have information on how you can avoid becoming a victim of these scams, including the four points that brian just mentioned at our "world newser" blog at abcnews.com. >>> and when we come back, two unusual moments that made this

el abogado rodrigo rosenberg en un video acusa al presidente de tu paÍs de un asesinato.e ser juzgado y si es culpable deberÁ hacerse lo que se hace con todo el mundo. >> ¿el presidente Álvaro colÓn debe ser juzgado? >> absolutamente. hay un hecho establecido contundente y difÍcil de nejar porque no tiene presentes. eran palabras que se usa normalmente pero juntas no habÍan aparecido nunca. cuando vea este video, ya estoy muerto. son palabras raras. es un hecho que como no tiene precedente es muy difÍcil pero se debe llegar hasta las Últimas consecuencias. >> p. tengo que preguntar sobre honduras. ¿fue un golpe de estado lo que sucediÓ? ¿de quÉ lado estÁs? >> te voy a decir una cosa. fue un golpe de estado. la conveniencia de este golpe de estado es el asunto que hay que discutir. el nombre estÁ claro. para mÍ es un golpe de estado. me parece el riesgo enorme que se corre en un hecho como Éste es que volvamos a lo que ya supuestamente habÍamos superado, ajeno a la simpatÍa o lo que pueda tener con el personaje. esto no tiene nada que ver con esto. es volver. antes los gol

rosenberg also has convictions for theft and drug conviction. >> they have deceived others in the pastvolving real estate transactions. and so, i would not give him a lot of credibility. >> reporter: the president of the operation, mike trap, has his own credibility issues. he was convicted of lying to a federal grand jury, in connection with the largest ponzi scheme in san diego history. trap was not happy, when j.w. august of our san diego affiliate, 10 news, showed up to ask some questions. >> can i ask what's going on here? >> reporter: trap's operation is one of hundreds of so-called loan modification businesses, under investigation by authorities. >> that's assault. >> there's a lot of malectors out there, that are using this time of economic distress to go after consumers. and they promise them a lifeline. but they give them only an anchor instead. >> reporter: that was the chairman of the federal trade commission, john leivitz, who says there's four pieces of advice to avoid being scammed. if they're asking for money in advance, if they claim a 100% success rate. if they say pa

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the san diego business is being run by three men with criminal records, including this man, brian rosenberg went to prison in 2003 for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme in baltimore. can i ask you what's going on here? when our san diego affiliate showed up to ask questions, they were ordered out of the business by the company president, mike trapp, who also has a criminal record for lying to the record for lying to the federal grand jury about a huge ponzi scheme. the company called in an industrial shredding company and gave them dozens of documents to be destroyed. if they ask for payment in advance, if they guarantee success, if they say pay them instead of your mortgagor if they say they're from the government, hang up the phone and hang on to your wallet. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> all these scams as foreclosures continue to rise. >> and even unemployment continues to go up. >> still ahead, it's one of the most recognizable stores in the world. there seems to be a starbucks on every corner. >> well, finally this half hour in seattle this morning, it is finally here, starbuck

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adam rosenberg lives across the street. he's so frustrated that he's taken his complaints to twitter. >> people hanging out outside, they're drinking and watching the "real world," somebody shoves somebody, people get into a fight. >> not everyone has a problem with all the extra attention. chris wiggins run pages on twitter and facebook that follow every move of "the real world" cast. he has sources that tell him exactly where cast members will be at when. >>> a local man is upset when police pulled him over for driving too slowly. eric says it happened tuesday evening at rte 50 in prince george's county. >> coming back on route 50, speed limit is 55. i was pulled over by a maryland state trooper and wn i asked him why i was pulled over, he said that i was going too slow. he issued me an $80 ticket for going 58 in a 65. >> what's more, he says he was pulled over just yards before a 65-mile-an-hour sign. he thinks he w stopped in an area where the speed limit is actually 55 miles per hour. he says he will fight the ticket i

the rosenberg richmond chamber of commerce gets it. i wish my colleagues on the other side of the aisle did. i ask unanimous consent to include a copy of the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to speak to the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. we all know that the health care system that we have in america is the best that the world has to offer. do we need to improve it? absolutely. but the question is, how far do we go? do we tax the employer who is now struggling to make ends meets? increase payroll taxes by 8%? no. we give that employer an advantage, an incentive to provide health care, give them a tax break. give the employee a tax break so they can go out and buy their own insurance. give them a incentive. but if we go and pass this bill, the government-run health care plan, we are going to break the backs of small businesses across this nation

joining us now, steven roche is with us and peter rosenberg. peter, let's kick off with you. look, the relationship between risk as evidenced by currency markets and equity markets is still pretty strong. >> yeah. what is it going to take to -- do you see us breaking out of these ranges on the upside or the downside when we get through these earnings season? well, i think we're going to get a break on the upside, meaning a weaker dollar when we come out of this, you know, sort of doldrums, if you will. i don't think in the near term we're going to break out of the pressure. but you know, right now, the market is very confused. we're at maybe the heat in the summer low volatility has gone the to traders' heads. fx is looking at equities. commodities are looking at china. who exactly is leading this economy on what news is very, very weak. we think right now tlt not enough support to move the market one way or the other and the optimism will wane and we'll see a pullback in risk appetite. >> do you have any medium term view on the dollar? what is your medium term view on the do

from an e-mail from eric rosenberg, "going forward, i am concerned that we too quickly moved to a richtrategy, particularly if we believe management is a significant part of the problem and it didn't have a good grasp of the extent of the problems." i think is instructed to look at the -- instructed to look at the predict instructive -- instructive to look at the problem. not every national government faced with troubled and systematically banks the the same way. the u.k. dismiss top corporate management at royal bank of scotland upon rescuing the company. even in the u.s., general motors's top executive was pushed aside as a condition of federal support. in the united states, the management of systemically good banks battling kept their jobs, they received billions of taxpayer dollars to help plug the holes in their balance sheets. but regard to the government intervention, it was successful. manny diaz ->> lee summarize? what i will summarize. not a single ceo of this extended lay successful bank was removed from this job. nor has a single ceo of a systemically bank -- the biggest ba

the rosenberg richmond chamber of commerce gets it. i wish my colleagues on the other side of the aisle did. i ask unanimous consent to include a copy of the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to speak to the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. we all know that the health care system that we have in america is the best that the world has to offer. do we need to improve it? absolutely. but the question is, how far do we go? do we tax the employer who is now struggling to make ends meets? increase payroll taxes by 8%? no. we give that employer an advantage, an incentive to provide health care, give them a tax break. give the employee a tax break so they can go out and buy their own insurance. give them a incentive. but if we go and pass this bill, the government-run health care plan, we are going to break the backs of small businesses across this nation

together something we're hearing from these companies right now and then what we hear from david rosenberg says you are on the edge of a real big problem as unemployment continues to climb. how do you match those ideas up? >> well, i agree.e. there's a 25% chance, at least, that we fall off the cliff. but the other 75% is we're still growing and we just sort of squeak through and start looking at better numbers in the fourth quarter. >> are you talking about a tipping point? >> yeah. exactly right. we have to falling employment, wage res being hammered in aggregate because employment is down so much. we have some tax cuts and some, you know, unemployment benefits to help income growth. but the consumer has to get back in the game and so far we haven't seen that. >> you know, fred, we watch what intel has been saying. we hear how they're seeing a return in the consumer, how they think the pc market has bottomed out. is that something that you read and say this is great news for technology across the board or do you think this is more intel specific? >> i think it applies to technology, alth

i know a number of people, many of whom the president has known for quite some time -- lee rosenberg, alan solow, and others -- are in to talk about issues that they're concerned about, particularly long-term peace in the middle east. but we'll give you a readout of who is in there and what they discussed. >> robert, the president has always used strong language in going after critics who don't think that health care reform can actually happen. but he sounded a little tougher today in the remarks when he was unveiling his surgeon general. is there a sense of desperation here that perhaps this is slipping away? >> no. again, i -- understand, dan, that opponents of health care reform, the special interests that have lined up the same way every time this debate is had, over the course of the past 40 years. delay is absolutely what they want. but the american people, american families, american small businesses can't wait. they can't wait for reform that cuts costs, they can't wait for reform that provides the opportunity for millions of americans to have the hope of quality and affordabl

>> let's hear from liz rosenberg?her. i don't like that body building thing where they have no neck at all and every vein pops out. >> ionder if you -- >> veins that pop out like that scare me. >> what are you talking about? >> veins. you know they go like this, and -- >> that is -- >> that's a scary picture. >> i'm going to take my hat off. >> no, i'm leaving mine on. >> i'm taking my off. there's michael jackson news today. --t doctor, who was >> conrad murray? >> conrad murray had apparently told police that he administered propofol, that's that anesthetic that they give to you in hospitals. >> that's also called. >> i can't remember. >> diprivan? >> yeah. but this -- so apparently he gave him this propofol through an iv. >> allegedly. >> and i think the doctor told, according to stuff i read, told police that he had done that. the question is -- >> but he said it was nothing that would kill him. >> and i think, if y think about it, you don't have an ekg machine in the house, you don't have something that monitors,

i know a number of people, many of whom the president has known for quite some time -- lee rosenberg, solo and others are in to talk about issues that they're concerned about, particularly long-term peace in the middle east. we will give you a readout of who is in their and what they discussed. >> the president has always used strong language and there are critics who do not think that health care reform can actually happen. he sounded a little bit tougher today. is there a sense of desperation here that this is slipping away? >> nou, again, -- no, again, i understand that opponents of health care reform, the special interests that have lined up the same way every time this debate is had over the course of the past 40 years, the lei is absolutely what they want. -- delay is absolutely what they want. but american families, american small businesses cannot wait. they cannot wait for reform. -- because of weak for reform that cut costs or provides for millions of americans to have quality and affordable health care. i think the president was simply noting the stakes of this debate. agai