in sacramento, california, fox news. >>> a different type of frequent flyer. long do you think it would take to fly around the world? three swiss pilots did it in 57 hours and 54 minutes that is the new speed record for private jets. they landed in geneva today after taking off not more than three days before. it shatters the earlier record. >>> health care reform now on its way to president obama's desk. comments on the historic bill expected any moment. we're signing off but you can always catch the latest on myfoxdc.com. we've got all the information you need on there plus analysis of the historic day. that does do it for us. the news is always on again myfoxdc.com. have a great night. geico sports xtra is next. bye-bye. .

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. >> hey, shep, live from sacramento.ot of times when you don't have health insurance in this country the only access to you get to medical care if you show up to an emergency room. many are homeless and doctors say sometimes they're just in search of a bed and don't even require medical attention. some show up several times in the same week, clogging the e.r. for those who really need it. >> currently, and especially with the state of the economy, the emergency room is a point of entry for health care. and it's really important that the emergency room be available for people who have true emergencies. >> so, to combat the problem, this emergency room in sacramento partnering with a nonprofit clinic called the effort. to identify those frequent flyers and provide them with case managers, to get to the root of their problem. if they're drug addicts, they get rehab. if they're hopeless, they work on securing them housing. >> one of the people that don't have health insurance are the homeless, the homeless people and if we h

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they're well run especially in denver, sacramento, austin, and seattle.those could all be battleground states for the fall. and there's a lot to like about the company's fourth quarter, which reported on february 23rd. its revenue and operating cash flow grew during the month of december. national revenues turned positive for the quarter. and for the whole of 2009 the company reduced its net debt by $100 million, trimmed expenses by 8%, and generated $70 million of free cash flow, which is how we really evaluate radio stories. now, this stock has had an enormous run. it's undeniable. when i tell you how much it's up, you're going to say cramer, you're too late. it's up 855% from $1.17 a year ago. it's traded as high as $12.20, just pulled back to $11.17. where it is now. but you've got to remember that a year ago the economy was economy was stilt in the dumps. companies were slashing their advertising budgets and everyone thought that every radio stock was practically a goner. even after this move entercom is still trading at 8.6 times expected 2011 earni

and 60s from seattle to sacramento. >> well, it's all over in vancouver. last night's closing ceremonies had its stranger moments including some that involved inflatable beavers and moose. and canadian mounties. >> the athletes are looking forward to a black sea russian resort in 2014, that is if you're counting just 1,439 days from today. >>> and u.s. versus canada in men's hockey may have been the most exciting. the u.s. was down 2-0 before tying the score in regulation. canada claimed the goal with an overtime goal. we will have the final olympic count. >>> and some squabbling takes thousands of federal workers off the job. >> a presidential checkup with a nasty habit. >>> and more on the top story. day three of chile's earthquak >>> insurance giant aig is about to take a big step towards repaying its huge government bailout. the company is reportedly close to selling its asian life insurance dision to a british company for about $45 billion. the money would help repay the more than $100 billion in taxpayer aid aig received. the company is working on se

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and in sacramento, now a program to break that cycle.ry live >> reporter: the program they say is working, just as you said, for a lot of people who are underinsured or uninsured in this country. a lot of times the only access they have to medical care is if they show up here to an emergency room. experts say that a large number of those patients are homeless and doctors say sometimes they're just in search of a bed or a bite to eat and don't even require medical attention. some show up to the e.r. several times in the same week, not only costing american hospitals millions of dollars each year but clogging the e.r. for those who really need it. >> currently and especially with the state of the economy, the emergency room is a point of entry for health care, and it's important that the emergency room be available for people who have true emergencies. we want our wait times to be low. we want people to have access when they need it. and so you know, this is a national epidemic. >> so to combat the problem, this emergency room in sacrament

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. >> districts like mine in sacramento, too many households cannot afford broadband service and a survey conducted by the fcc found 93 million americans don't subscribe to inhome broadband services in large part because of affordability barriers. the fact is, the high cost of broadband leaves far too many lower income families in urban and urrural areas at a severe disadvantage and i introduced the broadband affordability act to expand the usf program for universal broadband adoption and the billen will ensure all americans, whether in urban or suburban or rural areas, all have access to affordable broadband services. chairman genachowski, i applaud you, actually and the commission, for including this proposal, as a central element of your plan. how important is it in your view, for our economy and our country to fully close the digital divide. >> i think it is essential, and i appreciate your leadership on this, and it is included in the plan. ten years ago, if you were looking for a job you would get a newspaper and look at the classifieds, and that is how you would look for a job. tod

police say neighbors called 911 around 7:30 this morning in the 8400 block near richmond highway and sacramento drive in mount vernon. police say the woman was shot multiple times in a parked car. mount vernon sense of safety shattered by the discovery of three deaths in the last week. two of them murders. the deaths happened within a few miles of each other, but police say they are not related. >> they are homicides in fairfax county are so low that any homicide is troubling to us. >> last thursday, police found a man dead in a small pond. police don't suspect foul play. the next day, police say a gang related beating took the life of a teenage boy. police say 16-year-old christian perez died of blunt force trauma to the head and today, a woman shot to death in her car. >> kind of makes you wonder why it's happening so recently and all in this area. >> witnesses say the woman was shot in the face several times. and now police say it could take several days before they identify her. police now are searching for a gold car with a spoiler in the back. in mount vernon, 9news now. >> next at 6:00,

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. >> 63 in sacramento. 52 in boise. and a windy 57 in salt lake city. just 34 in fargo. and highs in the 40s from the twin cities to detroit. 60s along much of the east coast. a warm 81 in miami. and 75 in new orleans. >>> and a quick update on the red river, which is still running high. residents in northwestern minnesota have been forced to commute to work by way of airboat. the red river isn't expected to crest in that area for another week. >>> when we come back today, social security may already be in the red, years earlier than expected. >>> today, the government will turn up the heat on the big banks, introducing new protections for homeowners facing foreclosures. we'll have specifics later on "good morning america." >>> meanwhile, bank of america customers are flooding the bank with calls about its new program to modify mortgages. so far, it will only assist 4% of the millions of customers who are 60 days late in their payments. >>> social security may be at a tipping point towards insolvency. "the new york times" reports the program will pay out more in benefits

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boise and seattle, as well. 73 in sacramento. 83 in phoenix. 60s across much of the northwest. the northeast is warmer than parts of florida today, with boston, new york and baltimore just shy of 70 degrees. >>> when we come back, the fed chairman stands his ground when it comes to regulating the nation's banks. >>> and keeping your family pet safer. that's the idea behind some new safer. that's the idea behind some new pest control product labelood. >>> welcome back. it is time, now, for a check of market activity, starting overseas. tokyo's nikkei average fell nearly 1% today. hong kong's hang seng is lower. in london, the ftse opened lower. on wall street, the dow starts the day at its highest level of the year, after climbing 47 points yesterday. the nasdaq added 11 points. >>> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke was on capitol hill yesterday, defending the fed's turf. bernanke warned lawmakers that a proposal limiting the fed's oversight powers is a bad idea. >> we are quite concerned by proposals to make the fed a regulator only of the biggest banks. it makes us essenti

sacramento county will stop putting jobs in march. it will pay people in shorter periods and then stop the program all together. but the full amount of funding has yet to be claimed by the states. the recovery act authorized $5 billion for jobs now employment zizzation programs, but actually, less than $1.5 billion has been accessed by the states and the program is still in the process of expanding. and that's why i'm proposing, along with representative mcdermott, a bill that will allow more states to help their residents get back on their feet and into a job. and, in fact, all across the country, there have been programs such as this. we can see that all across the country in the dark green spots that there have been successful programs. in sen tennessee, they focused on a rural county which was hard-hit by plant forecast. the unemployment rate rose to 27%. they brought human services agencies and the business community and developed a subsidized employment program for over 500 individuals. in mississippi, the state has developed a

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the recovery act has greatly benefited my district and the entire sacramento region, providing almostf projects. such projects include $21 million for improving and enhancing sacramento's levees for flood protection. lub pick transportation facilities. developing clean energy technology. and hiring 30 new officers at the act police department. it is also helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure, and the list goes on and on. in my constituents can see where and how every dollar is being spent in our district by visiting my website. one of the most important results of the recovery act is that it helps school districts minimize budget cuts. however as the economy declines, school districts are now considering shorter school years, larger class sizes, and looking to lay off teachers. we cannot let this happen. and so our path towards economic recovery must continue to invest in our nation's work force to spur additional job creation, innovation, and long-term economic growth. and by supporting the rule and the underlying bill, we will do just that. i have heard from small business

. >>> straight out to leonard padilla, bounty hunter out of sacramento, california, who got tot mom out from behind bars. what do you make of all this? clearly, if it's true and george anthony vehemently denies the whole thing, if it's true, what does that mean to you that tot mom told him? >> well, first of all, i don't think that that's any conversation that tot mom had with george along those lines. i think crystal holloway is the young lady's real name. she's from upstate new york. and i would tend to believe that george has gotten himself into something that first of all is not of his making. i think it's all fiction on this lady's part. the times that we were there and george was around there was no indication that anything like this was going on. and i can tell you this, that if cindy had even got wind of something like this george wouldn'te around to talk about it today. >> that is a very good point, leonard padilla. thank you for bringing that to my attention. i don't know how i managed to get past that. to andrew scott, former chief of police boca raton, vp scott roberts and a

. >>> straight out to bounty hunter lnard padil joining us out of sacramento via skype, leonard, what do you make of them running through $250,000, kinghe public to pay for her tab and now the handwritten letters to a female inmate? well, theandwritten letters, that's typical of anybody in prison, they always communicate with other people, trying to get past the guards, trying to get past law enforcement. trying to just bsnea about it. as far as the payment of costs involving the defense, that's basically customary. now, whether the judge will allow it for specialists and individuals to come from out of state, that's a horse of a different color. as far as the attorneys, if they're not getting paid, if they're pro bono and it's just their expenses and costs, unless somebody tries to pad the bill with office rent, personal telephone calls, car payments and things of that nature because they're necessary for the defense, i think the judge is going to take a very, very strong look at that. and besides, nancy, i have a j.d. >> leonard padilla, you were around george anthony for quite some

joining us out of sacramento via skype. hello, leonard padilla. leonard -- >> how are you doing, nancy? >> i'm fine. tommy croslin reportedly looking for somebody to pay for his polygraph. what do you make of his declaring he wants a polygraph as it relates to misty croslin's handwritten letter that he was in the home standing over haleigh the night she disappeared? >> i had several discussions with tommy as well as family members, and i said i'd be willing to help out. but it has to be somebody that i would refer him to. and that would be jack tramarko. i've contacted jack tramarko. jack tramarko contacted his wife and also the investigator on the case. and the other stipulation was that it would be a public polygraph, it would not be a polygraph where the defense attorney administers it and then if he doesn't like the results it doesn't get released. now, that's where i stand with tommy as far as a polygraph. and i believe that tramarko's on board with me as far as doing it. >> yeah, tramarko's got an excellent reputation as a polygrapher. i wan

a sacramento hospital is using a new program to help break that cycle. already the hospital is saving millions. how is it doing it? casey segal joins me live. how does the program work? >> megan, good to see you. partnership between suter medical and a nonprofit community clinic called the effort. it identifies what are frequent flier patients. they are people who show up to an emergency room several times a month or several times in the same week. doctors at this er tell us awn times those people are homeless and under or uninsured and so the program links them up with a case manager to get to the root of a much bigger problem. if they are drugarcts dicts it gets them to rehab and homeless it works on securing housing. the idea not only to help them but unclog the emergency rooms for those who really need it. >>> and so, how successful is the program been? >> well, the numbers speak for themselves . officials here testimony us that er visits with these particular frequent flier patients have dropped 65 percent since this program was implemented in patie

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sacramento, california. hello. >> caller: hey larry and jesse.t's an honor to speak with both of you. i felt very compelled to call, because i agree with everything jesse said. it must be because we're from the same generation. i feel the same way about our political party. >> larry: what's the question? >> caller: he gave the comment about the don't ask and don't tell. there's another thing, mental illness within the army and within our country. i come from a family where we're bipolar, i have two siblings that are. >> larry: what's the question? >> caller: what does he think about the fact that people like that are ashamed to get help? >> larry: are what to get help? >> caller: they don't want to tell, so they don't get help. >> larry: i don't understand the question. >> they don't want to tell they're gay and they don't want help from being gay? >> larry: they're bipolar. >> i don't know why they wouldn't get help. help is available out there in the military. there's help available to people, and they absolutely should seek it out. >> larry: r

we've got the creativity, but we've got to stop that bickering, that poisonous partisanship in sacramentoink they need someone in there with the skills and the knowledge and maybe more importantly, insider's knowledge, but an outsider's mind. and that's exactly what i can bring to this job. >> larry: how do you assess governor schwarzenegger? >> i think the governor has been a bold thinker. he's led the country in terms of climate change and dealing with global warming. he's put a lot of stuff out on the budget, but he's running to the buzz saw of partisan bickering up there. and there was a time when the republicans used to work with democrats. and i don't know all the things that contributed to it, but i really believe that if the governor would just focus on knocking heads together and listening to both sides, i think we'd get a lot done. >> larry: do you want his support? >> sure, i'd like -- i'd like everybody who i could get. the governor's learned a lot. one thing, you can't be governor without taking a lot of slings and arrows and learning a lot about how our state works. >> larry

sacramento 70. it's 58 for omaha. 49 for kansas city and indianapolis. boston gets up to 50.ew york, 62 degrees today. >>> we are just so proud to share this with you guys. our very own jeremy hubbard successfully ran the new york city half marathon yesterday. >> 13.1 miles. there i am i am with my friends martha, that's eric right beside me, and my wife tanya off to the side there on the right. eric had a much better time than i did. >> oh, stop. >> we were some of the 11,000 runners who raced eight miles through central park -- >> look at you! >> that's close to the finish line. i'm like, who are those people screaming at me? there's those legs i'm always bragging about. >> i'm always hearing about how awesome his legs are, now i know. a little pale. >> a little pale, no doubt about it. we went through central park and down through times square, the west side of manhattan by the hudson, dorou where we ended up. and i did it in but i did get done. >> you should mention to everyone, you didn't train for this. >> i didn't run five feet befor 0 m or >> you said something cool,

i thought rex babbin in "the sacramento bee" cartoonist summed up the final push what it looks like. speaker pelosi, rough rider trying to herd cats in the democratic caucus. to the leader's point, why is this so close? if you look at the opinion surveys, the public's against it? >> no, i don't think that's right. the economist poll shows the majority of americans are for it. kaiser shows that americans are for it. "wall street journal" poll that came out a few days ago shows -- >> that's your poll. majority want it completed but the majority are opposed to it. >> if you look at every one of the internals, david, about stopping insurance companies from preventing preexisting conditions from getting insurance, from putting so much money on you have to spend per year that you go bankrupt, and not putting on lifetime caps, those insurance reforms, those processed reforms to insurance companies that are hurting americans are all supported by overwhelming numbers of people. >> steny, listen, there's no question -- >> -- we ought to have a national exchange so the free market can operate s

man in the middle, much like they had last year with jon brockman, who's now doing quite well for sacramento. landry fields touch of the basketball. >> steve: and igbinosa makes the three, chance for four. >> marques: igbinosa. young man who missed a lot of practice time, a lot of games because he had to fulfill requirements for his major this year, gets the contact down low. >> steve: igbinosa cannot make a four-point play but they cut the lead to seven. if they have a defensive stand, they have 1:30 before the break. they've had a miserable offensive first half. defensively, overton tries to spin on his man and now is knocked down. down low to breshers. and stolen by shiller. third washington turnover. >> marques: jeremy green, talk about frustrating. he's just been in total rock up mode. >> steve: shiller, three spins out. that would have got the stanford faithful going. there's lots of good shooters on the floor. there's a separation of game clock and shot clock of about six seconds. >> marques: isaiah thomas. >> steve: shot is good. first field goal of the game. >> marques: stanford can

. >> 63 in sacramento. 50s in boise and portland. 40s from the twin cities to detroit. 61 in new york baltimore. and a balmy 81 for miami. >>> well, zookeepers in poland are proudly showing off their newest resident. >> yeah, look at this. it's an endangered species of monkey, born just two weeks ago. the healthy crested black macaque is one of just 15 worldwide born in captivity. and the first in poland. the other monkeys don't seem too impressed. mom is not letting the newborn out of her sight. >> zookeepers say they can't even tell for sure if it's a boy or a girl but they think it is a girl. they're going to have to buy lots of pink stuff now. >> how can they not tell for sure? >> i think it probably is they can't get close enough right now. >> mom will go crazy on them. they're protective like that. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now." if you've taken your sleep aid and you're still fighting to sleep in the middle of the night why would you go one more round using it ? you don't need a rematch-- but a re-think-- with lunesta. lunesta is different. it keys into recep

nearly 70 in dallas, new orleans 60s, also across much of the midwest today. 55 in seattle. 73 in sacramento, good golfing weather. >> oh, yeah. almost ready for this time of year. >>> well, a university trying to toot its own horn may be getting an "f" in english. >> looks like the university of arizona forgot to hit grammar check before putting up these new billboards in phoenix. the ads read, one of top 100 universities in the world. you can see they left out the word "the top" 100 universities of the world. the university claims the slogan was intentionally written that way -- yeah, right -- to grab attention, much like a newspaper headline where names are sometimes left out. >> despite the explanation that jeremy's having trouble swallowing the school has since changed another billboard to include the missing word. >> that's damage control. >> it's interesting too. an asu spokesperson said they realize that a person driving 65 miles an hour can only process six words. so they left out a word. right there is already seven. >> there's like eight words there. >> there's like eight words th

it happened in sacramento. and there was a young mother and she was a buetigs and worked, paid her rent in her little booth where she did hair, she had to quit and go on welfare so her son could be covered because he was in the hospital at least three times a week. mr. garamendi: he had a pre-existing condition. ms. watson: he had a pre-existing condition and she could not get insurance covered -- coverage. that will be taken care of. mr. garamendi: the gentlelady from illinois. ms. schakowsky: unfortunately, representative garamendi, i'm going to have to leave, too, but before i did, i wanted to focus on what happens this year for people. you know, the full rollout of the bill takes a number of years to happen, but if people are wondering, what's going happen this year? i wanted to just give some examples. starting as soon as the bill is passed, tax credits to small businesses, to make employee coverage more affordable, those tax cuts, as you're pointing out, of up to 35% of premiums will be immediately availa

watson: i'm so appreciative of your knowledge and you live in an area that is a valley in sacramento, california. when i went up to sacramento and i spent 20 years there, and i inherited the health committee as you have already mentioned from you, i had it for 17 years, and i found out that i had allergies. and i spent years and years trying to find out why i had these allergies. and then i found that in this valley the allergens collect and i found out that i was allergic to grass, trees, bark, cat hair, the c.b.c.'s, that material. mr. garamendi: you are uninsurable. can you not get a health care policy. ms. watson: exactly. mr. garamendi: unless you happen to live until you are 65. when you are 65 you will automatically be available for a single payer universal health care program called medicare. people want to live long enough to get into that system and at that white house meeting most of the gray beards there were 65 and they belonged to that system. ms. watson: i finally made 65 and went beyond. mr. garamendi: i don't believe it. ms. watson: i did. way beyond. the point i'm tr

in many districts, like mine in sacramento, there are far too many households who cannot afford broadband service. a recent survey found that 93 million americans do not subscribe to in-home broadband services in large part because of affordability barriers. the fact is that the high cost least many low-income families in urban and rural areas at a severe disadvantage in our economy. i introduced a broadband affordability act last year for universal broadband adoption. this bill will ensure that all americans will have access. i am -- i applaud you and the commissioners for having this central element of your plan. however important is it in your view for the economy and for the country to close the divide? >> said think it is essential. i appreciate your -- >> i think it is essential. i appreciate your leadership on this. today, job postings have moved on line. most jobs orequire on-line applications. if you do not have access, you are disadvantaged. most jobs, they require digital literacy. it is one of our biggest? globally, where other countries are ahead of us -- it is one of our big

. >> in sacramento, the utility district, they received $129 million grant for a smart cred.we felt it was very -- for a smart grid. we felt it was very important to look at how the connection is so and important when you look at the community and what we need to do. for some reason, when you think about things like smart meters and being able to find out what is being used in a house, people seem to understand that this is somehow connected to broadband. so i think it is important. thank you. >> thank you very much. the gentleman from michigan is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i am very impressed. i like a lot of what we're saying current but when i took a look at your statement, -- what you are saying. but when i look at your statement, there is no mention of the neutrality. this is a great work. makes me want to salute the flag. but then you introduce a sweeping rule on the neutrality. today, i heard you tell this panel backethat a light touch on regulation has generated all of this competition. but there is argument that you had the abi

chicago. 10 is a principal attorney at the pacific legal foundation in sacramento, california.he is also an adjunct scholar here at the cato institute. at plf, he is the lead attorney in her economic liberty project. he works to protect businesses against abusive government regulation. he also works to prevent the abuses of eminent domain. having litigated important in that domain cases in california, missouri, and elsewhere. and having to present a significant eminent domain cases, including in the new london case. is a prolific writer. his book cornerstone of liberty property rights in 21st century america was published by the cato institute in 2006. and he has published many scholarly articles on long to wait on a wide range of subjects from eminent domain and economic liberty, to copyright evolution and creationism, and the legal issues of slavery in the civil war. he's also a contributor editor, contributing editor to liberty magazine. he has written for many magazines and newspapers, including national review online, the humanist, san francisco chronicle, regulation, and

that same headline was found in "the sacramento bee" and los angeles times in the last week. we need to have unemployed workers to be better prepared to take jobs. the new economy kicks in. as we move to the green technologies. there is a whole totality here. and that's what the democratic agenda provides, health care, education, purchasing power made available to small businesses, bringing new businesses online. all of these create a totality that will restart our economy and keep us moving. and take these workers that are now tax takers on unemployment insurance, some on welfare, using the cobra money that we provided through the american recovery act and let them become taxpayers, building our commip once again. that's our agenda. thank you very much for bringing this small business agenda to the american public so they understand that this party, the democratic party is the party that is concerned and is willing to use the power of government to restart our economy and to give small businesses an opportunity to prosper and grow. mrs. dahlkemper: i thank the gentleman from

i represent the delta of california, the sacramento-san joaquin delta. this is an enormous environmental problem. fish are declining, invase iver species, we know that contamination from various sources is a problem. maybe we can get one of those centers of excellence in california also. what's at stake here is the knowledge necessary to solve our environmental problems and simultaneously from that knowledge will come the new technologies and jobs which will be useful not only for chesapeake bay or the san joaquin delta, but we can export that. >> we're in a terrific place now where we have the opportunity to not just do the right thing for the environment, but at the same time to create a tremendous number of jobs and economic opportunity -- opportunitiers in work force-out there it's a wonderful alignment, it's one that we need to take advantage of with smart legislation. i will yield back to you at this time. mr. garamendi: i was just thinking about the legislation that passed before i arrived here, the effort, it was called climate change legislation