we do appreciate that, selma. in fact, you can't go anywhere in central california today without seeing police. the staples center is pretty well covered and selma just mentioned at the jackson family home as well. how much is this costing and can los angeles afford it? we have matt savo here with us. any idea off the top of your head or with the research you have been looking at how much all the security and emergency services and in case somebody gets ill, sanitation, i imagine there are a number of things you would need to be paying for as a city. what is it going to cost? >> reporter: well, that's right, obviously, this is an event as big as we have ever had here in los angeles. it is the city's obligation, first and foremost, to provide public safety. we have all the officers at our disposal, firefighters, sanitation, paramedics, that's the number one obligation. it could cost the city several million dollars. it could be anywhere from $2 million to $3 million. that's the number one obligation that we are goi

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joining me live, steve selma, white house correspondent. good morning. >> good morning. >> hottest topic by far on the president's agenda, health care. what strikes you most about these poll numbers? >> two things. one, of course, as you mentioned, there's no consensus. the american people are split overall most any question about health care, whether the priority should be expanding coverage or controlling costs, evenly split. the question of the public option, the federal government insurance option, plurality think it will lower the cost, but a plurality think it will lower the quality of care. there's no dominant voice in this debate. as you mentioned, our poll found only 26%, one out of four think they trust president obama most. but he's followed closely by doctors and then by democrats and then by republicans, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies way at the bottom. no one is dominating this debate politically out in the country. >> well, is that the reason the president is going on television on wednesday? >> there's no d

this has come a been a problem most of my right were my name is pronounced selma, it is joseph sohm and occasionally i will be asked to speak at an event and recently it was an event called the food chain and unfortunately the person that filled the little nine current like many of you have on your neck was slightly dyslexic -- i have all the right letters but they weren't in the right sequence and i'd been into why they go views rather than closeups, excuse the pun, i basically didn't look at the tag. well, number one coming you should always look your tag so when i picked it up and was to write letters -- [laughter] -- if you look closely and dispel the as hmo so very strongly i put my tag on and then part of the conference people walked up to me and said hey joe schmo, what do know. [laughter] so after a while i thought, my god, you could make this up, this is completely absurd. other people are calling each of the photographer but that guy is more ball than i am. you can call me joe, i am the eyes of the common man. i'm honored to be part of your close-up view of the nation's capita