st. louis the advantage going in the division. we know he was a dominant closer, we know he was a dominant starter. it didn't work out in boston. why? because he wasn't ready to pitch. two, the division he was pitching in the american league east is the best offensive division on the planet, so to ask john smolts to be at his advanced age coming off injury and say let's go get these guys out, to me it was the wrong move by the red sox. st. louis is getting a very versatile guy, a fifth starter, but he can also be a setup man for ryan franklin, and when you see the work he's going to do with dave duncan, the best pitching coach in baseball right now for the st. louis cardinals, you'll see a new and rejuvenated john smoltz back in familiarity in the national league and being a great pitcher like he was in atlanta. >> the cards and the dodgers, scoreless, as albert pujols has walked a couple of times, matt holliday, 0 for 1, and it is clayton kershaw against adam wainwright who is going for his 15

you have to go back to 1930 and the new york giants and the st. louisdinals to find such a lineup. howie kendrick was one of two angels in the lineup wednesday night that was not hitting .300 and he's the one that came up with the big hit vs. the trine. top five. no score. grounding one up the middle. kendry morales, mike napoli scores, napoli batting .298, slacker, jered weaver recording his second career shutout, the eighth shutout for the halos this season -- the l.a.-a improve to 24-16 since june 12th. >> mariners and the a.l. central-leading tigers. justin verlander going for his 14th win. didn't get any offensive support. in the fifth, he served it up to ichiro -- two-run home run. his eighth. the mariners take it 3-1. ian snell wins for the first time with seattle. only the second time verlander has lost at home this year. justin verlander leads the american league with 204 strikeouts. he racked up his sixth double-digit strikeout game of the season. he became the third tigers pitcher to have a 200-strikeout season in the last 35 years. he joins

and, later, fireworks at a st. louisn hall as one conservative activist ends laura: with anger escalating with obama care over the country. the president is trying to regain the upper hand. >> i don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. i want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. [cheers] i don't mind cleaning up after them but don't do a lot of talking. laura: nice. meanwhile, a brand new rasmussen poll shows that 41% of voters have a favorable opinion of town hall protesters. that's the plurality, and 49% believe the protesters are reflecting genuine concerns while 37% think they are phoney. joining us from washington republican pollster kelly an conway and from new jersey scott rasmussen, the head of rasmussen reports, scott, let's start with you, these new poll numbers on health care town hall protesters, what does it tell us. >> a huge partisan split. republicans think it's real and they have a favorable opinion of the protesters, democrats have the opposite view. almost li

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i guess moving toward st. louis or away now from st. louis? >> kind of just north of st. louis, but they're probably going to get clipped here before too long. check out the weather that rolled through parts of the south yesterday. there weren't many thunderstorms across the southeast, but the ones that did pop up, like this one in savannah, boy, dumped a whole lot of rain in a hurry and folks had to be rescued from their cars. rough weather there, shouldn't be quite that bad today, we do think most of the action is going to be as you mentioned across st. louis and the corn belt. getting into the ohio valley, as well. st. louis, louisville, indianapolis, manuel bartschville nashville may get clipped. here it is on the radar scope across parts of kansas city heading into the st. louis area, and as that -- pretty good line ahead of st. louis and also through covington if you're traveling through cincinnati, be aware of that. here's the latest live picture from st. louis, not too shabby, that thunderstorm activity looks like it's moving to the north of you, but still, you are

matt holliday has been on fire since coming over to st. louis. that is his sixth homer as a cardinal, 17th of the year, hitting .406 with st. louis. cards blank the padres 7-0. >> angels and blue jays. vladimir guerrero praying in the dugout before the game. his prayer was answered in the top of the sixth. vlad doesn't get cheated very much. >> that one reached the heavens. >> solo shot, ervin santana wins his fourth straight start. he's 6-2 on the road this season. >> up ahead on espnews, tim tebow and the gators your preseason number one in the a.p., lou holtz breaks down the rest of the top 10. and, when the saints and texans practiced thursday jeremy shockey got tossed. wait until you see what shockey did when the two teams played saturday. hey mom i need some minutes. i just gave you some at the restaurant. yea i know. i threw them out. they were old so... old! they are rollover minutes. they are as good as new. ya know not everyone gets to keep their unused minutes. and these days we can't afford to be wasteful. saving minutes... ...saves m

also ahead, pitcher and future hall of famer john smoltz has a new home in st. louis. that means he may have a new role as well with the cardinals. we'll tell you what it is. and brett favre continues to settle into his new digs. why he hasn't won over everyone linked to the vikings. espnews starts now.

. >>> the st. louis tv wants to be ink-free. what would the new rules mean to someone with a tattoo you can see? hi, i'm natasha curry. here is the latest out of new york. the search has turned into a recovery operation hours after a tourist helicopter and small plane collided in the hudson river mere manhattan. mayor michael bloomberg says authorities do not believe the crash was survivable. nine people were involved, three on the plane, six in the helicopter. so far two bodies have been recovered, but there is question on whether one of those was from the crash. drivers are having difficulty with the recovery operation because of the visibility. it's in the hudson right now. it's extremely low, hard to see. some wreckage has been found at a depth of about 30 feet. let's get to the phone, someone who witnessed the crash as it happened. david wolf joins us from hoboken, new jersey. tell us what you saw. >> i was sitting on the pier from the hoboken side. i was watching the helicopter, a small tourist-type helicopter that is quit

here's st. louis right now.ere's what it looks like with the travel cam because if you're traveling here, it's humid, temperatures about 91 degrees. with that daytime heating, it gets a little kick in the atmosphere with rising air. it's going to form some big thunderstorms for you later this afternoon. that's one area of concern. temperatures again, low 90s with big thunderstorms in the forecast. more showers coming out of kansas city and then they roll all the way into colorado now moving in towards kansas. here's where we'll get that severe weather and it will be right around that cold front. the front goes from ontario all the way south of chicago and then up to denver. so this is the area we're going to see all those showers and thunderstorms coming in later today, and the main threat is going to be gusty winds and large hail. >>> new video, i want to show you this. huge waves crashing over china. this is from a typhoon that went through taiwan. look at all the debris scattered around. this is going to be a

temperatures are pleasant and there's another front from detroit and south of chicago and nearer st. louis. that's moving in the direction on wednesday. so, we'll have to watch out for more showers and thunderstorms by then and until then, heat and humid coming back. more like summer. dick? >>> well, we can't wait. >>> well, he's back in purple. derek mason got a warm welcome after he decided to return from he tirement. mark viviano has more. >> reporter: yeah, he received a warm welcome yesterday and back to business today. he never officially retired and he gave thought to ending his career and he's ready to play at least one more season.

it is my pleasure to welcome the manager of the st. louis, tony la russ >> how are you doing? >> tim: does it bother you a little bit that i refer to them as the surprising st. louis cardinals? it didn't surprise you, did it? >> i learned about the postseason, painfully learned. because we had been the one seed or the two seed. if you're good enough to get into october you're good enough to win the series you're playing. so we felt like, you know, there was a lot of lack of confidence in our club because of our regular season record and our losing streaks. but as a team, we felt like we were really going to be dangerous to play against because we had some things like eckstein being ready to play. we thought we had a chance. when you get in the postseason anybody has a chance. >> tim: you took a lot of ances. i mean, you didn't pitch chris carpenter the last day of the season knowing that if you went five games or four games with san diego, you'd have to pitch chris twice. so you took a chance there. and you took a lot of chances during the p

she's flown in from st. louis simply to donate. >> it's a beautiful thing. and like i said, it's a blessing for me to be able to do it. >> reporter: people like daysha pinker whose father gave her a kidney 14 years ago, but now that kidney is failing. >> it's very draining. it's no kind of life at all for anyone. >> "x" marks the spot. >> reporter: and jordan is here also donating a kidney simply

and the st. louisd wants to be ink free but will the new rule bend if an officer already has a tatoo people can actually see? you're watching hln news and views. i'm natasha curry. we start with breaking news out of new york. a tourist helicopter and a small plane have collided and crashed into the hudson river here near manhattan.÷ the faa says that three people were believed to be onboard the plane and as many as five passengers and one pilot were on the helicopter. the coast guard says that at least one person was pulled from the hudson but we are getting conflicting reports as to whether that person was alive or dead. right now rescue operations are under way in the hudson river near hoboken, new jersey. crews are looking for survivors and wreckage. now, this air space over the hudson river here and around new york city is typically crowded with both tourists and other small aircraft traffic. we'll bring you more details as soon as they become available. >>> judge sonia sotomayor now has a new tit

a school district canceled one for tomorrow in st. louisrns. >>> senate leaders took sides over the recent town hall protest. the demonstrators are using the meetings to express their opinions. democrats say the disruptions are hurting the democratic process. >> when there's a group of people sitting in the middle trying to ask the important questions and get the right answers. instead someone takes the microphone and screams and shouts until the meeting comes to an end, that's not dialogue. that's not the democratic process. >> an awful lot of citizens are showing up at town meetings not shouting at anybody. they're there to learn what congress may have in mind on an issue that's important to everybody in the country, which is our own health. i don't think it's a good policy. >> the republican party said it's behind the protests. >>> the man who killed three people in a shooting rampage last week at a pennsylvania gym was questioned shortly before that by police. police near pittsburgh say they questioned and searched george sodini about a

st. louis towards chicago late today. i think most will fall to the south, but notice some rare offshore to the carolinas. it will bleed back in today. look at the fog. that's what's developing right here. this gray shade as it expandzs, atlanta hartfield jackson will get the big delays with poor visibility first thing in the morning. look at that thunderstorm complex around oklahoma city. zero in towards your action. most of it right overhead. it's a loud start for oklahoma city. that falls apart later this afternoon. more thunderstorms late today. we have more on that in a half hour. good to see you on this monday morning. >> thank you. >> it's like we were just here. >> yes. >> summertime heat for you. >> you're tired of seeing me bob? >> no. baking my brain with the heat is all. >>> time is ticking for a lot of people collecting unemployment, but it may be a while before jobs bounce back. what the white house wants to do to keep the lifelines from drying up. >>> a salute for the troops is f

st. louis has a great team. >> jim: takes it high, 2-2. gives you an idea or just how good tony la russa is. having to change some of the team over each year. 2-2 pitch, high pop, left side, as toregas is out. >> buck: reports out of st. louis that dave duncan might be moving on.   >> buck: it is interesting. 7 back of the phillies, might beyond their reach, but 3.5 back in the wild card. binate mcclout set back. reinjured the nate mclouth reinjured the hamstring. hip problems, deal with a hip injury. would not be good news. he has provided some home run pop in their line up. >> buck: peeve pitched last night as cabrera hits it into right field for a base hit. back-to-back hits after two men down. apparently in one of his rehab outings, he was hit by a batted ball that his pitching elbow. it was kind of an interesting match up because jaker yes tamade one of the starts, and for the white sox triple game charlotte, he had to leave the game. >> buck: he did get hit in a previous start and hoping he would make the s

>> in st. louis rlings several were arrested after things turned vital. >> a guy attacked me. >> in tampa, this representative was drowned out -- >> [beep] >> when those inside and outside began to fight. >> open the door! >> in georgia, this congressman fired back. >> you want a meeting with me on health care? i'll give it to you.rstsbu son white house today unveiled a website called reality check to counter what it deems misinformation. >> i want to talk about one of the myths that's been swirling around the health care debate. >> back to senator mccaskill, while today's went smoothly, the one tomorrow in st. louis already called off due to security concerns. president obama will have his own health care town hall tomorrow in new hampshire. depending on the makeup of the audience, he could get something he's not used to -- a less-than-friendly group. >> at today's summit, the norths eraman leaderslsero talked about the fight against swine flu. vacce ginlsiaotaynd werls today in cincinnati, atlanta

when you play the cardinals you're playing against the sluggers from st. louis. one night after albert i hit bombs pujols punched the nates in the stomach with a walkoff home run, the sweet swinging club was back at it again. the bottom of the fifth, cardinals lead it, 3-2. two on two, outs. lud which can bounces one to short. cristian guzman, uh-oh. boots it,oes into the outfield. cardinals up, 4-2. that keeps the inning alive. ron villone faces the next batter and you knew this was come. colby rasmus gets ahold of it, rocks it to right for a three-run jack, his 14th of the year. the cardinals down the nates 9-4. talking football now. before last night's game against the patriots, redskins quarterback jason campbell had completed four of his 13 passes for 48 yards and zero touchdowns. the criticism was loud. last night he quieted the naysayers even if only for a few hours. he was effective, completing 13 of his 22 passes for more than 200 yards and one rushing touchdown. his biggest gain, confidence. all eyes on jason campbell last night and on the skins' first

he signed three days later with st. louis. hit 385 there. that's in 43 games.in arizona 34eu9 01 in 85 games. he is o-2. second strikeout for martin. >> rob: 2-2 here. martin takes something off it. nicely done. 72 in the dirt. nice rotation. >> bob: he's not a foul tip? >> rob: it was last night. >> bob: okay. diaz and here is counsell called on strikes the first time up. a bad foul tip cost them. counsell who struck out looking. hitting .290. i noticed when they were in milwaukee, he doesn't hold the hands up near as highly as he used to. he almost looks lick a regulation hitter now. today is his 39th percent tay by the way. this is his 13th year. kind of guy you would like to have on the team. that's a good fastball on his hands. dunn is under it the first base coach's box. 2 outs. now ryan braun. two outs. bases manity in the first dribbled a base hit. fielder followed. line drive home town center. breaking ball, yes. he made the move from 3rd base to left field during the rookie of the year season. quite a thing to ask of a young player. he went out and pl

matt holliday has been on fire since coming over to st. louis.is his sixth homer as a cardinal, 17th of the year, hitting .406 with st. louis. cards blank the padres 7-0. >> angels and blue jays. vladimir guerrero praying in the dugout before the game. his prayer was answered in the top of the sixth. vlad doesn't get cheated very much. >> that one reached the heavens. >> solo shot, ervin santana wins his fourth straight start. he's 6-2 on the road this season. >> up ahead on espnews, tim tebow and the gators your preseason number one in the a.p., lou holtz breaks down the rest of the top 10. and, when the saints and texans practiced thursday jeremy shockey got tossed. wait until you see what shockey did when the two teams played saturday. when your engine's running clean... you feel it. ...and pennzoil motor oil actively cleans out up to 15 percent of sludge the first time you use it. so feel the clean. not just oil, pennzoil. i'm not beth. aaaaaahhh. ooooohhhh. (announcer) calling all captains. drink responsibly. ♪ >> surprise, surprise. the a.p

the nats open a series in st. louis it will be against futurer hall of famer john smoltz. the 42-year-old was cut as you'll recall by the red sox earlier this month after struggling in their rotation but the coaching staff in st. louis has fixed mechanical problems with smoltz and lights out ever since on sunday and five shutout innings and allowed three hits against the padres. harris will start in center for morgan who has lost for the season last night with that broken hand. finally tonight, sometimes the most dangerous guy on a field is your own teammate. this is from the nats and cubs last night. chicago's ryan will make the relay throw hem and watch him nail him in the melon. he should have ducked in all fairness and now he has a baseball-shaped welt. watch this again. >> he didn't duck. >> he ducked but as dick cheney's hunting partners will tell you he didn't duck enough. that's sports. we will see you on tailgate at 7:30. >> you are harsh. >> only when deserved. >>> last look. >> most showers are south and east

it doesn't look like the same scene in tampa bay and st. louis. senator par kins feels this is a national effort. here he is from iowa. >> there was an interesting coordinated meeting to interrupt meetings and stuff. i don't expect that to happen here. >> so what is he referring to? "the new york times" reporting democrats are pointing out these people are showing up at these events may look like angry hecklers according to the democrats. but they are saying they are a grassroots effort by the gop to send out lobbying efforts to these different groups and have people paid to go there and speak out and yell. one group theory citing in "the new york times" is the freedom works by former congressman dick army. tom arcen saying this done appear it's one ice lighted incident. >> may be true. stop on the blog if you want to log on foxandfriends.com. the people talking to reporters at least with all the news reports say no one called me. no one told me where to go who time. i went of my own accord because i wanted to ask my elected officials these questi

trivet the nationals are back in st. louis trying to forget about how last night's game with the cardinals ended. -- >>> the national's are back in st. louis. he motors around to make it home safely to be up 2-1. pujols, bottom of the ninth and he gets his pitch and lunges it. th one is way into the atmosphere in the left. -- and launches it. 3-2 was the final. >>> tiger woods finally figured out the golf course in new jersey today after a disastrous first two rounds. he bounced back in a big way. he lines up a birdie on the 14th. here is his approach on the 17th. it was right on the the mone right now he is four under for the tournament and in seventh place. >>> we're going to continue to follow the a final tribute for senator edward kennedy agreed he has arrived on the capital. we are live with more. >> we're just now hearing some of the sirens of the motorcade arriving in the area. we are on the other side of the capital from where things are happening create here is a live picture of what is happening behind the capital. t

st. louis, more thunderstorms. more thunderstorms are plaguing you around the midwest today as well. so minneapolis, watch out. also, towards san francisco, you could see some short delays due to morning fog, robin. more details in a half hour. >> you've been watching too many movies. >> that's what i heard. i don't know. that's what i heard. >> that's a movie. >> oh, is it? >> called "alligator." >> you're right. i've got you. >> and there's "snakes on a plane." >>> the maker of the cervical cancer vaccine gardasil is being questioned about its promotional tactics. researchers say merck gave grants to medical groups which promoted gardasil. merck told "the washington post" that it did give about $750,000 to the groups to let them develop their own independent info and everything was done in an appropriate manner, it says. >>> we got fooled again! brett favre is picking up the football again, and it's for the green bay packers' biggest rival. oh, no he didn't. hi, rafer. >> robin, let me -- min

last night on the road in st. louis, the sweet swinging cardinals were back at it again. colby rasmus crushed a three-run homer to right, capping a four-run fifth ipg. the cards down the nights 9-4. >>> preseason football. joe flacco was spectacular, completing 23 of his 28 passes for 247 yards and one touchdown. the ravens win it 17-13. are 3-0 in the preseason. >>> in golf at the barclays, fairfax native steve marino has a hashare of the lead at 9 unde par. marino birdied his last five holes yesterday. >>> in soccer, d.c. united on the road in chicago, bryan namoff scores on a header in the first half. his second goal of the season. d.c. united wins it 1-0. the black and red eerns its first mls victory in more than a month. that's your sports minute. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >> next up, "reporter's notebook," an inside look at the stories affecting your community. we'll be back in 15 minutes with the mo syourydaun ndre your sunday forecast. here's jim handly. >> good morning and welcome to "reporter's notebook". i' jim handly. let's start with our panel and

he went to st. louis to say this. i found out about it on page 83 of the "wall street journal." you've got to keep an eye on the front pages to make sure you don't miss this kind of threat. now, this speech was addressed to, of all people, a farmers' advocacy group called the organization for competitive markets that's been a huge critic of monsanto in the past. all right, it's partially funded by dupont, one of its few competitors. if the government wants to go after monsanto, the case, to me, seems pretty strong. when farmers buy monsanto's seeds, they have to sign a stewardship agreement and a contract saying they won't save monsanto's seeds from one year to the next or replant seeds. this forces the farmers who want to use monsanto's seeds to buy new ones year after year, paying higher and higher prices. remember, monsanto's technology is far ahead of the competition. if you use somebody else's, it would be a huge competitive disadvantage to other farms. traditionally, farmers have always saved seeds from year to year, but if you try to do it with seeds bought from monsanto,

the nationals in st. louis, trying to avoid a sweep. and zimmerman, nowhere to go. later on a sack there, top of the 6, nats down one, dukes reasonable ranks this one, moss pitching to pujols, that is a mistake. up the middle, here comes erasmus, that will be the game. 2-1, the final, after the game, the nats traded ron belliard. and up 1-0, make that 3-0, makes masterson pay, 7th of the year, orioles beat the indians, 5-2. four-game set. golf, moreno beginning the day as the leader, didn't end up that way. picked the bad day to have a bad day. how about tiger woods, if this goes he is in the club house at 9-under, oh my goodness, missed another, can win it now, going to 9-under, knocked tiger and two others out. he does just that with a par- save on 18. but can still be tied with this putt, slides by. and hat gives slocum the victory, winning his third pga tour victory. and tonight, geico, 15 minutes fame we go to williamsport, for the game. chinese, rallying until this. double play to end the threat. and that ultimately helping to end the game. congratulations, th

. >> reporter: she has flown in from st. louisimply to donate. >> to think that people, thousands of people die every year in need of a kidney. that's why. >> reporter: people like daisha pinkard whose father gave her a kidney 14 years ago but now that kidney is failing. >> it is very draining. it's no kind of life i wish on anyone. >> x marks the spot. >> reporter: jordan bro is here, donating a kidney simply because he can. >> if i have two and somebody can use one. makes me uncomfortable for a little while. seems like it is worth it. >> reporter: there is craig, dominique, olarmi, laurie, terry, brian, jacqueline, sean and elaine. >> 15 -- >> reporter: in all an unprecedented 14 surgeries over four days with ambulances rushing kidneys between georgetown university hospital and washington hospital center. dr. keith bolanson is director of kidney transplants at georgetown. dney disease in this country of especially in the big urban centers. >> reporter: diabetes and high blood pressure are to blame. nationwide, 80,000 people are

you're looking at shows a scuffle after congressman ross carnahan's meeting on health care near st. louiseth gladny was attacked by members, he says members of the labor union, the service employees union. he joins us now. also with him david brown, mr. gladny's attorney. gentlemen, i want to thank both of you for being here. >> thank you. >> let me ask you, if i may, kenneth, the -- there have been three arrests. are you satisfied that the perpetrator -- excuse me, two arrests of two men, one woman in this, as i understand it. are you satisfied that the people responsible for the attack on you have been apprehended? >> extremely. i'm extremely satisfied that they have been apprehended. and hopefully we can get some justice. >> there's one individual, though, lou, that fled the scene. and we're looking for any videos anybody may have and would lead us to find this suspect. >> now, you -- one of the points here, flash points, is mr. gladney, you said that three of those people were wearing shirts, t-shirts, as i understand it from you -- >> yes. >>-- that had service employees union seiu,

similar events were rowdy in suburban st. louismichigan and six arrests occurred in melbourne, missouri. this is the crowd in michigan during a forum there. john dingell was interrupted by a man whose son was in a wheelchair. the proposed changed would not help his son and called dingell a fraud. he responded by saying the man's concerns would be addressed. >>> top white house aides are holding closed doors meeting on whether to handle the hecklers and some spoke on condition of anonymity told the sxed press aides are promising that they'll fight back with double the force if an individual lawmaker is targeted in tv ads. republicans say that protests are evidence of a lack of public support for this health care reform. democrats accuse republicans of using mob tack tactics to derail health care reform and saying health care will sabotage the democratic process. some democratic lawmakers say they received death threats for supporting the overhaul. what do you think of the protests of town hall meetings? can you hear much and learn m

the heat is building in the senate part of the country, and from chicago to st. louis and down towards memphis. and this is where temperatures will climb into the mid-90s, and it will easily feel like 100 dau grae degrees. and we have a heat warning in effect for the philadelphia area, and that's for tomorrow because with the humidity it will feel like 105 degrees, and probably better than that in the city of philadelphia. north and east of town we could have clouds out there. we will call it partly sunny. and with the daytime heating temperatures climbing into the mid-90s. and there is a front to the north which will trigger acte weather from new york city up towards new england. and high pressure will be the main feature. and the southwest will flow into the mid-90s. and tomorrow, around 100 degrees. tomorrow, we could break a record. the record-high at reagan international is 98. we will be around that area, tomorrow. 98, 99. and then we will cool things down by the end of the week once the band starts to slide across the area. this afternoon, mostlyd- sunny d hot a

in st. louis, were arrested and here's the most ironic thing. these town hall meetings about healthcare and landed some people in the emergency room. using the health-care system. >> clayton: the white house responding saying when you go to the town hall meetings, members of the party, you go to the town hall meetings to be chief of staff says if you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard. targeting basically is talking about republicans here. if republicans try to throw stuff at you hit back twice as hard. don't take it too and that's figurative. we're not talking about actual fisticuffs p5 and i think he meant that but that is what happened in fact on thursday. imagine those people in the hospital but speaking of throwing punches, sarah palin coming out. we haven't heard from sarah palin said stepping down as governor of alaska but there is a post on her facebook page on friday nights getting right into this health-care debate quote >> dave: sarah palin promised a couple weeks ago some less l

volunteers in st. louisdon't know if they're getting the h1n1 vaccine or a regular vaccine or a pla see beau. >> i've always been a big dleever in vaccines so i think it's pretty safe and of great benefit, you know, to people to be able to prevent this, you know, various illnesses. >> volunteers across the u.s. will get different combinations of two h1n1 vaccines. >>> health officials expect to have about 160 million doses, by the way, of vaccines available this fall of the h1n1 vaccine. >>> a town has found a way to make electricity of the water that goes down your drain. in mesa, arizona, a treatment plant has been making treat and power from what we'll call waste water. >> it's an involved process, but i think with the energy cost the way they're going, it's definitely a wave of the future so to speak. it's got to go somewhere and you might as well break it down and use it beneficially. >> town officials say they'll save $90,000 a year by using the new plant. >> not enough. not enough. >> not enough. >> n

. >> we have been talking with donald critchlow who is a professor at st. louis university and the author of three books. this is his most recent, the american conservative movement, 1945 to the present code written with nancy maclean. >> thank you. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> two books i have recently finished work walter isakson's biography of benjamin franklin and taylor branch phos biography on king. i really enjoyed reading those. the two books i want to read this summer, have to find time his team of rivals, the book about the cabinet and the sociologists at harvard. so come and visit to books at wunsch weafer myself. i have two young children at home. we are on the fifth harry potter book read downed by the end of the summer we may be through that whole series. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information visit our web site at booktv.org. >> next, booktv brings to selected programs from the 2009 virginia festival of the book in charlottesville. first, michael dirda, pulitzer prize-winning book critic for "

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and -- in st. louis. i tested 30 -- caliber ammunition with all of the tests the government needed to run before accepting it for world war ii, accuracy, penetration, videosty, aircraft function. the tracer bullets in flight, did they really go off. examining the misfires when they didn't go off and, the velocity. and, i worked half the time, midnight to 8:00 a.m. and the other half, 4:00 to midnight, and went to college in the morning and got through in three years, and i don't know what college students do in college these days. [laughter] [applause]. >> but i worked a 48 hour week. but, i have been a volunteer in politics all my life and took political science and it fit into my schedule and that is where the ac is, and where it -- what kind of a country we have and you have to take your opportunities when they come along. now, i guess some leaders are born but i was not born a leader. i grew up very shy. and it has been a learning experience. and if i figure if i can do it, any of you can do it and we

nashville, detroit, cleveland and st. louis going to see some delays today, all less than an hour. yesterday was an 81-minute delay in san francisco. hopefully it's a little shorter than that today. >>> we've been telling you about three american hikers who crossed iran's border but never left the country. iran has been silent about it, until now. >>> an iraqi extremist group blamed for attacking u.s. troops says it won't do it anymore. two iraqi government officials said the iraqis struck a deal with a group called "league with the rightoues." >>> a big name in the signal light has come out against the nomination of judge sotomayor to the supreme court. senator john mccain says sotomayor is a judicial activist. >> an individual who does not appreciate the common sense limitations on judicial power in our democratic system of government ultimately lacks a key qualification for a lifetime appointment to the bench. for this reason and no other, i am unable to support judge sotomayor's nomination. >> the senate could begin debate

>> the signing of john smoltz to the st. louis cardinals to me gives st. uis the advantage going into the division. we know he was a dominant closer and a dominant starter in his days in atlanta. it didn't work out in boston. why? one is because he wasn't ready to pitch. two, the division he was pitching in, the american league east, is the best offensive division on the planet. to ask john smoltz to be at his advanced age coming off injury and say get these guys out, to me it was the wrong move for the boston red sox. i think what st. louis is getting is a guy who can be very versatile. he can be a fifth starter, but he can also be a setup man for ryan franklin. i think when you see the work he's going do with dave duncan, the best pitching coach in baseball for the st. louis cardinals, i think you'll see a new and rejuvenated john smoltz back in familiar territory in the national league and back in the form he was in atlanta. >> 20 years with the braves. you see the winning percentage, the e.r.a. and the whip. the opponents' batting average down at .235.

matt holliday has been on fire since coming over to st. louis. sixth homer as a cardinal, 17th of the year, hitting .406 with st. louis. cards blank the padres 7-0. >> angels and blue jays. vladimir guerrero praying in the dugout before the game. his prayer was answered in the top of the sixth. vlad doesn't get cheated very much. >> that one reached the heavens. >> solo shot, ervin santana wins his fourth straight start. he's 6-2 on the road this season. >> up ahead on espnews, tim tebow and the gators your preseason number one in the a.p., lou holtz breaks down the rest of the top 10. and, when the saints and texans practiced thursday jeremy shockey got tossed. wait until you see what shockey did when the two teams played saturday. ♪ jim, when you touch down at hampton, you wake up a winner. that's right, tracy. thanks to their complimentary hot breakfast -- omelets. sausage. french toast sticks. i love french food... and sticks. ♪ >> the a.p. released its preseason rankings saturday, defending champion florida your number one. 58 of 60 first pl

yes, east st. louisyes, a big believer. >> reporter: 973 miles down, 2,100 to go. >> could use some more believers. all of tom's stories from highway 50 will be featured in a special documentary airing on usa network next year. >>> still to come, small changes that will have a big impact on your health. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am jennifer franciotti. a committee has given the green light to gov. martin o'malley's proposal to slash nearly half a billion dollars from the state budget. the board of public works approved the cuts yesterday, which would release more than 200 state employees without jobs and take a hit on most programs and services, from fire to police to after-school programs and even cancer screenings. >> governor, you have given us fair warning that this round of cuts would be exceptionally painful, and having reviewed the proposal in detail, i am inclined to agree. the list of reductions will affect the lives of virtually

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