better take some extra change for your next stop at starbucks. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good morning. and happy friday to you. president obama heads out of town today for vation. first, a stop at camp david. and then, on to martha's vineyard. >> but it may not be very restful. our new poll shows public support for health care reform is eroding. and more americans than ever are against the public insurance option. >> emily schmidt joins us with more. >> reporter: good morning, jeremy and vinita. certainly, health care reform remains a top priority. but the new abc news/"washington post" poll shows the public may have some doubts. president obama stands behind his health care reform promise. >> i'm absolutely confident we can get this done. >> reporter: but for the first time, the president says that may have to happen without bipartisan help. >> i think early on, the decision was made by the republican leadership that said, let's not give them a victory. maybe wean have a replay of 1993/'94, when clinton came in. >> reporter: this comes

starbucks started raising prices on its complex drinks and lowering the price of basic ones. wall street will wait for any update from fed chairman ben bernanke when he speaks at a meeting in wyoming. and finally, former pick pocketers in london are giving new meaning to the term pay it forward. in an effort to brighten people's days, one person enlisted 20 former pick pockets to push cash into people's pockets. the plan, to give out 100,000 pounds or 164,000 u.s. dollars all by the end of the month. so take a trip to london. could pay off. >>> a huge ruling in college basketball. and another nfl star is headed to prison. >>> plus, nobody can accuse the tigers brandon inge of just phoning it in. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and we'll be dealing with a few unsettled spots for your frimpt what will the weekend hold? that forecast coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. ifyou're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, new york giants receiver who was a hero in the super bowl two years ago is now anything but a hero. he

now, they actually met at the starbucks. >> wait, wait, wait. she offered to bring back starbucks. okay. pause. mickey sherman, stacey schneider, gloria allred. mickey, what did she do, put extra raisins in his cereal for him that morning? what was his last meal? how do you go about that you're planning your husband's shooting death in the head. do you still sleep with him the night before, just kind of a send-off? a special gourmet meal for breakfast? or is it just like, see you? yeah, i'll bring you that coffee when i come home. oh, evidence. evidence. did she stop at starbucks or did she know that he wasn't going to be alive when she got home from starbucks? >> she was hoping he wouldn't be. cost her a few bucks to have him killed. how come we don't get to see the film of them telling her he was alive. in florida they released every other video they've made. >> that's all you've got to say? why didn't they film him? gloria, have at it. >> all i can tell you is, she's not going to need coffee. she's gotten a wakeup call from the police. what it appears she was trying to do, didn'

did she stop at starbucks or did she know that he wasn't going to be alive when she got home from starbucks? >> she was hoping that he was -- >> another five bucks for a cup of coffee. >> how come we don't get to see the film of them telling her that he's alive. in florida, they release every other video that's made. >> that's all you've got to say, why didn't they film him? okay, gloria, have at it. >> all i can tell you is that she's not going to need coffee, she's gotten a wake-up call from the police. what it appears she was trying to do didn't work and now she's in very, very deep trouble. and this is apparently, the conversations were recorded, conversations that she had with the confidential informant, also, the conversation she had with a person that she thought was going to do the hit is recorded. so she's going to have a very, very difficult time, if she decides to not only plead not guilty, but go to trial. >> what i'm interested in is why judge boris has given her such a low bond. >>> but first, special thank you to "gma" host robin roberts for having me on today. it was this mo

. >> changes at starbuck's. how the price of your morng cup of coffee could change depending on what you drink.k. >> authorities are investigating a house party. turns out organizers did not own the house they borrowed it without asking and left behind a huge mess. the house is vact up for sale. hundreds of teenagers pay to drink and dance at the party advertised on face book. what they did not know was that the organizers had broken into the home. fed up neighbors called police. >> there was at least 30 guys hanging in the driveway. there was cars parked all around the cul-de-sac down the street. there was girls walking up the street. there were also teenagers. that's what i was concerned about. and -- we couldn't pull our car in. they were blocking everything. >> police broke up the party but no one was arrested. officers weren't aware that the party host didn't own the home. anne arundel police are investigating the case as a break-in. they have one suspect. >> the government's popular cash for clunkers progr

craig melvin joins us from starbucks on capitol hill where the bernankes' story begins to unfold. >> reporter: earlier this week it was announced he would stay on as fed chief. around the same time some documents began to surface details how bernanke's wife stop at this starbucks became part of a complex and elaborate scheme. >> our assessment is for slower growth but positive growth into next year. >> reporter: last fall while fed chairman ben bernanke was trying to figure out how best to resuscitate an ailing economy he was dealing with money issues at home. around 11:20 in the morning on august 7, 2008 as his wife sat at a table inside this starbucks on capitol hill, someone swiped her purse off the paback of her chair. inside the purse her wallet, credit cards and money, and social security card examine checks. six days later $900 went missing from ben and anna bernanke's account. while it's not known how much the thieves stole from the fed chief and his wife, investigators believe it's merely a drop in the bucket. here's a look at the scope of the scheme. they say the 89 known v

i don't think starbucks spon sponsors a nascar car yet. he can be the first.one of his nascar drivers right now is in the chase for the championship. he definitely has a his hands full and he says he certainly misses his time up here with the redskins. >> it was fun. fun to talk about. >> he has a gorgeous familiar. >> i eight grandkids. yes. >> thanks, leslie. >>> next, it is easy to change -- easy to change factor. >> technology saving lives as it connects doctors to patients hu there's something big happening at pizza hut. - woooh, nice! - that's a lot of food! now t big meals like our stuffed pizza rolls, pizza mia, the p'zone... and our personal panormous pizza starting at just $5. the big eat tiny price menu. only at pizza hut. - woooh, nice! - that's a lot of food! now get big meals like our stuffed pizza rolls, pizza mia, the p'zone... and our personal panormous pizza starting at just $5. the big eat tiny price menu. only at pizza hut. >>> bob ryan, storm center 4. another hot one. our temperature now is 90 degrees. there have been showers and thunders

. >>> if you are stopping off at starbucks, you can expect some changes as the price on some of yourut what prices went up and which ones may have come down. >>> the redskin get getting a little bit goofy on the last y of training camp. we'll have more when fox 5 morning news comes back. >> sorry about that. >> are you okay? >>> wall street hoping to wrap up the week with more gains. yesterday, the dow jones closed up 70 points. knack was up almost 0. in tokyo today, the nikkei plummeted 145 points. early look at dow futures look to be flat. >>> other money news this morning, new red its card laws are now in effect. creditors now have to mail out bills 21 days before the due date. customers have to be given at least 45 days notice about big changes to contracts ch as raising interest rates or fees. customers have the right to reject the changes and close the act and pay off the existing balance in knife years if he existing rate. >>> look for you out for changes coming to your starbucks nearby. the price of the blended iced frappucinos will jump as much as 30 cents. other drinks will

starbucks is raising prices on by as much as 30 cents in some states.nd is the housing market really picking up? we'll find out more later on this morning about a half an hour after the opening bell when the national association of realtors reports on july existing home sales. a report out from westwood capital yesterday said that home prices will fall another 16% b aefyeach bottom as for trading this friday morning, take a look at futures right now, indicating a higher open. and that's business news. live at bloomberg headquarters in new york, i'm linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. doug and greta, have a great weekend. >> 6:37 right now, 77 degrees. >> when "good morning washington" continues on this friday -- we're going to tell you where you can go to help save a life today as part of an end of summer condition. >> and outside this morning, the humidity is pretty intense. we're going to look for it today, partly through tomorrow. but then big changes coming down the pike. that and the very latest on hurricane bill coming up. >> and lisa's coming ba

. >>> getting starbucks might cost you a few more bucks soon. they have announced some changes. >>> a bust at a local mall. what undercover officers make a faux find. >>> live pictures here from sky fox. a fire at a town house on featherwood street. nobody is hurt but you can seat damage below. they believe the fire started on the back deck and then spread to the home. more details coming up. it is now 12 minutes past the hour. dad, could you help me build a sand castle? sure, pal. let's just find a good spot. [ dramatic music plays ] a big day at the beach with the legendary taste of dunkin' donuts coffee on ice. this looks like a good spot. you kin' do it. america runs on dunkin'. treat yourself today with an authentic caramel swirl iced latte. >>> we want to take a look out in the atlantic as hurricane bill moves a little bit closer to the united states. right now, there is no threat of bill hitting the east coast but it could make some big waves. they have already started pulling boats out of the water in new england where bill could generat

in an area where are -- where there are more places selling pot than starbucks coffee what do you think? >>> and like a virgin, and miley cyrus and the jonas brothers, all squaring off. how come chastity is once again a sign of the times and what happens to the celebrities who embraced abstinence the last time around? captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin with the state of the economy. it's been suffering from major mood swings of date. the dow took a beating today, dropping over 180 points. we have heard the rumblings that the recession is over, that the bottom has been reached. yet the foreclosure rate remains high, people are still losing their jobs and those back to school sales are attracting few shoppers. what's the disconnect? is as president obama says the worst really behind us? john donvan reports on what you and your family need to know about the road to recovery. >> we all know where we want to be as a nation, as an economy, after this long, long season of signs that say this and front doors that look like this. and a job market that

starbucks says the changes wl go nationwide over the nexfew months. >>aul: no signs of the recessn at jet blue. the airline has sold o of its $5 "all you can jet" passes. the company saidt received overelming demand for the deal, ich allows unlimited travel between stember 8 and october 8 on jet blue plan. the sellout comes a week aer the de was launched and two days bore the offer was scheduled to end. >> susie: here's a look at what's happeng tomorrow. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke gives his reflectns on year in crisis at a fed conferencen jackson hole, wyoming. also tomorrow, existing home sales are released and quartly resultfrom j.m. smucker and ann taor stores. if the recession is windin down, why are consumers an businessesaving a hard time getting bank fincing. toght's "two ways to play" looks at the reasons behinthe slow cdit flow. here's kevin depew of "minyanville" and "minyanville's" kevin dew. >> access to credit isetting tighte banks are not onlyutting credit les for more consumers, they're also becing more aggressive in eir cuts

." >> susie: your morning caffeine fix could soon cost a little more, as starbucks announced price changes today. in some cities, the coffee chain is charging up to 25 cents more for its most complex coffee concoctions like frappacinos. but it's trimming prices on some basic drinks by a nickel to ten cents. starbucks says the changes will go nationwide over the next few months. >> paul: no signs of the recession at jet blue. the airline has sold out of its $599 "all you can jet" passes. the company said it received overwhelming demand for the deal, which allows unlimited travel between september 8 and october 8 on jet blue planes. the sellout comes a week after the deal was launched and two days before the offer was scheduled to end. >> susie: here's a look at what's happening tomorrow. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke gives his reflections on a year in crisis at a fed conference in jackson hole, wyoming. also tomorrow, existing home sales are released and quarterly results from j.m. smucker and ann taylor stores. if the recession is winding down, why are consumers and businesses havi

. >>> starbucks is switching up prices. why you could be paying more or less depending on what you order. and also ahead. >>> footballis just days away. but right now the controversy r. off tke eld. i'm beth parker. coming up, i'll tell you what a fan can is and why people are talking about it. he p'zone... and our personal panormous pizza starting at just $5. the big eat tiny price menu. only at pizza hut. - woooh, nice! - that's a lot of food! now get big meals like our stuffed pizza rolls, pizza mia, the p'zone... and our personal panormous pizza starting at just $5. the big eat tiny price menu. only at pizza hut. >>> did you see it? the beer can with college pride. they call it the fan can. new budweiser cans in college motif. this is a takeoff of the purple and ld of the lousiana state. targeting more sales of beers during the football season but some fear it will only make the college drunking problem worse. >> reporter: beer and football. some people feel they just go together. now anheuser-busch is launching a new l

first the new seattle starbuck's definitely not a starbuck's, a remodeled rustic looking store.ompany is calling 15th avenue coffee and tea part of their push to make some more stores seem neighbory, they will serve beer and wine as well. then there is radio shack which has now taken to calling itself just the shack. that's what they're going to call the company to freshen the image though they say the signs on the stores will remain the same. it is apparently part because radios have been around so long and so has the radio shack name. >> up next, an awful car accident, eight people dead including four children. was it drunk driving? or was there more to it? accident, eight people deaden clueding four children. was it drunk driving? or washere more to it? , not treating is not an option. all prescription nsaid pain relievers, like celebrex, ibuprofen and naproxen, help treat arthritis pain and have some of the same warnings. but since individual results may vary, having options is important. prescription celebrex has been the option for millions of patients for 10 straight year

. >>> this is good news and bad news for starbuck's lovers depending on what you drink. the coffee chain is lowering some prices and raising others. simple drinks like a plain cup of coffee will be cheaper. more complex ones will cost as much as 30 cents more per cup. >>> coming up on "good morning america," two popular cars are being recalled after shutting down in traffic. what is causing the new vehicles to stall? a gma exclusive after your local news. that is your money scope report. i'm vinita nair. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm meteorologist susan shrack. we're just starting to see the sunshine peek out through the clouds so things are hazy. 78 degrees, relative humidity 82%. we have clouds to the north and west. clear areas to the south of the city, but we're all going to be seeing a mix of sun and clouds throughout the day today. a couple of showers and storms to the west of the mountains. by noontime, 85 degrees. partly sunny skies. some of the thunderstorms could have very, very heavy downpours involved. so be aware of that. it could be dangerous on the roadw

. >> you could pay a little more for your favorite starbucks fix soon. some special drinks will cost up to 30 cents more. important now the price hikes apply -- over the next few months starbucks will adjust prices nationwide. so premium drinks, like frappuccinos and delicious caramel drinks will cost you up to 30 cents more. 12-ounts lattes and brewed coffees will cost you five to ten cents less. starbucks is struggling to make a profit even sellingks ioh drinks in some places. >>> we are outdoors on the front lawn. we have a grid and grill and the sun beating down on us. what a perfect day to grill our hot off the grill friday segment here. with our friends from a very hot restaurant in town. we all know it as art and soul and executive chef travis timberlake. we are cooking up rewlin of your signature dishes today. they are cald hocakes. >> it is a cornmeal pancake. originated after a farmer's hard day at work. basically he would take white cornmeal and add salt, sugar and baking powder and then heat the bottom side and make a pancake out of it, a cor

she offered to bring back starbuck's. okay. pause. >> mickey sherman, stacy schneider, gloria allred, mickey what did she do, put extra raisins in his cereal for him that morning? what was his last meal. how do you go about this, planning your husband's shooting death in the head. what do you do, still sleep with him the night before just to kind of a send-off? fix a special gourmet meal for breakfast or just kind of like see you. hey, i'll bring you the coffee when i get home. oh. >> mocha-choca i'm going to kill you. >> did she stop at starbuck's or know he wasn't going to be alive. >> she was hoping. it cost her a few bucks. >> $5 cup of coffee. >> how come we don't get few see the film of him telling her she is a life. >> that's all you got to say. why didn't they film him. gloria, have at it. >> all i can tell you is, she is not going to need coffee. she has gotten the wake-up call from the police that what it appears that she was trying to do, didn't work. and now she is in very, very deep trouble. and this is -- apparent

didn't work, starbucks takes money, right? that's an interesting aspect to this case. to be continued a lot more in this case. it's not over because she has now been charged with solicitation for murder. >>> and now tonight's "cnn heroes." >>> i was coming at night and i see this computer thrown out. i found everything was perfect. so many computers were thrown out and so much computers are needed where i grew up in kenya and so i decided i must do something. my name is jude ndambuki and i refurbish discarded computers and send them to schools in kenya. schools in kenya have few resources. a pencil is hard to get. any part i can play to make the life of kids better, it's great. the computers are tested to make sure they're working. then we label the name of the school on each box and then we ship it to kenya. the computers are saved from poisoning the environment and they're going to be used for 20 years by some schools. every school is going to plant 100 trees for every computer. we are planting a seed, teaching the kids to c

starbucks. >> mcdonald's has done so well. >> yeah.ming to us from ohio, where a police officer filed a lawsuit. he said he is being harassed by the other cops. why? because his wife decided to pose for "playboy." he is asking for $3.5 million in damages, because his buddies are teasing him about his wife posing in "playboy." we will have to follow that one and see how that turns out. >> i want to have a button, like, can you sue? >> well, that's the way to do it. >> health care may not rate, but this does. we will head to the break room right after this. pee wee herman may be dancing his way back, 20 years after closing the doors of his play house. we will tell you where and when you can catch the resurrection of pee wee herman, next. ♪ bicycle, what are we waiting for? the flowers are blooming. the air is sweet. and zyrtec® starts... relieving my allergies... 2 hours faster than claritin®. my worst symptoms feel better, indoors and outdoors. with zyrtec®, the fastest... 24-hour allergy medicine, i promise not to wait as long to go fo

i was told, as she was walking out the door, she was going to bring starbucks coffee home. so it was a pretty normal scene. nothing at all -- nothing ever would have made me think what would could have happened. never. >> let's bring in dr. tara fields. tara, how could that happen -- as he's explaining it, they hit it off, they were together 24/7, how could he not know? >> yeah, well, i think we hear these kind of stories, i know we hear these stories in the news all the time and in my office, where somebody says, i never saw this coming, either i had no clues that my wife was an alcoholic or my spouse was having an affair. and often when we're in love, we choose not to see what we see or know what we know, because we don't want to really accept the reality that maybe this person doesn't love me and dangling all my money and my town house in front of her maybe was the reason that she married me. >> gotcha. i want to bring back his attorneys, jason, josh, guys, last week when i heard him interviewed, it sounded like he was kind of thinking, you know, maybe there were some si

>> reporter: to starbucks, maggie, and therein lies the point. if you have health care insurance it doesn't mean a lot if primary care doctors like kate atkinson can't afford to stay in business. maggie? >> rodriguez: it's clear that no matter whose health care plan passes, we're going to need more general practitioners. who do you do that? how do you increase the number of family physicians? >> i think money is part of this to some extent. you saw primary care doctors make a lower income on average than specialists. there have been some discussions of medical school loan forgiveness programs, which might help. but everywhere we looked, it really came back down to thisish shaw of paperwork. kate atkinson has,000 patients. each patient generates papl paperwork, a lot comes from insurance companies. it's hard for her to get her work done. >> rodriguez: dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. in other news tonight, a sad note, political columnist in bob novak died today at his home in washington after a year-long battle with brain cancer. as the sharp-edged co

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. >> starbucks apparently saying that starbucks can charge as much as 25s ens more for some of the drinks and not translating into the move. starbucks is flat on the day and up about 7 cents and translates to 4/10 of 1% given that the stock is trading at 19.o the real story centers around the large cap stocks, specifically google being added to the conviction at goldman sachs. they bumped up to $560. they like the growth prospects into next year and also the monitization of you tube. it translated into a rise in n google and across the board, it's a decent picture. apple shares are up by 1%. research in motion and microsoft on the plus side. you have disappointing news and i know we talked about sears soldings and what's going on there. the shares are getting banged up and net is a loser and pet smart is say loser by double-digits as well. >> that's helping the case for the fixed income. when stocks are moving up, we see yield move up with it as they take on a little less meaningf meaningful portion of the landscape. treasury prices are up and why? i can't tell you any solid reasons exce

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starbucks is up 1%. big news, we've been talking about, they're going to increase prices or they already have increased prices by as much as 30 cents on some drinks. they've slashed prices on some of those easier to make beverages at starbucks. tech data is upgraded at citi. flextronics a upgrade at citi. solar stock is on the move today. downgraded a number of them by jefferies. we're talking first solar, sun power, energy solar, energy con ver general. let's go to rebecca jarvis at the nymex. >> crude oil rallying. what's happening here? essentially the story isn't new, even though the price action is. as the buzz burns, everything that is priced in u.s. dollars reflats and oil is a prime example of that. heritage energy says the question is now, could we see another repeat of july in terms of price activity? prices in july bounced and then they stood still, or, in this case, does the rally have legs? he says he's watching technicals as far as the dow goes and the stock momentum goes. if stocks continu

ethiopia restaurants and straight to dupont circle, bookstores, cafes, restaurants perhaps three starbucksso what you're seeing me behind me is a sort of confluence of washington, d.c., our nation's great capitol. that's connecticut avenue. that's a north/south artery that runs in effect from the white house up to maryland, crosses massachusetts avenue at dupont circle. that's the radial access of the city. due west there is california street. and this is columbia road curving around to adams morgan district. there's the russian trade mission. i'm told that there is still an apartment in this building run by the national security agency to monitor the goings-on there from the days of the old soviet union. you probably can't see it behind me but on the horizon is the russian compound. and those domes you see in the woods are the naval observatory buildings on the grounds of which, of course, lives the vice president and you see the british embassy just west of that which is the extreme west end of massachusetts avenue on embassy row. it's a good reminder of the small size and the centrality

. >> how does starbucks fit in? >> it's kind of fascinating. you have a situation where you have head winds and competition. all across the board and mcdonald's coming up with a huge campaign with mccafe. you have a recession. savings is up, but what happens with starbucks? it's at a 52-week high. earnings were positive because of cost cutting and there was a fascinating article in the "wall street journal" that talked about how they are stream lining operations and like they had bakery goods and bring them into the store and took like an hour. they put the tray on wheels and made space for it and cut the time by 2 slash la/3. they put the coffee bens above instead of below and it made them more productive. there is a flip side. people are concerned that the customer service experience will be jeopardized at some point and becoming barista. the company is providing, but they don't want to kill the culture. >> thank you very much. bob and rick and brian, appreciate it. the bells toll for the close of agricultural commodity tradings. tomorrow pre

and we're talking about a very busy area with this specialty grocery store, a starbucks across the street. and here it was, wedged in this tiny parking lot next door to the grocery store lot and someone saw it and said, you know what, that looks like the car. >> it's my understanding that it was in a trader joe's parking lot, a kind of a boutique grocery of sorts, across the street from a starbucks, that you had to go off to the edge and then down to a lower lot, where you could only park five or six cars. >> well, actually, it wasn't part of the -- i just went over there and i was there 15 minutes ago. there's the trader joe's lot right behind the store. and right next to this is this smaller lot. i walked over to the rail and looked down, they had tv crews setting up there, and just a few spaces, maybe five or six, in this small parking lot behind the building. and it's no surprise to me, unless someone really looked there and said, oh, wow -- >> you would never see it. >> exactly, hidden in plain sight. >> joining us from the royal canadian mounted police, what can you tell me about th

you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. >> the president spent a little time with some friends over the weekend at camp david playing basketball and having dinner and bowling and having some fun. >> what did he bowl? >> i watched this. 144. no, no, no. she was keeping score. no. no. for dazzling white teeth, give toothpaste the brush off. you need listerine® whitening vibrant white™ rinse. the moutash that gets teeth four times whiter than the leading toothpaste. and kills bad breath germs. listerine® whitening vibrant white™. >>> tomorrow is president obama's birthday. did you know that? i'm thinking 48. yeah, he's still so very popular. this is actually a true story in the news today. the latest slang dictionary reports that the word "obama" means cool. as you are so obama. that's true. also gaining popularity, the phrase shut your biden hole. >> anyone that uses that term to describe cool should be punched. >> i'm sick and tired of them kicking joe biden around. seriously, joe is doing a very, very good job. that is just

day-in and day-out we get a question about where is starbucks, you know, we have only one starbucks, now and used tosh two. >> while new businesses are moving in and appear to be doing well. the shopping complex has also lost premium stores like white house black market. abet and j. crew. >> sheer sign that the economy is having an effect on something that should be long here. >> we tried to include management here at the complex to get their perspective on the issue. but they declined to participate in our story. but all is not lost. >> well, it is great, our attendance is actually up this year over previous years. >> just steps away from inner harbour, business at the aquarium is booming. with attendance ranging anywhere from 5000 to 10,000 visitors a day. >> you get a great experience with a 2-year-old and an 80-year-old. >> helping to bring down that sparkle baltimore's inner harbor is used to. >> we hear a lot from people in baltimore that live here, when they bring friends from out of town and come down here, they will say "i forgot how great it is downtown." . >> we see about

it is endorsed by starbucks and bowling -- starbucks and boeing.hey report on the quality of clinical care. group health care providers on 15 different measures were rated number one on 11 of those measures. there is all sorts of evidence that this is not your grandmother's hmo. host: you can see the entire interview with scott armstrong tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on c-span. joining us now from new york is ron geffner, former sec attorney, to talk to us about the situation with ubs and u.s. bank accounts. bring us up-to-date about the investigation that led to this situation. guest: last year one of their bankers was indicted for helping smuggle diamonds. it was for a wealthy billionaire. that led to investigations as he cooperated with u.s. authorities. he was just sentenced to three years in jail. he had some leniency and his lawyers wanted him to just get probation, to a settlement that was announced where they will release information regarding 4000 account holders. host: i just want to make sure that the banker we were talking about

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in is interesting, someone mentioned the whole issue of starbucks. know in interviewing people for stories that i do on unemployment, there was great distress, people feeling that they could not find jobs. one woman i interviewed said i always felt that at the corner drug store chain i could get a job there, i could get a job at starbucks, and even those dried up. but in recent months, it seems that people did not seem as distressed. they feel a little more optimistic because if they have not found jobs, they know other people that have found jobs. of course, the unemployment rate is based not only on jobless claims but also the current population survey, which the u.s. census bureau does come and take a survey of 60,000 households. one of the question they ask is are you actively looking for work. i know there has been a debate about when people feel things are turning around and feel they have a chance of finding a job, they will say yes, i am, versus, no, i am not looking. some view and implement rates going up not necessarily -- it may actually b

. >> have you sat down to starbucks? >> we have not sat down at starbucks. he was away swimming with the sharks so gail king called in instead. >> was that a good substitute? >> how about that, throwing you under the bus there. >> oh, well. maybe we'll meet one day. who knows. >> is that all you got in. >> that's all i've got for now. >>> you can go to ac360.com. at the top of the hour, health care reform. president obama just praised the other day and now telling people that they have a right to be scared. we'll be right back. >>> remember sarah palin's allegation of the power to euthanize and if you think it was discredited? a key republican senator said you should worry about the government pulling the plug on grandma. and it wasn't just senator governor chuck grassley. so did michael steele. we'll get reaction from another key senator in just a moment and check the facts with sanjay gupta. but, first, candy crowley. >> reporter: his town halls have been twice as big as they were in previous years. so many hands in the air and so many cross turns. >> i ne

bernanke is immune to identity theft, someone stole his wife's purse last august at a capitol hill starbuckscording to door. court documents, the thieves used his wife's information. there were part of an elaborate identity theft scheme. the schemers stole more than $2 million from conmers. >>> a united airlines employee is accused of stealing thousands of dollars of merchandise out of passengers' luggage. the police say she has been stealing laptops, cameras, jewelry, ipods, and other items. she works and yet it costs lost and found. the police -- the police searched her home and found thousands of stolen items. >>> there republican gubernatorial candidate is defending a comment that he made. he started talking about a hot and tags that had to be purchased. the person asked about a bomb attacks, and he said, "we would buy some of those." >>> if you drive interstate 95, getg ready for night delays. in the end inctthe rustion will inc fullyru help traf fairfax and prince william county. meantime, drivers can expect multiple lane closures. for a list of the closures and times, go to wjla.com.

ben bernanke's personal checking account was targeting when his wife anna's purse was stolen from starbuckson capitol hill. her wallet contained her checkbook, credit cards and i.d. numbers. they believe the perpetrators are part of a sophisticated ring of identity thieves. michelle? >> thanks. >>> just ahead on the "morning news," a british teenager sails to a new record. >>> and the aggressive brain cancer that senator ted kennedy fought. alabama. i'm semi retired and i'm here to tell a story. my parents all smoked. my grandparents smoked. i've been a long-time smoker. you know, discouragement is a big thing in quitting smoking. i'm a guy who had given up quitting. what caused me to be interested was, chantix is not a nicotine product and that intrigued me. the doctor said while you're taking it you can continue to smoke during the first week. (announcer) chantix is proven to reduce the urge to smoke. in studies, 44% of chantix users were quit during weeks 9 to 12 of treatment, compared to 18% on sugar pill. today i see myself as a jolly old man, (laughing) who doesn't have to smoke. ...w