staten island, against urbandale, iowa. staten island's rapaglia. some power for new york.hat's a solo home run. same inning, vincent quinn. how are you doing? new york takes it, 8-3. >>> that does it for this espn news update. now, let's go back to jeremy and vinita and "america this morning." >>> well, an unidentified millionaire just bought an opportunity to spend eternity with marilyn monroe. the crypt located above the movie star's at a los angeles cemetery was auctioned off on ebay at $4.6 million. >> a beverly hills widow is moves her husband's body, which happens to be facing down, so he can look at monroe when he's buried there. he got the crypt from monroe's husband, joe dimaggio. she decided to sell it. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. >> and for everyone else, "america this morning" continues after this. you've wanted to quit smoking so many times, but those days came and went, and the cigarettes remained. but today's a new day. and a few simple steps can make a real difference in your next quit... things like starting with a plan to quit smoking...

. >>> well, it was just staten island ferry.ht outside jersey city on the other side of new york city, that's where they were playing some golf this weekend. tiger woods and the boys at the barkley's tournament. steve marino, trying to get within one shot of the lead. for birdie on 14. he was that close. he played the final four holes in 4 over. tiger with a chance to tie for the lead. tiger misses a money put. he stairs it down, like it's the ball's fault. tiger misses a money shot. heath slocum on par. to stay at 9 under. that is a big time shot, but he had to sit and wait for steve stricker. stricker misses, so 18 and the cup is rather small today. tiger, ouch. >>> i know you don't want to read too much into a preseason game, but was it just me, or did joe flacco look awesome? >> quick. he looked fantastic. i think he's going to have a great season. >>> a final check on the weather when we come back. ♪ doctor says i have to lower my cholesterol. here you go, mr. noran. (announcer) trying to lower your cholesterol can be a cha

. >> staten island! >> caller: staten island. >> yes. congratulations.ulous. i like your chances. >> caller: great. the stock i'm calling about is wtr. they're buying up a lot of water systems. >> they are, paul, but i got to tell you, they're doing their own growth thing. they buy companies, they give them stocks. the stock gets sold and the stock has not been a good one. i am not going to blast that. do you know why? because the record there is not of making money. if you want to own a utility, i'm going to send you to one that we all pay. i'm going to send you to mr. ed, con edison. that's a better buy. i'd stick with that. and you should stick with cramer. what's on the minds of independent investors? let's ask. when i trade, i want a straightforward price. they lure you in with a $5.99 trade, then charge you 15 bucks. you get a low price, but only if you make a ton of trades. at td ameritrade, every online stock trade is just $9.99. period. no matter how often you trade. no matter how much money you have in the account. i hate those hidden fees buri

and susan molinari from my favorite island in the world, staten island. susan, this could seriously back fire for republicans. your party's being labeled the party of no, now you have washington lobbyists sending these people out in an organized way to these town meetings to stand up and scream no in the most incoherent way. not looking for any answers to any questions. should the national republican party be worried about how this looks? >> you know, i think the national republican party is hopeful that people understand, and i've talked to elected officials, that, you know, the people who work in the united states have representatives in the united states senate, don't want this, just like the democrats didn't want it when moveon and code pink would do it to the researches when george bush was president. look, it's the republicans and people like me who said, from the start, slow down a little bit. we don't have to have this august 7th deadline. this has to be a real conversation. disrupting these town hall meetings so that you can have a real conversat

staten island, they win, 4-0. they advance to williamsport. >>> jeremy and vinita, back to you. >>> time, now, for our snapshot of the morning. take a look of this unbelievable photo from sturgeon bay, wisconsin. that's a car, attempting to defy gravity. it stays stuck on the bridge. >> the bridge attenda missed seeing the car when he started putting the bridge up. after seeing the mistake, he lowered the bridge again. and the young woman driver, who i'm sure wasretty shaken up, was on her way down. >> she had to have the emergency brake down. >> i don't think you could have held your foot on the brake that long. >> wow. scary. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everyone else, "america this morning" continues after this. ♪ a dip for you, and a dollop for me ♪ ♪ daisy just goes with family ♪ so, do a dollop, do, do a dollop of daisy ♪ ♪ do a dollop, do, do a dollop ♪ ♪ things taste better with a dollop of daisy ♪ ♪ do a dollop, do, do a dollop of daisy ♪ ♪ do a dollop, do, do a dollop of daisy ♪ ♪

but the residents of staten island aren't the only ones who can ride the ferry.ke us, interested in amazing views. this is the closest i've ever been to the statue of liberty. the round-trip journey took just over an hour. and provided a great chance to enjoy a free adventure at sea. step four, create your own tours. who says family tours have to cost money? in our case, lucas and layla love fire trucks. but had never seen one up close. after our ferry adventure, we arranged a tour of engine company 40 and ladder company 35, located in the heart of manhattan. firestations throughout the nation provide similar free tours. just call in advance. >> cool. >> there you go. >> reporter: during our visit, lucas got to take his turn behind the wheel. layla discovered a new career ambition. when you grow up, do you want to be a firefighter? yeah. there you go. and we all found out, firefighters still use fire poles. cool. the best part of the tour? getting to meet some real-life heroes up close. after the firehouse, it was time for step five. eating out on the cheap. afte

. >> caller: very special staten island, new york boo-ya! >> holy cow. high spirits.lways a high spirited play. good have you on the show. i don't just cut through there on my way to jersey. i stop. what's up? >> caller: yahoo. street is over penalizing this one in my opinion. what do you think? >> i think some of the problem is with the executive i really respect but she set the bar so high she could only disappoint us. she talked about getting boat loads of cash up front. i agree at a certain price it's good but a lot of the takeover premium has been taken out and i don't know about the earnings. i'm going to give awe don't buy. i was expecting more myself and was a little disappointed. how about robert in florida? >> caller: hey, this is rob. what do you think of coin star cstr? >> everybody likes it. this is a coin casing company. kind of a monopoly. i don't know of anybody else who does it. there was a good article about it last week, somebody saying, well there are other companies i think that are jealous of coinstar but i think the quarter is there, the year is

we have a caller from staten island.question. >> caller: i wonder what diana ross' opinion is about her being the one to have the kids if anything happened to katherine jackson. >> it is my understanding that diane ross was next in line. >> diana ross is listed in a will, the suggestion of the person making the will. >> that is not binding? >> that is not binding on the court. the fact she did not come forward indicates she suggested katherine's request for the kids. it was an indication what michael would have liked. that's all. >> we have another call from buffalo, new york. your question? beautiful. you are on. can you hear me? >> caller: yes, i can. >> go ahead, please. >> caller: i'm wondering how the smallest child blanket fits into this. the other two know who their mom are. what is going to happen to him? >> that is a great question. when you talk about a sense of loss. two of the kids will know they have a mom. one will have lost everything. how do you deal with blanket? >> you need to find out what he does know

from the most conservative state in the union and represents fewer people than the population of staten island? consider this. if the democrats had 60 votes for health care reform locked in, they wouldn't still be trying to get republicans. they're really using the republicans for cover. right now the president is trying and failing to win republicans looks much better than the president trying and failing to win all of his democrats. joining me now, new jersey senator robert menendez, member of the senate financial committee. senator menendez, let's go back to basics here. we're getting a feeling already for some leaks about what's coming out of the committee, and consistent with all the other committees, what seems to be coming out of the senate finance committee is not universal coverage. what happened to universal coverage. each one of these bills out of the committees does no better than get to 95% coverage some years down the road, leaving tens of millions of people without health insurance. >> well, our goal is universal coverage. however, you have to pay for that as well, and part of t

we have a caller from staten island. you question?ller: i wonder what diana ross' opinion is about her being the one to have the kids if anything happened to katherine jackson? >> well, it's my understanding, neil, that diana ross was next in line and it hasn't come before the court whether or not she approved it or not. >> the fact with diana ross listed in will, it's only suggestion of the person making the will. >> that is not binding? >> that is not binding on the court. the fact she did not come forward, diana ross, indicates she suggested katherine's request for the custody of these kids. if something happened to katherine, if diana ross would have come forward or not. it was an indication what michael would have liked. that's all. >> we have another call from buffalo, new york. your question? buffalo? you're on. can you hear me? >> caller: yes, i can. >> go ahead, please. >> caller: hi, yes. i'm wondering how the smallest child, blanket, fits into all this. i mean, the other two are going to know who their mom are. what is goin

fewer than live on staten island. you represent a state of 11 million. that is more people than all six senators on the finance committee who are behind the closed door right now combined. >> they all represent very small states. not only that, but mike enzi -- mike enzi didn't win the election. >> right. >> the voters said they want something different. let me point out one other thing. i was on the -- we had 11 days of markup. 11 days of considering amendments in the health committee. i've been in the house and senate for 16, 17 years now. and i've never seen a bill, in all this time, that had that much -- that much attention paid to it, that many amendments, that long a period of markup. we accepted 160 republican amendments. this is a bipartisan bill. it's just not bipartisan when the big, fundamental issues. but neither was medicare. we would have never gotten medicare 40 years ago if everybody waited for the conservative republicans on board. it's a different view. i will accept them when they work for my values and i think they are good for the mi

. >> staten island. >> it's a big -- by the way, can we just say. i did not know this.girl scouts of america. max, it's not. what is it? >> girl scouts of the usa. >> of the usa. we've been saying it wrong all the time. this is a live feed that goes from here to san francisco. can anybody walk up and talk to them today? >> yep. >> walk up and say hi. you have an internet safety program out called let me know. or those of us who text. it's lmk. >> lmk. >> it's just be aware of what you put out there, right? >> yeah. it's being safe online and preventing things from happening. >> which is really smart that you guys are telling people that. a lot of people think, when they put that online, it's there and gone. but it's not. it lives forever. here we are. are we looking at san francisco right now? >> yep. >> who is that over there? have you talked to them yet? wave. what are you guys doing? you can come by today if you're in new york, and get on the giant computer and talk to somebody you want in san francisco. i would coordinate it, though. text them or know that they're t

. >> little league world series.lc staten island new york.ork up, 1-0, he hits it to deep right. the two-run homer. 3-0, new york. top fourth, 4-0. and two on.g him ors he flyball to right-center. the gap. they score on the triple. went 2-4. and new york wins, 10-2,. yesterda >> georgia against iowa, warner robbins georgia won two years ago, here in the third inning,h jones, a solo-homerun, just thet beginning of a big day for him.a ties it at 2.threw, in the fourth, trey maddux, solo-homerun. 5-2 georgia.l georgia scored six times. florid jones, again, second homerun of. the day, second run shot, and warner robbins georgia wins,so s 11-3,. >> it was a massacre, squaring off. and up 2-0, bases-loaded, and a grandslam. up 6-0. and 8-0. bases-loaded again. single into leftfield. and two runs score. throws it into center, and another run scores. mercy rule would be invoked. they win, 16-0, in four innings,. >> update you on the marlins and the braves. vazquez, broke up sanchez's no-hitter in the 6th inning, and then, vazquez, proceeded to give u

that happened, there were more restrictions put in for low-flying aircraft to fly on that side of staten island. and right now they are trying to recover the plane below the hudson river. >> thank you for the wrap up. >> dylan, a sad story. see we saw a miracle on the hudson earlier. >> yeah, you look at some of the other areas in the country, and the use of small aircraft to get to airports and vacation spots, etc. as a culture, and the liabilities of a lot more people looking to do that short of thing. and karen joins us, and so too does jonathan capehart. and we have a retired american airlines pilot, now a flight instructor. nice to see you. the statistic that stands out to me is the crash. the death because of accidents in the air, in the new york regi region. i want to go to the airport or cape cod or whatever is it, and total commercial flight fatalities zero. at one point duty rules, the commercial aspects of tourism and the economic aspect of the cities, in new york mostly, obviously, have to take a backseat to safety. >> we have been flying up and down the hudson river, and we have be

staten island, new york, taking on iowa.ing of the two teams in the little league world series. bottom of the fourth, iowa down 2-0. michael strikes out robert. four shutout innings, angelo, home run to dead center. 5-0 new york. top of the sixth inning, vincent quin, how are you doing? new york wins 8-3. they advance to the first u.s. semifinals since harlem in 2002. >> soccer, liverpool taking on villa. 34th minute, scoreless here. lucas, into the back of the net. villa up 1-0. 72nd minute, liverpool down 2-0. fernando torres scores, down by one. 47eth minute. ashley young stepping up, making the goal. a villa win it 3-1, final score. >> keeping you current here on espnews, super filly rachel alexandra will run. it was announced on monday that crompton will be the vols starting quarterback and tim tebow returned to practice on monday. missed a few reps last week because of a sore lower back. up ahead on espnews, our top stories, mark sanchez, blinded by the light on monday night. how he did in his first pre-season start. a

the senator from wyoming represents fewer people that live on staten island.s represented in that room. so there is a lot of resentment. max baucus is an expert on this. ken conrad is an expert on this. there are good people in that room, but the senate is becoming very resentful of what's going on. >> i'm sure they are. but again, these people represent a group that is underrepresented, i think, in washington right now, moderates. >> they control the outcome though. >> moderates usually do. you know what? a senator from oregon, hatfield, killed the balanced budget amendment in 1995. a moderate republican. we hated him! he's a pretty smart guy. sometimes it is a good check. peggy, let me show you quickly, then i'll let you comment. this is what "the washington post" is reporting the outlines of the deal from these six senators. this is what your health care bill may look like. they decided to shave $100 billion off the proposed bill, giving coverage to 94% of americans, expand medicaid, crackdown on insurers, abandon the government option, and they will tax he

in the staten island, selling 30 to 40% more cars, everybody is rushing for cash for clunkers, one ofig, big problems is that the dealers are not getting the money. >> 7% of them say that. >> i was going to say 3% in some cases, so 7%, what's the difference, how about is00%? if you own a car dealership, you want that money from the government, just like what we were saying in the last segment that these programs are wonderful and they get the economy going, but they're a little slow to the punch to actually have them happen. >> right, of course, there's money they may not have had otherwise because the sales have been spiked by the program. >> and they get strapped for cash the dealerships, they're dirk it out. giving out the vehicles, giving out the bargains-- >> they bought the inventory. >> right, they're waiting for the money. >> let's talk about the new home deduction, real quick $8,000. >> first time home buyers. income qualifiers, make less than a certain number. >> i don't know about the actual income part of it, but as far as we have a been getting the statistics lately, seei