suzanne?> barbara, is the pentagon giving any advice to veterans who are so afraid and worried for themselves and their families or are they saying essentially you've got to find other ways to survive? >> reporter: you know, what's so interesting is just a couple months ago, in that whole crisis about the government shut-down, both the department of veterans affairs and the pentagon had a lot of information about what would happen to veterans from the veterans affairs department, active duty military from here at the pentagon. right now, everybody is really being pretty quiet. there's a lot of sort of background chatter that somehow both active duty military pay and veterans benefits would be shielded from any crisis, but nobody's making any promises. nothing has been put in writing, if you will, from the political side of the house, capitol hill, the white house, the treasury department, and it's that uncertainty that is causing so much concern right now amongst the veterans community about t

live from studio 7 i'm suzanne malveaux. the man suspected of carrying out friday's deadly bombing in oslo, norway and massacre at a youth camp was in court today. briefly, the judge said anders breivik admitted to the attacks and claimed he had help from two terror cells. that has not yet been confirmed. the judge ordered breivik held for eight weeks in isolation until the next hearing. this scene played out across scandinavia earlier today. people pausing to remember the victims of that attack. as norway mourns we are hearing more from people who risked their lives to save others. our cnn's michael holmes caught up with one of them. >> it's not a huge boat. how many people did you put in here? >> the first round i believe it was 14. >> reporter: 14. >> yes. and then i had to address the oldest one and said you have to stay ashore. i promise i will come back and get you. they respected that. i said, sit down and wait. i went to the mainland. i went back again and they were -- agreed upon sitting there and i just waved to th

suzanne?> so men still don't have a higher unemployment rate. explain the disconnect here. >> actually, men do have the higher unemployment rate, they do. unemployment rate for adult men is 9.1%. the rate for adult women is at 8%, and here's why. during the recession men were hit much harder. we saw the construction manufacturing areas, those jobs were just obliterated during the recession and those are traditionally men-oriented structures. they lost more jobs during the recession than women did. >> so the idea of women struggling during the recovery, does that normally happen? has that happened in the past? >> that's a good question, but what we're going through is not normal. historically, women fare better than men in economic recoveries. we saw this during recoveries in the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, but this recession was the biggest since world war ii. all bets are off, we're in new territory. we can't compare it to the past so we're sort of building new trends with this recovery from th

suzanne? >> alison, thank. a little bit of good news there. >>> here are your choices for today's "choose the news." first, captured soldiers once fighting for moammar gadhafi talk to cnn. hear their firsthand accounts of the battlefield, information gadhafi doesn't want the rest of the world to know. >>> second, the uplifting story of a man who took his personal experience and transferred it to the workplace. now his business focuses on hiring mentally challenged workers. other businesses are looking to cash in on his unique plan. >>> and third, survival through soccer. a new league for the homeless is aimed at helping players develop confidence. a sense of teamwork. and even make friends. the hope of getting them back on their feet. >>> you can vote texting 22360. text one for soldiers reveal secrets. two for unique business plan or three for survival through soccer. the winning story will air next hour. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein! really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, tog

>> hi, suzanne. yes. debt ceiling talks are definitely going to be the hot topic out on the campaign trail today. mitt romney has town halls up in new hampshire today and we expect him to be asked about that. it would be a big surprise if he's not asked about that. and, you know, the democrats have accused mitt romney of staying quiet on the issue. david axelrod made that much of a statement yesterday in a tweet. the pawlenty campaign also poked him on the subject. the romney campaign has put out a statement, that it would reduce the government to bring the debt under control and does not favor tax increases in order to bring the debt under control as part of any debt ceiling agreement. mitt romney was asked about that today. and ron paul, he has a brand-new tv ad that has come out. eats going to be airing this ad in the important early voting states and the texas congressman and tea party favorite has the ad -- it's essentially called compromises and it really takes aim at budget deals that were cut in t

suzanne? >> a lot of people to tip there. >> we have a question whether or not summer camp counselors should get tips, too. we'll have that answer. >>> we're back with alison kosik. what about when you come to your kids? the camp counselors? the sports instructors? >> you do. if your kids are at summer camp, the experts at "real simple" say, if you can give up to $10 a week in gratuity, but some camps have rules against tipping, so check first. if nothing else, a nice thank-you note will do. as far as the swimming and tennis instructors, you're not expected to tip. you're already paying them, right? >> i'm going to pick up my niece in a couple weeks, so good advice. >> tip those counselors. >> i will. >>> we're going to take a quick break. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein! really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? [ female announcer ] as you get ol

the quintessential blond bombshell, suzanne somers. >>> suzanne somers first shot to fame as a glamorous star of the sitcom "three's company." can it be possible that was more than 30 years ago? i don't think so. since then she's become a successful businesswoman and author. her latest book "sexy forever." suzanne somers joins me. come on, then. what's the secret of being sexy forever? obviously, you're looking pretty sexy and it's been going on quite a long time. based on what i just read out. >> it comes off egotistical and it's not. it's aspirational of how do you age well in today's -- in today's world with -- i don't know. i took a look at aging, and i didn't like it. not that i don't want to get old, but that there is a -- there's a formula now for aging. you reach middle age and you start not being able to sleep. you take sleeping pills and you get anxieties. you take valium, some kind of relaxant. and then you take anti-depressants. and i just looked at this template. i thought there's got to be a better way. so i started writing books about replacing what you've lost in the agin

>> it's kind of both, suzanne.one hand, he apparently wasn't getting the savings he thought that he was getting, something like $400 billion short, which is no small chunk of chains, and it's a problem and embarrassment and a question of his credibility. on the other hand, though, he could use a day or two, because there are a lot of people in the house of representatives, republicans, who went out to the microphones and said this is not going to pass and i will not vote for it. they had a bunch of different problems with it. they did not like the two-step thing, and they are worried about a downgrade occurring to the united states credit, regardless of whether they passed it and there was commission in there that was going to help figure out how much money they are going to get rid of later. they had problems with that. so there were reasons why he could use a little extra time to generate some support, suzanne. >> and this might be confusing to folks, but there is some folks that don't believe that there's going

now suzanne somers is here with me. >> i'm a little nervous. it's like a first date. >> it's the suzanne so manyers you don't know. >> i'm going to tell you something about myself you never knew but you've got to watch the show. it's a biggie. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> linda hogan knows all about the down side of marriage to a powerful man. she was married for 24 years to hulk hogan. she tells the story of that marriage in a new book called "wrestling the hulk." linda joins me now. it's a fascinating book. he's a fascinating character. you know, i mean, my knowledge of the hulk is even in britain this guy was huge, physically, on television, as a box office star. how would you sum up marriage to the hulk? >> well, we were married for 24 years. and you know, it was great. i mean, honestly, i never dreamed that we would end up having the lifestyle that we did. when i met him, he was in the "rocky 3" movie, and i thought that he was an actor playing a wrestler because in california back then wrestling wasn't even on tv, and i didn't k

suzanne? >> all right, david mattingly outside the courthouse, thank you. >>> and then as the tables turn in the dominique strauss-kahn case, what does it say about our legal system. carol costello, hi. >> i know most of americans are feasting on the casey anthony trial, but maybe we should turn our attention to new york, to a sexual assault case that is as ugly as it gets, if you are talking about justice, that is. the head of the international monetary fund is arrested on charges of assaulting a hotel maid. the story resinates a rich powerful man attacking a woman with no power, an accusation so awful even without a conviction, the powerful man, dominique strauss-kahn resigns from the imf, his dream of becoming france's next president, likely over. the alleged victim? the new york times reporter were moved to tears by her story. there is dna and bruising to prove it was not consensual. and then the leaks begin. after two days when she said she was attacked, then she told a boyfriend she is f

. >> well, suzanne, would he have been listening to prosecutor linda burdick. she closed for the prosecution with her final argument. the last thing that the jury heard from her and the last thing that the jury saw was what they believe was the motive behind this crime. they showed picture of casey anthony out on the town partying and with the tattoo that she had placed on her shoulder while her daughter was supposedly missing. that tattoo reading the beautiful life translated from italian. so that, a very strong message to the jury that this woman had a motive and she had a plan to change her life once her little daughter was out of the way. now, earlier, we heard her call casey anthony a pathological liar and she said that the fact that this child was supposedly missing for 31 days and the mother told no one about it, in her mind, is an admission of guilt. and listen to what she had to say. >> the defendant's actions and responses during those 31 days answer for you the only real question left at this stage of the proceedings. and that is who killed caylee an

all right, suzanne. i don't know if you're going to be working. but you're ready to go to work if necessary, right? >> absolutely. we're all going to be working, wolf. i have a feeling we're all going to be working this weekend on this story. this isn't going away. i want to bring in our congressional correspondent kate bolduan because kate, we've heard about a lot of plans here and the people behind them, the republicans, boehner, mcconnell, cantor. give us a sense behind the scenes, who's running the show here? who's in charge? who's driving the debate when it comes to the republican side? >> reporter: well, right now all this week despite speculation that there's tension between house republican leaders i'll tell you that they have been very -- they've made very much a point to come out, to tamp down that kind of speculation, and present a unified front that they are all on the same page, repeatedly saying that very same phrase, "we're all on the same page." and they did that same thing this morning in come out and presenting after a big meetin

i am suzanne kennedy.he story is coming up. >>> i am leon holmes and there is an accusation of the sexual captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> a leesburg daycare employee is in custody accused of assaulting an four-year-old child. >> brad minor from chesterbrook academy. rihanna homes has more. >> it to please months to gather enough evidence to charge him, but now they want to know if the suspect abuse and the other children. this is the man that police say sodomized a girl. a worker for the chesterbrook academy in downtown leesburg. >> that is evil. >> horrible, just horrible. >> the incident minor is in jail for allegedly happened in march. a woman picking up per daughter said that she said something horrible happened to her in school. >> we had enough to charge this child with one case of forcible sodomy. >> i had heard wonderful things about chesterbrook. it disgusts me in scares me. >> the academy did not reveal what job he held at the school. parents we talked to tod

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. >> up at 16 just a moment ago, suzanne petterson. suzanne with her fourth birdie of the round, but unfortunately has had five bogeys. it's been that kind of week for her, up and down. we go to the 10th. >> here's this slipped breaking putt, you talked about, johnny, stanford for par. >> you got to hit a great putt here. it looks easy on tv but you can see there's right-to-left and it's quick. >> johnny, it would be a hard one to swallow to walk away with bogey here having hit the fairway and just having 7 ironed in. >> in problem. made it look easy. good stroke. real nice. her putter's holding her in this final round. cristie kerr. tee shot on the 12th. >> this is going right of hole location, trying to get it to come down the slope. >> that's going to hang right there, that's going to leave a downhill left-to-right breaking putt as we go back to 11. >> second shot for so yeon ryu. >> this is a hard hole location to get into. with the hook lie it is back on the right side, deep on the right side. >> that is just a shot back. >> that

suzanne malveaux is here. the president made it clear he will not sign any short term stop gap measures, and not even a 120-day deal. he also said he fully expect some sort of deal by august 2nd, although it's obvious there are enormous problems getting to the august 2nd deadline. >> i thought it was notable the last question where the president addressed the american people, that it was tough time for folks but harder for those that have less. what does the debate mean when it comes to them? he outlined it as a problem that has to be resolved by august second before you can deal with the practical matters, like how do you get jobs and put people back to work. i want to bring in our chief white house correspondent. jessica, i thought the last question was great, are we going to see you again tomorrow. that is the question. what is next here, the president drew a line in the sand saying, as wolfe mentioned, he is not going to sign any short-term measure, and wants the grand deal on the table and it's questionab

suzanne, john, john has seen several of theses. suzanne, i'll find you shortly.we'll share and swap stories. amazing. >> absolutely. there was an interesting story, kylie kennedy told us there was guy from new deland that she met to see this final lawnch and then even we have no idea what the weather would be like. i want to let viewers know, john zarrella, this guy has covered 75, 80 launches. >> that dates me. >> reporter: do you have a job? what are you going to do tomorrow, john? what's your backup plan? >> i've been telling people i'm glad the space shuttle is retiring before i'm retiring. i don't know what the plan is, but the shuttle's retiring before i zblam we'll get you another assignment. it's an amazing, amazing time, historic. you've done an incredible job. >> tonight at 8:00 and 10:00, beyond "atlantis," i'm putting in a shameless plug for the special that we did, one-hour special on the end of the space shuttle program, 8:00 and 10:00. >> fred? >> well, john's backup plan, he's so versatile, he can do anything, and we've seen that over the years. j

suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: for many of the world's largest economies, this is the direction that interest rates are going. central banks in china and europe are hiking rates to battle inflation pressures because that's their primary agenda. but, higher rates across the pond and in asia will also mean slower growth for those economies, and perhaps america too. don't forget china has been the world's economic engine at a time when the u.s. and parts of europe are still struggling. on top of the eurozone is a big market for u.s. multinational firms. so, it's no wonder that economist bruce kasman says it's really bad timing for a rate hike in europe. >> the euro area as a region delivers less in terms of growth as it could in helping the global economy, and then finally it adds risks and vulnerabilities to the really tough adjustments going on in greece and other peripheral countries right now. to be sure, a quarter of a percentage point increase in european rates tomorrow is likely to have only a nominal effect on u.s. growth. the concern is that the european central bank will

suzanne pratt looks at whether apple will remain delicious for investors. >> reporter: apple users are pretty passionate about their gadgets. stop an iphone, ipad or mac owner on the street and you get this: >> the diverse range of things that you can do on it is fanstastic. i mean, it's everything i ever needed it for. >> i love my laptop. i can't live without it! >> reporter: that enthusiasm, however, is less evident lately in the performance of apple stock. sure the shares are up a respectable 16% this year to an all-time high, but in the previous two years, when the stock was the apple of wall street's eye, the shares more than tripled. experts say investors today are concerned about leadership at apple, with company founder steve jobs still on medical leave. analyst colin gillis also points to the lack of new gadgets. >> there's a little bit of concern about no new hardware. right? outside of the ipad 2, we did not get a new iphone in june and historically we've gotten one every year in the june timeframe. >> reporter: apple is expected to release a new iphone this fall, and exper

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suzanne pratt take a look at what's ailing the stock. >> reporter: citi may do business from some of new york's tallest buildings, but lately its stock has been short on performance. no doubt, 2011 has not been a good year for most bank stocks. that's due to a horrific hangover from the financial crisis and surprising weakness in the global economy. citi stock, however, has fared worse than many of its peers. since january, the shares are down a hefty 19%. in may, the company did a one- for-10 reverse split, turning citi into a double-digit stock. banking analyst erik oja says that move has been a negative. >> reverse splits generally are not a great sign. it's maybe a sign of desperation where a $4 stock has to get converted into a $40 stock. >> reporter: citi has said its split was not a desperate act, but an effort to attract institutional shareholders such as pension funds. those investors often aren't allowed to buy stocks that trade for less than $5. but, here's the rub: it looks like reverse splits really don't work. n.y.u. professor april klein studied the performance of 1,60

suzanne pratt, "nightly business report," new york. >> susie: first it was chrysler, then ford. and today it was general motors' turn to kick off contract talks with the united auto workers union. chairman and c.e.o. dan akerson and u.a.w. president bob king shook hands at a gathering inside g.m.'s hamtramick assembly plant. this is the company's first contract negotiation with the union since it emerged from bankruptcy two years ago. both sides pledged to work together during the talks. as diane eastabrook reports, that spirit of cooperation is helping g.m. launch one of its most significant products in decades. >> reporter: these workers aren't just building cars, they're reinventing general motors. the orion township, michigan, plant is making the chevrolet sonic, a $14,000 subcompact that will hit showrooms this fall. it's the first subcompact g.m. has ever built in the u.s. and the significance isn't lost on plant manager alicia boler- davis. >> it's very unique. we're the only ones doing it, and we have a commitment to be successful and do it here. >> reporter: a decade ag

we start with suzanne pratt and a look inside the employment report. >> reporter: what's the state of the u.s. job market? in a word "awful." sure, businesses added some workers to their payrolls last month. but, two years post-recession, the economy should be making hundreds of thousands of new jobs a month, not a fraction of that. economist stuart hoffman says even the pessimists didn't think it would be this bad. >> i think what's most disappointing in this report is all of it. there's really no silver lining in the month of june in terms of hours, in terms of wages, in terms of either measure of jobs. >> reporter: here's a look inside the report. more than 14 million americans remain unemployed. of those, nearly half have been out of work for more than six months. on top of that the unemployment rate for teens and blacks is much higher than the national average. and, government payrolls dropped for the eighth straight month. still, economist steve gallagher doesn't think the u.s. is headed for another recession. >> double dip fears are unfounded in the type of data that we're seei

>> good afternoon, suzanne. i am with the save stow lake boat house organization. it go to the website to get the real story that the media will not. because phil ginsberg keep planting puff pieces and the media instead of the truth. the public deserves the truth about the parks. it is very disingenuous for mr. ginsberg talked-about outpour he is. he is going for a lease at the boat house that loses money. he is giving great discounts of revenue to an out-of-state fender with no boating experience. when he talks about children and families that we run at the city because of these things, what is he going to be one recreational boating operation we have four children in this city but the meaning it so and out of state souvenir chain can take over the one and only historic still like but house. --stow lake boathouse. we have been trying to work with parks so long. the director is stubborn and not interested in working with the public. he works with those where rich and powerful, and if you are poor, you will lose out. i support this initiative, and you should also. t

and as suzanne pratt reports, experts are now concerned about the recovery in the final months of this year. >> reporter: stuck in the mud. a snail's pace. or how about flat-lining? all are perfect metaphors for the state of the economy. it's bad enough that g.d.p. limped to annual rate of 1.3% in the second quarter, but today the government revised its previous first-quarter estimate down to a paltry 0.4%. on top of that, the government said today the great recession was even worse than originally thought. economist milton ezrati calls it a depressing snapshot. >> well, it was disappointing and i'm sure that these numbers are going to renew talk about a double dip and they're going to renew talk about a qe3 from the fed. >> reporter: here on new york's busy 5th avenue, it may be hard to imagine the economy is treading water. not only are the streets buzzing with tourists, but stores are brimming with shoppers. still, on main streets across the country, it's been nervous consumers that are holding the economy back. economist julia coronado blamed the lack of supply from japan due to th

and suzanne candiotti joins me now. what is it like around the clerk's office this morning? >> reporter: there is no missing the nervous energy and excitement that i think any couple that is about to get married is facing, and beyond that, t. j., this is a day that many gay rights activist have been waiting for for a lifetime. you can see the couples lining up and have been here for a couple hours. some women in wedding gowns as well. a lot of tuxedos. and there are 800 couples getting married here, and more than half here at city hall. i spent some time yesterday helping to get things done, and noticing a lot of jitters. these two are way beyond excited. would you say you have butterflies in your stomach right now? >> butterflies, more like dragon flies in my stomach. >> reporter: the significance has not escaped them, or what they hope to proudly tell their children one day. >> i guess what will tell them when we were young there was no such thing as gay people getting married, and we were there when it happened. >> they planned on saving the e-mail from city hall allowing

. >>> live from studio 7, i'm suzanne malveaux.president obama holds a news conference at the top of the hour on the deadlock over raising the debt ceiling. after days of tense talks and political back and forth, the week is ending pretty much the same way it started, with stalled negotiations and a presidential news conference. only now the situation is even more critical. >> the stakes certainly are enormous, suzanne. i'm wolf blitzer here in washington. and as we await the president's news conference, we'll update you on where things stand right now, what the debt ceiling debate means for the country, the economy, and for your personal finances. >> well, no new talks are planned today between the white house and congressional leaders after five meetings in five days. they're trying to come up with a deal that raises the debt ceiling to prevent the u.s. from defaulting on its bills while also trimming the deficit. the treasury secretary warns of financial disaster if there is no deal by august 2nd. now, the president says he want