. >> although trisha swanson has insurance, she is able to benefit from the program. >> i am 25 now and my mom works for the federal government so i am able to stay on her plan for another year. i do not have to worry about finding my own health care and paying for my own health care. >> this morning the speaker of the house said the house will not accept the measure. john boehner saying americans do not want the health care program and republicans are listening. newsroom, suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. >> thank you. also at noon, four more suspects have been arrested in the murder of it would bridge teenager. all the suspects are 16-year-old boys. attemptedharged with armed robbery and conspiracy. that makes a total of 12 arrest in the murder of kenny diaz. the high school football player was stabbed to death in a park this weekend. police say his murder was drug related and there will be a viewing for an later on this afternoon. >> we now know the reason behind major traffic tie ups during the morning rush. abductionon -- investigation. backup spread across the river. >> what a mess. i

and joining us now is james swanson.is newest book, young adult called "the president has been shot!: the assassination of john f. kennedy." james a swanson, how do you write about an assassination for young adults? >> it's tough, peter. this is my third young adult book. i did my first one based on my manhunt. i did "chasing lincoln's killer." i didn't know what do. i thought i would adapt the adult book and cut down and do a kids book. it was one of the toughest thing i had to do. i had to write a new book about the lincoln assassination. it's a different kind of audience. different kind of writing. i learn kids are sophisticated. you can't write down to them. they'll catch you like that. you have to write at their level or above their level and challenge them. you have propreserve the core story, bringing them to the moment. so it was tough to do with lincoln it was tougher to do with jfk. it's a complex story. and kids don't remember jfk. they don't know him. they don't remember november 22nd. i have to tell the stor

. >> reporter: dan swanson hugged the 911 operator who talked him through his wife's delivery of their new baby girl, aria. >> you know it all happened so fast, accident really know what to think at the time. >> she gave birth through the open passenger door of their car in a driveway here on nebraska avenue northwest in d.c., en route to a hospital in silver spring. when the news4 i team started digging, we sifted through four years of centers of disease control birth records, though there is no specific category for road side babies, we spotted a 20% surge in 2008 of children born outside traditional birthing locations, hospitals, clinics, homes and delivered by untraditional types of people, not doctors, midwives or nurses. even as the national birthrate declined. the maryland and virginia health departments compiled their birth records for us, including other untraditional births. in virginia, 26 babies delivered by non-doctors, non-nurse, non-midwifes in homes or untraditional locations over a 12-month span. 700-plus in maryland, but the state says its data is imprecise, includes

swanson? i'm tryin' out some cop entrances. oh, well, i'm here to help you out while bonnie's gone.well, i did work for that old lady down the street. meg, could you come here, please? what is it? could you see if i'm getting a bed sore on my back? sure. it looks fine to me, ma'am. thank you, dear. i must have just slept on it wrong. (laughing) i stole meg's cutaway. (whooshing) what the hell is going on in here? well, brian, i thought about what you said at the park, and i've decided you're right. i have gone soft. i've lost my sadistic streak. so i've built a concentrated neural enhancement device, designed to boost my evil side. all right, shall we take this thing for a spin? now, when i say so, hit that button. okay, hit it. (electronic whirring) (whirring grows louder) (whooshing) well, how do you feel? i don't know. i don't feel any different. well, why don't you try insulting me? yeah, okay. um, sometimes you chase helicopters. that's kind of lame. yeah. um... besides, i do that to protect the house.

>> guest: first and foremost there is a new one coming up with james swanson. he had written a very popular best-selling book called manhunt which was about the assassination of abraham lincoln and now he returns with and of days, the assassination of john f. kennedy and it will be out around the 12th of november. there is also from a different vantage point this is sort of a counterfactual. you have jeff greenfield who will be publishing its kennedy lived the first and second terms of jfk and alternate history. he is done alternate histories before with much success and it will be interesting to see what he posits whether jfk had lived. >> host: sarah weinman putting jfk on the cover of the book is that a good marketing tool? >> guest: i think it remains to be seen. it certainly can't hurt. it's certainly a very recognizable image and certainly because there is there is a strong tie-in and people are already reflecting on history and its a very interesting and politically volatile volatile time at the palm and certainly his face on the cover will produce a lot

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>> well, first and foremost there's a new one coming up from james swanson to get written a very private best selling book called manhunt, which was about the assassination of abraham lincoln. and now he returns with the assassination of john f. kennedy and it will be out around the 12th of november. there's also from a different vantage point, sort of a council factual. we have jeff greenfield will be publishing if kennedy lived, an alternate history. use an alternate history before with much success to go be interesting to see what exactly he posits about whether jfk, if jk had lived. >> putting jfk on the cover of the book, is that a good marketing to? >> i think it remains to be seen. it certainly can't hurt. he's obviously a very recognizable image and because there's that strong diane and people already reflecting on history, it's a very interesting and politically volatile time at the moment. serving i think putting his face on the cover will produce a lot of interest. spent also want to ask you about a couple of new history books coming out by some well-known historians. margaret

i want to bring in in swanson, news editor of the hill newspaper.rack ofis keeping this whip count, they are calling it, on military strikes on syria. take us through the latest that the hill has come up with. latest we have in the house is that there are 141 no votes or votes leaning no. house,31 votes in the where people are voting yes or leaning yes. in the senate, we only have 26 senators saying they would vote for this or lean toward voting for this. that is a better scenario. it looks like obama is getting closer but he is not there yet. are you finding that the senate is an easier sell? guest: absolutely the easier sell but they do still do not have the votes. optimism they of can get this through the senate relatively easy. right now that is not the case. you are getting a lot of defections, even from democrats in the senate. they cannot say with certainty that it will be able to get a yes vote in the senate. president doeshe get a yes vote in the senate and a no vote in the house? any word on what the white house will do in that scenario? g

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. >> one other book i want to ask about is james swanson under the young adult category. the president has been shot. >> people may remember him for the book manhunt, about the search for the killers of abraham lincoln right after his death. without them the same as the user at about jfk and simultaneously publish an adult version, both of them a young adult from scholastic. what we have is a sample of the young adult version. >> mr. cader, what are you excited about? >> i keep dipping in and finding things i like. the nice thing is the federal kinds of different stuff. we have authors people no amount. we have a new novel from wally lamb who is a huge sign up here. last year we were one of the first people to tell people about the yellow birds, which went on to be one of the best recognized books of the year. the best thing is it's got a lot of everything. gather dough works, some of the long fiction meets discovered. there's a man named henry pushkin who is johnnie carson on time lawyer, confidant, fixer who is in the shadows for literally decades. the person called him

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president obama is attempting to shift public opinion on this. >> ian swanson with "the hill," thanks for your time. >> thanks a lot. >> on the next open " washington journal," we will take a look at what they -- our guests will be susan ferrechio and manu raju. then a look at the affordable care act and how it affects people on medicare with the new senior correspondent, mary agnes carey, and later the obama administration offered $2 billion for job training programs joined by inside onscott jaschik that. >> we have a lot of issues before the fcc, in a lot of ways they oversee the digital information economy, which accounts for as much as 1/6 of the economy itself. there are a few things we have going on that are of particular interest. one of them is wireless communications. you to look around and see the proliferation of phones and it would not be a surprise that this is a big interest, but we now have more wireless phones in this country than we have people. one out of three in a -- american adults have a tablet computer. all of those devices are using more of our airwaves than ev

jen swanson has a pet lacking toer a home. >> roxy looking so cute in the little costume.cks see. >> roxy is 3 and a half years old. she has been at the shelter for a little while. she is fantastic. she is a great, great doig. she was found in somebody's yard they brought her to us. the the lady had a small dog who lived in her home. she may do well with other dogs in the household. she is fantastic. she walks well on a leash. she is fantastic. >> something to be said about adopting a dog. will you are not only helping them but you are passing by the puppy stage. the fact that the dog has the main anothers. >> there is something making food in some front of her face. >> she has been sweet all morning long. almost any kind of a home. she really is a calm well adjusted dog. she is fantastic and needs a home. >> she is in her costume because you are getting ready for dog fest. october 5th. >> next saturday. we have a fundraising event, tons of vendors food trucks all kind of games and activity the for people and their dorgs. check out the web site dog fest.org. they are there

in swanson is following all of this for "the hill" newspaper. he's joining us on the phone. who were not up late last night or early in the morning, what happened overnight? the house passed a bill to keep the government funded through december 15. the added a couple of bills -- things to the bill that will be unacceptable. they want to delay obama care for a year. the white house summit democrats said before the house acted said such auld reject measure. house republicans were responding to their own conservative members in moving this bill. is going to be rejected by the senate. we are no closer to a solution. referred to aid certain wing of the republican party as tea party anarchists. caller: democrats are trying to use this politically to put all of the blame for a possible government shutdown on republicans. there are some politics going on behind the scenes here. most people think the only chance democrats would have for bringing back the house next year is if the government does shutdown. democrats are working very hard to put the blame on republicans if the governme

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. >> host: ian swanson, editor of "the hill" newspaper, before we move on, talk about how much one-on-oneresident spends with individual members of congress? we heard he dropped in on a meeting with republican senators and the vice president yesterday, and is the president trying to get around to all members of congress on this? >> caller: i think they are doing what they can. there's been some mixed signals. it was interesting to see the president drop in op the vice president to meet with a half dozen republican senators yesterday. we have seen some lawmakers criticize obama for not reaching out to them. senator kissinger, a republican from illinois, supports military action of syria, said he had not heard from the president or from the white house yet on sunday. i think we'll see more and more lawmakers getting face time or getting phone calls from the president, but there's 535 members in the house and senate so a lot of people to get to. >> host: thank you so muchs for getting up with us this morning. >> caller: thanks a lot. >> weigh in on c-span's poll on whether or not you think t