margaret warner reports. >> warner: when bombs go off in baghdad and other cities in iraq, it is now iraqi soldiers, not american forces, who rush to the scene. the hand-off was a major milestone in returning control of iraq to the people who live there, while keeping 130,000 u.s. troops in the background for now. but when iraqis celebrated the june 30 withdrawal of u.s. forces from the cities, u.s. officials were stunned to hear prime minister nouri al maliki tout the milestone on television by likening it to the iraqi revolt against the british military occupation in 1920. >> he wants to bolster his position by taking an ultra hard line, the movement of u.s. troops. >> warner: rend francke, a former iraqi ambassador to the u.s., says maliki is playing to a domestic political audience in advance of next january's presidential election. >> it's important to show that he is the strong man of iraq who is ridding iraq of occupation troops, getting rid of the occupiers, getting them out of the cities and restoring sovereignty to iraq and giving the iraqi army and the iraqi security force

that is what time warner is. very similar, in fact, to what nbc universal is, aside from, of course, the nbc network. publishing is less than 7% of total earnings at this point. and aol, as i said, going to be spun off in the not too distant future. there you get a sense of what's going on at the company itself. within network, cnn, tnt, you know them all, advertising revenue for the quarter was down 3%. a bit better than a number of the other -- well, for example, by comparison, what we saw from viacom yesterday. not a bad number there. the free cash flow number at time warner also a decent number for the company. but there is a lot of weakness that continues to persist since the third quarter. they haven't had the conference call at this point, so perhaps we'll have more detail on exactly where things stand. they did give us their outlook for the year and more or less sustain it. look for that press release. it's in my pile somewhere. reaffirms their '09 full-year business outlook at flat to adjusted eps at $1.

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margaret warner has that story. >> warner: it's been the deadliest month yet for u.s. forces in afghanistan with 42 killed there in july. for the same month in iraq, u.s. casualties were the lowest since thatar began. the news from both fronts comes amidst a growing debate within the military over whether the u.s. should accelerate its withdrawal from iraq and further increase its military presence in afghanistan. though violence continues in iraq, bombings in baghdad killed at least 29 iraqis today, just 7 u.s. troops died this month, down from 15 in june. but since the june 30th u.s. withdrawal from iraqi cities tensions have arisen over the iraqis' growing reluctance to conduct joint patrols and iraqi restrictions on how u.s. forces can operate on their own. in an internal memo circulating widely in washington and reported today in the "new york times", a u.s. army colonel advising the iraqi military said it was time to "declare victory" and pull all u.s. forces out well ahead of the december 2011 deadline. "the security of u.s. forces are at risk" because of the ne

margaret warner has more on that story.nb >> warner: iran's rulers cracked down hard last month whenndreds of thousands of demonstrators challenged what they said was a rigged presidential election. there were beatings and shootings in the streets. and police and militia arrested and jailed thousands of protestors. now new controversy has arisen over what happened to the people who were detained. their families have been demonstrating at the gates of tehran's notorious evin prison, as seen in this youtube video. the protests were sparked by stories of prison abuse and killings that have leaked out on iranian opposition websites, robert worth of the "new york times" has been reporting this story. >> there are people who have been in these prisons who say they have watched others being beaten to death. other people who say they saw people, you know, with officers stepping on their necks being forced to lick toilet bowls. other people who talk about just being beaten up physically, being, having great pressure put on them to confess to having plotted a coup, plotted a revolution. one wo

thanks. >> warner: thanks, judy. >> lehrer: in other news today, seven u.s.roops were killed in attacks across afghanistan. it was the deadliest day in nearly a year. six americans were killed in roadside bombings in the north and in the south, near where u.s. marines are waging a major offensive. another died in clashes with insurgents in the eastern part of the country. meanwhile, the taliban confirmed capturing a u.s. soldier last week. there were no details on what the militants will do with him. ethnic riots across western china have now claimed at least 156 lives. violence erupted on sunday in the capital city of xinjiang province. in addition to the dead, more than 800 people were hurt. we have a report narrated by lindsey hilsum of independent television news. >> reporter: mobs on the streets of urumqi, groups of youths who hate chinese rule. yesterday several thousand people from the muslim uighur minority went on the rampage, they say they face discrimination, and they took out their anger on the han. the han are the dominant ethnic group in china,

>> warner: judy, it hangs heavy over this meeting.ite differently i think from the 220 in london april, there was a sense of economic crisis, also the sense o the leaders were gettng together forhe first time taki steps togeth and there was foard momentum. th time there is some sort of sensehat the recovery have stalled or at least momentum has the leaders a wondering about en and whether the stimulus lans will work. in that climate, wejust were told, the stements haven't even come out yet, that today's meeting which is the only major g8 econoc meeting of the entirehree days realy just rffirmed what they did in london, recommitte everyone to continue withheir stimulus plans, said of course at some point we'll have to unwd from the heavy snding. and pple should -- countries should startlanning for that, but not institute it. thone thing they did do was take steps to help countries who have been hardit by this. the estimates are 20to 90 llion additionaleople have been plungedin to desrate povey by the crisis and th are -- call a securit

margaret warner talked with him earlier this evening from beirut. he covered the election and post-election protests in tehran. >> warner:, borzou daragahi, welcome. thank you for being with us. the authorities in iran refuse to grant permission for this mass mourning event today, and yet thousands of people showed up. how unusual is that? >> well, it's not only that they didn't get permission and showed up anyway, it's also that they've been coming out fairly regularly for protests, being beaten, being hurt, being tear gassed, but in some cases followed home and arrested. and yet they continue to keep going. and they say that they're going to keep going even if they get hurt or jailed and that that's the unusual part. and this is kind of unperes tented in that way. the islamic republic has a play book by which it usually deals with this kind of unrest as it dealt with it in 1999 and 2003 and even in the early years of the revolution when there was still a lot of opposition to the type of clerical rule that was established. all of their methods, the

warner brothers delayed the planned release from last november to this summer to try and boost revenue. how did that pay off? >> i think it totally paid off. they had midnight screenings wednesday, 12:01 that earned $22.2 million. just in midnights. that's a record. that beat the "dark knight's" midnight screenings. interestingly enough, this is the same week that warners opened "the dark knight" last year to such great success. this is a magic, no pun intended, a maj date for warner brothers and harry potter. 2001 these films started out. j.k. rowling, the books. i personally wasn't a huge fan of the earlier movies. look at this. $4.5 billion worldwide in box office, not even included "harry potter 6." >> like you said a minute ago, she doesn't have to do anything for the rest of her life. j.k. rowling will maybe do more. >> i think warners would love it if she did because what they've done, there's one more book but two more movies. they wisely split it into two. now they get more bang for their buck. by the time this franchise is finished, all eight movies, they could be looking at

mark warner is going to have to weigh in on it. we are all going to have to weigh in on it. my bottom line, though, is that if you have got health insurance right now, you shouldn't suddenly see your costs go up as part of health care reform. ok? good. >> mr. president, i think we are teed up for another video question. >> mr. president, as a physician, i know the cost of defensive medicine drives costs upward. at your health care forum, you said you wanted to find out what works. in my home state of texas, i know what works. unfortunately when you recently told the a.m.a. you were opposed to capping noneconomic damages, even though a state like mine has proven that it does work. will you

>> i think warner would love it if she did. what they've done is now there's one more book, but there's two more movies. they wisely split it into two. now they get more bang for their buck. and potentially by the time this franchise is finished, all eight movies, they could be looking at over $7 billion in worldwide revenue. >> unbelievable. "the half-blood prince" had a budget of $250 million. another $155 million to market. what about other releases this summer? "burnout" took in a lot. not all the buzz is positive. >> that's the thing. "bruno," it's such an acquired taste. $30 million its opening weekend. it opened with 14.5 million on friday, dropped to $8.8 million saturday. people were saying, word of mouth or twitter affect that movie? "transformers" which revived the box office. the summer box office was running even with last year until "transformers." that boosted us to 5% ahead of last summer. >> are the big money movies, the big event movies, the best bets for movie studios in this economic environment? or a better

thank you, warner brothers, for taking me inside. green sound stage, they're waiting with beated bret for this certification from the green building council. they should know by the end of the year. some of the green measures, yes, they are very costly up front but they say they really do pay of long term. >>> so who gets to attend michael jackson's memorial service? thousands of people are finding out right now. check your e-mail. >>> plus could there be a national day of mourning for the pop icon? we will tell you who's calling for that honor. sedgwick. >>> happening right now, questions swirling today about what caused this disney monroral in orlando, florida. it happened about 2:00 this morning. a 21-year-old operator was killed. the disney world monorail system normally carries 150,000 passengers a day. >>> honduran troops have seized control of the main airport in the capital just hours ahead of what could be a dramatic showdown. ousted president manuel zelaya is vowing to fly home. honduras's interim government says his plane

then, we have the other news of the day, including a margaret warner report on the last day of the economic summit in italy; a preview of the upcoming confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor; the analysis of david brooks and ruth marcus; and a media unit look at the saturation coverage of the michael jackson story. major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer is provided by: >> tiny little thing, it's just... not big. ah... okay, i found it. ( cheers and applause ) okay. >> we are intel, sponsors of tomorrow. >> the world is changing, and how we use energy today cannot be how we use it tomorrow. there is no one solution. it's not simply more oil, more renewables or being more efficient. it's all of it. our way of life depends on developing all forms of energy, and to use less of it. it's time to put our differences aside. will you be part of the solution? chevron, human energy. and the national science foundation. supporting education and research across all fields of science and engineering. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and..

. >> which is a wonderful program, but as senator warner and gov. kaine would agree, we cannot have a system that is relied on three days of free care at 362 days in which people to not have health care. that does not make any sense. thank you for sharing your story. we appreciate it. [applause] . >> how can health care reform help us? >> as somebody with two daughters, i am a sucker for anybody that uses daughters and a video. [laughter] my staff probably knew that. small business owners are those who are being, in some cases, hardest hit by the rising cost of health care. in some cases, they cannot afford to provide health insurance to their employees and that is frustrating but they are operating on two small margin or they do that have enough employees to have leverage to negotiate with insurance companies. the offers that insurance companies give them for the cost of coverage per person and up being way higher than they would be for big companies that have more consumer power. in some cases, it has gotten so bad that small businesses cannot eve

>> warner: very different. very, very different, different. yesterday there were no crowds whenever his motorcade moved but it was pretty rainy. today, for instance, as his motorcade went out to putin's dacha and came back, people were sort of looking up apparently. i wasn't in the pool. but that was the report. but there was no... there were no throngs of people. there's no obama mania here. there has been a consistent anti-american drum beat in the press for the last eight to ten to 12 years. and a recent poll here found that fewer than a quarter of russias-- i think it was 23% -- trust president obama to do the right thing in international affairs. it's been pointed out to me that that's at least in double digits. better than president bush. but it still shows that there's a deep well of mistrust here and that this trip for president obama was just the beginning of trying to engage russia society as well as the russian government in seeing our relationship in a new way. >> ifill: margaret warner reporting for us from red square. thank you s

after an eight-month wait, the boy wizard looks to hit it big for time warner shareholders, counting on another blockbuster harry potter film as that franchise offers up its sixth movie. david sikich is back with us. time warner is the home of the summer blockbuster: the dark knight last year and hopes are harry potter this year. but this was originally due out over the holidays last year. why such a long way? first of one brother service at the top of market share ranking every year for a few reasons. the release more police than anyone else it 20 more prepared to and from other studios and they are known as the studio to most of blockbusters. if the like to have for a year. and their aggressive for which because we take care rawlings' put the first book out in 1997 the right they're passing on the deal making the deal for all of the movie rights for all of the movies. in regards to the lady looked at and long-term. there were going to come up in november and moved it to july the movie would have been finished as unusual because they don't like movies to wonder and $50 million to si

>>oodruff: margaret warner coering the summit for us in mosw.hanks. >> warner: anks, judy. >> lehrer: in otr news today, seen u.s. troops were killed i attacks across ahanistan. it washe deadliest day in nearly a year. six americanwere killed in rodside bombings in the north anin the south, near where u.s. marines are wagina major offensiv another died in class with insurgentsn the eastern part of the country. meanwhile, the taiban confirmed pturing a u.s. soldier last week. there were no details on wat the militantsill do with him. ethnic rio across western chi have now claimed at least 156 lives. violence erupted on sund in e capital city of xinjng province. inddition to the dead, more than 800 people werhurt. we have a repor narrated by liney hilsum of independent television news. >> reporter: mobs on the stree of urumqi, groupof youths who he chinese rule. yesterday severalhousand people from the slim uighur minoty went on the rampage, they say theyace discriminion, and ty took out their ger on the han. the hanre the dominant ethnic group in

. >> warner:, boou daragahi, welce. thank you forbeing with us. the authorities in ira refuse to grantermission for this mass mrning event today, and yet thsands of people showed up. how usual is that? >> well, it not only that they didn't get rmission and showe up anyway, it's also th they've been coming outairly regularly for protests being beaten, being hurt, beingear gassed,ut in some cas followed home and arrested. nd yet they continue to kee goi. a they say that they're goi to keep goingeven if the get hurt orjailed and that that's the usual part. and this is kindf unpes tented in tha way. the islamic republic has a play boo by which it usuly deals with this kind of unrestas it dealt with it in 1999 and 2003 andven in the early years of the rvolution when there ws still lot of opposition to the type of clerica rule that was established. all of their methods, the jailings, the batings, the threats,he treats of airing forced confessions on television are notorking this time. so you've got a pap nickhe establishment as theyry to figu out what t

time-warner earning 35 cents a share when you strip out items.was two cents better than expectations. we saw a larger than expected loss for sprint nextel. the telecom company losing 13 cents a share for the second quarter. analysts looking for a loss of two cents. there are some other metrics people watch in this one including the number of new subscribers they have. they talked about a if you records they had. ratings agencies, moody's 30 cents a share, three cents above expectations. moody's raising the outlook as they saw the credit market stabilizing. they saw a better than expected demand for credit rating. that's why the company came in with better numbers for the year. carl. >> thanks very much. meantime coping with california's economic crisis. we're joined by david crane, special adviser to governor schwarzenegger in an exclusive another with our guest thomas steyer. good to see you. i don't know if you heard our conversation about california. give usa sense to how long lasting this solution that we're seeing right now come together wil

>> warner: opposition leads have called foa mass mourning remony tomorrow.t's t 40th day after a young demonsttor, neda agh-soltan, was shot to death. the video of her kiing became a worldwide symbolf the protests and the bral crackdown. it's not clear if the gatheng will take place since irann authorities refused to gnt permission fort. >> ifill: now pa three of our nehour forum with federal reserve chairman n bernanke. j lehrer moderated the conversion sunday night with a group citizens from in and around kansas city, miouri. wbroadcast the first two sectio taped at the federal reserve bank of kansas cy on monday and tsday. and now e third and final installment of "bernankon the record" begining where the dcussion left off last night, talking about homeoreclosures. >>lehrer: you've already touched on a lot of thi already, some ofhe things that are ithe works or are being debated abouhow we move from ere to there, some reorganization, new legislaon, et cetera. let's startirst with elma warwick cause it relates exactly to what we've beenust talking abo in te

paul warner powell was scheduled to die tomorrow but the u.s. supreme court put off that execution. he was tried a second time because he wrote a letter to prosecutors describing how he raped and killed the 16-year-old manassas girl and how he tortured his sister. his original conviction was overturned because they could not prove rape or robbery but the letter sealed his fate. andrew stack has an interview. >> reporter: to say the least, the prosecutor was a little dumbfounded. he told me in addition to being convicted twice, paul warner powell has been denied a stay of execution twice. so the 11th hour really caught him off guard. >> if we can make a capital murder case we will. >> reporter: that was the attorney paul eber before he built the first case against paul warner powell in 2000. this is eber today. >> i was surprised in this case the supreme court had already denied it twice on this case. >> reporter: eber won a capital murder conviction for the first time in 2000 for the murder of the 16-year-old stacey reid and the abduction, rape and attempted murder of her 14-year-ol

report but try telling that to chris warner who owns a small mountain climbing business in maryland. he's climbed the two tallest mountains in the world, ever ret and k-2, but says surviving held reform could be his toughest challenge yet. >> we find ourselves in a position where a lot more small businesses will go bankrupt. >> reporter: he has 25 employees and worries about getting hit by a double wham any. first under the house bill businesses with payrolls of more than $400,000, must either provide health insurance for their employees or pay a penalty of 8% of their payroll. that could add over $100,000 to warner's tax bill. >> we do advise not giving employees raise, but not reinvesting back in our company, just the classic catch 22, small businesses. >> reporter: the second part of the double whammy is a surtax of at least 1%. warner would have to pay it because his business earnings exceed the threshold of $280,000 a year, even though he personally takes home much less than that. >> the greater good for he to take that capital and pay taxes, or is it greater good for me to krai

margaret warner has our story. >> warner: from city halls to synagogues, a sweeping federal probe ofrruption in new jersey netted mayors, assemblymen and rabbis yesterday. 44 people were arrested in a years-long, two-track probe of international money laundering through jewish charities, and of bribe-taking by state and local officials. the breadth and brazenness of the charges shocked a state that has become infamous for official graft. ed kahrer of the f.b.i.: >> new jersey's corruption problem is one of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation. corruption is not only pervasive, it has become ingrained in new jersey's political culture. >> warner: the two tracks of the case were united by one f.b.i. informant, a failed businessman named solomon dwek, arrested three years ago for attempted bank fraud. dwek first helped build the money laundering case against figures in tight-knit syrian jewish communities spanning new jersey and brooklyn, new york. 5 rabbis allegedly laundered millions of dollars through charities they ran in exchange for a percentage. nabbed as part of this: a br

>> warner: well, it wa in his speech the new economic school, gwen. in calling for a partnersip with ruia, in saying that h wanted russia occupy its ritful place as a great power, he really was sending a new messa to the russian here who have been of the vew, as we repoed last week and this week, at the u. has wante to real take advantage of russia weakness after the cd war. so for them tohearim talk abt wanting a psperous and secure russia, i talked to me students afterwas. even though they didn't go czy during the speech, th wereery struck bythat. that the unitedtates wasow seeking a partnersh. he's also do a interting thing whh is to use the imagery of the second world war to talk about a time when russia or t soviet uon and the u.s. were ales. the very first thg he did on arrival s to go to th tomb of e unknown soldier behind up in red squarend lay a wrea. he talkedoday aout the time when thu.s. and russ were allies in what he called the eatest struggle of the 20th century. and he likened the young men who died at normandy beach to young soviet so

time warner wrapping up its second quarter earnings call. numbers are down from last year, but ahead of expectations. adjusted profit 40 cents per share while revenue dropped to $6.8 billion, both beating projections. the company reaffirming its business outlook for the year. >>> one big headline from the call, the company is preparing to spinoff aol. the ceo plans to focus the company on its content business. this quarter aol revenues dropped 24% as they continue to lose dial-up customers and fight advertising downturn. as to the $7 billion in cash time warner has on its balance sheet, the company has once again started to buy back stock, purchasing $350 million in two months. acquisitions are a potential use of the excess capacity, looking for those that can provide strategic benefits and returns. but the economic downturn is taking its toll on the cable giant. >> the advertising markets where we operate have been more stable lately. but we aren't seeing major improvements. and because advertisers are holding on to budgets longer, our visi

at warner brothers, green is focused on a different kind.he front seat of the solar powered golf cart, shelly is driving the studio's environmentally charged. >> when you do make television shows and films you have a lot of material. >> her job is to look behind-the-scenes for the way warner brothers can reduce impact on the environment. her latest project, stage 23, the first green sound stage, harvested lumbar on set and energy efficient lighting from above. >> the perimeter lights, catwalk lights, we have some cooling technology that uses nighttime cooling for the data rooms. so we're really focused on reducing energy use. >> we face a convergence ever cry serks all of which are concern for life. >> sometimes this green message takes center stage on the silver screen in document years like leonardo dicaprio "11th hour." "siriano" was the first film to be climate neutral. >> i try to have the smallest carbon footprint that i can. >> even the stars are playing lead roles in reducing their environmental impact. on the set her crew has barred

time warner hired tim armstrong to turn its struggling aol around.ys later, after tim armstrong has traveled the world talking to aol's clients and employees, he has a plan, focusing in on four main areas. aol's owned and operated like tmz is separating from the ad system across the web. and also hoping to build vacation, taking advantage of the map quest site and the fact there is no leader. and last, expanding communication and messaging technology like instant messaging and icq. >> i think that tim realizes they need to not only improve traffic on their various sites, but also improve the monday at theization about it, i think there is complaints about the availability of the aol sales force to really sell they're unique visitors. >> eagan says while the street value is $1.9 billion, he thinks it's closer to $3.5 billion.n. the possibility of a big payday when aol is spun off has helped armstrong lure a handful of top advertising executives to aol. but even with a new plan and new team in this economy, it will take a while forearm strong to implem

margaret warner has an appreciation. >> warner: "angela's ashes," frank mccourt's memoir of growing up poor in ireland, became a publishing phenomenon. it hit the best seller list in 1996, and remained there for 115 weeks. the book sold more than five million copies worldwide, and made mccourt, a retired new york city schoolteacher, a wealthy man. "angela's ashes" chronicled with wit and compassion what mccourt called his "miserable irish catholic childhood," abandoned by an alcoholic father, losing three siblings to disease and malnutrition, and stealing to support his mother and remaining brothers. our elizabeth farnsworth spoke with mccourt when his book won the pulitzer prize in 1997. she asked him to read an excerpt. >> "i think my father is like the holy trinity with three people in him: the one in the morning with the paper, one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for ireland. i feel sad over the bad thing, but i can't back away from him because the one in the morning is m

mark warner is going to have to weigh in on it. we are all going to have to weigh in on it. my bottom line, though, is that if you have got health insurance right now, you shouldn't suddenly see your costs go up as part of health care reform. ok? good. >> mr. president, i think we are teed up for another video question. >> mr. president, as a physician, i know the cost of defensive medicine drives costs upward. at your health care forum, you said you wanted to find out what works. in my home state of texas, i know what works. unfortunately when you recently told the a.m.a. you were opposed to capping noneconomic damages, even though a state like mine has proven that it does work. will you reaffirm your commitment to finding out what works and ask congress for its implementation? >> i want to make sure everybody understands the question here. a lot of doctors have argued, and in some cases they are justified, that their costs for malpractice insurance, even if it is so high, not only is it increasing out of pocket costs but they're engaging what is called defensive medicine.

dave statter has the story. >> reporter: the only reason paul warner powell was tried a second time was because of a letter he wrote to prosecutors after his original conviction. in it he bragged that he tried to rape stacy reed. powell's original capital conviction was overturned because prosecutors couldn't prove rape or robbery. armed with a letter the capital conviction held up the second time around. but now the supreme court wants to decide whether to hear arguments that this was double jeopardy. >> it is like a bad dream. >> the crime shook the community in 1999. stacy reed murdered and her sister was raped, and had her throat slashed. >> christy reed survived and identified powell. county attorney paul ebert was scheduled to witness the execution tomorrow. now it is on hold. dave statter 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> prosecutor ebert was to be joined at the execution by members of stacy reed's family. >>> a las vegas man is set to be sentenced for sending threatening e-mails to two virginia tech alumni. it happened on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the deadly campus shoo

warner.epsi-cola gave all the stock in k.f.c., pizza hut and tack cobell to the people who own -- and taco bell to the people wh own stock in pepsico. so why should we not do that with general motors and chrysler? we paid for it. we own it. we should give the stock back to all the taxpayers who paid for it on april 15. we should stop this incestuous political meddling with these major american corporations. the only alternatives other than this are to slowly sell down the stock over a period of years, and over that time we'll meddle so much, general motors will never survive. this is the best thing for general motors. it's the best thing for the country. and we have the to reverse this trend of washington take overs of banks and insurance companies and car companies, then this is the simplest thing to do. so i urge my colleagues to vote "yes" on a motion to waive the budget point of order. i thank the president. i yield the floor. mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator

but i think as senator warner and governor kaine would agree, we can't have a system that is relying on three days of free care and 362 days in which people don't have health care. that doesn't make any sense. debbie, thank you for sharing your story. we appreciate you. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, debbie. so many of the questions that are put to you on the video, mr. president, are also very personal. now we are going to take another from the video. >> my mommy and daddy have small businesses, and we need health care. >> i actually have to work for a company so that we can get coverage because my daughter is an automatic i decline, and we are too small of a business to be able to absorb the cost. how can health care reform help us? [laughter] >> as somebody with two daughters, i am a sucker for anybody who uses their daughter in a video. my staff probably knew that. they figured well, he is going to be a soft touch after that one. small business owners are those who are being in some cases hardest hit by the rising cost of health care. and in some cases, they just can't affor

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margaret warner reports >> warner: whington drew an unprecedented gatring today of scores of u.s.ndhinese cabit ministers and their deputies. welcoming them at the nald reagan building,resident obama stessed the importance of this new rategic and economic dialogue beten the two countries. >>> you can't pedict dict with certaintyhat the futureill bring but question be certai about the issues. we als know this, the relaonships between the united states a chin ll shape the 1s cenry which kes it as iortant as any bilateral retionship in the world. that really mu undein our partnership. that is the reonsibility that together we bear. >> the the president said he d no illusion thathe u.s., and cha would agree on every issue, but said that ma ongoing dialoguell the more portant. china's state councir, dai bingguo, also acknowledged differences, but said chinand the u.s. are parers on many fronts, incding dealing with the economic crisis. >> we're actually in t same big boat tt has been hit by fierce wind a huge waves. with our interests interconnected,haring will and woe, what we can do

time warner and the merger fell apart. -- aol bought time warner and the merger fell apart. it certainly has no where near the power it had in those days. one of the interesting things, if you notice when i was explaining the pricing, it was needed pricing. you get so many hours for so many dollars and maybe so many features. just a few years after that, at the world wide web became open to people and came into existence. except for the sea every month for access -- except ofor the fee every month, you are not metered by time or by what you are doing for the most part. this is right at the heart of by a gigantic debate and gigantic business issue right now. >> which is what? >> si issue is if you are producing a service or content like the wall street journal also c-span. -- the issue is if you are producing a service, can you charge people for a? can you sell enough advertising to make your profit cover the cost? there is a big debate. we at the wall street journal are almost alone in taking the points of view that we're doing a mixed model. some things we have our free and

. >>> virginia's democratic senator mark warner and jim webb both voted in favor of the amendment despite pleas from virginia tech victims families. maryland senator ben cardin voted no, and maryland senator barbara mikulski did not vote because of recent ankle surgery. >>> how safe are we on the metrorail? metro says and explain why they have more faulty sensors. jennifer donelan has the story. >> metro has confirmed that the locations where two trains collide it is not the only section of track where they are having problems, the same problems with track sensors. they are critical because they communicate train speed and distance on the tracks and keep trains at a safe distance between each other. metro called the problems leonymously -- at' metro cdal thlee obpr aesnooblima. the thebetw betweese and clarendon, andat theeeebekon twe between takoma and fort totten. metro said the problems were discovered because workers are testing and checking the sensors twice a day instead of once a month checks like they had before the crash. >> it is very similar to instead of waiting 6,000 miles fo

aol bought time warner and the merger kind of fell apart. now, time warner is spinning it off again and it will be reborn in some other way. it certainly has no where near the power that it had in those days. one of the interesting things, you noticed i was explaining the pricing and the pricing was metered pricing. you got so many hours for so many dollars. just a few years after that, the world wide web became open to people and came into existence. except for the fee that you have to pay every month for access, which could be $40 or $50 a month, it is not cheap, the actual use of the content is not metered by time or by what you are doing for the most part. this is right at the heart of a gigantic debate and a gigantic business issue. >> switches? >> if you are producing a service like c-span or nbc or cbs or a big blob or whatever, can you charge people for it? can you sell enough advertising to make your profit cover your costs? there is a big debate. we are almost alone. we are almost alone in doing a mixed model. some things that we h

time warner's ceo had this to say. >> it looks as though the overall dollar is going into the upfront will be down a bit as the clients look for flexibility. we do think they'll come back and we we are seeing in the discussions the clients are well aware they'll have to pay for the flexibility of moving their purchasing. >> many of the names have had significant rallies of late. look at "the new york times." print guides have seen the stock go up. as one executive recently told me just because we're not following off a cliff doesn't mean we're still not hanging on that cliff. if that proves to be true, estimates may be too high and stocks may start to drift lower which is what we're seeing today. >> david faber, thank you. >> a war going on for the future of alternative energy. looks like china is kicking our -- details on the other side of the break. fithe same tools the pros use, so you can be a disciplined trader. by selecting from eight advanced triggers, your order gets executed, even when you're busy. and with trailing stops to help you lock in profits and minimize risk, you can

. >> yeah, the warner theatre on july 21st.when everybody can do a free download from somebody else? >> i think -- i think the first album sold something like 4 million, i have been told. so it is mind-boggling to think two years ago i wouldn't even have dreamed of making a record at all. so, you know, it is incredible what one tv show can do. and i am -- it is difficult to believe some times. >> if people haven't heard you go to you tube and put in paul pittsburgh. you have a web site, paul pots official.com. and that implies that there are a lot of unofficial ones out there. but congratulations. congratulations to you for all of your success. i look forward to your washington tour myself. it should be very interesting. and just keep on singing. >> thanks very much, don. >> thank you very much. paul potts. again he does appear at the warner theatre in washington d.c. on the 21st of july this month. and, again, if you haven't seen him, check out you tube. just go there and put on paul potts. you will be as amazed as you were wi

possible bidders include scripps networks interactive and time warner. the travel channel is valued at up to a billion dollars. cox bought it in 2007. >> susie: here's a look at what's happening tomorrow: weekly jobless claims are out and the national association of home builders releases its july survey. also, quarterly results from harley-davidson, i.b.m., j.p. morgan, marriott and nokia. >> susie: also tomorrow, wal- mart will unveil a new ratings system, but this one isn't for movies or music. instead, it's designed to help shoppers evaluate the social and environmental impact of the products they purchase. but the sustainability ratings won't be in place for a while. first, wal-mart will send questionnaires to thousands of its suppliers asking about water used and carbon-dioxide emissions created in the making of their products. the effort will be rolled out in steps over the next five years and wal-mart hopes other retailers will get on board. >> jeff: recapping today's market action: shares rally on an improved outlook from the federal reserve and

warner brothers said to be furious with reynolds for missing the chance to promote the green lantern at this very important gathering. >>> elsewhere, aren't some things better left alone? is there a big hunger out there for 1959 surf movie gij et? miley cyrus is said to be on board, and reports zac efron will play her love interest into is joan rivers just too cranky for live tv? she dropped an f-bomb again and stormed off a local sacramento show yesterday morning. >>> this comes from wcmh 4 in columbus, ohio, where a century-old tradition took shape out of butter. since 1903 the ohio state fair commissioned a butter cow. this one pays contributory duty butte to the ones who make it possible, the dairy farmers. 1,800 pounds of farmer, a family of farmers, veterinarian and a prized cow standing ready for this year's fair. >>> this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> it is very tropical outside. it feels very muggy. we ma