you know, the curb ramps that allow disabled people in wheelchairs to move around, well, that came frome americans with disabilities act, which had to be funded by the government. but it originated with people i knew from brooklyn who are antiwar activists who happen to be in wheelchairs, and like the idea of civil rights, skipped across constituencies to them until they said, what about us? then they went to washington, and they sat in and took over buildings in the health department and so on, and locked themselves in like it was civil rights movement. and they refused to leave, and they were arrested and thrown out. a lot of them were injured badly that you don't know what it's like to be turned over by a horse or a policeman when you're in a wheelchair. but the one. now, who remembers? now they have a curb ramp. right? and we step over it or we'll update and are completely unaware that people took great risks and probably risks to their health, risks to their career, may have shortened their allies in fighting for that ramp. and there are many, many examples of this. another favorit

a man in a wheelchair stops a guy suspected of groping a little girl in a toy aisle at a walmart. the suspect tries to make a run for it but a hero tackles the guy into a soda machine. i have the honor of talking to this brave guy, cameron. >>> welcome. this is "prime news." i'm mike galano suspect. a prime news special edition. heroes among us. just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations. let's set up the first scene. a couple asleep, middle of the night. suddenly a car lands right on top of them in their bed. there's the scene. look at that car there. the hot engine fluid pouring down on their faces and they wondered if they would be crushed with any small movement. earlier i had a chance to talk with trent wood. he and his girlfriend were trapped. didn't know if they'd make it out alive. >> let's go through this. middle of the night. you are sound asleep. then what? car on top of you. take us through it. >> yeah it was nuts. just like an hour before that actually happened, i was actually doing a daily news report for one of my classes. and i went to bed and then

can they handle hundreds of crutches and wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs coming in at once? >> we are going to need that. heather knows they are in the acute phase of things. amputations are still being performed, larry. the wound has too heal, the swelling has to go down. eventually the prosthetic gets fit but that could be a few weeks from now still. there are several different organizations which have been performing these amputations. there are so many of them. we are standing outside a swiss tent in the partners of help and mt. sinai in new york. there are so many organizations doing this. it is going to be a little time we are in that phase but it is coming, no doubt. >> larry: heather, i know you did this historically on our show. i would appreciate it if you did it again. will you show us your limb so people around the world can get an idea of how they will be helping. >> this is actually the kind of limb that we need to find to donate but like sanjay said, i'm fully aware they are not going to need the limbs for weeks. but it takes weeks to coordinate and donate and

it's hard to get around in wheelchairs in port-au-prince. you need to be able to walk. with this amputation he needs help with the prosthetic device. how is port-au-prince going to deal with in? it's going to be very, very tough. the infrastructure is going to change completely. they're going to be known for amputations and at the didn't do a good job of taking care of people with disabilities before this. this will need a lot of focus with the help of heather and a lot of other people. >> we salute you again and call on you again. it's physiciansforpeace.org. >> lease get in touch and help us. anything medical would be great. also one last thing larry before you go. >> larry: quickly. >> one last thick. a anyone who wants to volunteer, we do a two-week rotation which won't you take you away from your patients. >> larry: thank you. we'll keep in touch on your process and check back, of course, with dr. gupta. thank you very much. the wilkins family was in the process of adopting a haitian boy when the earthquake hit. we told you their story last week. little samuel is i

can they handle hundreds of crutches and wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs coming in at once? >> reporter: well, you know, that's a good question. they're certainly going to need that. whether now exactly is the right time, i think as heather knows, they're in the acute phase of things. amputations are still being performed, larry. it takes some time after an amputation is performed. the wound has to heal and the swelling has to go down. eventually the prosthetic gets fit. that can be a few weeks from now still. i think there's several different organizations which have been performing these amputations. there's been so many of them, larry. we're standing outside a swiss tent right now with the partners in health organization, mt. sinai, there's so many different organizations doing this. it will be a little bit of time before we're in that phase, but it's coming no doubt. >> larry: heather, i know you did this historically on our show once. i would appreciate it if you did it again. would you show us your limb so that people around the world can get an idea of how they'll be

if he can't get around port-au-prince, it's hard to get around in wheelchairs so you need to be able to walk. with this amputation he needs help even with the prosthetic device. how is port-au-prince going to be able to deal with this? it's going to be very, very tough. the infrastructure is going to change completely. this is going to be a country that's known for amputations. and they didn't do a good job, frankly, before all this taking care of people with different disabilities. this will need a lot of focus with the help of heather and a lot of other people. >> larry: heather, we salute you again. we'll be calling on you again. it's physiciansforpeace.org. >> that's it. please get in touch and help us. anything medical would be great. also one last thing, larry, before you go. >> larry: quickly. >> one last thing before you go. any pros thetists who want to volunteer, please contact physiciansforpeace.org. we do a two-week rota system that won't take you away from your own practice. >> larry: thank you. christa, we'll keep in touch with you on your process and check back, of cou

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it's a category that includes everything from wheelchairs to diabetes test strips. and it used to be very appealing to criminals because it was relatively easy to set up a fake storefront. all you had to do really was rent a room, put some equipment on the shelves, get a phone line and you were set. but in the last year we've made it a lot harder for crooks to run this scam. first, we're conducting many more random visits across the country. second, we created a new mandatory accreditation process for durable medical equipment providers. so now before you become a medicaid/medicare provider you have to go through a rigorous third-party review where we make sure you have the correct licenses, the correct insurance and enough business capital. the days when you could just hang out a shingle and start billing medicare are over. third, we've required suppliers to post a $50,000 bond so if we do catch them committing fraud, at least we're guaranteed to recover some of their illegal gains right away. these are just some of the steps we're taking to prevent catch, prosecut

here's one, we didn't talk about all the features of the policy, but this wheelchair tax stuck in my draw. the idea that you're going to tax a wheelchair, the mental picture of that doesn't seem to be what we want to do. we're looking for places to dig for money to pay for this big government system, so we're going to impose a 2.5% excise tax on medical devices to try to raise money. mr. thompson: i've seen where these medical devices, not just wheelchairs, but insulin pumps, crutches, cains, it is prosthetic -- canes, it is prosthetic limbs, there are so many things this applies to. this 2.5% excise tax, that's going to get pass aid long to consumers. think about most of the consumers who utilize these medical devices are older adults. they're individuals on very fixed incomes, those who are surviving on maybe $8,000 $1,00 a month of social security. the very things that maximizes their independence, maximizes their quality of life, we're going to tax that? that's a quality of life tax, actually. because people who use those medical devicesing they are medically necessary. they're n

and he would come to the white house and he was not very mechanically minded and he blocked his wheelchair is the nightmare of all of this. world war doesn't bother most presidents but that does so find yourself locked in the cabinet room when he want to be in the oval office. yes, mr. roosevelt, we are going to let you out an minute triet he was in the first day of the white house he couldn't make the thing work. he was trapped and there was nobody there and he called for help and help didn't come, and finally he yelled and somebody came to rescue him and mind you he had only been in the white house about one day and there he was locked in his chair, and so he said the next store was the navy department in the old executive building and he said he was a navy man who always to the end of his life he said get me somebody from the media to look after this thing. he had good expletives, too. he was a terrifying man. his head was this big and it went that way, too so you never knew which side you had coming at you. and so there he was waiting to be rescued and they got a kid from the navy depa

look how tight it is for the wheelchairs to come in that way.20,000 to 40,000 people have it in the country, kind of like osteoporosis for your whole life but a lot more complicated. fourth of four children. i was pretty much expected to do what else everybody else did but according to my brother not as many chores. i had to have rods put in my leg bones for an infrastructure. having a family that was able to deal with it helped a lot. having really great medical care helped a lot. i'm retired on disability because i'm too sick to work. now i'm back on medicare through social security. have them on stage. i still have a limit on how much i can make so i don't own any property because i'm not allowed to. my car is also my parents' car. let's get in places. if i start doing well i get nervous because am i going to lose my benefits? i seriously believe if you want them to be a useful part of the society you need to have medical care that you don't have to worry about having. clearly if you want people in general to be a useful part of society, they

that's who the people they have to focus on initially as opposed to 88-year-old women from sweden in wheelchairs. >> all right, steve emaerson, appreciate you coming in always. thanks so much. see you soon. >> sure. >>> police in northwest pakistan say a suicide bomber who killed 96 people at a volleyball tournament apparently was exacting revenge. that new year's day bomb attack took place in a village that was trying to resist infiltration by the taliban. the explosion happened right near a meeting of elders who had set up an anti-taliban militia. pakistan's minister is vowing to abolish taliban trying to deflate the country. >>> rush limbaugh's heart tests so she did not have a heart attack and show nothing wrong. the conservative radio talk show host was released from the hospital after being admitted wednesday from suffering severe chest pains. doctors say they don't know what caused his pain. >> i wish i knew what it was. all people can do is make wild guesses about it. best guess was it might have been a spasm in an artery, but this angiogram showed literally know heart disease or arteria

screening and hopefully they'll see it as necessary rather than hoisting grandmas out of their wheelchairsthe airport when i've seen grandmothers or infirm people asked to stand up out of the wheelchairs, as well as babies out of strollers, when, come on, this is why people want profiling, you don't need a baby who's being lugged by both of his parents with toddlers in tow to get out of their stroller. you need somebody who has a strange stamp on the passport or acting strangely to go in and have the thorough secondary screening and also following the days on the 253 fleet we found that one of the master minds of the plot was a guantanamo bay detainee released in 2007 and sent to what you might call jihad or terrorist therapy in saudi arabia. we're finding out this morning exactly the cushy conditions that expect. apparently go from water boarding one day to watercolors the next? >> all in an effort they say at this terrorist reconditioning center to get in touch with your feelings, to get rid of the jihady feelings in your body, watercolor, painting, playing video games, perhaps racquetfa

, always in a wheelchair. he had been hurt for two years in the insurance company said, you are at your limit. you're on your own. five years he has been on his own in it has been a real struggle. people out there are terribly angry at the banks, angry at wall street. can you imagines at this time when people are trying to hang on to their homes in trying to find a job that wall street has decided that they are going to do about $120 billion in bonuses? so health care is a problem but it is certainly more than that. the election shows that american people want us to work together to solve problems. [unintelligible] >> to answer his question? >> first of all, we are not going to rush into anything. as you have heard, we are going to wait until the new center of arrives before we do anything more on health care. remember, the bill we passed and the senate is good for a year. there are many different things that we can do to move forward on health care but we're not making any of those decisions now. if there was

, always in a wheelchair. he had been hurt for two years and the insurance company said, you are at your limit. you're on your own. five years he has been on his own and it has been a real trouble. people out there are terribly angry at wall street. can you imagine that this time when people are trying to hang on to their homes and trying to find a job that wall street has decided they are going to do about $120 billion in bonuses? so health care is a problem, but it is certainly more than that. the election shows that the american people want us to work together to solve problems. [unintelligible] >> first of all, we're not going to rush into anything. as you have heard, we are going to wait until the new senator arrives before we do anything more on health care. remember, the bill we passed in the senate is good for a year. there are many different things that we can do to move florida on health care but we are not making any of those decisions now. if there was one message that i got from the leadership mee

and this wheelchair, the ibot.u can spin, you can stand six feet tall. >> you fight with somebody in one of these, you're going to be the one that goes down. >> reporter: what do you think of what's going on with health care right now? the whole health care debate? >> well, sadly, i think it's a debate that has so polarized two sides that there's not a lot of common sense being said by anybody. >> there does seem to be this inherent skepticism or cynicism even about big companies and big government, to some extent as well. if you had a moment with president obama and he was collecting all of these opinion on health care now, just have a couple of moments, what would you say to him? because he wants to spend less and get more. that's what he's saying. >> i would say, mr. president, i think that there's no investment, no stimulus package, nothing you could do that would have a better return collectively to the country, to our companies and to our citizens than to put more resources into finding really good sustainabl

get is going to be be made up in part from a new tax or adecisional tax on prosthetic devices and wheelchairs. the people who need help have to pay high taxes for those things because you're giving a $60 billion break to the unions. so madam speaker, i'm not going to talk for the whole five minutes, i want to make this point very, very clear, i hope my colleagues back in their offices are listening as well. there's a message being sent to members of congress. there's a message being sent to the senators across the capitol. it is that people want honest, fair government. they don't want a socialist government. they don't want the government controlled by -- they don't want the congress to be controling their lives. they don't want the doctors they go to see on a regular basis have a bureaucrat in between them and the patient. in short, they don't want that health care bill. and they certainly don't want more taxes. and they certainly don't want members of the senate and house being bought off by bribes being given to them by the leadership in order to get their vote on this health care bill. r

many of the survivors have had limbs amputated and have not received wheelchair's or prosthesis. there are hundreds of thousands of people who need temporary but extended housing and even more who need to get food and water every day. the united nations security force has been working well. i think the americans have done a good job. the government of haiti has asked the united states to manage the flow at the airport. there are 800 to 1000 planes trying to land there. on the day before the earthquake, only 10 or 12 airplanes landed at the airport. now they land more than 100 a day, on a big, one-runway airport. they are managing it well. there are serious, and that food and water needs. part of it is the distribution system does not exist. the government was devastated by the earthquake. the united nations suffered its worst loss of life on a single day in the history of the un . but the airport has become the de facto operations center of this relief effort. and the haitian government is building up offices there so everybody can be in one place and work on a daily basis. the i

here you have a child demonstrating what it looks like to ride a wheelchair. there's other areas that teach children about prosthetics. if you don't have use of your arms, what could you use to open a doorknob. we also have an area where children can type their name in braille. they can learn american sign language. they can also write a hand pedaled bike. >> great learning tool for kids. thank you for joining you. >>> accessibility is at port discovery on marketplace and it's there through january 24th. for more information log on to >>> 2009 ended with more murders in baltimore than last year, but still significantly lower than recent years. as 201 2010 gets underway, the police department is putting things in place to ensure that the numbers go down. commissioner bealefeld joins us this morning. >> good morning. >> are you satisfied with last year's numbers? >> no, i shouldn't have this job if i'm satisfied with the numbers. i'm proud of the work that the men and women did, but i think we could do better. >> the numbers are down in comparison to many years

many of the survivors have had limbs amputated and have not received wheelchair's or prosthesis. there are hundreds of thousands of people who need temporary but extended housing and even more who need to get food and water every day. the united nations security force has been working well. i think the americans have done a good job. the government of haiti has asked the united states to manage the flow at the airport. there are 800 to 1000 planes trying to land there. on the day before the earthquake, only 10 or 12 airplanes landed at the airport. now they land more than 100 a day, on a big, one-runway airport. they are managing it well. there are serious, and that food and water needs. part of it is the distribution system does not exist. the government was devastated by the earthquake. the united nations suffered its worst loss of life on a single day in the history of the un . but the airport has become the de facto operations center of this relief effort. and the haitian government is building up offices there so everybody can be in one place and work on a daily basis. the i

least 200,000 others have been injured, many of them have had limbs amputated and have not received wheelchairs nor prosthesis and there are hundreds of thousands of people who need temporary but extended housing and even more who need food and water every day. the united nations, the united nations security force, as i said, has been working well. i think the americans have done a good job, the government of haiti has asked the united nations to manage the flow at the airport while there are 800 to 1,000 planes trying to land there, you should know that on the day tpwhever earthquake, only 10 or 12 planes landed at the port-au-prince airport, now they land more than 100 every day on basically a big, one-runway airport. they are managing it well. there are serious unmet food and water needs and part of it is just the distributional system does not exist. the government of haiti was devastated by the earthquake, the united nations suffered its worst loss of life on a single day in the history of the u.n., but the airport has become the de facto operation center of this relief effort. the haitian

there's a little granny in a wheelchair. she is not the most wanted terrorist in america. do iing to geto the terrorist is right. what they're doing to everybody else is an overreaction. >> this is my concern with some of these things. when you walk through, they're doing this -- in some airports they're doing this whole -- like an x-ray scan on you. a lot of people being interviewed says as long as it took us safe. i'm very sensitive to x-rays because of what that gives off, whatever kind of radiation. >> i wouldn't worry about a radiation in your case. best jobs in america, x-raying you in the morning. >> but think if you're the person. how many times do you seriously want to get an x-ray on your body? let's say they go through and make you go through again or you're a frequent traveler? to me, the nigerian guy bought his ticket in cash, didn't check any bags, was a list, his dad called up and complained about him. >> his dad said my son is a nuter and wants to kill everyone. how did he get on a plane? >> right. focus on that as opposed to we're going to take every mary

it got so popular that we have well over 1000 residents from a woman in wheelchair that was coming outking buses to get there, to six and seven year- old. with christmas parties, hanukkah party. we would gather in a grudge and then go out. people as far away as california came to do night patrols with us. sarah silverman can out and did night patrols with us. it made a difference. i do not know what your strategy is that is going to work in your city, but the point is that we can always do more. as my residence should hold the account to, because we were down to -- down 46%. but we had a 55-year-old woman killed by stray bullet this year. one shooting of an innocent citizen is way too much. daly disciplined analysis of the numbers, holding everyone to account within the organizations that you control. the second thing is bringing people together who are not used to working together, whether it is law firms, philanthropist, or whether it is community members. if you're willing to do the things other people will not do, you'll always get the results that other people do not get. it is as

many of the survivors have had limbs amputated and have not received wheelchair's or prosthesis. there are hundreds of thousands of people who need temporary but extended housing and even more who need to get food and water every day. the united nations security force has been working well. i think the americans have done a good job. the government of haiti has asked the united states to manage the flow at the airport. there are 800 to 1000 planes trying to land there. on the day before the earthquake, only 10 or 12 airplanes landed at the airport. now they land more than 100 a day, on a big, one-runway airport. they are managing it well. there are serious, and that food and water needs. part of it is the distribution system does not exist. the government was devastated by the earthquake. the united nations suffered its worst loss of life on a single day in the history of the un . but the airport has become the de facto operations center of this relief effort. and the haitian government is building up offices there so everybody can be in one place and work on a daily basis. the i

it is a category that includes everything from wheelchairs' to diabetes test strips.ling to criminals because it was relatively easy to set up a fake storefronts. you had to rent a room and put equipment on the shelves and get a phone line and you were set. in the last year, we have made it harder for crooks to run the scam. first, we are conducting more random visits across the country. we having a mandatory accreditation process for durable medical equipment providers. before you become made medicare provider, you have to go through a rigorous third party review. we make sure you have the correct licenses, the correct insurance, and in that business capital. the days when you could just hang out a shingle and start billing medicare are over. third, we require suppliers to post a $50,000 bond. if we do catch them committing fraud, at least we are guaranteed to recover some of their illegal gains right away. these are just some of the steps we're taking to prevent, catch, prosecute, and discourage defrosterfraudsters. our goal is to make the chances of getting caught

he joined the band playing the trumpet while his father pushed his wheelchair through the marching routines. patrick is an inspiration to so many around him. when asked about the challenges they have faced, patrick's father said he now asks, what did we do to deserve such a special young man who's brought us so, so much? and for both of these stories, there are hundreds of others that remain untold, hundreds of lives that may never have been where it not for those who continue to stand on behalf of the unborn. so, first, i want to thank those who are coming tomorrow to visit and march for life. now, at this time i'd like to yield to my colleague from ohio, jean schmidt, who is part of the pro-life caucus. ms. schmidt: i'd like to talk about this issue and not only say this is the 37th anniversary of one of the most darkest days in the u.s. history, but to talk about the ramifications of what that act did. to give you a little history, the pro-life movement actually began in cincinnati, ohio, and it began before 1974 in a little place called college hill by folks by the name of barbara and j