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Which cant be good for the back. i realized before this day started this work would be hard. what i didnt realize is how monotonous would be. these people do it six days a week. ive never looked at my watch so much. and its not even lunchtime yet. delicious grapes. hot off the vine. the afternoon goes slower than the morning. ben stays on top of me to get rid of the green grapes. two and a half hours after we started, our final load of grapes. this is the last. its quitting time. and theres mass...

Care resonates with voters more than skin color. >> i represent everybody. and i work hard for people to give them an opportunity. and i just think that race should not be an issue in 2010. >> in the final 100 days before election day, cnn is profiling one race at random each day from among the nations top 100 house races. we have dubbed them the cnn 100. check out all the races, including the tennessee congressional race you just saw profiled there by logging onto cnn.com/politicalticker. che...

On the market that has problems. >> well, it turns out, its certainly not unique to the iphone 4. that was one of the first things we learned. you could go on youtube and see videos of nokia phones, motorola phones and other phones doing this same thing. nobody ever looked at them much before. frankly, we didnt trust them either. >> shannon: well, apple tends to keep matters like this out of the public eye, so for them to hold a press conference about this speaks to how seriously theyre taking i...

Sleep. its approved a new mandatory set of standards for cribs, they include a ban on drop-sided models. the faulty cribs are blamed for 36 deaths since 2007. 429,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, a big drop from the previous week and the lowest level since august of 2008. cnn.coms poppi harlow joins us from new york. the numbers are still high. >> the headline on this report is, yes, the claims were down from the week before. the bottom line on this report is th...

He had been in town for four days from kentucky waiting on a permit. then he told our contacts the army corps shut down for the weekend so is he was left in limbo. >> did you try reaching out to the army corps this weekend? >> we sure did. weve been calling the army corps of engineers since 7:00 p.m. for four days we called we e-mailed, we called their people in washington, d.c., we called their people in new orleans. then we finally just drove over to one of their offices in new orleans today. ...

Video of an oily tide coming in and staining the sand red. all of it has left people calling the last couple days the lost 4th of july weekend. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans. >> a shift in weather patterns the next few days could send more oil toward louisiana and alabama. chad myers joins us now from the weather center in atlanta with a look at the forecast. >> its good to see you. back out here in the pacific and into the atlantic ocean. two completely different weather patterns. cold water o...

The nations worst oil spill keeps bringing misery. the authorities have confirmed that a small number of tar balls in galveston texas did in fact come from a ruptured bp well. the oil just keeps moving on. as randi kaye reports, there is no letup in sight. >> reporter: our talented folks at cnn.com put together this animation. you can see how the oil spill has moved and grown in size. this interactive map tracks the oils activity from may 7th all the way through today. you can see how it hits di...

Dealing with. >> yeah, thats what just washed up on my feet. this is terrible, guys. >> reporter: over the july 4th holiday weekend lots of folks werent able to use their beaches because of the oil. a health advisory was issued for pensacola beaches. an ireporter showed us this video of an oily tide coming in and staining the sand red. all of it has left people all along the gulf coast calling the last couple of days the lost 4th of july weekend. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans. >> a shift in weath...

Another ireport from pensacola beach shows what people are dealing with. >> thats what washed up on my feet. this is terrible, guys. >> reporter: over the july 4th holiday weekend lots of folks werent able to use their beaches because of the oil. a health advisory was issued for pensacola beaches. an ireporter showed us this video of an oily tide coming in and staining the sand red. all of it has left people calling the last couple days the lost 4th of july weekend. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans....

And you have to say -- you have to empower yourself to say stop, you look like a very nice, clean person. but really, i would appreciate it if you would wash your hands. >> and if youre a little tim mid in this area, this is a woman who can help you here, get your confidence up uchlt got a whole empowered patient segment on cnn.com. >> thats right, cnn.com/empoweredpatient. and thats what im here for is to teach people how to be empowered patients, because the medical system is not going to take...