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good morning to you all. im t.j. holmes. welcome to our viewers watching us in the u.s. and around the world, as we continue to follow a category 1 storm, hurricane irene, that is threatening about 20% of the u.s. population. some 65 million people in its path. it has been hammering north carolina with heavy rains and fierce winds for past several hours. it was just a couple of hours ago that it officially made landfall in north carolina. more than 200,000 people are without power as w...

Nothing really big. plainly i sit at home every night and wish i had a million dollars. that doesnt give me a million dollars. i think in the same way, osama bin laden in his final years was concocting all of these schemes, not that they would ever really come to fruition. >> lets go to a couple points and speculate here. youre the experts, make you can project what you know here. the fact that he wanted an operation to match 9/11, did that take him out of the action, because thats so hard to or...

>> and we make the appropriate notices and take the specific action. >> were there references to specific plots? >> i dont want to get into the details. >> how worried were you about retaliation? >> a couple points. the president said, when he announced the action to the nation last sunday night -- and this is a significant achievement in terms of our ability to defeat the al-qaeda organization, which is a principal counter-terrorism goal of the united states, but as the president said, this is ...

Would have been extremely devastating. can you imagine in the early 80s with the aids epidemic if there was a cap on medicaid. that would have been devastating. people would have literally died. >> so, to the -- >> a couple points -- >> i was going to say, youre a physician as well. but to the concept of taking the medicaid, you know, the medicaid money and making it a block grant to the state , it is a total cap. irrespective of whether or not you go into a recession and more people are thrown ...

Republican nominee is next year. >> you are wrong on a couple points. one, jobs numbers. we have a lot of people coming off the job rolls. they are not looking for jobs. the fact is that people have given up looking for jobs. we have effectively in some areas, 17% to 20% unemployment combined with underemployment. which apply the numbers, thats what we have. indecisiveness plays a large part into consumer confidence and business confidence. when you look at those indices, they continue to drop, ...

Allowing radioactive material from the core to leak out. it could have happened when the hydrogen explosions were occurring. but what does this mean to you? does this make it more likely thats going to be difficult to bring this situation under control? >> yeah. a couple points. number one, we have a relatively high degree of certainty now, given the events of the last couple of weeks, that the reactor fuel pins themselves to a greater or lesser degree, have been compromised. we dont know exactl...

The land where it can be absorbed into ground water, into vegetables, it can be exposed to human beings. do you want this to happen? no. but better out there than on land. >> michael, some of the other big news today. there are these containment structures around the core. and the concern seems to be one of the -- that theres a breach of the containment structure allowing radioactive material from the core to leak out. it could have happened when the hydrogen explosions were occurring. but what ...

Hydrogen explosions were occurring. but what does this mean to you? does this make it more likely thats going to be difficult to bring this situation under control? >> yeah. a couple points. number one, we have a relatively high degree of certainty now, given the events of the last couple of weeks, that the reactor fuel pins themselves to a greater or lesser degree, have been compromised. we dont know exactly the nature, but we know that much of the radioactive iodine, as jim walsh was mentionin...

Do you want this to happen? no. but better out there than on land. >> michael, some of the other big news today. there are these containment structures around the core. and the concern seems to be one of the -- theres a breach of the containment structure allowing radioactive material from the core to leak out. it could have happened when the hydrogen explosions were occurring. but what does this mean to you? does this make it more likely thats going to be difficult to bring this situation under...

Back down. he dropped a couple points in the reuters poll. 64% say on the wrong track. 49% approval. in gallup hes down to 46, drifting downward in all of these polls. theres another number 3.52 the price of a gallon of gas. 10% in the last two weeks. second largest two week jump in gasoline prices. theres a relationship between the presidential approval and gas prices. you layer that over the disaster with the budget and i think the president is going to continue to drift down for a while. >> s...