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Subsidy they got for providing tax benefits, retiree benefits for drugs will no longer be tax deductible and lets put up on the screen, at&t, billion dollar charge, john deere, $150 million charge, caterpillar, $100 million. mar remarks were seeing several areas, in which just in the first week the bill is not living up to the advanced billing. >> first of all, the white house fleedz needs to rally the businesses who will benefit and start talking about. though the polls havent moved in a big wa...

Overhaul the no child left behind education law. the new plan shifts the focus from singling out underperforming schools to rewarding successful reforms. arne duncan says it gives teachers more flexibility and broadens the emphasis beyond math and reading. >> the previous law was too punitive. it was too prescriptive. it led to lowering, or dumbing down the standards and led to a narrowing of the curriculum. we have to reverse all that. we have to have a high bar. we have to reward success, rewa...

Change how we evaluate the performance of our public schools and that means the no child left behind act is in for an overhaul. earlier on cnns" american morning" arne duncan talked about why the white house thinks its time to rework the law. >> the previous law was too punitive, it was too prescriptive and led to a lowering of standards that led to a narrowing of the curriculum. we have to reverse all that, have a high bar, college and career standards for every child. we have to reward success...

Nation, we should take that bottom 5% of schools, schools that are dropout factories, are 60%, 70% of students are dropping out each year and do something dramatically better and do it now with a real sense of urgency. >> one thing you hear parents of public school kids say nowadays is their kids are being taught to the tests. teachers spend too much time teaching to the test. i know your plan wants to change that. how will you measure achievement in the future? >> well, well measure achievement...

We have to have a high bar, high expectations for children. if we can dramatically raise the bar, i promise you our students will work hard and meet those higher expectations. we have to challenge every child to hit their full academic potential. not reducing standards and narrowing standards. the wrong forces have been pushing education the wrong direction. were committed to reversing that. >> i love this theory were going to move from strict reading and writing to a little more career college-...

Fight. >> this will be a tough re-election battle but i just have to tell you, ive run for office many, many times. ive won ten times in a row. and many of those races, many were very difficult. >> reporter: three republicans are vying for the g.o.p. nomination. former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina, state assemblyman chuck devore, and former congressman tom campbell. boxer is pulling ahead of all of them but her lead is narrowing and there is speculation californians could hold boxer account...

Boxer says shes ready for a fight. >> this will be a tough re-election battle but i just have to tell you, ive run for office many, many times. ive won ten times in a row. and many of those races, many were very difficult. >> reporter: three republicans are vying for the g.o.p. nomination. former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina, state assemblyman chuck devore, and former congressman tom campbell. boxer is pulling ahead of all of them but her lead is narrowing and there is speculation californi...

There is really no such thing as a minor heart attack. megyn: they say lab testing revealed evidence of a mild heart attack. he underwent a stress test and heart catheterization. thats done all the time, is it not? >> its to look for the narrowing of vessels. this is what we had last week with president clinton. they can dilae the artery. there are certain chemicals that occur when the heart dies in the blood and you can test for it in the blood to determine whether its a heart attack. so his ch...

Narrowing or perhaps one of the vessels they used for bypass developed a narrowing. the new onset of chest pain told them something altered in his arteries. >> the stents, themselves, theyre tiny litting things. >> theyre small. theyre deployed by balloons that get inflated and stents are embedded into the wall of the artery. like scaffolding. >> what happens now? we heard hes in the recovery room. he appears to be in good spirits as everyone has said. what are they watching for over the next da...

Heart. >> i also have here a device used to put the stent in. he had bypass surgery and he had had a vessel sewn on his aorta and the arteries that are on the surface of the heart. and the problem is the veins that they use for bypass are not perfect con duets and they tend to develop disease more rapidly han typical arteries in a patient. what happened to him was not uncommon. so what they did is went back and fixed the vessel that initially had the blockage. they were able to thread up a thin ...