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Where the government ends up getting more revenue because you have a more die nam -- die nam milk breath. we think we need to pursue that and plenty of democrats agree its high time for tax reform. thats something we might be able to do on a bipartisan basis. you just cant do it quicklily, on the back of an envelope and you cant do it between now and the election. by extending current tax rates wed respond to what chairman bernanke said about having certainty and give us a year to get the job do...

Year, a new report declares that one state is ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to saving lives. >> and that state, my college home state of north carolina, which has a pioneering idea that may reach your neighborhood as well. abcs dr. richard besser has the report. >> reporter: heart doctors have named the enemy. its time. 90 minutes. for some heart attacks if you can get to surgery within 90 minutes, youve cut your chance of dying in half. but thousands dont make it in time. now o...

Have to have "y" capability. they have to have these levels of reader ship and all of the rest of that stuff. this is jacobs talking. my notion of service has nothing at all to do with feeling the force -- feeling the competent force in order to fight the enemy. we can do that. >> theres a lack of civic engagement right now and we see it in the sense of only less than 1 p% of other countries ar in the program. a two-year mandatory service, you know, after high school and a number of different fi...

Get away with anything and that lead to 2007 and 2008. >> i remember covering him in sioux city, can there was not a piece of paper -- >> he was not a reader. >> he didnt read anything. >> you talk to people, it was surprising, he was a skimmer, get top line information. the more you got to know him as a political candidate, the less impressed you got for those of us that covered him. you would stlit and you could tell the coverage of edwards was great at first, and then as reporters watched him...

John edwards in a bad way. he went from a guy that was one of the nicest most genuine humble people in politics to being a ego maniac. he started to believe he could get away with anything and that lead to 2007 and 2008. >> i remember covering him in sioux city, can there was not a piece of paper -- >> he was not a reader. >> he didnt read anything. >> you talk to people, it was surprising, he was a skimmer, get top line information. the more you got to know him as a political candidate, the les...

to earle i start. and im zoraida sambolin. >> lets get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and its expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. its also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnns rob marciano has been trackin...

Can they actually produce, michael, from this meeting that will have a direct effect on how greece deals with its financial problems? >> the pivotal point, really is where the germans can be per swayed to allow expansionary measures in europe, relax those a little bit. so many money is pumped into the system by the european central bank and others. so some of the really tough conditions that have been placed on greece are relaxed a little bit so people can imagine that growth is coming forward. ...

Its fascinating to somebody in the media and as a voter. it is a path to your point, a lot of strategists and people would like to take. it was a real story. >> real story but above the fold, front page story? >> as a reader, not a democrat. i picked up the paper yesterday and i could not go for it. its not the same as time magazine with a 4-year-old breast-feeding his mother. >> 3. >> 3. >> steve rattner? >> we agree it was a story. >> you are saying it didnt belong there. >> hes saying its a s...

Thanks. thats the crowd. unfortunately, theyre a captured audience. >> torres used to sing in a band on the outside, but hes probably better known for being a prolific bank robber. now hes pursuing a literary career working on his autobiography. >> yeah. its "the bank robber blues, the tales of the mummy bandit." its pretty good. ive got a couple guys here. i let them read it, and they are kind of my critics, and they say its a page-turner. it keeps the reader interested. it doesnt take a genius...

They could have offered a first person account of what took place. that seems to me to jump out. the second thing that happened here is that you have a since that these young people not only were they attacked but they had the opportunity, then, once they were attacked to offer the readers a sense of what was the dynamic. how did this take place? explain to the reader. it could have at least been a blurb and a small item in the paper. there was no coverage. it came out only because the columnist...