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The 25% increase in maryland you mentioned. and an 18% increase in premiums in rhode island. regulators will review all these, state regulators, and they are not expected to approve increases this high. but blue cross satisfactory says it needs to cover higher costs in even judge and obamas mandates to expand accs to who certain people and provide certain benefits. >> all policies will have to meet a minimum set of benefits that is tprar broader tha far broader than what many people are purring ...

>> thanks to both of you. checking the news feed this morning, new developments in the steubenville rape case. grand jury selection today to consider if more charges should be filed. last month a judge sent two high school football players to a juvenile detention center in the rape of a 16-year-old girl last year. the grand jury will investigate if anyone knew about the rape and didnt report it and how dozens of teens who attended the party before the attack were able to get beer. space moun...

Not being awareed of the confusion, surrounding the write-in candidate that won. the vice president office said, "we regret the error." the state regulators spent month waiting for word from the federal government about the insurance exchanges at the heart of obamacare. tonight, chief national correspondent jim angle reports a major bottleneck that could send the healthcare law to the supreme court. >> that have states have been reluctant how to comply with the healthcare law. 17 flatly rejected...

>> in the last 90 days, obama administration proposed 6,000 new regulations to impact everything from the private property to your religious freedom. it comes from the environmental protection agency. today, the epa role from the logging trails in oregon was front and center at the supreme court. where logging industry representatives argue that overregulation could cost them millions. >> loss of jobs with a million people employed by the industry. >> environmentalists argue epa has role for pro...

role at the republican national convention? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we begin with mitt romneys preparations for what may be the most crucial week of his presidential campaign. with several new polls out including our own showing him losing ground to president obama, romney begins a bus tour on saturday through four swing states he absolutely needs to win. but hes still traveling without a running mate. dana bash is here in "the situation room" taking a closer ...

That was not the only oil spill in wisconsin this month. a truck spilled 54,000 gallons of west. it got into wells that people use for drinking water, although they wont be doing that anymore. all this happening while state regulators try to get accountability from people who spilled coal ash into lake michigan back in october. energy companies are good at making money. theyre bad at cleaning up their mistakes. because theyre so good at making money, it can be difficult to trust what theyre tell...

The name of the company that owned the pipeline is enbridge. the federal government fined enbridge more than $3 million, which is roughly lunch money for a company with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions. two years after enbridges disaster on the kalamazoo river, two years almost to the day, look at whats happened now. another enbridge pipe has burst. this time in wisconsin. the spill happened on friday in a field. the "milwaukee journal sentinal" reporting, quote, one horse and one cow ...

Speculators. if you do that do you lower gas prices? >>guest: this has been studied before, and there have been, and my trading commission did a report in 2008 and concluded it had little impact. state regulators have looked, and warren buffett has said it is a function of supply and demand. that is what drives the price of oil in the world, a global commodity and the president is trying out some of the same old lines he has used before but dill not lower the price per gallon of gasoline for ame...

Martha: 24 minutes past the hour now, and reports of a confession after those deadly shootings in tulsa, oklahoma, last week. jake england and alvin watts allegedly targeting five victims because they were african-american. three people were killed in those shootings. and jury selection expected to end today in the trial of a man accused of murdering singer and actress jennifer hudsons family. william balfour is charged with killing hudsons mother, brother and nephew back in 2008. and this q...

Regulators as simply online gaming. is that online gaming? >> it seems to me it is. and this issue has been addressed by state regulators who in the past before it suddenly exploded, they said what are these products and do they -- should they be prohibited. its not a crazy thought. i think dick is on to something. he and i have had our battles in the past, but i think here he is exactly right. what hes really saying is if these products dont serve a purpose, get rid of them. >> what do you thin...