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Retirement community, where cases and hospitalizations are on the rise. and tonight, with the nationwide demand for testing and fast results at an all-time high, public health officials in connecticut confirm 90 people received false positives, many of them nursing home residents, due to a flaw in their testing system. theyre now reaching out to impacted patients. across the country, 39 states reporting an increase in hospitalizations. some pushed to the brink. in hidalgo county, texas, patients...

Wait for president trump to push these promises forward and for them to come to fruition? at what point do some of those voters now who support him start to turn? >> couple of things, i hope he doesnt pay attention to polls that were wrong before. but even more so, i want him to govern. hes got three and a half years before the election. we need a president whos going to lead and not worry about every decision, whether he polls popularly or not. i hope he will not even worry about the polls. a l...

That and shocked at the same time. >> and the other thing is we need to see a natural gas storage integrity system nationwide. we had some explosions and we ended up with a good set of regulations for natural gas transportation. weve got no reasonable regulations for natural gas storage. this is 60-year-old pipe. theyve removed the safety valves. and the testing system is not designed to find anomalies in the pipe, just find where its already leaking, not where it might leak. so weve got technol...

We started looking at athletics. welooking largely at football and baseball because thats where the evidence took us. but what we came away with with a is a sense of this cat and mouse game between chemists, pharmacists, doctors, who are real experts at doping, who are helping athletes to evade the testing system. and i think thats the biggest challenge for the sporting authorities. >> well have to leave it at that. a very explosive report there, thank you very much for your insight. well be rig...

Year. at wisconsin, if you get caught youre basically put on probation and then kentucky and michigan state it is sort of in the middle there, and thats just the simplest thing. they also have all kinds of other elements of a really good testing system that just dont exist, and not just those four schools, it is a wild crap shoot all the way across college sports. >> whos your team who you got monday? >> im going to go with wofford. i cant do that. okay. i had that lined up. no listen it is not ...

Launched. "washington post" is reporting the obama administration waited until late october to put the performance tests in place, that was after the web sites rollout, after users were seeing error messages. the facts as you have gathered while reporting this story, elise, does it sound like there was a lot of warning? >> there wasnt a lot of warning, and frankly the obama administration struggled in the weeks leading up to the rollout to find an accurate testing system that would enable them...

Steroids. a lot of players do it. when andy pettitte was caught, he said yeah, i did it, i had an swrof season injury. i took something to heal faster. nobody faulted the guy at all for it. and you look at ryan braun and a-rod and all of these other clowns. its just unfortunate they didnt go the pettitte way. >> yeah. well, they parse words. they play semantic games. and in the case of braun, he denied it over and over. and so aggressively. he came out in that sound bite we showed earlier, that ...

To go into graduate school youll have an advanced test, g-mat or other test and find throughout your life there are going to be tests. we complain about them. i complained about them when i was a student and we dont like tests but theres no other way we found out to determine whether a student is succeeding or not succeeding or teacher succeeding or not succeeding. i dont have a better model than saying were going to evaluate our kids than through a better testing system. we had this graduation ...

They have to retain, upscale, they need to go back and get an education but college is really, really expensive these days as we all know. getting more expensive recall the time. and somebody who is working with children in a job they cant go move into a dorm for four years and go to colle like the traditional person. at the same time, they probably learned a lot during their career. rather than having them start from scratch and earn all those credits in a college class, what im saying is we ou...

Community and its the citys jobs program city officials say its a balancing act to tap into the free labor without angering organized labor, jon? >> dan springer in seattle, thanks, dan. major league national league baseball ryan braun says my name has been dragged throughout club. reversed suspension for positive drug test the first in the league. he tested positive for elevated testosterone highest ratio ever recorded in baseballs testing program. he appealed the decision and yesterday he won....