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Republican leaders are arguing delaying the requirement for businesses to provide insurance is unfair for individuals. we have the latest this morning with elizabeth pran. >> it may impact the way insurance companies charge smokers. to break it down the administration says the computer will not deal with smokers penalty. the discretion to charge a younger smoker penalty than a lifelong smoker is much more expensive. >> because of the way it is structured theres how much variation it can be in ol...

>> what are the concerns then with interviewing those people within that time period from a law enforcement perspective? >> well, the concerns, i think, whether its law enforcement or anything, your primary concern with conducting the interviews is how accurate the information is going to be, has the person been able to reconcile and compartmentalize the event itself and start to accept what has taken place and if they come forward with all of the information. there is always the problem also th...

Implementation of the health care law, this one dealing with the penalty for smokers. >> the way the law works is that inge su inge surers are able to charge people up to 50% for a surcharge. >> they can charge a lifetime smoker -- the law also limits the difference insurers can charge the young versus the old to three to one. and now the administration says its computers cannot deal with any difference in the smokers penalty. >> because of the way the it systems are structures, it limits how mu...

Have 52 patients total. the very first group, the first wave, were ten critically injured patients who came at about 12:30 this afternoon. of -- they were all in critical condition when they arrived and now five are critical and five are upgraded to serious. since that time, we have had additional waves. we had a wave of 17. we had a wave of seven. we have a wave of 18. roughly speaking, they have been in declining degrees of acuity, right? most injured came first. the second two batches, theres...

Congressional budget office estimated they would be. so for example, about $321 a month on average in california. and thats lower. there is variation, as you heard, from state to state. >> why does it vary so much? >> i think a lot of it has to do with where the state was before the exchange started to get set up. so a state like massachusetts, for example, already had a lot of regulations in place. and that helps drive costs down. in a state like wisconsin, there werent a lot of regulations in ...

Of the fighting he was involved in. if thats not going to be on the table, whatever george did shouldnt be on the table, swem. >> what parts of trayvon martins past could come in as evidence? >> this is the variation of the goolsy gander rule. if youre going to let in something for zimmerman, you should let in something for martin. obviously, the only way i can see, and maybe nejame can correct me under florida law, but the only way i can see theyll get in the trayvon martin stuff is if zimmerma...

Background, his past through the table that it brings in what trayvon martin brings to the table all of his violent acts that we know about and some of the fighting he was involved in. if that is not on the table, whatever george did in the background shouldnt be on the table, as well. >> what part of trayvon martins past could come in as evidence? >> this is the variation of the goosy gander rule. if you are going to let in something for zimmerman, you should let in something for martin. obviou...

On one side of the head, would you agree the opposite side of the head would be forced downward? >> it could. >> okay. it could, right? >> it could. >> all right. that would cause an injury just on one side of the skull, correct? >> it could. >> you see this bruising right here, do you not see that swelling? >> no. thats the shape of his head, i think. >> in your opinion, you came to a conclusion that crowning over there is natural? >> yes. thats the parietal area of the scalp. >> im curious why...

Only 2.35 seconds that could to in anyway be considered suitable? i dont mean suitable that it was suitable, but thats what you had to start with to make that decision? >> yes, that was cleanest area that we attempt to do any kind of analysis, not just for scientific but any kind of analysis. >> when you would say you like 30 minutes or up to 3 minutes of speech for analysis, are you talking about normal speech ore screaming speech? >> normal, natural conversational speech. >> why is that? whats...

Offend anybody and basically what they say is some variation of education blah blah blah creating jobs blah blah blah which is morals what she said. so i think that theres a format for this and i think miss teen usa that we saw earlier -- miss teen south carolina did the same thing. education was her go-to default answer on this and i think thats telling that we see that in politics as well. it is just the kind of panacea that we wrap over everything to answer it when it is really not an answer....