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Died. mary kay letourneau, convicted of raping a 12-year-old student, later marrying him. he was by her side as she died. deborah roberts on that tonight. and the tropical threat we're watching along the east coast this evening, as it closes in on the carolinas and then the northeast. we have the possible track. good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. we do have a lot to get to. and we begin tonight with those new images, hospitals under siege. icus overflowing tonight. and they are the kind of images that reminded us today of what we saw here in new york...

The system over decades. great countries don't break their major promises to their citizens. so as far as i'm concerned under all circumstances we're going to live up to that promise. i think the way we're going to end up doing it is by raising the limit at which people are paying into the system so that there's more money, so that we'd avoid the default. but let me say this system would not be in default if, in fact, the surpluses that existed for decades had been saved and invested. so, in fact, i don't think there's any question but we absolutely have to live up to our word to seniors. ther...

And while we were having to hold people longer in our custody take the best care that we could to them to create more room for them and then for example also deployed an unprecedented level of medical support for example. today over 200 physician assistants, nurse practitioners all along the southern border to make sure that these very vulnerable populations who continue to be exploited by criminal elements are being cared for while they are in our custody. >> we just cut august numbers of u.s. border patrol southwest border apprehension and those numbers are down. take a look, august 25th dow...

Government has expressed concern over migrant families being held together for long periods of time. what do you say to the government they are? >> what i would say is again what history has shown us is we have to make sure we are being intellectually honest. we are not holding kids families indefinitely. we are only going to hold them long enough to go to the immigration process and history has shown us when we did this in the previous administration, the same exact thing we are talking about was about 40 to 60 days. >> sandra: as far as mexico stepping up to help stem this crisis as well, i ...

Out thinking i'm getting some free money, i might as well go out and have some fun. >> dana: that's one of the reasons you talk about a tax cut, so you can give consumers back their own money. it's also because they earned it. payroll taxes for medicare, 2.9% with no gap, additional 9% over $200,000. that's just for medicare. i think we have that up here. all for social security. that's up 12.4% for up to $132,000. so if the government 2004 actually address the payroll tax, that's going to people who are not earning. that's not just a tax cut for the rich. >> that is absolutely correct. this i...