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My abwill i have pain andating made daibloating today?ing game. my doctor recommended ibgard to manage my ibs. take control. ask your doctor about nonprescription ibgard. boy scouts. they will admit girls and allow them to earn eagle scout status. joining me now is the chief scout executive for boy scouts are america. thank you so much for being here. this announcement caused a little confusion yesterday. you heard people saying how can girls be boy scouts? >> it's great to be with you. scouting has served girls for over 40 years in a variety of programs. traditionally cub scouting and boy sco...

Presented. that's wrong. even when delegates spoke with dissenting viewpoints, it was a blob of people coming out and mostly for the proposal and not against. it was disappointing the way they went about doing this. >> we're running out of time. i want a quick up or down from both of you on this. a lot of talk about what this is going to do with membership. membership is down 20% since 1999. zach, to you first. does this increase or decrease membership or do neither? >> i think that we'll see some folks like john walk away from the program. we're not excited about that. we want boy scouting to...

I was sitting there and saw firsthand the impact when a young man from the washington, d.c. area realized that tomorrow was not going to be his last day in the boy scouts. he's going to be able to get his eagle scout. it's not going to change anything for the other kids in this his troop. they'll have another great eagle scout in their ranks and support the troop in everything that they do. >> at this point even after this vote, the boy scouts will maintain the ban on openly gay adult leaders. there was not a vote on that. john, to you. so the first rule of boy scouting is that a scout should ...

2010 national jamboree. the 10-day event is celebrating 100 years of scouting. >> joining us live from fort a.p. hill army base in virginia, "fox & friends" weekend anchor alisyn camarata bright and early. i see it's a beautiful day out there, at least it looks like it. hey, alisyn. >> yeah, it is. no, it's a beautiful day. perfect for this jamboree they're having. hey, guys. great to see you this morning. the anticipation is building here because in just two hours, 50,000 boy scouts from all over the country will be descending here on fort a.p. hill army base and we've been watching as some o...

Vehicle and lotteater, they sai they saw a vehicle, and the afghan government says they have been contacted by insurgency in that area, offering to make an exchange saying they in fact have the two u.s. sailors and the u.s. military is not officially commenting or has not confirmed the taliban has the missing sailors and there is another mission soldier, who went missing last june and there are three known service members that appear to be missing in afghanistan and the u.s. military says they are doing everything they can to find all three of them. julie? >> julie: connor powell, thank you ve...