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Strength as well. also, a new tropical depression taking shape right on its heels so a lot of different weather going on today. meteorologist janice dean will have all the latest on this coming right up. jon: it is the most serious fighting in lebanon since 2008. hours long street battles, right in the middle of beirut, the city that used to be called the paris of the middle east. several people killed, the army called in, the simple dispute that witnesses say sparked the worst violence there in years. we're live in that part of the world. the divorce is final. ein woods is now breaking her ...

Street battles erupted overnight. two groups are fighting each other, using machine guns and even a rocket-propel -- even rocket-propelled grenades. at least four will dead -- four are dead so far and you know what touched this off? reported letraffic dispute. lelland, do things seem to be under control? >> >> reporter: it's late afternoon in this part of the world, jon, and yes, things seem to be calmer in beirut but this latest violence shows what a tinder box that city is. you've got three main groups, the lebanese army, hezbollah and a sunni militia. hezbollah is by far the most powerful a...

Huh, i think that guy looks like an illegal alien. that's not it. it is somebody gets stopped for something. red-light violation, drunken driving, called in -- domestic dispute. they get there and for -- and the reasonable expect tiation h is people would have some sort of identification. >> that's the next point i want to make with you, is that this is -- could this lead to a national i.d. system which respectfully sure sounds like a government takeover to me. >> well, and it's something i think most conservatives don't want either. only thing you have to do, ed, all of this could be settled ...

Call-in shows on c-span. a gentleman called in, and he was very, very emotional. he said to me that he was getting ready to have transplant surgery. but he was told, by the hospital that because he's on medicare that his postoperative treatment was going to be limited to three years. after that, he'll have to find some way to pay. this man was very emotional today. what we're doing here fixes that, and i do believe that we ought to really be honest with the american people. we talk about what we are doing with medicare, we're trying to make sure that medicare is there for that man and so many ...

Know what they need for themselves, but i was reminded of that when we talked about putting together restaurant owners who will design plans for their members. i would hope that when we start designing plans for the members of small businesses, let's keep in mind that the employees of those small businesses are not negotiating these plans. they are at the mercy of the small business owners, and the question is whether or not the plans are sufficient that they will not fall into the same category that these people with 50 and 100 to $250 deductibles. finally, mr. president, h morning i was doin...