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To the total family. listerine® total care. one bottle, six benefits. power to your mouth™. and for kids starting at age six, listerine® smart rinse delivers extra cavity protection after brushing. this morning, south carolina lawmakers convene a special session of removing the confederate flag from the capital capital grounds. governor nikki haley has called for the takedown. cnn's nick valencia has more. >> reporter: the governor has asked for the flag to be taken down. earlier, we caught up with both sides of the issue. >> you take it down and it will rile more people up.

Every other americans than isis could ever dream of. >> the thought crossed my mind when we heard about the violence in chicago and the focus was so much on preventing a terrorist act this weekend when thankfully nothing major happened. >> we have americans -- seven people were killed by others this weekend by americans. we didn't have to worry isis. we have to worry about them but in the day-to-day reality in america, we have to worry about americans having illegal firearms. >> i think this is just the beginning of the discussion to be had. >> something has to be changed. >> tom verni, thank ...

We saw the canines out here at the capital, capitol hill police saying that they have their officers strategically deployed throughout the capital grounds. the fencing is up. i'm talking about miles and miles of this link fencing all along the national mall as well as concrete barriers, metal barriers are up, federal agents who are usually off for this holiday, they are on call and weather permitting, what we will see tomorrow for the fourth of july is hundreds of thousands of people all packed into this section here for that fourth of july concert and that is the sort of huge celebration that...

>> he had never accused george w. bush being in the nazi party. she had accused obama of being in the communist party. he was an outlier. most, 90% of your candidates last year -- >> my candidates? i voted for obama last time. >> the republican party candidates were outliers, off the playing field. the republicans and this is a conservative conference. this isn't a republican conference. they've gone so far off the map. it's affected what's happened in the house as well. it was the house republicans who invited the tea partiers to have a rally on the capital grounds against the health care bil...

Must be something to see for those staffers who have come out to watch this moment. there will be one to the west side of the capitol many could plex. the second to the east and the last two to the south and the overflight is occurring at low altitude and clearly visible from the capital grounds. you get a nice shot just how low it is. what an extraordinary sight. 30 years of incredible developments and accomplishments by this shuttle program. we saw some of the astronauts involved in it, you know, basically very moved and close to tears at seeing it pull away from cape canaveral this morning....