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Inpatient facilities in this country are jails. currently, there are at least 350,000 people with mental illness in u.s. prisons and jails. the cost to house people with mental illness in jails and prisons is $15 billion. 70% of those people are nonviolent offenders. that's because there are fewer and fewer hospitals for those people to receive treatment. 50 years ago, 600,000 is how many state hospital beds for people with mental illnesses there were in the u.s. thanks to federal and state funding cuts, today that number has decreased to 40,000. mental illness has no cure. there is no one mag...

Somehow would make the school 17% more likely to perform at a higher level. >> it doesn't. charters by themselves are not any kind of a cure-all. magic pill. but the highly performing charters, like the kip schools for instance, about 110 of them, it's the highly performing charters are schools that all schools can learn from. so what i'd like to see more of is sharing of best practices between those charter schools that are working and some of them don't work. many don't work. the ones that work, they have like 90, 95% graduation rates in very impoverished neighborhoods. these are terrific sc...

>> greta: we're coming to you live from tampa, florida. governor romney just gave the biggest speech of his life and in just moments, utah senator oren hatch. we start with virginia governor bob mcdonald. >> nice to see you. >> a lot of the speech about jobs and he says -- governor romney says i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. is there a magic pill? >> no. it starts with a basics of low taxes, regulation, litigation. being positive about success. you heard him talk about that tonight. entrepreneurship. rewarding small businesses is a big part of the plan. just being positive about o...

>> greta: we're coming to you live from tampa, florida. governor romney just gave the biggest speech of his life and in just moments, utah senator oren hatch. we start with virginia governor bob mcdonald. >> nice to see you. >> a lot of the speech about jobs and he says -- governor romney says i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. is there a magic pill? >> no. it starts with a basics of low taxes, regulation, litigation. being positive about success. you heard him talk about that tonight. entrepreneurship. rewarding small businesses is a big part of the plan. just being positive about o...

And targets brain signals to stop overeating. the rules require that the drugmaker to conduct long-term studies on possible heart defects but the cost of those could pale in comparison to the profits that are possible here. analysts estimate that pill sales could top $1 billion over just the next several years. and now, gerri anchors the wills report on the fox business network. why is it so hard for the food and drug administration to approve these? >>guest: because they can cause problems with the heart. they have not approved a long term weight loss since 1999. >>shepard: and two approved i...