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Low income communities, there is one age appropriate book for every 300 children as compared to in middle income communities, 13 books per child. so that's what we're dealing with. access to books is the biggest challenge to improving literacy in this country and we pulled together all our people at kpmg, their families to distribute books, read those books to children, and to commemorate our five-year anniversary, we're taking our reading relay through every one of our offices in the u.s. distributing books and as phil said, we'll get about 130, 150,000 books in the hands of kids who otherwis...

>> thanks, brian. >> good morning. >> first off, phil, out of all the causes that comes after a big name like with you a bright personality, why does illiteracy mean so much? >> education is the greatest gift that you could give anybody. kpmg's family for literacy has been involved for the last five years in getting over 2 million books into the hands of youngsters and there is no better way to help a child than to give them a path to education. this has been a fun program and right now we're in the middle of our reading relay. across 80-plus cities that they're involved throughout the nation,...

Democratic primary tonight if barack obama can't break 60? >> no. >> what does that tell us, that skrch arkansas is a state that's not a big state for barack obama? >> no. he will lose arkansas. >> shameless plugs? >> my son, logan johns, and all the students at the lab school in washington who participated in extreme reading relay. they were phenomenal. >> jeanne. >> bloomberg news, we take a look at '04, the bush reelection playbook and how obama is changing the way it works. >> changing it, even though it's oddly borrowing from it, too? >> changing. >> i just finished reading "the rise of m...