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as the former top health care advisor, as well as bill frist. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> i think we have microphones on everybody up here. the opportunity for everybody to have gotten lunch. so why don't we get started? i'm ed howard with the alliance for health reform. on behalf of senator rockefeller, senator collins, and our board of directors, i want to welcome tow -- welcome you to this session about how last week's session might affect the new health care reform law and other health care issues. i also want to acknowledge the co-sponsorship of the robert wood johnson fo...

passed that health care reform. he's just not going to do it. he's got to come up with some reason and the reason is a messaging. i think i might move to foreign policy only because there's 50,000 troops still sitting in iraq. whether or not that constitutes a withdrawal, and i would push of a little on the deadline for next june, the time to do that will be after december when the report -- put a report out there. but i think there have been certain signals inside the white house and certainly from the military that perhaps that whole is beginning to draw down, may not work as well ...

at times. angie? >> good morning. kicking off the 6:00 hour early on this thursday. the filming continues out in this district. here's a live shot at pennsylvania and independence. the streets affected, third between constitution and independence and 4th street between pennsylvania and independence until 6:30 this morning. let's take you to the maps and show you a wide view of the area. we will zoom in to new york avenue and show you it live. more volume is picking up about the times building so far, but no significant delays to report. back to our maps. let's take another look at th...

but, as i medical examinntioned the democrats seem to be closing the gap. what is working with the president's message? >> well, i think the message is very clear. we can move in a forward direction, a positive direction. we have now had nine straight months of private sector job growth. that is showing momentum compared with losing nearly 4 million jobs in the last six months of the prior administration. we still have a long way to go. we have to roll up our sleeves and work hard. the president had governors and mayors across the country listening to the report from sam skinner, for...

call from oe mrmar thornton. 105 in little rock. 104 in dallas. as heat advisesry leads. we have the latest forecast for you this august 6, 2010. a very good friday morning to you. i'm erica hill. >> we've got the heat in the headlines. wyclef jean, the big music superstar, announced this week he's running for president of haiti. we've got an exclusive interview this morning. our betty nguyen sat down with wyclef and talked to him about what his plans are. >> looking forward to that. first, we to want get you to this. supreme court justice elena kagan will be sworn in tomorro...