. >> detroit, hello. >> hi. i'm calling from detroit. >> yes. >> caller: i'm a gay man, and i love pageants. i'm sure you, carrie, have got great gay friends that helped you. what would you give them as advice if they wanted to get married. >> larry: did you have a question, carrie? did she hear the question? >> no, she didn't. because she took off the microphone as well as her ifb, which she can hear what larry was saying. prejean continued with the show, though, after the commercial. larry apologized and said prejean had insisted there would not be any phone calls from viewers. >>> new this morning, we are now learning prejean's ex-boyfriend, by the way, is claiming she was 20 years old when she made that controversial sex tape. he tells tmz she asked him to lie about it and say she was 17. prejean says the tape was a youthful mistake and the controversy is an attempt to

. >> detroit, hello. >> caller: hi. i'm calling from detroit. >> yes. >> caller: i am a gay man an love pageants. i'm sure you, carrie, have got great gay friends that helped you possibly win. what would you give them as advice if they wanted to get married? >> did you hear the question, carrie? did she hear the question? >> all right. want to point out that she did continue the show and larry king apologized later because the show had agreed that she would not answer any viewer phone calls. regardless, though, i don't think this is what you want when you're out promoting a book. that was awkward, not fun to watch. we'll take your calls on this. 1-877-tell-hln. joining us to talk about it, rachel campos duffy blogger and author of the book "stay home stay happy." also joining us the host of celeb tv.com. rachel, first off, how do you

caller: a little tough in detroit. the one thing i cannot understand is the holding up of the money to be spent on infrastructure. we had the problem with the faa, and we know that system has been decrepit for a while. there are 500,000 bridges in this country that should be inspected and properly attended to, and there are larger projects which take time for design, but the fact that you can begin to think about doing things and have engineers look at what needs to be done and preparing contracts. caterpillar tractor added jobs and everything else down the chain. we put more money into baghdad. it makes me sick we cannot put an equal amount of money into this country more quickly. guest: i agree with you about

within him, and he grew up in detroit when he was about 12-years-old his mother moved into harlem, and there was -- was leaving his father, walter smith senior behind. >> guest: yes. he was always estranged from his father, just like joe louis. so i think -- but that's a good point. i think both joe louis and john walker smith, leader sugar ray robinson, looked for father figures, and i think both of them found father figures in the jazzman who were flowing in and out of harlem. >> host: and harlem itself almost becomes a father figure to sugar ray. >> guest: and because harlem was that one place and america at that time where there was black political muscle, there was a great pride left over from the harlem renaissance, and that

florida is winning in detroit, they are starting to win now. you know, karen line ya is a lot -- carolina is a lot like the leafs. they are going to be a tough team to play against. unfortunately, we have not played them. that's the way things work. >> in addition to saying that the line didn't play very well, alex was hard on himself. he said even though he scored a goal, he says he should have been a lot better. what are you seeing coming from the injury. >> i thought he played better tonight, better than last night. it's coming. i mean, when he first came back, he wasn't 100%. you know, we would assume that a fire like alex just wants to play and, so, you know, he played and it will be better again against ottawa and it will take -- that was an injury that -- a lot of guys would have been out another week or

social form coming up in june of next year in detroit that will be another point of further mobilization for the single-payer effort across the nation, so i do think from my own observation, of my own exposure in involvement that there is cohesion. it has room to improve and there is certainly the effort there on the part of all the organizations. as he can see today there are 45 organizations here representative of this press conference and basically cure in solidarity recognizing we are committee for guara .. association, national organizing committee, health care knell, progressive democrats of america and numerous labor organizations, faith and community groups. we represent over 20 million people nationwide who support a single-payer national health system and we are growing and we anticipate continuing to grow. health care now, which a number of us are on the board of health care now, in national grassroots organization has single-payer act of this in those states across the nation in many of us particularly those of us who are physicians and physicians for national health programs

and tell "the reader" that without giving an explanation of how i grew within him and he grew up in detroit when he was 12 years old and his mother moved him to harlem. the father stayed behind they were always estranged but that is a good point* but the hem and walker smith looked for father figures in both of them found father figures in the jazzmen who were flowing in and out of harlem. >> host: harlem itself almost becomes a father figure to sugar ray. >> guest: right. is that one place in america at the time where there was black political hustle and a great pride left over from the harlem renaissance that was still flowing up and down the streets and black owned nightclubs and they may not have been welcome downtown but they could come up town and come to the all nightclubs in joe louis phoned a nightclub, louis armstrong and later sugar ray robinson owned a nightclubs so they all felt very comfortable in harlem. it was the black mecca were you could go and meet langston hughes, wallace thurman, all of the poets and writers of the harlem renaissance. if they were not still around, the

again, whose eyes lit up in detroit when he first saw his first rex enter. >> guest: exactly. >> host: he wanted to create that for young people. >> guest: he did, in fact i titled that chapter saving all of those walker smith jr.'s. and so he really in his mind that the end of his career of his mount olympus was saving children. getting on the mountaintop and reaching back down pulling the children up and i think that gave him great joy. >> host: so you think by the time it was time for him to pass this world he was a happy man. >> guest: very much so. i really do. he was living with a woman that he loved. he could walk on to his youth center and the children would see him and they would come and i don't think anything made walker smith, jr. were happy. >> host: we need to explain this for people turning in halfway through and i apologize for the huge discursive back to the beginning here. but i love the story so much how did walker smith jr. become sugar ray robinson? can you speak about how that name change even happens? because it is a terrific story. >> guest: sugar ray joined th

but i would rather be the new "w york times" than the detroit news or, you know, a lot of -- san diego union, a lot of other newspapers. the times has some advantages, but they have a particular problem, like a lot of newspapers do, they have a huge debt load, and the debts are coming due, and they've got to pay them. can they? >> in an interview you gave on npr's fresh air, you said that google culture is one full of contradiction. what are those contradictions that you experienced in your time here? >> well, some of them are benign, and some of o them are less benign, but one of them is if i come here and ask any one of you if i put my pad out and i say how much does an engineer make or how, how, how many people from india, how many indian citizens or former -- were born in india work at google? you ask any factual question i may as well be talking to a cia agent. i don't get an answer. so the notion of transparency has its limits at google about that. and some of that, i know, comes from larry page who all his life he read a book very early in his life about tesla who, arguably, inv

i talked to detroit executives who actually put electric cars on the road and, you know, the '90s and earlier in the '70s and who scraped them. who took them off the road and now they're suddenly scrambling to get them out again. you know, they're realizing they made a mistake and they want to move forward. i met pentagon officials who are actually trying to put green technology on the battlefield and make barracks that are independent from fuels. and i met a cafeteria worker in the ninth ward of new orleans who lives in one of the most futuristic homes on the planet. it's part of a program where they're rebuilding the lower ninth ward with low-incomed green homes and it's an extraordinary place. she took me through there and described the technology with more insight and more, you know, passion and enthusiasm than any, you know, high-level ph.d. engineer had ever explained it to me. and she's a 65-year-old cafeteria worker with five grandkids and she got it. she was transformed. i met college kids who are not only greening their campuses but greening their cities and their states wor

host: detroit, your next. -- you're next. caller: good morning. i'm just reminded of this self righteous think tanks like nazi germany under hitler and the soviet union and gorbachev. you three i think represent the self-righteous, sick nation that will go just like the nazi germany and soviet union because you are delusional, have no idea about the rest of humanity in the world, live in white, colonial world. please, i welcome you to the 21st century new free world order. there's no more room for the white race to commit genocide and holocaust around the road. host: colorado, good morning. caller: in this season of things giving praise before c-span and allowing citizens to have a voice. here in lakeland , fla. we inwoman power to rise up in republicans. we have a woman candidate to open up her office tomorrow, paula. we will see womanpower rise up in 2010 even in pakistan and afghanistan. we want to maybe put olympia snowe in as a candidate for president 2010. we could use cohen or leach as other possible candidates, but the modern republicans h

. >> host: next call is from kim in detroit, michigan. please go ahead. kim, are you with us? kim? detroit, michigan? please go ahead with your question for judy shepard. >> caller: okay. hi, judy. i was interested to know, i am one of three daughters. i am 50, and we were raised by a lesbian mother, and what i come out with that is that i found out i am open to just about anyone and their experiences. i think that having a lesbian mother was a great benefit to my life, because it opened my eyes to the entire world. and made me the kind of person that would never shot anyone or just pounce anyone because of any kind of difference. be at their religion, color of their skin, their orientation, any kind of disabilities, anything like that. i also found that i was generally the person that people would come out to. >> guest: you are safe. >> caller: yeah, because who my mother was. i did get teased in high school a little bit, but not very much. i think because the kind of person that i was. i mean, i was pretty likable. >> host: thank you very much for calling in. judy shepard, in a r

our next phone call comes from detroit on the independent line. bread for the world institute, if you just heard the last things i said about what they are proposing, coming change, unemployment, and hunter -- what do you make of that? caller: there are a lot of things that can be done up there, but it takes community to do it. the government did not need to take over general motors. that could have been done by the employees who could have done a better job running it. . . restarted in get this in the country and around the state. they were run out of the state by basically the monopoly of the auto industry in the 3ó)$(lc@&c+ it has been a problem. if we couldz get other industry in the country and stop a lot of the state -- it would be a lot better off they do not money -- that has been the biggest problem. guest: of a comeback to his last point. what this is campaigning, lobbying in congress are a few issues like nutrition programs. we tried to think about what' happened. it is important to get an economic recovery around the country in the wo

events from detroit. a question about civilian industries role-and frankly were talking about defending against cybersecurity threats to military to the government, what about the industry, and maybe this is for bob. industries role is protecting and industries role as a partner. >> let me start. before i do that, i want to go back to the prior question about international partnerships for a moment, and say that secretary napolitano has made it clear that she believes that international partnerships are critical to our success in defending and protecting the american public. she actually just returned from a trip to madrid, i think brussels and uae and other parts of the world, where she talked about the shared responsibility that we have to protect our people, and the common threat that we face. so i think that is an area where there is much work to be done, but a clear commitment to work with our international counterparts to share information, to collaborate on scientific research in support of homelan

the seventh brain of former nfl player i analyzed was that of a former offensive lineman for the detroit lions and an eight time--- eight-time pro bowler. he was famous for suffering at least 13 broken noses. beginning at the age of 58, he showed it increasing cognitive and behavioral did not tell -- difficulties. it included an outburst of anger and aggression. he was a member of the nfl plan 88. he died from complications of dementia at the age of 82. the brands showed extensive damage occurred there were widespread nft's in the unique pattern found in cte. there was no evidence of alzheimer's disease or any other near a degenerative disorder. the findings indicated that if he had not sustained repetitive head trauma during the play of football, he would be alive and well today, enjoying his family and grandchildren. i also have examined the brain of a high school player who suffered several concussions and died at the age of 18. the brain from an 18-year-old man should be perfect. there should be no abnormalities anywhere. but in the brain of this young man, at the age of 18, there ar

host: detroit, on the republican line. caller: good morning. yes, a get injured about 12 years ago when i broke my neck at work. the retired me and i did get my social security, but what a done understand -- i did not ask for the medicare part d and i ended up getting stuck with it. i just got my thing in the mail yesterday about coverage. i do have blue cross blue shield and medicare a, b, and d and these other benefits i'm supposed to be receiving and in pain for my interest. i only make $17,000 per year on income between my pension and my social security since i was injured. now they sent me something yesterday about costs. now, like i take eight prescriptions per month for seizure medicine and everything else. i'm paying the co-pay anywhere from $7 up to $27. medicare or sdrs, whatever they call that -- they pay $1.20. you are saying that in low- income, but i am paying triple the amount that was pain when i was only on blue cross. guest: it would be hard to know without understanding your individual circumstance. host: so, what should he d

the seventh brain of former nfl player i analyzed was that of a former offensive lineman for the detroit lions and an eight time--- eight-time pro bowler. he was famous for suffering at least 13 broken noses. beginning at the age of 58, he showed it increasing cognitive and behavioral did not tell -- difficulties. it included an outburst of anger and aggression. he was a member of the nfl plan 88. he died from complications of dementia at the age of 82. the brands showed extensive damage occurred there were widespread nft's in the unique pattern found in cte. there was no evidence of alzheimer's disease or any other near a degenerative disorder. the findings indicated that if he had not sustained repetitive head trauma during the play of football, he would be alive and well today, enjoying his family and grandchildren. i also have examined the brain of a high school player who suffered several concussions and died at the age of 18. the brain from an 18-year-old man should be perfect. there should be no abnormalities anywhere. but in the brain of this young man, at the age of 18, there ar

social form coming up in june of next year in detroit that will be another point of further mobilization for the single-payer effort across the nation, so i do think from my own observation, of my own exposure in involvement that there is cohesion. it has room to improve and there is certainly the effort there on the part of all the organizations. as he can see today there are 45 organizations here representative of this press conference and basically cure in solidarity recognizing we are committee for guaranteed health care. the conference is a coalition of organizations convened by physicians for national health program, the california nurses association, national organizing committee, health care knell, progressive democrats of america and numerous labor organizations, faith and community groups. we represent over 20 million people nationwide who support a single-payer national health system and we are growing and we anticipate continuing to grow. health care now, which a number of us are on the board of health care now, in national grassroots organization has single-payer act of this

host: detroit, on the republican line. caller: good morning. yes, a get injured about 12 years ago when i broke my neck at work. the retired me and i did get my social security, but what a done understand -- i did not ask for the medicare part d and i ended up getting stuck with it. i just got my thing in the mail yesterday about coverage. i do have blue cross blue shield and medicare a, b, and d and these other benefits i'm supposed to be receiving and in pain for my interest. i only make $17,000 per year on income between my pension and my social security since i was injured. now they sent me something yesterday about costs. now, like i take eight prescriptions per month for seizure medicine and everything else. i'm paying the co-pay anywhere from $7 up to $27. medicare or sdrs, whatever they call that -- they pay $1.20. you are saying that in low- income, but i am paying triple the amount that was pain when i was only on blue cross. guest: it would be hard to know without understanding your individual circumstance. host: so, what should he d

barofsky, i'm with the detroit bureau of bloomberg. recently we saw a deal that general motors could serve its european operations and the board decided to keep that part of european operations which means money which would have come from the german government is not coming and general motors is spending its money to restructure european operations and many cases making decisions about european jobs. does this concern you at all? >> we're looking into this issue from the perspective of corporate governance. in other words, what is the role of the united states as a very significant shareholder in general motors. we're not looking at it from the auto industry but across the institution where we have a significant interest and what role the united states is playing in the management of those companies. the united states is the government the obama administration stated repeatedly that it wants to have the board run the company the way they deem appropriate and that's obviously a policy balance against the concerns raised by you which is

host: detroit, on the republican line. caller: good morning. yes, a get injured about 12 years ago when i broke my neck at work. the retired me and i did get my social security, but what a done understand -- i did not ask for the medicare part d and i ended up getting stuck with it. i just got my thing in the mail yesterday about coverage. i do have blue cross blue shield and medicare a, b, and d and these other benefits i'm supposed to be receiving and in pain for my interest. i only make $17,000 per year on income between my pension and my social security since i was injured. now they sent me something yesterday about costs. now, like i take eight prescriptions per month for seizure medicine and everything else. i'm paying the co-pay anywhere from $7 up to $27. medicare or sdrs, whatever they call that -- they pay $1.20. you are saying that in low- income, but i am paying triple the amount that was pain when i was only on blue cross. guest: it would be hard to know without understanding your individual circumstance. host: so, what should he d

why detroit? guest: they were each based on data analysis. we determined to these were places where medical equipment suppliers were exploiting our program. what we have done in order to respond to these hot spots is organized strike forces of prosecutors and investigators, who are moving much quicker to identify the fraud. and then close them down. it has been very successful. we have almost 700 convictions as a result of this. we have brought back $225 million already as a result of these efforts overall. , our strategy is working. for every dollar that is spent on fraud prevention and protection, we bring back $8 to the medicare trust fund. host: there have been some big settlements with some large drug companies. guest: you have read about these in the paper. the most recent was against pfizer. pfizer was alleged to have deceptively marketed drugs for purposes which were not approved by the fda. those actions put patients at risk, cause heart attacks, and death. in addition, allegations of kickbacks to doctors. the subsidiaries pled guilt

are we going to wait on detroit to do it or the chairman of the it? the secretary of transportation to do it, who is going to do this? >> look, mr. chairman, if you wanted to get into the technology business i'll give it a try. we can did in the enforcement business, the rule-making business, but i don't often chairman wants widowhood and the technology business. >> if ray lahood comes up with a good idea in the chairman doesn't,. >> will work with you, the committee, with secretary lahood to incentivize technologies that can solve this and solve it quickly. >> i hope so. i'm sorry i say to my ranking member because you may have other questions you want answered. >> mr. chairman, i don't have further questions, but i will say that i think this has been a spirited hearing. i think people have been engaged. i think our witnesses have been very engaged and i think that we are going to make progress on this. i think we're going toass o is t one. i think it is the right mix of states rights respect, but also giving incentives. and i think it's been very pr

>> well, i was just in detroit, senator. and i visited ford, gm, and chrystler. this technology is something that will be in automobiles. but i will just tell you this. that point of view, i think any distraction is a distraction that takes away from driving safely. you can put your phone in this little container that they have in the middle, it does sync. it sync all of your numbers. you can sort of voice. that's a distraction, senator. but that is the latest technology. and all of the car manufacturers have it. i think if you are eating a hamburger, shaving, putting your makeup on, use texting, using a cell phone, talking to somebody, all of these things distraction from your ability to drive safely. >> well, one last thing. you mention as we close, you mention that it does have some -- 21 states ban teen drivers from talking on all cell phones. arkansas is one of those. 17 states school bus drivers from talking on cell phones. arkansas is one of those. 18 states ban all drivers from texting, arkansas is one of those. so i'm glad we're talking about this today

why detroit? guest: they were each based on data analysis. we determined to these were places where medical equipment suppliers were exploiting our program. what we have done in order to respond to these hot spots is organized strike forces of prosecutors and investigators, who are moving much quicker to identify the fraud. and then close them down. it has been very successful. we have almost 700 convictions as a result of this. we have brought back $225 million already as a result of these efforts overall. , our strategy is working. for every dollar that is spent on fraud prevention and protection, we bring back $8 to the medicare trust fund. host: there have been some big settlements with some large drug companies. guest: you have read about these in the paper. the most recent was against pfizer. pfizer was alleged to have deceptively marketed drugs for purposes which were not approved by the fda. those actions put patients at risk, cause heart attacks, and death. in addition, allegations of kickbacks to doctors. the subsidiaries pled guilt

lester, good morning from detroit. caller: good morning. listen, i do not have any problem with the rich being taxed for this war. over the years, you know, the people that prospered by the people that have had money. poor people do not have any say so. all they do is fight the war as. they do it in the guise of patriotism. but if you are going to war, you should pay for it. i do not recall anyone wanting to go to afghanistan. if you are spending money on the war, you do not have money for health care. what bothered me on sunday is senator lieberman, he will put the money up for a war in afghanistan but not for health care. that disturbs me. . host: from "usa today" this story -- "bombings killed 12 people across afghanistan, including four american service members and three children. president obama met again on friday to decide whether or not to commit more troops. general mcchrystal crafted a plan to defeat the taliban and he recommended in august that the u.s. would need 40,000 additional service members to roust the militants out of ka

depending on mac's injury as we go into our game saturday with detroit. >> coach, you end up third place in the turbment. what do you take away from this as a whole? >> you know, one of the things we said after the tennessee game was number one, no moral victories. we've got to be beyond that. there's a difference between third and fifth. and i think our kids played like that tonight. i think they were anxious to come out here with two wins. we've had a great time here. rather than just enjoy the beach let's get better and get a couple of wins. big win for our program. >> congratulations. get lack to the mainland safe. >> great seeing you. >> all right. back to you guys. >> sam, thank you. our thanks to head coach mr. wainwright from depaul.

if that is right, can you tell me about your thinking in the strategy in detroit and why it came out like that? >> i am not going to get into who was for what and what was the ticktock on everything. as you know, we were in an environment where chrysler and gm were in different situations. i do not think anybody -- i think most people did not expect that we would be able to successfully worked them into and out of a bankruptcy as quickly as we were able to do so. we were trying to trade off a whole bunch of issues. it was not like the president or the administration, generally, has with the bank, nobody wants to be in a bailout situation. the administration acted because the collective judgment was to not act at that time would have had evean even worse spill over into the economy. that is where we were. i am glad with cash for clunkers. >> budget that ruling to the demolition industry with cash for clunkers. >> since you brought up history, it seems that we do not hear what happened before that and only what has happened since then. at the end of the crisis, it was the investment ba

congress had said to detroit and to the auto manufacturers that you're going to have to make cars that are 35 miles a gallon by 200020. by 2016, the standard will be 35.5. we were able to achieve more than even congress thought was possible. i want to recognize all of kathy's leadership. there was a backlog in she has been moving through. she has been putting in place the standards that will give consumers choices so that they can not only get the appliances that they want, but the savings. we are excited about all of that. we have also been doing work at our other agencies. the list of existing authorities that we are putting to use, authorities that have been on the books for a long time, but no one has taken advantage of. the president believes in that if we use these authorities, we are demonstrating important domestic leadership on how to create a new energy future. our work has not simply been domestic. it does not stop at our borders. we achieved an agreement at the g-20 to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. we were able to achieve an agreement around black carbon. earlier this we

congress had said to detroit and to the auto manufacturers, you're going of to -- make cars that are 35 miles per gallon by 2020. what this proposal does is say in 2016, the standard will be 35.5. so by working together, we were able to achieve more than even congress thought was possible. we've also, kathy zoi is here, there was a backlog, she was moving through -- it's been almost a month now, almost, putting in place the standards that are going to give consumers choices so that they cannot only get the apprises they want but they can -- appliances they want but the savings and we are excited about all the work that cathy is doing on setting the appliance standards. we've also been doing work at our other agencies, the department of ag is developing their biomass program and the list of existing authorities that we putting to use, authorities that in some instances have been been the books for a very long time, but no one has taken advantage of and so the president believes that from the recovery act to instructing his cabinet members to use these authorities, we are demonstrating

caller: i read all three of the free -- the detroit free press news. i just got tired of the lies and i will catch my news before go to bed or in the middle of the day. i listened to radio show. host: is that a local show or a syndicated show? caller: i hear it all over and in indiana. i think it is national, or local midwest. host: 2 leveaux, good morning, christine. -- to louisville, kentucky, good morning, christine. how long have you been a subscriber? caller: least 40 years. host: you want to tell us more? why you let the paper so much? caller: that is where i get most of my news. i have been reading the newspaper -- i started when i was about 10 years old wanting to look at the funniest and went from there and actually wanted to read the paper. now, of course, that is where we get most of our news. i must say i am disappointed in what little i see. host: is the paper cutting back? >> oh, yes, it is cut back tremendously. it does not amount to anything during the week. and the sunday paper, what it is a -- what is in it is just a mishmash of what

after the bailouts of wall street and detroit, a stimulus bill that led to the highest unemployment in 26 years and the fed shoveling money out the door without any accountability, this health care reform bill is a straw that broke the camel's back. what senate republicans are trying to say tonight with tonight's vote that we don't support reform just for the sake of reform. changes to the health care system must be responsible and not break the backs of the taxpayers and the job-creating engine in america: small business. it doesn't make any sense to make major new unsustainable commitments to entitlement spending. already medicare solvency is in jeopardy, and the reid bill would make things worse for medicare. seniors are in a tough situation today with the way the economy has hit their retirement savings. we have to step back and remember that it's not our money. it's their money. it's the taxpayers' money that we're talking about. $2.5 trillion of taxpayers dollars over the decade when this bill is fully implemented. generations of hard-working americans will be forced to pay the c

after the bailouts of wall street and detroit, a stimulus bill that led to the highest unemployment in 26 years and the fed shoveling money out the door without any accountability, this health care reform bill is a straw that broke the camel's back. what senate republicans are trying to say tonight with tonight's vote that we don't support reform just for the sake of reform. changes to the health care system must be responsible and not break the backs of the taxpayers and the job-creating engine in america: small business. it doesn't make any sense to make major new unsustainable commitments to entitlement spending. already medicare solvency is in jeopardy, and the reid bill would make things worse for medicare. seniors are in a tough situation today with the way the economy has hit their retirement savings. we have to step back and remember that it's not our money. it's their money. it's the taxpayers' money that we're talking about. $2.5 trillion of taxpayers dollars over the decade when this bill is fully implemented. generations of hard-working americans will be forced to pay the c

how has it been leaving point guard system and set of place you have to run in denver to now detroit? >> when i got here, i played point guard in the beginning. now that's going to change. a different situation. i'm usually having the ball and bringing it up in the fourth quarter and not so much the first, second, and third. it's just different. it's hard. you have to be accountable for everybody else. and two, two guards both score. that's something i know i can do. >> gives a great appreciation for the game and other that come before him and he is somebody i admire on the court and off the court. as a player, man of heart. as teammate, you know, does what it takes to win. and as a person, you know, a good all- around cat, you know. most people would have got conceited but he a regular everyday cat. >> 15 year ago to when i met you now you never care what had people's perception are of you. did that hurt you you have not tried to mold people into thinking or believing you're a certain way? >> my friend, the fans that are real, true, live allen iverson fans take the time to analyze an

it's kind of an interesting thing here in detroit. i don't know if you know anything about what's been happening with the inner city bus service which we call d dot here. where they've been threatening to close down the whole service . and we also have another service, the one that i ride is called smart. which i believe is supported by the state and i believe they also get federal funding. and they've been talking about maybe if they cancel out ddot they're going to put the two together. actually, i have no problems with bus service. i think it's a great way to get around. you can sit back, you can read. you don't have to worry about traffic. and all the buses i ride are pretty consistent. it takes one hour to get from point a to point b. my main thing is as far as i believe your guest is a representative of a private bus company? i guess. and i'm kind of curious as to how you guys work with like local bus services, like what we have. guest: again, a couple of good questions, good points that are raised in that call. first, we repres

how has it been leaving point guard system and set of place you have to run in denver to now detroit? >> when i got here, i played point guard in the beginning. now that's going to change. a different situation. i'm usually having the ball and bringing it up in the fourth quarter and not so much the first, second, and third. it's just different. it's hard. you have to be accountable for everybody else. and two, two guards both score. that's something i know i can do. >> gives a great appreciation for the game and other that come before him and he is somebody i admire on the court and off the court. as a player, man of heart. as teammate, you know, does what it takes to win. and as a person, you know, a good all- around cat, you know. most people would have got conceited but he a regular everyday cat. >> 15 year ago to when i met you now you never care what had people's perception are of you. did that hurt you you have not tried to mold people into thinking or believing you're a certain way? >> my friend, the fans that are real, true, live allen iverson fans take the time to analyze an

congress had said to detroit and to the auto manufacturers that you're going to have to make cars that are 35 miles a gallon by 200020. by 2016, the standard will be 35.5. we were able to achieve more than even congress thought was possible. i want to recognize all of kathy's leadership. there was a backlog in she has been moving through. she has been putting in place the standards that will give consumers choices so that they can not only get the appliances that they want, but the savings. we are excited about all of that. we have also been doing work at our other agencies.

metro, detroit and baltimore, too, 30-minute to one-hour delay because of showers. cleveland, showers, chicago showers, charlotte, morning fog. no delays yet, but the computer glitch seems to be affecting a lot of folks in many airports. as soon as i get more details, obviously i'll bring them right to you. >> great. those live pictures showing us there's still support vehicles moving on the ground. >> things are moving. it it's not a dead stop. >> good. >>> how would you like to be able to drive your car using your iphone as a remote control? engineers in austin did just that. they used a rigged car, an experimental app that uses the iphone's internal sensors. to steer, all you do, you just turn the phone. touchscreen sliders control the gas and brake. >> we're driving with the iphone, we like to drive it on the roof of the car. that seems to be the most fun or the hood or something like that, you know. really get the wind blowing in your hair, that type of thing. that's a lot of fun. >> oh, you crazy engineers, you. the engineers say they've driven the car up to 3

really all of detroit hurting for some good news. this really is some for ford and for detroit's morale. the fusion was named the motor trend car of the year. the magazine says ford did a great job of redesigning and upgrading. they gave every version of the ford fusion kudos and said you should consider it right on par with the toyota camry and honda accord. took me by surprise. not bad, not high praise, richard, but it's okay. >> when it comes to some of the make, sometimes that is not bad. >> i still think that's a great win for ford. the big thing is ford has been pulling ahead of the pack. they gn need to borrow taxpayer money. really the deal is how will gm and chrysler do? still, right a good sign in detroit. we'll take it. >>> here's other good news in a bad economy. one of the biggest problems in the job market, as we know, that small businesses can't get loans. and this sounds simple, but simplistic, but it's true. if the start-ups can't start up, you can't get a lot of job growth. most of the job growth in recoveries comes

detroit, st. louis and seattle, looks like it's going to be like that. more on that in about a half an hour. >>> it's not every day that a traffic stop makes you go, ahh, but a cuddly cat could not leave an officer alone. he loved him. @@@@@@@@@@ >>> the new york stock exchange has just opened for business. a disappointing report about the housing market has us looking at the pretty weak open. >>> new this morning, somali pirates attacked a u.s.-flagged cargo ship again. this is the second time the naval force says that security guards on the ship fired back and turned them away. pirates took the ship's captain, richa richa ri hostage in april. >>> and the wildfire is now 90% contained. the fire captain says it's burned 145 acres since monday. the fire injured three people and did not damage any homes. >>> space shuttle "atlantis" is closing in on the international space station. the shuttle will pose for cameras and remain at the space station for a week for the crews to unload spare parts. >>> it's 31 minutes past the hour and i hope you're on

. >>> now we've told you so much about how the detroit automakers have been struggling. some huge news, though, this morning. and our money expert jennifer westhoven is here. an american car has been named the best on the road. >>> this is a big win for ford and really for detroit, right, because any good news is a psychological boost for that town. the fusion was named the motor trend car of the year and the magazine says ford did a great job of redesigning and upgrading. every version got some kudos and motor trend even said the fusion, you should consider it on par with the toyota camry and the honda accord. and those are two bestsellers, so those are some great words. i'm sure they're celebrating at ford when they got the news. they're celebrating now, robin, or they have a hangover. >>> one of the biggest problems, we all know, the job market. one of the reasons is small businesses are having a terrible time getting loans and most job growth comes from small companies. you know, how can they grow if they can't get any loans? help is on the way from several places. g

also new york and detroit with wind. currently, there is a 15 to 30 minute delay in atlanta because of lower clouds. that is with the showers, too. san francisco, seattle, you'll get that, as well. more in a half hour. >>> it was a bank robbery like one we never heard. the alleged robbers came with guns and way a warrant? >> some people are twice as likely to die when they go. >>> the new york stock exchange just opened for business, and wall street is not expected to maintain yesterday's rally. investors just aren't really reacting to a lower than expected inflation report. we shall see. >>> a vigil was held last night in north carolina after a girl's body was found. it is believed to be that of missing 5-year-old shaniya da s davis, although there is no confirmation on the i.d. yet. police say they got a tip that led them to the body. >>> a wild fire burning near a major highway in southern california should be fully contained today. firefighters say it's burned more than 50 acres, but is a couple miles away from any t

. >> reporter: six people buried in detroit. at a local funeral home, those who never knew them mourned them. >> no one is alone. you know, we feel like islands, but not one of us is. a loss of someone who died three years ago is everybody's loss. >> reporter: in a city of abandoned houses, abandoned factories and abandoned people, a record number of unclaimed bodies piled up at the wayne county morgue. >> this is our freezer. >> reporter: their next of kin unable or unwilling to pay for their burial. >> we're going to finish that in a moment, but we take you to north carolina now for the latest on finding shani shaniya davis's body. >> official release. i can tell everybody that a body was located of a small child a little while ago off of walker road. about 100 feet off of the road. at this time, a positive identification will be made by family. and as soon as we have that positive identification, we'll have more information. at 4:30 this afternoon, i'll be happy to hold a press conference back at the fayetteville police depar

torched the detroit lions. every time brett favre does well we will put it on the air, people. okay? we can admit when we're wrong. matthew stafford who was 3 years old when played his first game was meaade to look like a rooki >> apparently we're having technical difficulties. this is the home depot center. soccer star david beckham's team won. reports are a failure in the southern california power grid caused it? >> what's up with beckham's hair? >> that's another question all together. that's sports. >> okay, bobbie. >>> maybe we'll get to bruce springsteen later. how are our travelers going to fair today? >> pretty well. if you live down the deep southeast or maybe west coast. chicago, wind is going to start picking up. an hour or more delay in both midway and o'hare a possibility. also windy around new york city metro. half hour to hour delay on top of the average volume delays you get on monday. dallas more wind. seattle, looking at wind related delays, too. winds gusting near 45 miles per hour by seattle. we'll talk about that in a little bit. >> thank you. we'll try to

. >> larry: detroit, hello. >> caller: hi. i'm calling from detroit. >> larry: yes. >> i'm day man and love pageants. i'm sure that you, carrie, got great gay friends that helped you win. what would you give them as advice if they wanted to get married? >> larry: did you hear the question, carrie? did she hear the question? is she leaving? i asked what motivated the settlement. >> excuse me? >> did you hear the question? >> no, i can't hear you. >> larry: you took the mike off. you put the mike on, we could hear you. >> yeah. i think you are being extremely inappropriate right now and i'm about to leave your show. >> yeah. i'm going to call it a tantrum but she's smiling the whole time because she's a beauty queen after all. carlos, was carrie just out of line? are you with me on that? >> i felt like i was watching the tv show "v" saying, larry, don't ask me any questions. it will paint me a negative light and then the true monster comes out. you know? it's funny. it is very funny because she's all about freedom of speech. >>