president obama is urging congress to approve a $50 billion plan to upgrade the nation's crumbling infrastructure. he says it's vital to creating construction jobs and keeping the country competitive in the global economy. republicans have already expressed opposition to that plan. in the middle east israeli prime minister benjamin netta hugh says he's willing to renew a stop to the settlements only if they acknowledge israel as a jewish state. a freeze on such construction expired last month. and nearly half of the people living with hiv in this country are african-americans, yet most black churches in the u.s. rarely discuss the issue. here's cnn's soledad o'brien. >> reporter: two illnesses threaten jeffrey gavin. his church knows only about one. >> i have what's called morphand syndrome. that makes me very tall.