can rely onto try and really go after and overturn this healthcare reform law. jon: the chief congressional correspondent for the examiner, sue, thank you. julie: home prices taking a hit falling in most major u.s. cities, but consumer confidence is actually surging. doug mcelway with the details live in washington d.c. doug, what should we make of the new numbers? >> reporter: it's a good news, bad news situation with the economic numbers. let's start with the bad news the decline in hoping prices, the housing slump remains a major inch pedestrian amount to a robust economic recovery. here is the key number that came out just this morning. the case-schiller index that standard & poors uses to measure the health of home prices designed 1.1% in ten major metropolitan markets in october from a month earlier. atlanta, though, down 5%, that is the highest, the steepest decline month to month while chicago, cleveland, detroit and minneapolis all posted monthly declines of 1% or more.