start over with common sense, step by step reforms, we can all agree on. senator judd gregg, republican from new hampshire joins me now from capitol hill. he is on the budget commity and did not go to the health care summit last week. but certainly has been very active, senator greg in proposing your own plans here. what do you make of the president s olive branch to republicans? is it enough to convince to you support this legislation? well, i think it is like putting a new mirror on an edsall, you know. simple fact is the underlying vehicle, $2.5 trillion billion trying to pass out of the senate and have the president sign is fundamentally flawed. too much government, too big. too much interfere wednesday the markets. force a lot of people out of the insurance they have today and end up, i think, creating a massive amount of debt which will get passed to our kids. there are things we can do and there are a series of things we can do but should start from blank piece of
good morning. where did your weekend go, huh? i m robin meade. morning, sunshine. bright and early, let s get into the news. survivors of chile s catastrophic earthquake are breaking into stores for food and water. how officials are dealing with that. and widespread devastation. you cannot apply for federal unemployment benefits anymore. we re talking about millions of people affected by this. but don t give up hope for an extension just yet. and then some people are angry about a sexually suggestive billboard. what rapper t.i. has to do with that. my word. all right. first, though, thousands of chile s earthquake survivors spent the night in tents set up in parks and grassy highway medians. more than 700 people died in the 8.8 magnitude quake that hit on saturday. now, when you think about that number, 8.8, that is 700 to 800 times stronger than what hit haiti. wow! meanwhile, the mayor of concepcion said looters are targeting appliance and electronics stores and great
1260. the trick he landed in his final run on the half pike. you don t have to think twice about who he is. it s the red hair. he has got the look. he has already launched a great career. he hit the target that marketers want to reach with 18 to 24-year-old crowd. shepard: which is why the athlete known as flying tomato is ripe for endorsement deals. according to forbes he made $8 million last year topping lindsey vonn apollo ohno and bode miller all other athletes outside the nhl. all these opportunities arise. sasha cohen brought home a silver medal in 2006. she says endorsement can help an athlete just be an athlete. i think it definitely makes it a lot easier when you can focus more of your energy and time into your sport instead of having to support yourself to pay the bills for your sport. her sport is one most americans only follow once every two years. one of the problems that happens with the winter olympics
is the question of staying power or what we call legs in the industry. the struggle is to keep that profile high and keep them as a personality. shepard: for instance, shaun white has a video game and skateboarding career. figure skating evan lysacek has stars on ice. lindsey vonn posed for sports illustrated and apollo ohno dancing with the stars. he is moving beyond the sport which basically helps make him more marketable. when cold symptoms threaten to take apollo power s power. shepard: things were different when heiden cleaned up at the 1980 games. i did not really appreciate the implications of winning a gold medal, let alone five. shepard: he didn t have any endorsement deals on the line. i think that kind of pressure would be tough to deal with. shepard: heiden who is now a doctor says it was nice to have something to fall back on once the games were over. there is life after the
shepard: the winter blast rolls on in the east, shattering records with snow still falling, plus, coming down from the health care summit. i m shepard smith. this is fox news. i believe that we have good prospects for passing legislation. i think on the approach to health care, the gaps cannot be closed. shepard: now with republicans calling for a do-over and democrats promising to push forward, what s next for health care in america? and amy bishop is already accused of gunning down fellow faculty members at the university of alabama huntsville. now investigators say they have uncovered a secret from this professor s past. the more information we got, the more we looked at the report, the more questions we had. shepard: tonight, the new clues in an old case. plus, more than 2 feet of snow. 90 mile-per-hour winds, and still the flakes keep flying. tonight, inside the snow hurricane. well, the democrats are not gonna wait long for health care. just one day after la