studies now showing that students pay an average of more than $20,000 total to attend a four-year college and that brings us to the talk back question today and carol skos tell low has your responses. education. it was expensive when you and i were in college. now i know. but i just wonderfy could afford it now because if i to pay for it myself way back in the day. the question today, is a college education worth it? this from christa. i went to school to become a high schoolteacher. i graduated in 2007 and i am now a restaurant manager. my husband graduated with his plumbing apprenticeship program this week and makes double what i do. to date, all i have from four years of college is a to be of debt. i m not saying it s not worth it but it sure hasn t paid off yet. of course it is worth it. but how many doctors, lawyers and wall street crooks account economy sustain? i can tell you college is not for everyone. i m a college student. i ve seen students who were smart enough f
oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. went right through here. i don t know where we are. i don t know. we got to keep going this way. don t step in any of this. it s a firsthand account of not only the damage and devastation but also the panic search for loved ones. what you re seeing here is a man and his fiancee trying to reach the man s sister. we ll keep asking. let s go to this house. it s gone. they were unable to drive because the streets were blocked with debris. sarah, mike! sarah, mike! sarah, mike! mike, sarah! i ll check the basement. sarah, mike! mike, sarah! you guys down here? mike? sis. the sister was in the house during the tornado and rode out the storm in the basement. she wasn t hurt but had gone to other family member s home. the man who shot this amazing video and his sister will join us live in about half hour. stay with us to hear more about their remarkable story. four days after the tornado frustration and anger over t
being fat, to showing off rock-hard abs, politicians these days let it all hang out and it gets us to the talk back question today with carol skos tell low. what are people saying? on a friday, too. it is a fun friday. isn t it? absolutely. talk back question, are politicians revealing too much. this from megan if they want to pose for magazines in their spare time who s it harming? as long as the job they re hired to do is the first priority. it is an added bonus if they re hot. it is a way of keeping attention off the real issues. spanky we don t care how he looks, we care he voted against the bill that would get us money in our warehouse district in peoria and how aaron is being a puppet for the republican an tea party. joe i sure hope michelle
suicide bombers, one on a motorcycle, one on foot, targettarget ed cadets in northwestern pakistan. that happening today. the two explosions killed 80 people. the academy is near the border with afghanistan. now, sources say that bin laden s widows, they re not giving up a lot of information. the three women are described as hostile to their american questioners. the interview took place with pakistani intelligence officers in the room. and a source says only the oldest wife spoke. defense secretary robert gates says he is going to pump up security around the navy s.e.a.l. team that took out bin laden. gates says that the s.e.a.l.s are concerned about their safety and the safety of their families because details of the raid have been made public. rain today across the mississippi delta is only adding to the flood misery. the national weather service says the mississippi river is at the highest level ever recorded at natchez and the second highest at vicksburg. the river i
rein in its spending. and that could mean a major overhaul for a program that helps millions of seniors. our carol skos stem cecostello today s talk back question. most politicians beforehand would not touch this. but maybe voters say, hey, we understand. maybe the time is right. who knows. but it is pretty clear medicare once untouchable is now on the political chopping block. at least in some form. everyone pays into medicare through payroll taxes but here s the ugly math. 47 million people are enrolled in medicare today. by 2040, medicare will cover nearly double the people it does now. but it will cost three times as much. medicare it would seem is unsustainable. how to go about changing it? republicans say to save medicare the government should stop paying bills directly and instead give seniors vouchers for private insurance. that s to make health care more affordable, they say. price controls medicare today are causing doctors to stop