beneficiaries whereas going on the exchange, do you have to pay money. and i think people are going to delay that until you know, a month before the insurance coverage starts. what about this report from kaiser health news which says that hundreds of thousands of americans are seeing their existing insurance plans canceled because the coverage falls short of the new standards? is that not what was promised by the administration that no one will have to change if they don t want to? look, a lot of those plans are not plans in fact, they re sort of just pseudoplans. let me give you an example. prior to the health reform bill, mcdonald s had a plan that it sold to workers for $56 per month that covered i think it was $2,000 of health care costs. now, $2,000 of health care costs is nothing. that s like an emergency room visit for setting your arm or go getting a few stitches. it won t cover a hospital for an emergency appendectomy.
the only thing that s keeping you cool here is the actual ground. we re trained to dig a hole right by your mouth to try to breathe through the ground where it s cooler. there s two types of heat. the radiant heat about 95% of that is reflected. you can imagine how hot it is. you have gloves on your hand. once your hands burn you can t hold it down. why do you suppose they didn t survive? unfortunately, one of biggest things is suffocation. a lot of times you don t have enough oxygen, you can t hold your breath long enough. we re trained not to lift it up. if you lift it up you get the toxins and that can be fatal as well. : just past the top of the hour. the first witness is about to take the stand of the george zimmerman trial. our coverage starts now.
the theme of the republican national convention. brian: if you have a good idea for what we should be doing when we re not on the air, write us. steve: remember, our coverage starts on sunday and then we re going to fly down and we re going to be there. we re done at 9:00 o clock every morning. so we got a lot of time, lot of down time, if you got ideas on what we should be doing. gretchen: you re auctioning us off? i actually have a problem with that. steve: from noon on, our afternoons are free, what should we be covering down there at the rnc? same thing for the dnc. brian: also weigh in who has got it worse today in public perception, blonds or men? because on e-mail gretchen: all i m going to say is equal opportunity and blondes have had it their entire existent. i don t have a problem with it, okay? don t write me and say, where are you so uptight about it? i don t have a problem with it, but let s just takes face it, when you re blond and someone tells you a joke a
delegates they would like to get. martha: i know you know what the magic number is. 419 delegates at stake tonight. we are move into triple digits in some cases. mitt romney is already there. he s got 203. he s the leader of the pack. rick santorum has 92 delegates. newt gingrich and ron paul in third. and fourth place. 1,144 is the magic number you need to secure the gop nomination. will tonight tell us we are getting close or will it tell us we ll be at this through june, through california, through all of these races. bill: california is june. your place for the best super tuesday coverage. we ll bring you the results as the polls close. special coverage starts:00 eastern time with bret on special report. martha: we want to go to ought growing evenings between iran
and then you could tell it hit the school with all the turbulence. i want you to look at this video shot by an i reporter. let s just listen to some of it. [ bleep ] i have friends over there. [ bleep ]. we got to get in the house. [ bleep ]. look at it. holy. my god my friend lives right over there too. oh, my god. come on, nick. that is nuts. [ bleep ]. this is unbelievable. can you imagine if that were you. you have friends over there and family members as well. this video like the first one shot in henryville, indiana. all told at least 37 people are dead. the number of missing are impossible to know right now. i m don lemon thank you for joining us in the cnn newsroom. i want to bring in meteorologist jackie jarris. first the video from the gas station. you can see the debris within that funnel. it s amazing to think how close they must have been to that tornado and feeling the impact and that sucking in as air rushes into the tornado. there you can see in