every patient s past. and because the whole hospital s working together, there s a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we ve already answered some of the nation s toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers.
good evening, en. we begin tonight keeping them honest. one of the most contentious issues that came up in the debate. an issue that had all the makings of a political firestorm. kids, sexually transmitted disease, the government telling them how to protect their kids. at issue is rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human papilloma virus, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry is someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now after the debate she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation. something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is by all accounts, just flat-out wron
it is september 14th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live this morning from new york. thanks for waking up with us. nearly one in six americans are now living in poverty. that s according to a new report from the census bureau. it s a gut check on where we stand in the wake of the recession. here are the raw numbers from the government. 46.2 million lived in poverty in 2010. that s over 15% of the population, the highest level since 1993. for a family of four, the poverty line is just over $22,000 a year. some advocates for the poor say that bar is way too low, but the conservative heritage foundation is pushing back again. if you qualify as being in poverty today, then you re really in deep poverty because that number is so low. that s based on an outdated formula from the 60s. i think that these numbers are designed to exaggerate the extent of poverty in the united states in order to build a larger welfare state, and it does make it mo
there s a nurse who can access in an instant every patient s past. and because the whole hospital s working together, there s a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we ve already answered some of the nation s toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers.
call. i m carol costello. thank you for waking up with us. rick perry was the prime target along with seven other presidential candidates on stage, trading barbs about everything from the economy to vaccinations to immigration. social security set the tone right off the bat. you ll hear from all eight contenders talking about your money, your job, your retirement. but let s talk about the two candidates sitting at the top of the polls. rick perry and mitt romney. listen. this is a broken system. it has been called a ponzi scheme by many people long before me, but no one s had the courage to stand up and say here is how we re going to reform it. the term ponzi scheme i think is over the top, unnecessary, and frightful to many people. i m not particularly worried about about governor perry and governor romney frightening the people when president obama scares them every day. social security is broke, we spent all the money, and it s on its last legs unless we do some