harder when he s already got 59 democrats. he still can t get the super majority of 60. it ll be that much harder to get his agenda through. john, kiran? well, it ll be a tough one on the road today. thanks so much. let s get a check of some of the other stories crossing the cnn political ticker this morning. our senior political editor mark preston live at the cnnpolitics.com desk for us. what have you got this morning, mark? well, as ed just said, democrats are concerned about the midterm elections and that s why we re seeing president obama on the trail. part of the reason is the enthusiasm by the tea party. what do americans think of the tea party? we asked the question, what is your opinion of the tea party in this new cnn opinion research corporation poll. well, americans are split, 43% say the tea party is too extreme while 41% say it s in the mainstream. but let s take the question a little bit farther. how influential is the tea party? are you more likely to vote for
welcome back to the most news in the morning. time for an a.m. house call. becoming an empowered patient. we talked a lot about this with elizabeth cohen. she learned how important it is, in fact, it s the title of her new book. she has a special this weekend you don t want to miss. elizabeth joins us now from atlanta with the first of several lessons that could save lives. elizabeth, as the parent of two children who played baseball, this one is really frightening. it is. i mean, john, kiran, you are parents, this is every parent s nightmare. your child has an injury, you know that they are seriously ill but the folks in the emergency room say don t worry and want to send you home. as you said, this happened to a family in ohio, and we here at cnn medical teamed up with the animation folks at turner studios to bring you their story.
new poll numbers on the tea party, and we ll get to those in a moment, but let s talk a little bit about what s happening this week. a very, very busy day, the days ahead on the campaign trail. let s start with monday. vice president biden is in new hampshire, and he s campaigning for democrats carol shay-porter and carl hodes and the mississippi governor haley barbour will be in new hampshire campaigning on behalf of john steven who is running for governor up there. the republican running for governor. on tuesday president obama holds the first of four major campaign rallies before election day. he ll be in madison, wisconsin. skipping ahead to thursday, vice president al gore will be in tampa, florida, campaigning on behalf of kendrick meek, the democratic senate nominee in that state. on friday, former massachusetts governor mitt romney goes to florida. he ll be campaigning for the republican gubernatorial nominee down there, mr. rick scot, and moving on to saturday, indiana republi
colonel shavffer is saying he submitted the book to his immediate bosses, but when higher-ups here at the pentagon saw it all, they said, nope, there s still classified information in there and some of it has to come out. if you want to buy operation dark heart, you have to buy the second printing of it. the one with the blacked out passages. that s interesting. i just checked on the ipad to see if they had it, the original copy and they actually note this has been r changed by the defen department. how long before the original shows up there? people are scouring the internet, looking to see if they can buy one of those initial copies that may have escaped the military s destruction. i think you can be it s a safe bet to assume people are going to be looking to see how fast they can grab one of those copies. in cyber space in the 21st century, it s awfully hard to destroy information forever. john, kiran. one thing about the internet,
northeast. the giants, jets, and patriots, for instance. a lot of the increase comes from those teams. and in the giants and the jets case, they moved into a new stadium and that s part of paying for the stadium. the american way, debt, debt, debt. they took on a lot of debt to pay for the new stadiums during the bubble when money was cheap. now it s not so cheap and they have to pay for themselves. i wanted to show you, john, some of the highest ticket prices. $76 a ticket, that s remarkable when the average family income median earnings is $740 a week. take four people, that s pretty tough. you look at some of these yankees are on there, patriots are at the top, $117, the jets, giants, and cowboys. and then my hometown team the bears. and this doesn t take into account the psls. in order to get the right to buy the tickets. tens of thousands of dollars. there are personal seat licenses that are tens of thousands of