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good morning. breaking news. tropical storm claudette makes landfall in florida, and further out in the atlantic, bill has become the first named hurricane of the season. this morning, we re tracking the storms. reining it in. as president obama and his family tour the wild west, signs he may drop a key part of his health plan. is he bowing to pressure from the republicans and those shouters at town hall meetings? and hocus-pocus? the vacation shot crashed by a cuous squirrel. but is it real? the couple behind it here to break their silence and silence their doubte erers today, mon break their silence and silence their doubte erers today, mon august 17th, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good moonk morning, everyone. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry in for meredith vieira. you re one of those doubters that s going to be silenced this morning. i wasn t too sure of the photo. the couple behd the pho ....
take a listen to what he said this weekend in colorado. all i m saying is though that the public option, whether we have it or we don t have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. this is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it. yesterday health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius appeared to back away from the public option even more. they have been more focused on a co-op, not for profit co-op as a competitor as opposed to a straight government-run program, and i think what s important is choice and competition, and i m convinced at the end of the day the plan will have both of those. but that is not the essential element. progressives have been infuriated today. they say that health care reform could be in trouble in the house without a public option. here is new york democratic congressman anthony wiener. i think there s probably about 100 members of the house who believe for various reasons that you need to have something to bring down ....