retirement community. 78-year-old betty ryan douglas. ryan said he saw medicare at work when his grandmother had alzheimer s and she moved in with the family and said his mother also benefits with the program and he said we need to keep that promise for everyone. we will end the raid of medicare. we will restore the promise of this program and we will make sure that this board of bureaucrats will not mess with my mom s health care or your mom s health care. of course, something has to be done about medicare because 76 million baby boomers will turn 65 over the next 20 years. gregg? gregg: steve centanni, thanks very much. heather: well, the price at the pump rising steadily over the last month. now the white house is considering a drastic step to try and bring those prices down. peter doocy has that story in washington. the white house is keeping an eye on gas price which is have risen 40 cents in august due to high oil prices and because of
good morning and welcome to this friday edition of early start nice to have you with us. we re bringing you the news, 5:00 a.m. in the east. so let s get started. up first, renewing the war with just about four months until election day, republicans with a rallying point. they are promise to go do what the supreme court did not do, toss in the trash the health care reform law. sarah palin with a bit of sar kachl even thanked the supreme court in a facebook post. here it is. thank you, scotus. this obama care ruling fires up the troops as america s eyes are opened. thank god. joe johns will join us so that we can chat about this a little bit. joe, are you there? we ll get him a little later and talk about what this this means politically moving forward. and in the meantime, let s do this, shall we, because what a day it was. if you had your tv news set on, it was a whiplash because another war has been renewed with just four months until election day. republicans are reall