Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) (L) argues with a man following a town hall meeting August 18, 2009 at the Dartmouth Council on Aging in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
Here are the big stories on the agenda today:
- Democrats say they're ready to take drastic measures, considering a "go it alone" strategy on health care reform. Do they have the votes to make it happen? And fed up with all the town hall hostility, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) gave it back to the crowd yesterday. Let’s just say he lived up to his last name.
- Hurricane Bill is now a major storm – a category four with winds about 135 miles an hour.
Rob Marciano is here to tell us whether it will be a hit, or a miss. - Don't call it a comeback. General Motors is upping production, calling some employees back to work, and delaying plant shutdowns. So has the cash for clunkers program been a shot in the arm?
- Michael jackson's doctor – the man who was there when he died – the man at the center of the manslaughter investigation is speaking out for the first time and making his case in a YouTube video. Hear why Dr. Conrad Murray fears for his own life.
- The Good Wife. Carol Costello explores why women with cheating husbands have become "stars." And Jenny Sanford is the latest. Would you Google your husband’s mistress and