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March 23rd, 2011
09:46 AM ET

Consumer Reports reviews Obama's health care bill

Wednesday marks one year since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, but many of the bill's nuances are still unclear to Americans.

Consumer Reports is reviewing the bill and sorting fact from fiction. Nancy Metcalf, the Senior Program Editor for Consumer Reports Health, talks to American Morning's Christine Romans about the health care bill on its one year anniversary.


Filed under: Consumers • Health care • U.S.
March 23rd, 2011
09:19 AM ET

Coalition airstrikes continue in Libya

As coalition airstrikes in Libya continue, President Obama says the United States is ready to hand over control of the mission to international forces.

Fouad Ajami, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University, talks to American Morning about Operation Odyssey Dawn.


Filed under: Libya • World
March 23rd, 2011
07:24 AM ET

Black smoke rising from reactor 3 at Daiichi nuclear plant

Black smoke is rising from reactor 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and dangerous levels of radioactive iodine have been detected in tap water in Japan.

Lake Barrett is a nuclear engineer who oversaw the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's response to the Three Mile Island accident. Barrett talks to American Morning about the developing nuclear situation in Japan.


Filed under: Health • Japan Earthquake • World