. >> reporter: in one case recently, a 16-year-old high school basketball player from michigan, wes leonard, collapsed and died on the court just moments after hitting a game-winning shot. his cause of death? an enlarged heart. while there are only 50 to 100 of these cases in the u.s. every year, deaths like leonard's have sparked calls to get all high school athletes screened for possible heart defects. >> i feel like whenever you hit puberty, you should be getting tested. that's when they said it hit me. >> reporter: but this doctor who is a pediatric cardiologist believes screening is a waste of time and money. she says giving teens the standard test for heart defects would cost americans $2 billion a year. and those tests, she says, aren't very accurate. >> there's about a 10% false positive risk. >> reporter: she says a false positive could lead to further unnecessary testing. instead, parents and children should watch for key symptoms including fainting, chest pain while exercising and seizures. parents should keep track of the family history since many of these conditions are genetic

. >>> sugar ray leonard, we watched him on "dancing with the stars." he did a terrific job. very well respected of course in his boxing field. he was now coming up with a book on june 6th, and he talks about a really difficult childhood. in fact he says that he has done cocaine, he had a cocaine problem for a while and grew up in a house with a lot of alcohol abuse but coming clean with the fact that he was actually molested as a child by a very prominent olympic boxing coach. >> who has since died i think. >> who has since passed away. and obviously this was very tough for him and he was a vulnerable child. that's how he ended up in boxing in the first place. but very difficult for him to reveal this and a lot more coming up in this book. >> recent years, there's been a lot of men who have come forward which is a hard thing to do. tyler perry did that show with oprah. don lemon the cnn anchor came out a few month ago. it's scary. how many men out there are dealing with it. so hopefully help other people get through it. >> right, absolutely. >> more after the break. stay wit

arthur laurents wrote some of the most endearing classics of stage and screen, including "the way we were," which starred barbra streisand and robert redford. he collaborated with likes of albert hitchcock and leonard bernstein. >>> the hottest royal couple in the world is now heading for the golden state. prince william and his new bride are planning a three-day trip to california beginning july 8th. their official schedule, though, has not been made public just yet. and believe this or not, it will be kate's first trip here to the u.s. >> that's amazing. that is surprising. >>> well, in sports, university of alabama baseball players, some of whom barely escaped last week's tornadoes, returned to the field tonight for the first time since the devastation. and as for last night's sports highlights, we go to espn news. >> good morning. i'm don bell with your espn news update. we start on the ice. daniel sedin and the canucks looking to take a 3-1 series lead before heading back to vancouver. second period. game tied at 1-1. christian ehrhoff feeds it up top for alexander edler. second

program, neighborhood empowerment programs, and we continue to be updated about where we are at the national level. and of course, we are still taking lessons from everything from not only chile, new zealand, new orleans, but now the newest set of tragedy. what they are doing in alabama and mississippi, what they are doing in those disasters, as we focus on our seismic expectations. i continue to pay a lot of attention to the new seismic lifelines council that we created, through my work in the city administrator's office. that council continues to be unique as it brings together all of our utility agencies in the city, whether the departments or private sector, bringing them in the same room to talk about our gaps, about what we can recover, whether it is pg&e, telecommunications, or emergency coordination with our public utilities commission, having the heads of our fire and police department there, building department there, listening and understanding our role as the lifeline council identifies those things that we need today to strengthen our ability to recover quickly. all of

because tucker and i didn't know the complete history, we wanted to go to the source like we often do. so ladies and gentlemen, joining us right here in studio is father leonard hurley. he is with us now. hello, there, sir. >> good morning to you all. >> good morning. >> hope you all are awake. >> we're awake. >> please clean up that traffic. >> do you get perturbed or is it interesting to you because every day, on the radio, here on our show, we are making reference to father hurley boulevard usually because it is rather backed up. >> nothing wrong with my anatomy. just the road drivers. if they had stayed with the original plans, they wouldn't have the backup they have today and because of the glut of -- instead of having cows and pasteurs, they put in town houses. >> they put in town houses. >> and it is crazy. >> i'm glad you bring that up too. the reason the road is named after you, you were instrumental in some of the original plans for germantown. >> right. unfortunately, i'm still alive. everybody else is dead. that is true. all of the -- all those that worked with me. '74 is

and then i bring it home to you ♪ ♪ i love money in my pocket >>> time now for the help desk where we get answers to your financial questions. joining me, manisha, leonard in virginia beach, virginia asks, what are the pros and cons of consolidating debt and what impact does this have on an individual's credit score. >> so the pros are that by consolidating you can have in the short run a lower monthly payment. and you only have one bill so it can feel simpler and more manageable. the cons are that that one monthly payment when you add up all the extra interest can often result in significantly higher costs to you overall and oftentimes when you consolidate you are moving to a secured loan situation. oftentimes people do this with credit cards not realizing that was unsecured debt. in terms of the effect on your credit score, consolidating has an effect on your credit report which will have an effect on your credit score. the best tool is thefyco score estimator on bankrate.com where you can play around with different scenarios, put the consolidation in and you can see. >> it helps to

host: let's go to cleveland where leonard joins us, a democratic collar. hello, leonard. good morning. welcome. caller: hi. i have a couple of questions boy. the american government, when people are killing manatees, and we seize their money like in iraq and then with osama bin laden, where do those moneys go back into our federal government that the seas and control? i would hope that they took it like they took it from an american citizen who did wrong and they seized their money and it goes back in. the second question is i think the federal government with osama bin laden -- he did things where he heard two men that the killing of these people -- he heard all of these people -- he hurt all of these people. i think the president should ever try to capture him -- host: we will leave it there. guest: what happens to the money. without boring you, there is a difference between seizing money and for fitting money. -- and forfeitting money. the most important thing is not where it goes, but rather that our adversaries are denied access to it. they are worried and have to ta

. >> time for the help desk where we get answers to the financial questions. joining me is a personal finance author and doug flynn, a certified financial adviser. and right to it. leonard from virginia beach, virginia, are asking us, what are the pros and cons of consolidating debt, and what impact does this have on a individual's credit score? good question. >> well, the pros are by consolidating in the shorter run a lower monthly payment, and one bill so it can feel simpler and more manageable, and the cons are that the one monthly payment when you add up the interest can result in significantly higher costs to you overall, and oftentimes when you consolidate, you are moving to a secured loan situation. oftentimes people do it with credit cards not realizing it was unsecured debt. and in terms of the effect on the credit score, and consolidating has an effect on the credit score, and the best tool i have seen is the fico score estimator on bankrate.com where you can play around with the scenarios and put in the consolidation and see in your particular scena

and leonard bernstein. laurents fighting pneumonia when he died in his new york apartment. he was 93 years old. >>> this week the cost of a gallon of gas hit an all-time spring high and suddenly oil plunged below $100 a barrel. will gas prices follow? and could it mean relief at the pump, finally? matt gutman takes a look. >> reporter: all-time highs in four states and 24 other states are within pennies of their records. hawaii still has the nation's most expensive gas, but the nation's heartland is catching up. >> these prices are crazy. i've put $20 in here and by the time i get home, it will be gone. >> reporter: national average may have peaked short of the $4 mark. oil and gasoline futures collapsed. crude oil tumbled nearly 9% to less than $100. its lowest price in almost two months. gasoline futures which helped determine the price at the pump down 23 cents. >> i'm hopeful that in average places, prices will drop as much as 20 cents here in the next seven to ten days. >> reporter: so why the dramatic drop? it's partly due to sagging demand. americans are already driv

mike leonard brought us touching stories about his family over the years. he lost his dad on tuesday at the age of 94. >> jack leonard was a world war ii veteran who lived by the philosophy that it pays to be nice to people. most of all he was a family man -- husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. >> mike often features his dad jack and mom marge. most recently his dad went to a blackhawks game. his dad was honored as a veteran and i think it meant the worldle to jack and mike to have the experience. >> one of the great moments, one of the great stories mike told with his parents was when she shared their cross-country trip. marge and jack were just -- you know where mike gets his warmth, his humor. >> right there. >> mike also had an opportunity to learn about his parents in a way he never had. he's reflected on how important that was for the family. >> he said over the years so many viewers came up and said, your parents are so much a reflection of our own parents. so true. we all see a little bit of our own family in his family. >> yeah. he

line,on the democrats' leonard from ohio. caller: thank you, c-span. how are you all today? host: good. caller: our president has been doing wonderful but you always have your conflicts in any job trying to get things done right. but i think it is time that our present stand strongly on the foreign policy of getting out of their government problems, political problems. i understand they want -- we need to bring these boys home from there and let it go. and i thank you for your time out there. host: the numbers are a little bit different this morning. rose is a republican from louisiana. caller: what i would like for the president not to do is apologize for america and i would like for him to stand with israel. thank you very much. host: from "the wall street journal" this morning, this article. that is in "the wall street journal" this morning. in "the washington times" is this article. what do you want to hear from president obama when he gives his middle east address at 11:40 a.m. this morning? crystal river, florida. it's hot on the independent line. what do you want to h

line,on the democrats' leonard from ohio. caller: thank you, c-span. how are you all today? host: good. caller: our president has been doing wonderful but you always have your conflicts in any job trying to get things done right. but i think it is time that our present std strongly on the foreign policy of getting out of their government problems, political problems. i understand they want -- we need to bring these boys home from there and let it go. and i thank you for your time out there. host: the numbers are a little bit difrent this morning. rose is a republican from louisiana. caller: what i would like for the president not to do is apologize for ameri and i would like for him to stand with israel. thank you very much. host: from "the wall street journal" this morning, this article. that is in "the wall street journal" this morning. in "the washington times" is this article. what do you want to hear from president obama when he gives his middle east address at 11:40 a.m. this morning? crystal river, florida. it's hot on the independent line. what do you want to hear? c