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10:00Financial Bail-Out Rejected

Guest host: Frank Sesno

The House of Representatives rejected the administration's $700 billion financial bail out package sending the stock market tumbling. A look at why the measure failed and what proponents of the plan are hoping to do next.

Guests

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (Portfolio)

Martin Kady, reporter, Politico

Tom Deutsch, Deputy Executive Director, American Securitization Forum

Kathleen Day, Center for Responsible Lending

Frank Partnoy, law professor, University of San Diego author of "Infectious Greed"

11:00Nancy Nichols "Lake Effect" (Island Press)

Guest host: Frank Sesno

A journalist explores the link between the pollution in her Great Lakes town and the rare forms of cancer in her family.

Guests

Nancy Nichols, journalist, editor, and broadcaster

Dr. Howard Frumkin, director of CDC's National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

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