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23 minutes after the hour. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." here are three things you need to have on your radar today. today at noon the senate is set to vote on the debt ceiling deal. they're waiting on the rating -- sorry. i'm still eating my ice cream sandwich. tropical storm watches are up for the parts of the caribbean. it's approaching south florida by friday. if you're there, going there, you might want to look at your plans. and iraq is considering whether to ask the u.s. to

extend the stay of american troops past 2011. iraq's prime minister is hoping for a final decision in the next day or two. let's go around the world with zain verjee. she is in london. zain, interesting new developments in the israeli/palestinian conflict. israeli's benjamin netanyahu is changing things to revise peace talks. tell us what's going on. >> this is a dramatic policy shift. he's basically saying let's discuss it to the palestinians, using the 1967 cease-fire line. he's also telling the palestinians, look, you've got to recognize the state of israel and that it is a jewish state and that do not go to the united nations later this year and unilaterally declare the palestinian state. the palestinians are saying what proposal? we haven't got a proposal. they want details and information. remember, too, the u.s. president barack obama had previously proposed having talks about a palestinian state with

pre-1967 borders. so this is a significant development. the prime minister is changing course, but let's get the details first here, ali. >> all right. also, workerses are finding high levels of radiation around japan's fukushima daiichi plant. what's the news there? >> let me show you some of the pictures coming out of the plant. they have detected the highest levels of radiation since the earthquake and tsunami happened back in march of this year. if you look at this picture, this is actually in between reactor one and two, and it's at the bottom of the ventilation system that right there that they found such high levels of radiation that they say could kill humans within weeks if they're exposed to it. all right. finally, zain, this one -- >> my favorite story. -- genetically modified puppies. what are you talking about? >> right. well, it is a little bit complicated but let's break it down for you here. look at that picture?

isn't it amazing? well, basically they genetically modified this cute little puppy by injecting a fluorescent green gene by way of a dna fragment. basically what that means is they created it in an embryo and put it in a surrogate dog that delivered the puppy. when you put his foot under the ultra violent light it glows the green gene. why are they doing this? it's not just a pretty thing to look at. it's going to be really helpful when you're looking at the evolution of disease like parkinsons or alzheimer's. what doctors can do is inject a gene like that into a puppy and watch it's involve. that way we understand disease better. >> there you go. that's interesting. thank you, zain. you always brings us stuff of value. zain verjee in london for us. lady gaga is just all over this show today. we talked about her commenting on hillary clinton's dressing.

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good morning. it's tuesday, august 2nd, this is your a.m. "wake-up call." i'm ali velshi joining you live from new york. here we are, deadline day for a debt deal. it's been grueling, painful, it's been heated, but finally a big step forward. they vote ed d to raise the deb ceiling through the end of 2012. government spending by over $2 trillion in the next decade. we caught up with john boehner

right after the vote. >> what do you think the message is for the american people tonight? >> the process workses. it may not be pretty, but it works. >> next up, a noon vote in the senate where the plan is supposed to get a green light. then it's onto the president's desk with hour to spare before the president say it can no longer pay america's billing. tropical storm em will i is churning through the caribbean this morning, heading northwest and triggering watches and warnings in the dominican republic, puerto rico, and the virgin islands. we're keeping an eye on emily. it shows the storm tracking close to florida by the weekend but it is still early know where it's headed. polygamist leader warren jeffs says he's quoting god. he filed this on saturday telling the judge to recuse herself. he's accused of taking two child brides ages 12 and 15, sexually assaulting them.

one of the girls has a child by herself. she's 99.9% certain he's the father of the child. the serial killer was executed in 1989 after confessing to more than 30 murders but he could be pinned with more killings thanks to a detective that came across a vial of blood takeen in 1978. it was stick on file. a complete dna profile on bundy will be updated to the fbi's national database this week. consumer rorns is panning the new honda civic. they say the new designed car is worse than the old one. for the first time ever the car received too low a score. it leans too far in turn. onny upside it gets 30 miles to a gallon. for a punch line, once upon a time there was a fight between president obama and stephen colbert finishes the fairy tale for u. >> it's like the billy goats

gruff. obama is the troll. back in december the smallest billy goat said mister troll, let me cross your bridge so i can go to the other side and renew the bush tax cuts or i will call you a job killer. he made the political calculation to let the goat pass and bring this issue up again later. this spring the medium sized billy goat showed all sapd, mr. troll, let me cross your bridge so i can cut spending or i will shut down the government. everybody had seen this exact matchup in 1995 and knew a troll could win by eating the goat and then celebrating by having sex with the troll intern, but obama troll said now is not the time. then the this summer the largest billy goat came capitoling up and said, mr. troll, i will not raise the debt ceiling unless i get to gouge out your eyes and

throw you off the bridge. so the troll had to compromise by gouging out his own eye and throwing himself off the bridge. and the moral of the story is when the first goat comes along, you've got to tear it head off and then mail the carcass back to its brothers and say any of your goat mother [ bleep ] want to put a hoof on my brain? >> now for a political ticker let's bring in cnn's joe johns from washington. that's not exactly how it went down, joe. but it is the senate's turn to vote on this thing six and a half hours from now hopefully? >> yes. around noon eastern time, ali, is the time we've been given. you know, that time slips, but at the end of the day, we're told it looks pretty good for the united states senate. this has been ugly and brutal and frankly it's not the last step. i mean it's the last step toward avoiding default but it's really

only the beginning of this conversation on reducing spending that could be quite painful and difficult going forward. the house vote was dramatic in the sense that we're only hours away from the august 2nd deadlin deadline, but it was one ofs those famous sort of hold-your-nose vote almost for every lawmaker i spoke with, nobody liked this thing, not even the leadership. a lot of conservatives and republicans thought it didn't go far enough. a lot of democrats including liberals thought it goes way too far. you know, there's been so much made about the drama, if you will, of the vote over on the house side. by congressional standards, though, the drama of the moment was really just totally upstaged by the appearance of congresswoman gabrielle giffords who was shot earlier this year, was making her first appearance

on the house floor since the shooting. so a long road toward this. it is expected to pass the senate, though they won't say that. also a possibility for some hiccups, but at the end of the day, most people, i think, here believe this thing is going to be on the president's desk by the end of the day. >> good. okay. we'll stay on top of it with you. boy, you're right about that gabrielle giffords walking into the chambers. at first nobody knew what was going on. she got a standing ovation. first vote she cast. we're going to bring that video to you in a couple of minutes so you can see for yourself. five things that lay giga da can teach your market. this is from the great folks at fast company. number one, target like-minded people. don't focus on ethnicity or gender. focus on people with common interests. number two, be vulnerable, you'll atrablt followers by being open and honest. number three, the consumer is the boss. lady gaga always honors her.

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it's b, commercial airline pilot. public relations officer, corporate executive -- where's public relations? photojournalist and newscaster. advertising account executive, arth terkt, stock broke emt and real estate agent. work environment, income, outlook and stress. i guess when you put income and outlook into it, that's where you get real estate on that list. the list is based on the stress part, by the way. stress part of the survey i'm not sure some of those fit the right way. i don't think i've got the most stressful job in the world. do you, carter evans? look. he ooh looks relaxed. cool as a cucumber. live at the nasdaq desk. i think our job is fine. i don't think it's stressful sniet is a lot of fun. it's nice to get up early and talk to you. >> take all the time to discuss whatever you need to discuss, carter. >> let's talk about how they do

things a little differently in washington than we do. apparently there you spend money to save money. the last two weeks, the theatrics over the debt ceiling key bait cost us taxpayers $1.7 billion. you see, that's the amount of additional interest the government had to pay to sell treasury bills to finance its operations. all the uncertainty that the lawmakers created in making this debacle drove the interest rate. they now consider the t-bills a bigger risk. it cost us $1.7 billion. ial wanted to talk about faa funding today. you know, we're not paying those federal taxes when we buy an airline ticket and one of those reasonses is funding for it was held up in the senate. 4,000 workerses are furloughed right now, and they're expected to stay on furlough when congress adjourns. senators say the impasse is over the new national mediation board rules. those rules make it easier for workerses to union ooiz.

senator hutch chin is using funding extensions minus policy issues. but it's getting expensive for taxpayer. the airlines stopped collecting those taxes and that's a cost of $25 million a day for government, total expected cost of the funding feud, $1.2 billion. just these two discussions over the last couple of weeks. >> yeah. $3 billion. >> remarkable. carter evans, thank you so mump, my friendful good to see you as always. we'll check in with you in layle bit. the nba has had their first formal bargaining talks. the lockout has been going on for a month now. here's colby bryant's two cents. he hinted to playing overseas if the season is canceled. >> i don't know. you know, it's not looking too good right now. we're going to hold our ground. we'll have to sit and watch. watch the wrestler in the blue. he's wrestling the other dude

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good morning. it's tuesday, august 2nd. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." i'm ali velshi joining you live from new york. it's 47 minutes after the hour. let's go straight to zain verjee around the world. she's covering an interesting story. good morning, zain. prime minister are vladimir putin had been watching the debt ceiling debate and he said america is a parasite. >> yeah, he say that. u.s. is a parasite on the global economy. he was speaking to -- a youth group in russia when he came up with this. he went on to say the u has just been living beyond its mean. he said the dominance of the dollar is also a big threat to financial market. he then add ed ed to this group

thank god they had enough common sense and responsibility to make a balanced decision. russia holds a lot of bonds in u.s. treasuries, ali, doesn't it, so he was watching very, very closely the situation and what ultimately ended up happening but vladimir putin saying the u.s. is nothing but a parasite on the global economy. >> forget parasites. let's talk fungus. a giant fungus has been found. somebody wants to know how giant this is. it's half a ton. where is this famous fungus. >> this is grow iing on the underside of a tree in china. it is one of the biggest funguses or fungai found in the world. it weigh half a ton. the preevgs record was in england if you look at the pictures here, they're taking the record of the biggest fungus in china.