evidence would say, i think, make their case. that gets us to the next point which was this bizarre twist yesterday. >> yes, this death over the weekend. totally odd, totally sad. talk to me about matt lee. what happened? >> well, what wie've been able to -- based on what authorities said, they were informed of this in court yesterday, that the stow family, matthew lee, while at home or up in the bay area had some kind of allergic reaction to a salad he had eaten that had peanut products in it. he's 26 years old. i mean, talk about a case -- again, another bizarre twist in a case that's been full of them. >> still unknown, as you write, how lee's death may affect the prosecution's case. let's talk quickly about the other possible victims. what are police trying to do to find these possible assault victims? >> well, nay made it -- they're putting out the word through the

media that they really want to talk to anybody who was in the sections around these suspects and, you know, and what they saw. because, you ne, there might be some confusion. because obviously for weeks on end, we've been hearing about giovanni ramirez and maybe people thought, well, it's not the guys that were hastling us. now, as it turns out, these two men who were accused, people might recollect what happened that night and they had some kind of a scrape with them. i think the lapd and prosecutors are counting on more people coming forward. and as i said earlier, they kind of described it as an escalation of behavior that obviously culminate in this horrible act. >> a lot of people go to baseball games and here's hoping stwun saw something. thank you so much. thanks. now this.

the ugandan police are returning fire. >> terrorists keeping people from leaving areas where there's no food, there's no water and on top of that in some cases, they are stealing the aid from these people. now the u.s. has just made a dramatic move. we're going to take you to the frontlines next. we share. shop from anywhere. and are always connected. we live in a social world. isn't it time we had a social currency to match? membership rewards points from american express.

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a terrorist group is blocking aid, blocking food from getting to desperate, starving people in somalia. we have a reporter reporting from mogadishu on the frontline. she got this exclusive access to the troops and their mission. she's embedded with them. no other reporter is doing that. the situation is getting increasingly dire by the day. i talked to her the last hour and asked about this crisis, the drought, the famine, it's nothing new. >> this really isn't the case here. we've had drought warnings year on year. we've known the insecurity was also going to exacerbate that. we've known for a while that the militant group have a problem with foreign aid organizations working in the areas. all of that was a toxic cocktail that was always going to result in this kind of humanitarian catastrop catastrophe. 9,000 troops doing the work of

the world in attempting to stabilize. >> what are they doing to try to get the aid in? >> al shabaab controls two of the territories where people are suffering the most. there's a rush to try to get aid to them, but aide workers couldn't get into those areas. and if they did, this legal catch-22 came in that if al shabaab stole their supplies or they had to pay bribes to get in, then they were liable to be prosecuted by the united states for violation of u.s. sanctions against al shabaab. it's really crazy. so what they have done is they

have changed that just today -- >> so they wanted be prosecuted? >> right. they can go in 4 in good faith, they ear trying to get food and medical aid in there and if it happens to get into the hands of al shabaab, they say that they will not be prosecuted. it's very, very important. >> the issue then, i guess, the legal details of all these different changes, that that gets ironed out later. but the point being, they want to get food in and they want to get food in now. absolutely. and the statistics they were giving us today, almost 12 million people affected by this famine. and the people being hit the most, they're children, they're 1.2 million children, and 600,000 of them are gravely malnourished. they need immediate help. that's the whole idea. they know that some of this aid and money, et cetera might get into the hands of al shabaab. but they're saying at this point it's really, you know, priority is to get in there, triage, and

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president obama signs the debt bill that warns the battle is far from over and the u.s. credit rating could still be downgraded. time to play reporter roulette. jessica yellin, we heard from the president this morning. the president also congress, you know, now saying they are now able to tackle jobs and unemployment, but has anyone actually outlined a plan? >> well, it depends on how you define plan, brooke. both have a jobs agenda. the problem is there's no overlap. the president, you know, you hear him talk about his list. you've heard it before. he wants to motivate investment, infrastructure, get trade deals done, you know the list. republicans talk about wanting to cut taxes, entitlement programs which could help grow private sector investment. but the big question is how do you accomplish this when there's so little overlap and so much acrimony between the two parties and seeming inability to reach compromise without a crisis.

and bystanders here in washington fear there won't be much done on this front until after the 2012 election. >> you look at the numbers, six senate democrats, 95 house democrats voted against this compromise. how much did the president alienate his base? >> well, there are some here talking in this town, some democrats using that orlando word from the clinton days, triangulation. the president moves over to the other side to win over support. white house officials make the case that they're going to show what was protected from cuts. pell grants, medicare not explicitly on the table unless extreme things happen. if i put on my political analyst hat, the big question is, where are these liberals going to go? my sense is when the campaign revs up, the presidential campaign will be largely about making whoever that republican

candidate is look as extreme as possible and that will motivate the democratic base to get engaged if they can be engaged. >> okay. we'll be watching. jessica yellin taking a break from the heat outside. thanks so much. next here on reporter roulette. despite the debt deal and the president signing it this afternoon, the american economy not out of the woods yet. al alison kosick, the stock market plunged today. >> it did. the economy not out of the woods yet. what's interesting is it never was out of the woods. the focus of everybody just changed to the debt ceiling issues. and now that that uncertaincy is off the table, eve got more certainty on the debt issue, the focus is being put on the broader economy and wall street doesn't like what it sees. investors got spooked today. consumer spending fell for the first time for almost two years. it shows that saving rates are up. and that means that americans,

they're socking away their money. they don't know what to expect in the economy. they're afraid about jobs so they're trying to put away more money. add to the mix here, we had a weak manufacturing report, weak gdp reports. that's the broadest measure of economic growth here in the u.s. those are also weak. so all signs point to a lot of weakness in the economy and that is why you saw stocks tank today, brooke? >> also speaking about not out of the woods. will our credit rating be downgraded? we've yet to hear from s&p, we have yet to hear from moody's. do you know when we'll hear? when we will know. >> fitch made a decision and it's actually good news. i've got some good news. fitch says it's going to hold -- yeah, can you believe it? it says it's going to hold the u.s. credit rating at aaa even though there are still a lot of issues to work out. some are saying, you know, a downgrade by standard & poors is still inevitable. s&p has been the most vocal agency in all of this.

if this happened, it would be a big deal. it could raise the nation's borrowing costs and the borrowing costs for businesses and consumers as well, and that would, of course, be an even further drag on an already very weak economy that's already having trouble picking up steam. we don't need that, but of course, we're going to keep an eye on it. brooke? >> thank you so much. listen, if you hang out in washington long enough, you will catch a glimpse of some bigwigs. but a marine scored an ini havation to breakfast with the vice president. joe johns has the scoop in our "political pop" next. we find the best, sweetest crab for red lobster we can find. yeah! [ male announcer ] hurry in to crabfest at red lobster. the only time you can savor three sweet alaskan crab entrees all under $20, like our hearty crab and roasted garlic seafood bake or snow crab and crab butter shrimp. [ jon ] i wouldn't put it on my table at home, i wouldn't bring it in.

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>> to new york where hundreds of cement and concrete workers at the world trade scepter and other sites stayed home. many of them, they are angry over expired contracts and proposed pay cuts. the port authority insists the city wide stoppage will not affect construction of the 9/11 memorial which, by the way, is still on track to open september 11. and a legend has just called in. coming up next, willie nelson will join me live. he has a thing or twor to say about the debt battle and what

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guess who's on the phone line? willie nelson on the phone line. he's about to talk debt with me. i know what you're thinking. willie nelson. debt? what? what prompted this conversation. this whole thing started with my colleague anderson cooper. if you were watching "360" last night, he and paul begala were talk act the house debt vote yesterday. paul was on tv, he mentioned he got an e-mail from his buddy willie, willie nelson saying that americans are more concerned about, you know, a roof over their own heads than a ceiling on their debt. so willie nelson on the phone line. it's good to have you on the phone and talk to you again. what specifically are you getting from your fans when it comes to the debt kreeling? what are you hearing? >> well, honestly, we play for all kind of people out here, and

they're much more worried about ceilings over their heads these days, roofs over their heads than they are the debt ceiling. i'm sure that's very important to a lot of people, but it's kind of hard to convince the farmers out there it's the most important thing, especially when they go to the bank and find out what their debt ceiling really is. >> when you talk to these farmers in montana, you were in oregon a couple of days ago. what are their biggest frustrations? just in general? >> well, the fact that the farmers aren't making enough money. we could really utilize our family farmers. our small family farmers a lot more than we do. they can grow our food and our fuel. we don't have to run around the, starting wars over oil. we can grow everything we need right here in our country and our farmers need the work. and we just need to put mur

young people out on the farms to start farming for us. >> i know the president has signed this deal. here's what we found. 52% disapprove of this deal that has now passed. why when you talk to these regular folks, why do you think they're so disappointed in this? >> because it's not really about them. it's more about, you know, the people who have all the money. the farmer and the working people, they don't have the debt ceiling to worry about. >> have you heard about the pea pod party? >> no, i don't know if i want to ask. throw it at me. what's that? >> when i got in a little

problem in texas. i heard there's a tea party so what we need is is a teapot party. i form lated it and next thing you know there's thousands of people all over the country and every state of the union have joined up. so i just wanted to kind of fill you in where i was there. >> thank for fill me in, willie nelson. but i do want to ask, though, if i'm correct, you're 78 years young, is that right? >> that's right. april 30 is my birthday. >> so you're 78. you've been performing for -- your career has spanned six decades. you've lived through a lot. how do you compare this particular issue, this debt mess to other issues you have been outspoken on through the years? >> well, you know, for 25 years in a row, we have been doing farm aid. which is a benefit, calling attention to the problems that the farmers are having and have

been having. we have lost millions and millions of small family farmers and so that's what me and neil young, john mellencamp and a lot of others of us every year for 25 years have had farm aid. and we're having farm aid this year, august 13 in kansas city. again, trying to call attention to the farmer's plight. >> i understand your passion about the farmers. you're passionate about your music. i do a little thing called music monday. if you ever swing through atlanta, i'm going to come find you at cnn. deal? >> i look forward to that, brooke. it's nice talking to you. >> thank so much, willie nelson. i appreciate it. cue music. >> see you on the bus. >> when you visit capitol hill, as we mentioned, you do run into some pretty powerful people. but it's not every day one of them invites you to share some

scrambled eggs and bacon. joe johns is here with that story. and joe, just connect the dots. it's an amazing story. a wounded warrior just happens to run into vice president bide season in. >> righ-- biden. >> his name is todd love. and he is a wounded warrior, he was hurt in afghanistan, lost both legs and an arm, and the thing that's cooped of interesting about this is that the capital is full of joe biden stories. you know, he's a colorful guy. he worked here for so long. and this is just another one of those stories. apparently biden is walking out after the big house vote on the debt limit and he sees the corporal there on the first floor of the united states of the capital. strikes up a conversation with him. at first apparently invites him over to the white house and decides he wants to make it a

little bit more personal and says hey, why don't you come over to my house tomorrow for breakfast. and so he did. not only do we have the photograph that went up -- >> yep, here it is. but we actually have i think some moving video as well. and we have a tweet that the vice president put out, you know, we reported some time oork he started this twitter account. we have a tweet he put up today. had breakfast with true american hero at my home this a.m. great getting to you usmc corporate todd love and dad gary, retired usmc. so looks like second sdwren ration in the marine corps there. interesting story. and i imagine they'll stay in touch, too, knowing joe biden. >> you never know who you get to run into on the hill. maybe even you run into joe johns if you're lucky enough. thank you. i know you've had a long day. and now this. mystery solved. a florida farmer can stop wondering what happened to his chicken and goats.

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