>> de: much more. 6 to 9 tomorrow. >> steve: it will be a really big show. he'll be in the after the show show. log on right now. in the meantime, up we go to the 12th floor with "america's newsroom." bill: great show this morning. good morning. thought the debt deal was done, didn't you, america. we are deep in the woods on our financial issues. stock tumbling almost 266 points. a top credit agency putting the u.s. on a negative outlook. now word out of china that despite the deal, the u.s. failed to diffuse the debt bomb. that word out of chai and a half all places. alisyn: there are new concerns about america's economic future. president obama says he's

looking towards jobs as a new report shows a surge in layoffs. more than 66,000 in july. >> we are still not dealing with the root cause of our problem this weakened economy and that's the overextend of our federal central eyed government. unfortunately our president is so off base in his thinking because all of his solutions have to do with growing more government and spending money we don't have on programs and departments and people that cannot allow the private sector to grow and thrive and create jobs. 2012 cannot come soon enough. bill: stuart, good morning. what's happening out there? reporter: the world is running scared. there is a stampede for safety. number one, possible recession coming in the united states. a bleak jobs outlook.

italy is in trouble, spain is in trouble, there is not enough money on the planet to bail them out. chairman of china's central bang says they may be thinking about moving some of their money out of the u.s. dollar. all of that is bad news. the winner in all of this turmoil, this rush to safety is gold. another record high this morning. it's up another $20 an ounce. bill: you are making an argument now all this budget deal is going to be wiped out because of a slowing economy. you make the case there is less revenue in the washington because the economy slows which make this whole thing a push? report there are yes, it's wiped out. whatever savings in terms of lower spending you have got in the first year of this budget

deal. whatever lower spending you have got is actually wiped out by even less revenues coming into the treasury because the economy is slowing so much. bill: i'm looking for good news taken can't find a whole lot except for this. interest rates are dropping again? >> reporter: they tumbled yesterday. the yield on the 10-year treasury 2.6 per. normally you add 1 1/2 points to that and you get the mortgage rate. that would bring you a mortgage rate of 4% even on a 30-ific low. 3/4% on a 15-year fiksd and below 3% on a 5-year adjust itable. bill: 1920? >> reporter: not quite. 1945. bill: a credit downgrade could

drive up borrowing costs if the downgrade comes and it means an extra $100 billion in interest payment to china. savers and investments in college savings accounts could be hit. after the deal is done, the markets took a dive and our credit could be downgrade. was it one big mistake? tell us what you think? yes or no on our webpage and we'll have the answers here. alisyn: one state that is seeing job growth is wisconsin. the state added 9,500 jobs. governor scott walker tells us how he brought jobs back to his state. >> we changed the business climate. we reduced the tax burden on job

creators and created a new economic development corporation to show when we said wisconsin was open for business, it wasn't just a slogan, and when didn't wait six months or a year, we did it trite away. taking a deficit and turning it into a surplus. those are the things job creators are looking for. alisyn: president obama says he's focusing on jobs now that the debt deal is done. coming up next hour a look at the president's plan this time around. bill: while the nation focused on our debt prices at the pump t pump, quietly ticking back up. alisyn: we have incredible new weather video to show you.

this is a massive funnel cloud barreling down on broward county. a brave witness capturing these images moments before it touched down. seconds later a tornado leaves miles of destruction in its path. several homes were leveled. but despite the damage, there were no reported injuries. bill: tropical storm emily taking aim at the u.s. perhaps. the forecasts show emily might strengthen into a hurricane and turn towards the u.s. coast. on a collision course at the moment with the dominican republic in haiti. what do you see, maria? >> reporter: we have been busy tracking the storm and it has not gotten its act together the past couple days and has changed very little overnight. the reason for that is we have strong winds aloft that are

helping tear apart the storm. it's moving off towards the west and you can see heavy rain already falling over puerto rico and it is expected to make landfall in haiti and the dominican republic overnight. we are still looking at heavy rain. 4-6 inches of it and locally up to 10 inches. we are talking about concerns for flash flooding and mudslides, and a new tropical storm watch has been issued for central portions of the bahamas. it's moving off towards the west at 14 miles an hour. expected to make landfall later tonight over hispanola. how much of emily will survive this interaction with land with hispanola. the forecast cone expects the storm to weaken a bit, and the center of it should remain offshore off the southeast coast

of the u.s. but it will be strengthening again. by early monday morning could be a category one hurricane. most of the models keep the storm offshore. but some of these models bring it into the gulf of mexico. so we'll keep a close eye on the storm. bill: the waters are very warm and this storm will, us for days. maria, thank you for that. alisyn: a fox news alert. dramatic scenes unfolding in cairo. form term egyptian leader hosni mubarak is i standing trial after going wheeled into the courtroom on a gurney. he's charged with corruption and the killing of protesters. reena ninan is on the phone with us. was it a surprise mubarak showed up today? >> reporter: a lot of

egyptians thought the president would be no-show. when his chopper touched down next to the courthouse the crowd went nuts. but the real spectacle was seeing the man who ruled egypt for 30 years being wheeled in on a hospital bed and placed in a cage with his sons who are all facing corruption charges. alisyn: the irony, this man who ruled with an iron fist now in an iron cage. >> reporter: pro-democracy leaders say the military is trying to shield mubarak. they say he may have hayes problems but they want him to die in dignity and not in a

trial. alisyn: in a cage. bill: we have seen these trials happen in cairo before. the president pivoting from the debt deal to a 50th birthday party. we are wondering fit many the right time for fundraising and a star-studded birthday bash or should you cut him a break. alisyn: no new taxes in the debt deal. but is the tea party happy? bill: the emotional phone call from an anxious mother. >> hello. yes, it is.

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alisyn: new video to show of a destructive fire raging in oklahoma. 8 firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion. this is outside of tulsa. the intense flames fumed by intense heat. temperatures reaching above 110 degrees. the tulsa fire department reports they have the situation under control. they evacuated residents and

they are returning to their homes. bill: some are saying the tea party is the big winner after this debt deal. what does the tea party think? a lot of them don't sight that way and a lot of that depends on who you talk to. >> it has changed the debate. it shifted from how much are we going to increase to how much are we going to cut. >> the tea party did shift the debate. but there is so much to do to get the economy back on the right track. bill: the coauthor of "give us liberty." i'm reading that most folks are disappointed as members of the tea party. are you one of them? >> we are disappointed. this whole process has been completely frustrating for americans who are insisting

their government get its budget under control. first the process. what happened to transparency. what happened to the idea we were going to have an open legislative process and rational course to get us where we need to be. what happened to civility. how is it acceptable democratic politicians are calling us domestic terrorists for insisting the federal government live within its means. you look at details of the deal, you look at the first cut, one-half of one percent cut in the total federal budget. every year of this deal. discretionary spending goes up every year. this is not something to celebrate. we have a lot more to do. bill: ellen gilmore is a member of the tea party patriots. she said people are saying these tea partyers, aren't they wonderful? they are change the conversation. well we got squat except for the

conversation. >> we got rolled in this debate. i do agree with sarah palin on this. in the concept we'll have to cut spending we started a conversation. this was a first tact cal fight. i do think we got rolled. but the budget is coming up in september and we have to have this debate again. the super committee is going to try to jam tax increases down our throats in december. bill: democrats are saying the tea party has too much influence. >> we don't have enough influence. if the goal of the tea party is to rein in the federal debt and balance the budget, these are the goals of republicans, independents and a growing number of democrats with buyers'

remorse. it's clear to me we have a senate against the concept of balancing the budget. we have a president against fiscal responsibility. bill: but the house held the lane on no new tax at least for now. that was a major part of your platform. and to be inserted in the national conversation in such a short period of time, that's tremendous growth for any political movement at any time in american history. do you plant the flag on that? >> yes. we got to draw the line on taxes, and we have to change the conversation. what i have told fellow tea partyers, for all the frustration we are feeling right now, understand every step of the way the establishment has count our impact and we beat expectations. i think we continue to do that. bill: you had 66 house republicans vote against it and 19 senate republicans vote

against it as well. alisyn: another naughty picture of a lawmaker hits the web. who is taking pictures of himself in the mirror this time around? stick around, we'll show you. bill: this is a tragic story. celina cass found dead near her home. but how she died is a mystery. what clues do we have? >> the fact that water was in the water plays a part in that autopsy. but we are confident as this investigation continues that we'll have more definitive answers on that. we are doing everything we can to get more detoug de --

bill: a deadly 18-wheeler

accident in the dallas area shutting down interstate 35. the driver of the rig was killed when the truck rolled over, spilling cargo of dog food all over that highway. a pop was heard before the crash, possibly a blown tire on the 18-wheeler. alisyn: we are awaiting test results on the body of celina cass. she vanished from her new hampshire home last week and monday divers pulled her body from a river less than a mile from her house. >> based on official observation of miss caaa' body in and out of the water we determined that death was suspicious and that's why we launched a criminal investigation and we continue to go forward with that investigation. i can't tell you at this

juncture because this is a criminal investigation. alisyn: dr. cyril wecht is a forensic pathologist. when they saw celina's body in the lake and when they pulled it out they saw something that made them think the death was suspicious, meaning not an accident and they launched a criminal investigation. what might they have seen? >> it might well be related to the clothing, or the absence of clothing in as much as no determination as been made regarding the cause of death, i don't believe there is evidence of significant injuries. though there could possibly be bruises or scratches. the i am merg in water will take it extremely difficult most likely impossible to ascertain and identify and test for any

trace evidence -- body fluids secreted from the assailant, anything of a trace nature such as hair or fires on her body or so on. the fact that they have not come up with a cause of death leads me to believe it is going to be a drowning or asphyxiation. which will have left no marks. alisyn: after a body has been in water for a few days can medical examiners determine if she was sufficient kaitd or strangled? >> it's very difficult. suffocation or drowning are exclusion airy diagnoses even with a fresh case. alisyn: meaning what? >> we have to exclude everything else and we have to have good circumstantial testified to suggest that. suffocation will leave nothing almost always. drowning is not a definitive diagnosis. strangulation can be even

accomplished without leaving internal evidence of injury depending upon how the pressure is applied. externally the markings on the neck and the cheek, chin, around the mouth, that will have been covered up by the time in the water. if you have a very intense kind of strangulation i think this will be an investigative problem looking for things in the community, so close to the border, 800 people or so. i don't believe anybody from boston or concord oro came into that town -- alisyn: it sounds like you are saying someone may have gotten

away with in some ways the perfect crime if putting a body in a lake gets rid of all the evidence. >> from a forensic standpoint you are right. i hesitate to say these things. by you are right. and so even though it may be somewhat instowtle as forensic -- somewhat insulting to us as forensic scientists, we recognize we don't always have the answers. it will remain in the domain of the homicide detectives. this is not an accidental or suicidal death. this little girl was murdered, dead and thrown into the water or thrown into the water and she drown. alisyn: investigators have so many more tools in their arsenals to crack these cases. bill: we have breaking news and

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alisyn: we have breaking news on a disturbing story. we are getting reports a bomb threat in australia. right now we are learning that police are at the home of a young woman claiming to have an

explosive device strapped to her body. police are saying the bomb may have been strapped to this 18-year-old young woman as part of an extortion plot. >> there was a device in the house. that device is being examined as we speak. we are treating the device as live until we know otherwise. certainly something we are treating very, very seriously until we know otherwise and we'll continue to do that. alisyn: we are told officials have evacuated people near by. stuart cohn is live on the phone from sydney. >> reporter: the police just finished up a press conference half-hour ago and didn't shed any more light on the situation. they say there are four police with the girl right now.

two bomb squad technicians and boo negotiators. it's thought this may be an extortion attempt. the drama began unfolding 9 hours agree. she called police, they responded to a very, very rich neighborhood in the northern suburbs of sydney. one of the most wealthy neighborhoods in the area. they found an he can pleasive device attached to this girl. police aren't even saying if it is an explosive device. they say they cannot separate the girl from the device. they say there is a note attached to it. the girl is an 18-year-old daughter of one of the wealthiest families in sydney leading people to believe there has been an extortion attempt. the device itself they say is a tough nut to crack. alisyn: i'm reading police are

not treating is as an incident of self-harm. and there are some reports that a man broke into her house in a ski mask. do you know anything about this? >> reporter: the police appealed to the public asking for information about suspicious people seen in the neighborhood around 2:00, 2:30 this afternoon. this girl came home, she was attacked, the device was placed on her. she called the police and the police respond. they have been with her ever since. the entire area is evacuated. the street is cordoned off. the parents of the girl haven't been let into the house. they are out on the street. they haven't talked to her. the only penal that have seen her or been with her are the police. the police say they are he can moring all leads, possibly even considering looking at lead overseas. so the situation does keep

getting stranger and stranger every time the police give more details. alisyn: stuart cohen, please let us know as you get more developments. bill: it might be the biggest case of computer spying to date. there is a report showing how hackers infiltrated dozens of u.s. government and corporate networks including sensitive computers for the u.s. government and the u.n. experts are saying the trail of evidence leads to one place and one direct than that is beijing, china. steve centanni is live with us. >> reporter: evidence of hacking by the chinese has been there for the past dozen years, but very sensitive government

and government agencies being hacked. here is a partial list of the victims. associated press, united nations, the international olympic committee, a u.s. government agencies including the department of energy, u.s. state and county governments and u.s. defense contractors. of the 72 total agencies and and companies hit, 92 are in the u.s. there they say it's very likely the work of china. the hackers were seeking information on u.s. military systems, satellite communications and natural gas companies. the report says some of the intrusions are continuing as we peak. bill: is it secret how they are pulling this off? >> reporter: according to the report the hackers made a critical mistake.

mcafee found that logs were being produced. among the targets were associated press report nrs monday congress and new york. they were working on reports related to china. they clicked on infected emails and that allows them to gain access. bill: a lot more to be uncovered, too. steve centanni live in washington. alisyn: fresh concerns over the new bill to raise the debt limit and the possibility of substantial cuts to the military budget. some 350 billion dollars will be slashed from the national security budget over the next 10 years. another $500 billion if congress is unable to reach a bigger debt deal before christmas. an estimated total of $700 billion in defense cuts over the next 10 years. but exactly where will those cuts be?

that many still not clear. and that uncertainty is raising serious questions that our nation's security could be put in jeopardy. joining us is major general james spider mark. thanks for being here. let's go through the possibilities. if the so-called super committee cannot agree, then this trigger mechanism comes into play and 50% of the cuts go to the defense budget. do we have any idea what would be cut? >> i will tell you the first thing that will be cut taint's unfortunate is the personnel end strength. everybody looks at programs, aircraft carriers, large formations, a new tank f35. but the real cost to the military is in personnel. when you recruit a young soldier or young marine, anybody joining up in the military you own that individual for life in one form or another. it's unfortunate. in this period of what i would

call persistent or continuous state of combat over the foreseeable future, a lot of unknowns will appear. the way you get your arms around an unknown is you put a soldier on the ground, you put a marine on the ground and that individual will help figure it out. they are the first form of diplomacy. that unfortunately where the cuts will be made. alisyn: how do you know personnel would be first when there are so many other expensive bits of machinery we hear about that could be cut? >> the programmatic folks will tell you it's the challenge of can we afford to do that moving forward when you are looking at the decrease of the size, the strength of the force. clearly i would imagine you will see a balance that would be

acleared. and those decisions will be made by d.o.d., but you will get a lot of help from the hill. alisyn: is there anything you would be comfortable with being cut at this point? >> the perhaps on the table being looked at closely are things like the f35. the challenge with an aircraft like that clearly is the overages. keeping alive the research as much and development base so those intelligent, brilliant, incredibly talented folks remain patriots and there isn't some incentive for them to go elsewhere. but you don't have to bring those capabilities to a full mission capable. you can bring them to an earlier or lower level of development so you keep the development going,

but you don't field all the numbers you want to. >> thanks so as much for coming in with your expertise. bill: there is a fox news special this weekend that you need to see. we investigate the tragic death of a 20-year-old young lady, iraqi immigrant run over by her father. he was convicted and recently sentenced. but the incidents raises questions about hon jr. killings in america. "a question of honor" airs saturday at 10:00 p.m. her father is now in jail. and the trial is heated. the trial is fascinating. and the evidence that's uncovered will make you question a lot of things about why it happens, and what we can learn from it.

alisyn: you did all the inviews in the field and you already had so much including what made the judge -- bill: we have that and they grew up in southern iraq, came to detroit, michigan and further moved out to arizona and the community itself and all the aspects of it is something that need to be explored and we'll have that for you. alisyn: the u.s. is facing a possible credit downgrade. the unemployment rate is not budge and the markets are heading south. so should president obama be celebrating his birthday with a star-studded bash? does everybody deserve a birthday party when they turn 50? bill: jennifer hudson is going to sing at my next day. a peacock escapes from central park zoo. the video you bonnet want to miss next.

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celebrate. are we on our way to recovery? are we picking on on the wrong thing? >> the guy's birthday is going to come and go no matter what happens. it's fair to say fundraising is one economic activity he's good. he has con individual all these suck-ups to come to chicago and give $30,000. the economy is a disaster and the white house doesn't have a plan. the idea that we are going to pivot to jobs and thought created a single job is sad. bill: another pivot is a sprained ankle. is he entitled to his big party or is the white house. >> how dare he have a party. how dare he do anything but in the white house 24/7 focusing on jobs. this is pure partisan politics.

is anybody attacking michele bachmann because she missed 40% of the vote of in congress since she has been out campaigning for president? do we attack bush for the years he spent at the ranch? this is partisanship at its worst. leave the guy alone. let's have a party. bill: $86 million? >> they are jealous because they can't raise that kind of money. >> nobody begrudges a president the right to celebrate his birthday. it's just that the economy is a disaster. obama was elected on the promise he would reverse the trend and put americans back to work. >> we just found out the new numbers came out. the bush recession was a lot worse than originally thought. mr. boehner, where are the jobs in the republicans were elected

to congress to create jobs. bill: they have one still photographer in there taking a picture. >> let's attack them because there wasn't live streaming video. bill: either trumpet the deal or bury it publicly. >> it wasn't buried. we know it took place. >> this is part of a longer term trend, what lack of seriousness on the part of the white house about jobs. two years ago when the unemployment rate -- when the country was in trouble then. rather than focus on creating jobs. the white house pivots and moves on to healthcare. >> we are still living under the bush tax rates that we shed would create jobs. >> is that a serious response? >> boehner said he got 98% of what he wanted. let's hope mr. boehner creates

the jobs now with the 98% he said he wanted. >> good luck running on that one. you need a new one. >> i'm not running. bill: when remember the stimulus plan that wasn't supposed to go over 8% unemployment. tucker he raised a lot of money. by the white house says they cancelled 10 events while the budget deal was going on in washington. >> that must have hurt. the go is a fantastic fundraiser. that's essentially his occupation his whole life. he's always been inside the sort of soft fold of across dees of m

academia. bill: the aragon ballroom looks very nice. jennifer hudson will be there. are you going? >> my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. it's in cyber space. >> i'm going to sing happen day like marilyn monroe. alisyn: we are watching a scary situation unfold in australia. there are reports an 18-year-old girl with a bomb strapped to her body. her parents are said to be one of the wealthiest families in sydney. we have the latest details from police. bill: this hiker missing in the wilderness for days. and the emotional phone call her mother received. >> thank god. thank god. thank god. is she okay?

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bill: a quick check of the markets. we are treading water after a huge drop yesterday. the latest round of economic reports. the dow up 265 points at the close. we are back below 12,000 for the first time since june. the growth in our economy is not looking good based on the numbers. alisyn: an oregon hiker missing in the wilderness found after a search. she fell over a cliff and became separated from her boyfriend. she says she ate berries and

bugs and drank from a creek to survivor. cameras were rolling when they are mother got the news. >> hello. yes, it is. yes. oh, thank god. thank god. thank god. is she okay? is she any injuries? i just feel a big huge weight has been lifted off my shoulde shoulders. i'm not shaking anymore. i have been shaking for the last 48 hours. it's a huge relief. i can't describe the feeling. so much relief. >> she is okay, she is not hurt. >> she is okay. she is alive. they are doing a medical

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bill: "fox news alert," a bizarre bomb scare, unfolding. a suburb of sydney, australia, now evacuated, as police investigate reports of an explosive device, possibly strapped to a woman's neck. they responded to a home, saying the woman, age 18, was, quote, in the vicinity of the device, but they will not confirm that it is actually strapped to her body. they are take no chances. grm reporter stuart cohen is live in sydney by way of scape, what have you found out. >> reporter: things are not advancing quickly, at all. about an hour ago, police held a press conference and they have not given out many more details, than they've let go all day long and the assistant police commissioner says in this situation, he's playing his cards, very close to his chest and described it as a delicate situation, and, the 18-year-old girl, who has the explosive device strapped to her is absolutely petrified and now,

keep in mind, this whole drama began ten hours ago, about 2:00 this afternoon, when the girl was supposedly attacked when she arrives home, and had the explosive device attached to her. and she called the police, and, police responded. they have since the time they arrived cleared out the neighborhood and cordoned off the street. and they say there is some sort of a note attached to the bomb, but they have not actually read the note, yet. it is believed that it is an extortion attempt but again they have not confirmed nor denied it and the sydney police serious crimes unit has taken over the investigation and that is indeed the unit that handles robberies and extortion. so, it leads to speculation that it is an extortion attempt. the girl comes from one of the wealthiest families in sydney, so there is the possibility. bill: a couple of things here, i want to be clear on this now, is it confirmed it is a bomb attached to her? >> reporter: the police say that they are treating it as a live

bomb. they have not been able to determine whether it is or isn't a live bomb. in the words of the assistant police commissioner, he says this is a tough nut to crack, but they have two bomb disposal technicians with the girl, in addition to two negotiators, and bomb sniffing dogs were seen in the vicinity earlier today and, police are treating it as a bomb and have not confirmed or denied... bill: is she talking. what is she saying to police as they treat this with fragility. >> reporter: the police are not saying anything about what the girl is saying, the police are the only people who have talked to the girl, the girl's parents are on the street in front of the house and have not been allowed into see her and police are not saying anything about what the girl said, haven't said anything about whether they talked to the person who may or may not be extorting the money. bill: we're getting a little bit of information from the employees now. listen to this, quickly. rome it from the police commissioner in sydney. >> the spirits of the young lady

currently are good. it is starting to get cold, as the night progresses. clearly, we are taking steps to make sure the young lady is as comfortable as she can be. but, i reinforce what i said before. it is... this operation is serious, and it is delicate, and, we will just need to persevere and take as long as it takes. bill: also, the police said they are not treating this as self-harm which i assume to mean it was not self-inflicted or caused by her, but, rather, by someone else. >> reporter: exactly. bill: if that is the case you mentioned the family is wealthy. what do you know about the family? >> reporter: well, there is not much that has been said about the family. they haven't identified the family by name and are being careful about releasing details but what is known is that they have been described as one of the wealthiest families in sydney, and, certainly, they

live in the neighborhood where the wealthiest family in sydney would live, which is on the northshore of the sydney harbor, and it is probably the most expensive neighborhood in sydney and is still with multimillion-doll multimillion-dollar homes and there is a beautiful view of sydney harbor and those views do not come cheap and the family clearly comes from a lot of money and there are a lot of former rugby stars and other socialites who live in the neighborhood, and, so, if you sort of extrapolate out of this, people want money, it could very well be an extortion attempt, because, there is a lot of money involved, in the neighborhood, and, with the family... bill: understood, stuart, thank you very much. your reporting down there is invalue automobiable to us, stu live by way of skype, sydney, australia. while that drama plays out, down under, we refocus now on the job

crisis, with the debt deal in the rearview mirror, at least for the moment, president obama down playing the agreement that raises the debt ceiling and cuts spending and, instead, pushing for policies to help companies hire, invest and expand, and the mission he has tried to launch a half dozen times, in two-and-a-half years, brand new hour of "america's newsroom," good morning, on this wednesday, i'm bill hemmer, how are you doing? alisyn: doing well, i'm alisyn in for martha maccallum, the president calling on congress to send him job creating legislation. and is looking for trade deals, payroll tax cuts, and funding for new infrastructure. >> president barack obama: and in the coming months, i'll continue also to fight for what the american people care most about. new jobs, higher wages, and faster economic growth. bill: unemployment was 9.2% the month of june. this friday, two days from now we'll get the numbers for the month of july and matthew mccall, president of penn

financial group. good morning to you, where is the good news. >> there is not much, the only good news, is that president obama said he wants to create jobs and i have no doubt he wants to create jobs and he will not be reelected without the unemployment rate coming down, but he has done this a half dozen times already and it has not worked and the only thing that happened is the unemployment rate is increasing and the amount of jobs created has been decreasing, and, the economy has been slowing down, so, he keeps doing the same thing over and over. and, they are cutting the payroll tax and that will not sim plate people out there, to hire and a corporation will not hire, if the payroll tax comes down or if he builds a new highway and is going at it in the exact wrong way and keeps going at it. bill: what else did he mention? clean energy? unemployment benefits? >> yes. bill: where is the message for small business? what are you hearing from the white house. >> i'm a small business easteow

and the message is obama wants to create jobs but wants to do it through the government and he has to keep in mind, long term sustainable jobs in this country are never created by the government, any time we come out of a recession, small business leads the way and cattism and entrepreneurship, and, the problem is, why would you start a small business now with regulations so high, it is impossible to get out there, right now, and to borrow and, with taxes still high for small businesses and what he has to do is take a step back and realize nothing worked yet. let's try something new and think outside the box and lower taxes for small business and make it easy to start a small business but i don't see it going that way. bill: looks like everyone got the same e-mail yesterday, harry reid, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, president obama were all talking about finding religion through jobs. matt, thank you, good to see you, thanks. >> to the middle east now, breaking news, a fresh round of explosions and gunfire in a city under siege by its own government. the sound of tank fire, and

automatic weapons, filling the air in the town of hama, syria. forces loyal to assad say he is slaughtering his own people in attempts to squash the revolt and, this line of tanks in amateur video are shown towards hama and foreign media is banned and the phone lines are cut, so it is hard to know exactly what it going on there. reports from local activists say more than 1700 people were killed, in protests, against the assad regime... since it began. a report is supposed to come out, to fight the threat of homegrown terrorism and extreme molly henneberg is live at the white house. >> reporter: it has been drafted and redrafted and expect it to be an 8-page plan to lay out the

obama administration's approach to combating terror ideology, including homegrown terror as well and it says, quote, the u.s. government will work tirelessly to counter support for violent extremism and to ensure that, as new violent groups an ideologies emerge, they fail to gain a foothold in our country. achieving the aim, it goes on to say, requires that we all work together, governments, communities, the private sector and the general public and others, to develop effective programs, and, initiatives. not a lot of specifics on the report, we're told, but it does point to efforts to combat criminal gangs as a model in how to help vulnerable communities or communities that may be susceptible to home ground terrorism and it would involve police, schools and local and community and youth agencies. alisyn: and, we know how difficult it is to combat homegrown terrorism and it seems

there should be more specifics in the report how to do it. >> reporter: it is difficult to combat, in part, because people can be recruited in basements and, recruited and trained on-line and one analyst on your show, last hour, says it can be very tough to prevent. here's more: >> local law enforcement have to be completely onboard with what i would call the... if you know your neighborhood you know what is different about your neighborhood. >> reporter: today, the report is expected to lay out the federal government has a support role to bring people together, share intelligence, and work on close community-based solutions. alisyn? alisyn: okay. molly henneberg, thanks for breaking that down for us. bill: hi. alisyn: hi. bill: a casey anthony citing in ohio of all places. tmz reporting that anthony acquitted last month, was spotted near a shopping center.

no word on what part of the state, though, rumors says, columbus, maybe youngstown and meanwhile, a new legal tug-of-war is unfolding now over anthony, and a judge demands she return to florida to start serving probation on check fraud charges. anthony's attorney, jose baez is not having it. here: >> we're certainly going through the legal process, we filed our motion, we are anticipating filing more motions today, and, asking for a hearing immediately, on this, because, we have an issue of safety and, the last thing we want to do is put casey in harm's way. bill: more on the legal battle in 30 minutes, fox news judicial analyst andrew napolitano is warming up in the bullpen, on deck, the judge. alisyn: he'll be fired up, something tells me and the check is in the mail with president obama's signature on the debt deal. if you think the battle was bloody, just wait. the real war could come, just in time for the holidays. republican tom price on what that fight will look like. bill: and, shocking surveillance

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bill: a terrifying scene in new york city, a man walking down the street, when, suddenly, he pulls out a gun and starts shooting. someone else walking by at the time, not sure if that person was hit, running for his life. and, in the end, no one was injured. and we understand, several windows were shot out and police are searching for the gunman. alisyn: the debt deal, signed, sealed and delivered but the end of the fiscal year is around the corner and there is the bipartisan super-committee that must be formed to tackle this and is supposed to come up with another $1.5 trillion in cuts, by thanksgiving. what can we expect from lawmakers and the economy in the coming months? georgia congressman tom price is chairman of the house republican policy committee and a member of the budget committee. good morning, mr. price.

>> great to be with you again. alisyn: nice to be with you as well. and we have just wrapped up this bloody battle that we have just signed and now another one is looming at the end of september? what makes us think that the next one will be any different? >> well, hopefully, what this battle, as you describe it, has brought the attention of not just the american people, but, members of congress to, is the need to fundamentally reform the way washington does business, which is why the inclusion of the balanced budget amendment, the vote on the balanced budget in the house and senate was so incredibly important in this agreement, reached most recently, and, this has not solved anything, but lays the foundation for solutions that can come if we work in a positive way and recognize that washington is not the answer to all the challenges that we face. alisyn: congressman, how will this super committee as they are called, be any different than the gang of 6 or the president's bipartisan panel budget commission, i mean, all of them

came up with ideas, that then were not enacted. >> a great question, and i think there is a difference, because, this is kind of like a conference committee. the way congress is actually supposed to work, where, the house comes up with a plan and this is the house republican budget we put forward that actually solves the fiscal challenges and the senate comes up with a plan and they have not come up with a plan but hopefully will do so and the two committees, the two groups get together in a conference committee and come forward with an agreement between the two chambers. so, i view it more as a conference committee as opposed to a super committee and it is within the structure now, of the processes in both the house and the senate whereas the others were not. alisyn: i like your optimism, but how does the conference committee get past the huge divide that of course separates the republicans from the democrats and that is whether to increase taxes, or to cut more spending? >> well, there is the challenge,ing a sin, you are absolutely right. we don't believe job-killing tax increases are appropriate, at this time. senator reid and his party seem

to continue to believe tax increases are exactly what the american people need. and so we believe that washington needs to get out of the way, decrease the regulations as your previous guest talked about and decrease taxes and the onerous oppression that is coming from the federal government in the area of health care or energy and you name it. and we have to work with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle on this and the recent debate, hopefully, informed them, that the american people want fundamental change here in washington. alisyn: congressman, do you know who is going to be on the super-committee. >> no, those decisions will be made by the leadership and i suspect we'll know within a couple of weeks, but november 23rd is the deadline for the committee to report. so there is no time to waste. alisyn: there isn't, congressman tom price, thanks for taking your time, this morning, and coming on. >> thanks. alisyn: we asked you earlier to tell us on-line what you think about the debt deal, and after the deal was done the market took a dive and our credit may be downgraded anyway, at least

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bill: breaking news update out of sydney, australia, we have been watching the story for an hour. an 18-year-old girl, a teenager, was near some sort of suspicious device, that we thought might have been a bomb attached to her. and we now just got word through police the sydney bomb squad has secured the safe release of her and she was at home, near a suspicious device and we're trying to figure out whether it was a bomb or not and how close it was to her or not and whether it was strapped to her body and it has been going on, for what, nine, close to ten hours.

and, they said the woman is from a wealthy family, and there was a note attached to her and it could have been an extortion attempt, and we don't know all of that but we know the girl seems to be okay. alisyn: the most important thing to know. thank goodness. bill: back to that when we get it. alisyn: an extreme weather alert, a brutal heat wave is scorching parts of the country. right now, dallas is expecting the 33rd straight day of blazing triple-digit temperatures and it is so hot people are dying. >> we now have 9 deaths, the first day of august. and we are very concerned and we need everyone to assist us in reaching out to our neighbors. >> you open the door and a big... just a hot massive heat, it was real hot. alisyn: and there is remarkable evidence of how the excessive heat is vaporizing water. this is not a giant egg, this is

from the space shuttle columbia and turned up in a lake bed in east texas, after the water dried up around it. kris gutierrez is live in dallas. tell us what it is like there. >> reporter: you know it is hot when the overnight lows bottom out in the mid 80s, i'm not kidding. lows in the mid 80s and today's forecasted high in dallas is supposed to be in around 110° and that will give us 33 consecutive days of 100-plus degree temperatures in north texas and we are inching closer and closer to the record of 42 days, set back in 1980. you know, up north of dallas they are going up for the upcoming high school football season and the district even implemented a heat policy, forcing coaches to stop practice every 20 minutes, to give kids water. here's what one mother told me. listen here: >> it is kind of scary, and like in 1980-81 i thought it was bad but this is really hot. really hot. we'll get through it.

>> reporter: it is so hot, one water park dumped a ton of ice, literally one ton of i.n.s. to the wave people and the kids were excited about that and we are coming up with creative ways to keep cool and pastors are encouraging parishioners to pray for rain because we need it, alisyn, we need a lot of rain, right now. alisyn: of course you do and we heard the police chief talking about how it has been a deadly summer, how many people have died? >> we mentioned nine in the sound bite and now it is up to 12, 12 heat related deaths, three more than all of last year and we are three days in to the month of august which is typically the hottest month of the year down here in texas and the power grid is taking a hard hit. 6,000 customers lost power here in dallas yesterday when a substation failed but, believe it or not, some people actually enjoy this hot weather. listen here: >> i feel like i get for toxins out and i don't know if it is

mental, but, it is... something about it feels good, getting an extra workout. >> reporter: no thanks, it must be mental. i'm staying inside. alisyn, back to you. alisyn: all right, kris gutierrez, thanks for giving us that "hot" update. bill: found the silver lining. alisyn: getting toxins out, i'm not sure you are supposed to exercise outside when it is 110°. bill: at least, you know, i'm draining all of this... alisyn: i like being hot in the studio, as you know! bill: i'm the opposite. why we have a wall between us, right? hot over there and warm over here. alisyn: that's right. bill: cold over here. alisyn: that is how we have worked it out. bill: in a moment, she has been missing two months and today police are taking a new approach in the search for the indiana college student. they are now focused on a specific location near town, and we'll tell you where that is, in a moment. alisyn: congress heading home for the summer vacation, while the agency in charge of america's air space is hanging high and dry. the impending battle to fund the

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only $1,500 a pair. bill: 3 millions minutes paefpaef. bill: 30 minutes past the hour, hosni mubarak in trial now, wheeled into the courtroom, and, new developments in the case of a missing indiana university student, the fbi said to be looking into a landfill nearby for signs of 20-year-old lauren spierer in bloomington and 2 dozen carpeters joined the work stoppage at the world trade center, said to be showing support with hundreds of concrete and cement workers negotiating a new contract and, coming up on one month and a week away from the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. alisyn: meanwhile, we want to tell you about breaking news, right now, we have brand new polling, just in, to our newsroom on the debt ceiling deal, according to rasmussen reports, only 22% of people

actually approve of this deal. and, most doubt that it will cut future spending. 53% disapprove though deal, and 22% say they don't know. let's bring in scott rasmussen for context. great to see you. >> great to see you. alisyn: any surprise your respondents don't know what to make of the deal after all of the back and forth. >> people have really not believed much of what they heard coming out of washington, in the last few weeks. they expect the ceiling to be raised and always expected it wouldn't do much and are not terribly surprised, but, republicans and unaffiliated voters are opposed to the deal by a 4-1 margin. very strong opposition, democrats, pretty evenly divided, 34% of democrats favor the deal and 40% are opposed. and, we find the same mix ideologically, liberals evenly divided and conservatives hate it. alisyn: and, you asked how likely is it the debt ceiling

agreement between congress and the president will resulted in a significant decrease in government spending? over the next few years and of course that was the heart of the argument, and what did you find? >> well, 58% say it is not likely to happen. 35% say it could happen and only 6% say it is very likely. and again we see a partisan divide. plurality of democrats, 48% say, yes, it will lead to significant cuts and, nobody else does. and, this is again, part of that larger challenge. it sounds crazy to a normal person, that you raise the debt ceiling to cut the debt. and, they just don't believe the spending cuts will happen. alisyn: right. i mean, intuitively americans understand when you raise your credit card limit, that does not make your spending go down. that is what politicians are telling you. >> and, again, that is... the trust between washington and the voters, is very, very deep on this and i have been saying, they are listening to politician

like the boy who cried wolf and they are hearing the words, but they are just not believing that it will be acted upon, viewer than half people the spending cuts that were promised will even be enacted. alisyn: scott rasmussen, thanks for sharing with us your brand-new poll. we appreciate it. >> thanks, alisyn. bill: billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, squandered as congress heads out for summer vacation. a partial shut down of the faa continues, while they break in august. more than 4,000 workers so far are furloughed and more could be headed that way and the government said it might lose a billion dollars in uncollected airline taxes. by the time lawmakers get back to work in september, and figure it all out. >> i have heard a lot of speeches around the town about creating jobs. the way to create jobs is to pass the bill that allows 70,000 construction workers to go back to work at airports all over the country and 4,000 faa employees, to go back to their jobs. bill: this was mentioned by the

president yesterday, and byron york joins you, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner. what is the rub? >> good morning, bill there, are two rubs. one is republicans want to cut subsidies that are in the faa authorization bill, that go to small airports, to keep them afloat when they don't have enough traffic otherwise to stay in business. and there is one airport in arizona, that gets a subsidy of $3,700 per passenger and republicans think that that is too much and the other rub is a fight over labor and organized labor rules. the obama administration changed the rules regarding unionization in the airline industry. they used to operate for 75 years, in one way and the obama administration has now made it easier for organizing groups to unionize a unit inside the airline industry and republicans wants to stop that. democrats want to keep it that way. bill: it is kind of a back-door challenge to unions then, if you take it that far. >> unionization is a major issue

and a lot of things between the obama administration and republicans in congress. republicans say the obama administration should not have unit laterally changed these rules, without the approval of congress. and, democrats believe the president had the right to do that. bill: now, is it cheaper to fly because of this? we mentioned the airline pact. is that still being collected or has it been waived. >> let's say it should be cheaper to fly because the faa is no longer authorized to collect the airline tax, and, therefore, airline ticket prices should be going down, a number of airlines kept their prices the same. pocketed the difference, and, there is a fight about, will that be reimbursed once the reauthorization takes place. bill: ultimately, is it less safe to fly? is anyone making the argument, with 4,000 workers furloughed? >> well the secretary of labor, ray lahood said it is safe to fly, and, air traffic controllers are being paid, they are on the job, and plane inspectors are being paid, and they are on the job but there are also airport inspectors, who

travel around the country, inspecting airports and they are not being paid. as a matter of fact, the faa is asking them to pay for their own travel and expenses and that is not a permanent solution to this. so the question is will there be safety problems from a lack of airport inspections. bill: one more thing here, we are hearing now the democratic leaders will have a press conference on this, 11:30 eastern time and this is within the hour. how do they pin this on republicans. >> well, because they'll say republicans are blocking a simple reauthorization and have insisted on changing the labor rules, back, the obama administration changed. this is nothing new, the faa has not been permanently or long-term reauthorized since 2007 and have had 20 short-term reauthorization bills in that time and there has been a lot of the fighting going on over this. bill: byron, thanks, we'll talk about, and see whether it turns out today, or in september. thanks. alisyn: you think he would have

learned a lesson from anthony wiener. another politician finding himself at the center of an embarrassing scandal. it is a cumberland county legislator accused of e-mailing nude photos of himself, to a woman. yes, the images were later posted on an activist's web site and he said he has been separated from his wife two years, and, it follows anthony wiener's sexting scandal and chris lee, who sent e-mails and a shirtless picture to a woman he met on craigslist. i'm not sure they are learning the lesson. these public scandals. bill: the blackberry, leave it in the other room. come on, people! alisyn: a good one. bill: casey anthony ordered out of hiding. a judge demanding that she return to court today. her lawyers now scrambling to keep her out of there. we'll talk with the judge, on the new legal tug-of-war that is

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bill: you're well aware of the dashcam video from police but this is a taxi cam, a thug robbing a woman on the streets of san francisco. check that out. the driver noticed what is up nearby and races to help, telling her to job in and they call the police, together and follow the bad guy and finally caught up with him and, the driver will be honored for his good deeds. well done. alisyn: casey anthony could be forced out of hiding. a judge is demanding that she return to florida today, to start serving probation on check fraud charges. now, her attorney, jose baez is fighting to keep her out of the state an out of sight saying she has already served enough time.

>> the department of corrections issued that, because she served her probation, she has completed the terms of probation, had she done something in the jail that would have violated her probation she would have had a probation violation and had to serve time for that violation, so, she was exposed to probation and completed it, and, probation officer came out and met with her, and they continued to monitor her, and she's complete her probation. alisyn: joining us now, fox news senior you. >> -- judicial analyst, andrew napolitano, anchor of "freedom watch", on fox business network. you are busy, judge, with casey anthony, her lawyer argues that she already served three years in jail and that, i guess, should cover her probation violation but the judge argues these are completely separate issues and one is for stealing checks from a friend. >> some things we know and some things we don't know and we know she was in jail three years and

we know when you are ordered to serve probation, while you are in jail, the time counts in some instances and some instances it doesn't and we know the department of corrections, in florida, deemed, as a matter of administrative procedure, that her three years in jail fulfills her one-year obligation to serve probation. alisyn: a done deal, right? then we are done. >> jose baez, i think is right and should be done and we know the following: the judge originally assigned her murder trial and removed himself from the case because he was blatantly prejudiced against her because out of the courtroom statements he is reported to have made against her, out of the blue, with no notice to her and no notice to her lawyer, decides to sentence her to aa period of probation of one year and order her back to the state. that cannot be done, without notice to her, notice to her lawyer, and an opportunity for the lawyer to make the argument to the judge and the first argument is, judge, you don't

belong on the case, you have already found you are prejudice against my client and should go to another case and the second argument is, she already served three years in jail and what do you need a year's probation for and the third argument is, people in florida want to kill this woman and she has been found not guilty of the crime, no matter the public perception of the rightness or wrongness of that. why do you want to expose her to their wrath. alisyn: you think her lawyer has a point, if she returns to orange county for a hearing or to serve probation she'd be in danger? >> absolutely. and, the judge who ordered the probation, who, by the way, did so while he was on vacation and he's not even in the courthouse tomorrow and ordered her to appear before another judge, the same judge who presided over her murder trial should not have done that under these circumstances. if you think there is a mistake in the manner in which a defendant has been treated you give notice to the prosecutors and to defense counsel and you don't impose a sentence on your own. this judge imposed a sentence

without the government asking him to do so, and without the defendant in the courtroom, butt without notice to the defendant or her lawyer. alisyn: that begs the question, what is judge strickland, who you are referring to, doing? is he trying to get some kind of justice that he feels went unfulfilled. >> it may very well be. remember, in florida, judges are pop laterally elected by the voters, in the voting booth and he may very well be attempting to grasp the unpopularity of casey anthony and the jury verdict in order to enhance his own chances of being reelected. i don't know when his term is and i don't know if he is running this time around but unlike a system where i was privileged to serve where you didn't have to seek re-election, judges in florida have their eye on the pulse of popular opinion and they shouldn't. they should be doing the right thing and the lawful thing, and not necessarily the popular thing. alisyn: if you were the judge in this case you would say, casey anthony does not need to come back to probation for stealing her friend's checks and cashing them fraudulently, it is done.

>> because she has already paid back the money and served the time, that was issued -- she was ordered to do by the time she spent in jail and the funds she has already paid. yes, don't ask me to predict how it will end up. who knows? you'll have a media circus there tomorrow. alisyn: certainly, if she's coming back there will be. >> calling phil keating! alisyn: we'll get him on the line, judge, thanks so much. we will be watching you, of course on the... bill: all right, the web site, tmz reporting a casey anthony sighting, state of ohio, showing pictures of anthony, near an old navy store, wearing an ohio state baseball cap, could have been columbus, youngston and jon scott is in the newsroom and "happening now" rolls our way in 12 minutes. good morning. >> good morning, i'm jon scott from one crisis to another, out of the frying pan into the fire, you might say. the debt ceiling drama behind us

for now but is the country now facing another recession? we'll ask several experts about the possibilities. we are focused like a laser on this economy, and, we want to hear from you, go to foxnews.com/happeningnow, and click on the "america's asking" tab to weigh in today and also, are some airlines hijacking the american consumer? and the dangers of new facial recognition software, when it comes to your privacy, and colorado, a bellwether state for 2012, we'll talk with one of the experts on that, and we'll see you at the top of the hour. bill: wile'll be there. jon scott in the newsroom. when there is a deluxe apartment down the sky, moving on up, flying away, only in new york! look closely there, judge, see what that is? yeah!

bill: a little more information, sydney, australia, just waking up and joining us, there is an 18-year-old teenager who had apparently a bomb collar of some sort strapped to her. inside of her home. police responded and there was about a ten-hour ordeal and you can imagine how terrifying it was for her and apparently a note strapped to her as well and they are working through the information and this is first word we have got about a bomb collar. we wonder what the device could be. and, now they have confirmed that and they are working now to figure out, quote, we want to get or hands on who has done this. alisyn: and they think it was an extortion plot of some kind, she's from a very wealthy family in a very wealthy suburb, you

are look at, the aerial view in sydney and her parents were outside during the ordeal, obviously, white knuckled of what might happen and it ended well for her and now, police have to start investigating what happened here. bill: and they say she's well but she was kept in a very uncomfortable position and we will learn more, coming up here, a "fox news alert" out of sydney, australia. alisyn: something much lighter... the bird ises the word in the big apple -- the bird is the word in the big apple. it takes a lot to have a new yorker stop their hustle an bustle and stare up at the sky. a happy homecoming and foul play in between, and john huddy reports from manhattan. >> reporter: after close to 24 hours, perched precariously on a ledge five stories up at 56th and 5th, a two-year-old male peacock has finally flown home. he left the central park zoo for an unknown reason, but, zoo

officials think that he finally got tired and hungry and flew back home, where she shares his two other peacocks and it is note first time a creature in the city escaped from its confines, earlier this year a female peacock escaped from the bronx zoo and you may remember a cobra escaped from the bronx zoo as well and in this case, certainly a bizarre story, one to be filed in the "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" file, one of those feel-good stories of the summer. john huddy, fox news. alisyn: they say it flew the coop because it wand a fated a fancier, swankier apartment. bill: don't we all them. peacock had the right idea! "fox news alert," now, check this out on the big board, 103 to the downside, 90 minutes into trading and coupled with yesterday's loss of 265, at 365,

in two days and add to 600 from the previous week and the dow 30 is off, 1,000 pounds, you were at 12,800 and now below 11,800 and the easy math tells you, investors see a very slowing economy, here at home. in the u.s. not a good indicator. alisyn: remember, the debt deal was supposed to end this. bill: many thought that would and it has not. at least not yet. and the golden years, getting even better for one lucky lady. finding true love at 87. nice. ♪ ♪ when you walk in a dream ♪ and you know you are not dreaming ♪ ♪... motorcycles, boats, even rv's. nobody knows where he got his love for racing.

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true love. a missouri woman is getting ready to tie the knot for the very first time in her life, and she is 8 seven-year-old. 88-year-old gene schmidt will marry her. she was a n u.n. for most of her life. she never expected cupid's arrow to hit her, but they are both smitten. >> i got down on two knees and proposed to her. i said i don't know if i'll be able to get up for this. alisyn: he didn't know if he could get up. call them old fashioned, bill, but they are not planning to live together until after they walk down the aisle. isn't that wonderful? it's never too late. bill: there is hope, right, there is hope. cue the dean martin. we've got to run, everybody. have a wonderful day. alisyn: we'll see