our economy simply isn't creating enough jobs. according to the labor department, only 80,000 jobs were created last month. not nearly enough for the millions of folks who are still out of work and looking to catch that break. i want to welcome you back. good morning, everybody. i'm jamie colby. >> eric: and i'm eric shawn and welcome to a brand new hour of inside america's news headquarters, the weak recovery is a battleground issue for both political parties. this morning, both sides continue to blame each other for a jobs market that seems to be running in place and the predictions of more of a slowdown. steve centanni live in washington with the very latest. steve, it seems like the economy is going to continue to be a central issue in this campaign. >> oh, absolutely. any economic number is going to be very closely watched from now until election day because, of course, the outcome of the presidential race could hang in the balance here and today on the sunday talk shows, the economy was sharply debated. democrats suggesting that the president saved the country from

an economic meltdown. here's the senate minority leader explaining why he thinks the economy is still struggling. >> this is the most tepid recovery if it is a recovery from a deep recession in american history. the economy is just sputtering along and the reason for that in my judgment is because of what the administration chose to do. spend, borrow, pass this new obamacare law with its penalty tax. and its mandate tax, all of this is slowing the economy down. >> what should we do about it? republicans say you start at the top with a new leader. mitt romney called friday's job numbers unexpectedly high and said we need lower taxes and less regulation so businesses can start hiring. the economy will no doubt continue to be his main focus on the campaign trail but democrats tell a very different story, of course, the president himself saying the jobs figures show we're on the right track because the unemployment rate did not go

up and remains at 8.2% and we're still adding jobs in the private sector, not losing them. >> if you look at where we were when the president first took office, the economy was hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. and now after president obama's policies in place for the last 3 1/2 years, we've had 28 straight months of job growth in the private sector. 4.4 million jobs created. the progress that we're making is moving us forward. we need to continue to make more progress, obviously, and we haven't gone far enough but we need to keep pressing forward. >> and former white house press secretary robert gibbs saying today we're not adding enough jobs, he says the economy is improving and we're making progress but we have a long ways to go. back to you, eric? >> eric: steve, thanks so much. the disapointing jobs picture taking a major role in the race for the white house. putting president obama on the defensive and, perhaps, giving an opening to governor romney. how is this all playing out in the campaign right now? let's bring in our political

panel, brad blaken is a former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and a member of the democratic national committee and former chair of vice president al gore's campaign in michigan in 2000. debbie, welcome. brad, welcome to you both. brad, let me start with you. this sounds like it came from the romney campaign but it did not. steve told us that robert gibbs, the obama campaign spokesman says we're not adding jobs fast enough, not growing the economy. what do they do? >> what they do, i'm not going to give advice to the democrats. i'll leave that to debbie but what the republicans need to do is it's not enough to tell the american people how bad obama is. they know that. they need an alternative and they have to believe that a change is going to better their situation so it's up to romney to lay out a clear and definitive plan in the next few months that the american people can say, ok, we've had enough of obama, we're willing to make the change in romney and the change that romney is willing to make is better than what we got.

70% of the american people, eric, whether you're republican or democrat feel the american economy is headed down the wrong track. and they've lost faith in this president because they're not better off today than they were four years ago. in order for romney to be effective, you have to get his plan out there, make it understandable and believe for the american people and it will do quite well. >> eric: debbie, is it enough for robert gibbs to admit there's a problem? >> anybody in policy understand that people out there are scared and if the vote is going to happen in november, it's going to be in the person they believe is going to offer them security and has a pass to creating more jobs. this president has seen job growth for 28 months, is it enough to get their vote in november? they don't see a president that's putting forth a plan that's going to take care of anybody in the middle class. he takes care of that 1%. he wants to return to the very same policies that created an economic situation that was almost as bad as the great depression. blake's right. they want to see what -- whoever has got a plan that's going to

get us there. you also have republicans in the congress that rather than give the president any wind, rt any bipartisan solution won't vote for anything that will help the economy. they want to see the economy not recover and that's wrong, too. we -- what the american people want and what i think you're going to see them vote for both in president and congressional candidates is people are going to work together to make their lives safer and better. >> eric: do you think that's true? you heard debbie says the republicans don't want the jobs to recover. >> are you kidding? we would love for jobs to recover sooner rather than later. the problem is we have a president who promised us in 2008 when he was a candidate that he was going to be able to deliver for the american people. and if he told the american people that he would deliver what he delivered now, mccain would have won in a landslide. the fact is these folks rule out of ideology instead of reality. they put all their chips down on health care instead of responding to the crisis that the president said is the worst

since the great depression, ignored it and decided that he was going to concentrate on -- and manufacture a crisis on health care when that wasn't an issue at hand. the bottom line is this, eric, the american people are suffering. not only do we have job loss but we have a 100% rise in energy costs, we have inflation creeping in and home foreclosures at american high bankruptcies and america needs relief. they know what they have with obama but they're learning as to what the alternative romney offers. if he offers a clear alternative, he's going to win. no president in modern history has won re-election with an actual unemployment rate above 7.25%. 8.5%. >> let's remember that for just a second, brad and debbie. they said the unemployment would go down below 6%. let's check the figures. it's 8.2% now but that doesn't include the people who have given up, the broader real rate is almost 15%. african-americans, 14.4%.

hispanics, it's a major group potentially for president obama, 11%. unemployed women, nearly 6 million. that's up since he took office and then take a look at this astounding figure. more people went on federal disability last month than got jobs. debbie, how can this continue? >> look, these numbers are not ok. there's no question about it. but the fact of the matter is we're in a very serious economic time. are they going to support a president who said let the auto industry go bankrupt? do you know where the economy would be right now if we let the auto industry collapse and what the economy would have been in 50 states? what if -- we've got -- when the -- mitt romney was governor of massachusetts his state was 47th out of 50 in terms of creating jobs. we got to keep moving forward. we've got very tough times but you've got a jobs bill that the president put forward a year ago that would create a million jobs that the republicans won't move out of the congress.

and you have a majority -- minority leader, senator mcconnell in the senate. i get emotional on this who has said his one -- his goal is to defeat president obama. shouldn't our goal to be to work as republicans and democrats to stablize this economy and create jobs together? >> so debbie, what's going to happen? >> i don't know what's going to happen. i'm someone who thinks this race is going to be extremely tight. it's going to come down to this. i think it's going to come down to a lot of the rust belt, midwest states, and i think it's too early to call what's going to happen in this election. >> brad, last word, what do you think will happen? >> what i think will happen is i think there will be a landslide. i think the -- we're going to retain the house, pick up the senate, have a new president because we don't practice the three d's of distorting, dividing and distracting america which is exactly what obama does, takes responsibility for nothing. we're going to be hopeful and we're going to say we can accomplish any problem. but first, what we have to do is get our financial house in order. we can't spend more than we take in. and we've got to give the middle

class the relief that it deserves. >> eric: thank you so much, brad and debbie. breaking news this morning, robert gibbs conceding that they haven't done enough and they have to grow the jobs in our country even further. thank you to both of you this morning. >> thank you. >> jamie: once again, we have an extreme weather alert. there is some relief from the heat finally on the way but it's been a rough stretch for millions of americans as temperatures reach triple digits for many. at least 30 deaths so far blamed on the heat. taking it easy seems to be key for many people when it comes to beating the heat, take a listen. >> if you're not, you don't know how you deal with it and a lot of the thing is the humidity is what compounds it. really, really oppressive. you have to learn how to drink lots of water, obviously stand in the shade. >> so the temperatures might be easing up a bit, make no mistake. it's pretty hot out there for

much of the country and chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has been busy in the fox extreme weather center with more. how is it looking, rick? >> it's looking better. we have one more day to get through, jamie. take a look at this, yesterday, all the states that have the initials here have some sort of heat advisory. in fact, most of the heat warnings. now, just these states you see in yellow, heat advisory so a big improvement yesterday, we had 23 states. today, we're down to about 11 states that are dealing with it. we'll still see the heat indices around 105, 110, maybe more than that in a few cases. here's what it looks like right now. you can see yesterday right here in the plains was so, so bad. still uncomfortable but it's better right here across the mid atlantic. that's where the worst of it is and that's where this kind of front is draped here and this is what's bringing us relief eventually but with it today, the threat for severe weather primarily a very strong wind threat as some of those showers and thunderstorms moves through as this front sags further to the south. as it does so, we're going to be talking about very big rain the next four to five days.

look at this. these reds, that's 4 to 8 inches of rain across areas of east texas stretching across the mid-mississippi valley as well as in areas of virginia and north carolina. big areas of rain this week, a lot of people are extremely dry because of the high temperatures we've had and big relief at least for some rain as well as with these temperatures. take a look at your temperatures for tomorrow. so monday, headed back to work, you got 80's all the way down in across parts of the south but certainly 80's in and around the great lakes. great news, the heat has to go somewhere, though, so it moves out across areas of the west. 113 in phoenix and 97 across areas of montana. big pattern swap for us. welcomed relief, jamie, for rain and a real welcome relief for temperatures by the time we get to tomorrow. >> jamie: absolutely. thanks, rick. eric? >> eric: dry weather is leaving oklahoma in an official drought. the situation now is threatening the livelihood of farmers in the southeastern part of the state. many of them say they are struggling to keep their animals

alive. >> it means that i have had to sell part of our capital assets to stay in business. and i don't like to do that. but it's either that or watch the animals die. it hurts everybody in this area with less beef. beef prices are going to be higher. >> it turns out this is the driest oklahoma has been since the state began keeping records in 1921. and the government says now 58% of the country is in a drought condition. that's the most in 12 years. >> jamie: well, eric we've been telling everybody about the severe heat. it's left a lot of people in assistance of many kind. we'll spoke to someone from the american red cross to talk about what you can do on the ground and how you can help at home. stick around for that. >> eric: the clock is ticking for you to check your computer. they say a dangerous malware

could cut a lot of people off from the internet tomorrow. they're calling this a "internet doomsday" but the f.b.i. has set up a web site telling all of us how to keep our computers safe. laura ingal live with the very latest. what are we going to do? >> hi, eric. thousands of internet uses across the u.s. could wake up to an unwelcomed surprise tomorrow if their computers were infected with malicious software finding themselves unable to check e-mail, pay bills on line or surf the web. now, the malware named d.n.s. changer was first discovered in 2007. about a quarter of million i.p. addresses come from the u.s. and 10% of fortune 500 companies have a computer that's infected. warnings have been issued for months through sites like facebook and google telling internet users to check their computers for the virus and that began by hackers. when the f.b.i. busted those hackers last year, agents realized that if they turned off the malicious servers being used

to control the computers, all the victims would lose internet service. so the f.b.i. set up temporary servers while agents continued their investigation so users infected could still use the internet but that safety net expires tonight at midnight which has led to what many people are calling, as you said, internet doomsday or malware monday but you have time to check your computer. the f.b.i. arranged for a private company to run a web site where users can see if their computers are compromised and also find links to other security business sites where you can find fixes for this nasty problem. cyber security experts tell fox there are always setups that you can -- steps that you can take to protect yourself keeping your anti-virus software updated and making sure you are using a fire wall when browsing the internet or not clicking on a link or accepting an attachment if you have any doubts that it could not be what you think it would be. >> tomorrow morning, don't click on anything you don't know. >> that's right. >> eric: jamie? >> jamie: the latest jobs numbers show the situation is

just not getting easier for those who are looking for work. up next, we're going to have some great tips, though, if you go on a job interview, we'll help you stand out from the rest and get the job. >> eric: and a world war ii relic opens to the public. coming up, we'll tell you where you can check out this important part of our national history yourself. what's with you? trouble with a car insurance claim. [ voice of dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so goo now it's guaranteed. [ normal voice ] so i can trust 'em unlike randy. are you in good hands?

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>> eric: the famous battleship u.s.s. iowa is starting a new mission, opening to the public as a museum in san pedro, ka california. on the first day, thousands were visiting the ship involved in so many other missions. the iowa costs $7 million to restore and more one veteran, it was worth every penny and brought back special memories. >> i was a pointer on one of the 5 inch guns when we were in korea. i got on it, i couldn't shut up and i'm really not that excitable person, i don't think. but oh, yeah, it's great. >> eric: the battleship is almost three football fields long and is00 feet wide. take a look at these plastic movie tone pictures that show the u.s.s. iowa in action during the heyday. among many of the combat missions, service during world war ii and the korean war.

>> jamie: just can't ignore the latest unemployment numbers showing a tough jobs market and it's not getting any easier at least not yet. we wanted to help you today if you're looking for work. today's take charge consumer protection segment looks on how to make yourself stand out in a very crowded pool of applicants and joining us now, career coach dr. michael woodward, the author of the you plan, a five step guide to taking charge of your career in the new economy. i like that taking charge tie-in. thank you so much. >> good to be here. >> jamie: dr. woodward, you do this every day. you do it out in the field and help a lot of people get work. you know this is a really tough time. how do you prepare for an interview? >> well, you know, jamie, the key right now is to make sure that you stand out. and i'd say whether it's your resume or the interview prep, you have to make sure that you customize your application, your resume and your talking points for every single job that you apply for that you go in and interview for and this is a common mistake i see that people don't do. so you've got to get ready, do

your homework and always customize. now -- >> let's go through these because the first step that you have and we have some from you is prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare. but you always get that unexpected question. how do you prepare for that? >> well, do your research and do your homework. so if you want to be comfortable and i always tell people the best way to be comfortable is a lot of preparation and know the culture, know what the organization is about. know any stuff about them that's in the media or any press releases, just have a wide swath of information at your disposal so anything that comes out of the left field you'll be ready for. make sure you're prepared and you know your story and you know how you fit in. >> also, you say speak their language. but there's so many people right now who are underemployed and taking jobs that are beneath their skills or outside of their skills set so should you just admit, you know what? this is a new field but i want to do this job or should you sort of if it's unfamiliar fake

it? >> not as much fake it, jamie but this goes back to the preparation. you've got to understand the jargon of the industry that you're going into. so if you're transitioning to a new job which a lot of people are, or going into a different industry, you have to know the language that they use, the abbreviations, understand it and that goes back to doing your homework and look up trade publications and search their web site, professional associations and understand how you -- your skills meet what their needs are but you have to use their language so you show you fit in. >> ok. so a lot of company web sites, i know, have press releases like a little section for news. if you read about that, you can read about how they're doing and how their business is doing and what news they have to tell, that would be good but to show differentiation, set yourself apart from the others, you do that the way you dress or do it with what you say? how do you do it? >> it's mostly what you say and jamie, the famous marketing guru used to call it the unique selling proposition so in other

words, when you walk in, there are hundreds of candidates likely in a lot of these positions offering the same things. you have to show, yes, you meet the basic criteria. what's different that sets you apart from the lines behind you? >> jamie: what would that be? >> it could be a lot of things. one could be understanding how your uni set could help provide value to them or be entrepreneural. come up with ideas on how you can help them enhance their business in ways they might not have thought of before. look for any gaps or holes or problems that they have and see how you can meet those. >> jamie: final two are to know your talking points. if you walk in there with a spiel, could it sound canned? you want to appear genuine and have integrity and you also say feel their pain. what does that mean? >> you know because you interview people all the time especially politicians that the good ones have a good set of talking points but they know how to be flexible with them. so when i say talking points, i don't want you to be canned.

but have at least a basic set of three to five things, examples from your past experiences that you know apply to that job and how you can help them do a better job or enhance their organization. so know those and know them cold. but be willing to kind of pull those out of the air and use those to answer questions especially when you get one of those off the wall questions. >> jamie: let me ask you lastly. feel the pain, studying the business. what's the one mistake the people you counsel make? >> you know what? it is the feeling the pain. and that's really the empathy factor. it's understanding what you can do for them. every boss wants to hire someone that will make their life easier, not tougher. so you've got to go in and know and pay attention to what are the pain points that they have? what is it that they really need? what is their challenges and issues and how you can help make it better and take stuff off their plate so pay attention and even ask them questions throughout the interview. what are your challenge? what are your problems? and know how you can meet those challenges. >> jamie: we didn't get to it

but i believe you think the handwritten thank you note is still the best thing. very helpful today. we always want to help you take charge of a number of consumer issues and if you want to read more about this, career coach advice or others, go to foxnews.com and on the bottom of the main page, you'll see a link for america's news headquarters and you'll see the tips from this week's consumer protection segment. >> eric: always great advice every sunday. coming up, absentee ballots, many say can be susceptible to voter fraud. a new trial starts tomorrow in a case where they allegedly faked ballots to steal an election. why would a move to try to protect voter fraud be vetoed in michigan? >> we have to continue to follow the heat wave. taking a vicious toll. a number of heat related deaths. that number could be climbing. what the red cross is doing to help keep your fellow citizens safe. >> it's a hot one, i'll tell you. we biked up here and lucky to

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>> jamie: and yet, one more fox news extreme weather alert. the latest heat wave serious and already deadly. there are more than 30 deaths being blamed on the scorching heat in our country so far. more than 20 states affected. hundreds of thousands of people are suffering through the heat. it's already been more than a week without power and air conditioning for far too many. in many cases, those power outages have been going on, as i said, for you aweek kicked off by last week's powerful mid atlantic storms. the american red cross is always doing their part to help those affected and joining us now is the national spokesperson, craig cooper here on set. craig, first of all you're a volunteer. >> i am. >> jamie: like everybody that is a part of the american red cross. >> a small paid staff of 80% of thamerican red cross presence

here in the united states is volunteers. >> jamie: i don't endorse anything on the air but i have been not only 9/11 but katrina, so many disasters where you see the american red cross arrive on scene and nobody does it like you do. no federal funding either, right? all donations. >> we are federally chartered but all of our funds come from donations. and we are very, very grateful for the donations that we get from the american public. >> jamie: i can tell you, we have the most generous and caring viewers of any network. let's see what we can do to help the people in need right now. tell us right now, at least 30 deaths in 20 states. what's the big concern for the red cross right now? >> our concerns have been all over the country. the heat wave has been devastating. it's been a devastating month, going back to the wildfires in colorado and tropical storms of debby. our hearts go out to those affected. it's been a terrible month and the summer is just getting started. right now, the red cross is

focusing pretty heavily in the west virginia area, quite a few shelters are open there and we have shelters open in ohio as well as new jersey. either because of storm impact or obviously because of the heat that's been so present now since at least 10 days. >> jamie: ironically i was in west virginia when i still believe it was a tornado but that terrible storm hit last friday or saturday. and there was very little fuel. i can't believe those folks, many of them are still without air conditioning. what does the red cross do specifically as an example in that state? >> well, the red cross works with our partner agencies, with municipalities. we are asked to open shelters or to support things called cooling centers, municipalities might designate a civic center, gymnasium or something like that. if people can get home during the evening and it's reasonably comfortable, we'll help them with cooling centers during the day. however in places like west virginia, it's been unbearable. people have not been able to stay in their homes much that's the case in vineland, new jersey as well where we still are operating a shelter from 10 days

ago because people who don't have power have still wanted to have a place to go. >> and the highs reached 106 degrees in st. louis. 104 in indianapolis. 105 in louisville and the list goes on. 102 in oklahoma city. baltimore 102. devastating temperatures. >> one. things that people don't realize is historically more people die in the course of a year from extreme heat than they do from the other weather-related tragedies that come along like tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, more people die from extreme heat and we've seen that in this one heat wave and it's only the early part of july. >> jamie: if you've been listening we've been telling you to drink water, stay inside, wear light clothing, etc. a lot of people know that already. what can they do to help your efforts? because i think you never think this could happen to you. and then it does and then you're there. >> exactly. whether we're talking about preparing for a storm or preparing for a heat wave,

preparation in many cases it's very much the same thing, make sure that you have tons of water. we recommend that people have a minimum of a gallon of water a day. we also suggest that people have the provisions that they need if they lose power. that's been the situation in west virginia. even my sister outside of washington, d.c. was without power for six or seven days. >> jamie: battery operated lights, perhaps. flashlights. >> yep and the right batteries for them. i'm the one who has tons of flashlights at home and i get the wrong batteries. >> jamie: what do you have in your bags? >> it's a wonderful bag of tricks. my red cross bag, yep. of course we want people to make sure they have plenty of water. the favorite thing that i love to show is a crank operated radio so this -- it has a spot for batteries in the back. it has a cool antenna. what makes it so cool, if you turn the crank several times, you get enough power to operate the radio over and over again. in places where you don't have

power and don't know when you're going to get it, this of all crazy things can become your life line. >> jamie: there's more in the bag. go to the american red cross web site if you want more information on how to prepare and i want to tell people where they can help. you can donate on line, of course, and get a lot of helpful information. remember, it's red cross.org, not dot-com. you can call 1-800-red cross if you want to make a donation. you can text a $10 donation by texting 90999. >> if we have enough time to say one other thing. because of the heat wave and because of what happened in june as well as what's going on now, our blood donations are very, very down. we entered july 50,000 donations behind where we hope to be at the end of the june. we have had to cancel blood drives all over the areas where we've lost power and it's very, very important for people anywhere in the country, anywhere that they can help us with blood donations.

it's a very important part of what we do. >> jamie: if you still get juice and cookies at the end, i'm in. thanks so much for being here and thanks to all the volunteers at the american red cross. eric? >> eric: now to the fox news voter fraud unit. a retrial starts tomorrow in new york over the absentee ballot fraud scandal there. eight democratic officials and political operatives have been indicted, four pled guilty in what prosecutors say was a scheme to steal an election by faking absentee ballots and counting them as real votes. meanwhile, michigan republican governor rick snyder vetoed parts of the new law that supporters say would have prevented absentee voter fraud. can that open the door for potential fraud in november? we're joined from lansing, republican speaker of the michigan house jace bulger. thanks for joining us this morning. what was your concern when it comes to absentee ballots?

>> good morning. good to be with you. our concern is making sure that valid voters can cast valid ballots. we want to make sure we limit our elections to those who are living as well as those who are u.s. citizens. >> eric: why would anyone potentially be against that sf>> the governor stated he was worried about voter confusion. many of the liberals, however, tried to argue about voter suppression. they tried to bring race into the argument and that's, i think, just off base and misses the point. the point is the only people we want to exclude are the dead and the nonu.s. citizens. >> eric: any records or evidence that the dead or non-u.s. citizens are voting in michigan? >> unfortunately, our nonpartisan auditor general did an audit and found that between 2008 and 2011, over 1300 dead people cast ballots and about 50 imprisoned inmates cast ballots which neither of which should happen. so we do need to make sure we make sure that we uphold the integrity of our elections and i believe that valid voters are disenfranchised when invalid votes are cast. >> eric: that's an interesting

argument because, you know, critics always say that these type of laws disenfranchise minorities, the elderly and all ends in voter suppression. >> i think that's very unfortunate. our chief justice of the supreme court bob young ruled that voter i.d. laws do protect voters and thereby prevent lawful voters from having their votes diluted by those that cast fraudulent ballots. our chief justice is an african-american and he's looking out for the voters and make sure they're counted. >> eric: in troy, new york the allegations is the politicians just faked them. we've seen convictions of these types of cases arounded country where politicians will fake absentee ballots, they voted for themselves and handed them in as real votes and some of the controls that you think would be there are not there when it comes to absentee ballots. >> i think every voter ought to be concerned about that and they ought to make sure their vote counts and the only way to make

sure their vote truly counts is making sure that only valid votes are cast. so i think that voter i.d. laws, the kind of laws that we're seeking to pass here in michigan are very important for valid voters and i think that they protect the integrity of the outcome which i think is very important for people's faith in their government. >> eric: as we head into the race in november and the election, what concerns do you have and do you think they have been or could be addressed? >> our concerns are we want to make sure there's an honest election and we want to make sure that valid voters' votes are counted and we want to make sure nobody plays the kind of games that they're playing in new york and we want to make sure that when people go to the polls, they know that their vote is going to count and not going to be taken away by somebody that is seeking to subvert the process by casting ballots that should not count. >> eric: when you have these cases, the process is subverted. i mean, you're a politician. you've run for office. you've held public office. what does it do to the integrity and belief in our system?

>> i think people need to believe their vote is going to count and it does count. we've seen many votes that have come down very close. i haven't experienced one myself. we've seen it go to recount and be decided by one vote, two votes. it's disheartening to me when some have looked at other counties and we found five people that were deceased had cast votes. they say it's not enough to reform the system. it's too much. any invalid vote is too much. we need to make sure that we maintain the integrity of the system so people know when they go to the polls, their vote will count. >> eric: thank you for joining us this morning. fascinating especially when it comes to absentee ballots. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> eric: if you suspect voter fraud or problems where you live, we have our address. there it is. voter fraud at foxnews.com and we report every -- read every single report that we get. man, are we getting a lot of them. >> jamie: stocks took a big hit on friday after the government showed weak job growth again.

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>> jamie: not such a pretty day on friday at least when it came to the stock market. over the weak jobs report that we got, both the dow and the nasdaq plunging on news that job creation had slowed last month. so what can investors expect tomorrow? for the start of a new trading week? will it be any different? senior business correspondent anchor of "bulls & bears" brenda buttner is here. good to see you. what do you think will happen tomorrow? >> the trouble with friday is we had a bad jobs report but it wasn't quite so bad that investors could say hey, the fed might move in and help us out a little bit. so we're kind of in between. also, we're seeing a lot of head winds for the stock market. europe continues to fall apart even though there's talk of deals. people just aren't willing to

borrow and to lend to these countries at the high rates that they're getting. so we've got that. we've also just got a slowdown in many of the emerging countries that have really been helping us, the world economy continue to grow, china, india, all slowing down. so we do have to look forward to the beginning of earnings season next week and usually that gives a little boost to stocks because we have low expectations and a lot of times the companies beat or match them. so we may get a little boost from that. but this is typically a pretty bad time in the stock market for the last few years. summertime has not been so great. doesn't seem like that's changing much. >> did we have any influence, brenda, in how the market does at this time? is there anything that investors can do strategy wise that might drive the market?

>> buy stocks? that's not necessarily what they're doing. they're running to treasuries which in turn are seen as less risky which in turn is bringing down interest rates and making mortgage rates more and more palatable to many, many people but, you know, without -- there's lots of cash on the seed lines. we've heard that before. but investors are not willing to move in until the stock market goes up and then they jump in about the time that they probably shouldn't. >> jami >> jami >> jamie: brenda, we've been having this conversation for far too long. it's a bit doom and gloom. do you see it turning around in the short term or do we have to just wait this one out? no matter who wins in november, what should our expectations be? >> you know, there is that giant event looming in november. that's what's keeping a lot of

businesses from hiring which means that we don't have, aflayed to put their money in the stock market so there's a lot going on in terms of uncertainty. once we get somebody, once we know who wins for president and takes over congress, i think you'll see a lot more change in the stock market. >> jamie: i know you'll keep us posted on it. great to see you. have a great sunday. >> you, too. >> eric: speaking of the economy, there was a huge admission from president obama's re-election campaign after that disappointing jobs report. what a key advisor says the administration has not done. he says enough -- hasn't done enough on the economy. former mississippi republican governor haley barbour will weigh in. ♪

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matching not only home owners but home buyers with lenders and experts say it's fixing the mortgage problem. >> you know, you just don't want your kids to be homeless. >> the grubs are among the thousands nationally flocking to the neighborhood assistance corporation of america's save the dream tour. they connect families and lenders to fix the growing mountain of mortgage problems. >> that's why these are now the american dream events for both home buyers with the best mortgage in america and home owners who want to say in their homes to restructure mortgages and make it affordable. >> the grubs have three kids. shaving $200 off their monthly payments is the difference between home ownership and home foreclosure. >> we're thinking about filing bankruptcy. i don't think we're going to do that now. >> they look at personal credit history and extenuating circumstances such as health

care costs and job loss. for perry gerald, that circumstance was poor credit after a divorce. >> we were trying to purchase a new home, some of those credit problems came back to haunt me. >> gerald was able to cut through the red tape and put paperwork problems and high interest rates behind him. >> whoo-hoo! >> so jamie, what's in it for the banks? the fact of the matter is they don't make any money when people foreclose on their homes on really it's a win-win not only for homeowners and home buyers but also the banks. >> jamie: it sounds like it. hope that can get a little bump to the economy. >> eric: still ahead, the extreme heat. when will relief arrive and how long will it last? that coming up. [ female announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role

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>> eric: there was big news on the science front this week. liz trotta, author and journalist, fox news contributor joins us every sunday at this time with her commentary. good morning, liz. >> good morning, eric. >> eric: we're talking about god's particle and mermaids. >> two ends of the gambit in the scientific world this past week. the first thing is god's particle and many people say it's a misnomer but it sort of fits the bill, i think, with the discovery of the higgs boston particle. if you're an expert in particle physics, please excuse my rather crude explanation of this.

but it was discovered at the european organization for nuclear research known as cern and that's in geneva. they have something miles and miles under the earth between straddling the border between france and switzerland. people have compared it to like a race track where they do nothing but run these subatomic particles and smashing them at very high rates of speed and voila, they think they have this higgs boson particle which is pretty much the glue of the universe. now, you actually don't see it which leads me to the quote of the week, i think, you don't see it directly. you have to sift through the debris of trillions of subatomic particles and "the washington post" had the greatest post of the week. it's like defining the presence of an elusive snow leopard by

studying crisscrossed footprints. there were webcasts all around the world and scientists rejoicing and even peter higgs who is now 83 years old was there to celebrate. it was quite an event, like a rock concert for scientists. i must point out, though, some are calling it a discovery of higgs-boson and others are saying it's a higgs-boson like particle. there's a lot more work to be done on this. as by way of contrast, the other scientific news comes from the government. the federal government. and that is the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. and they have now decided they were going to announce to the world that there is no evidence that mermaids exist or what they call aquatic humanoids. how did this all happen? well, it turns out that the discovery channel animal planet had a two-hour documentary in

may. they ran this show and it was called mermaids, the body found. and they actually presented what you're supposed to believe is a body of a mermaid. i mean, it was -- it was pure fiction. what they call a speculative documentary. so this gave rise to all these comments so i guess they have nothing better to do at noaa and they decided they'd put out a release on mermaids. that's with your tax dollars. >> eric: just because they say there is no evidence of mermaids doesn't mean it's not true. i mean, i saw daryl hannah in "splash". she had a tail. i mean, you've got to believe! >> well, my favorite article and i know you -- thanks to you, i saw this. was in "the daily beast" and it was a spoof on this whole thing. the name of the article great j particle. and it's signed god. that was really the highlight. but there's your scientific news for the week! >> eric: all right.