wall street and maybe some folks seeing buying opportunities and right now 153 points, and still, not back over the 11,000 mark. of course, the dow still has a long way to the go to make up for yesterday's staggering 634-point loss. cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood joining me live. good morning to you, john. >> good morning, chris. >> the president is scheduled to meet with the treasury secretary tim geithner and still uncertainty and nervousness and are we expecting akction from te white house? >> well, washington is weighing if they have to do something big, and something big would not involve calling the congress back. that almost certainly would be counter productiveb -- given the bitterne nesness that have been through, and the administration though could still challenge the congress on some big program to stimulate

the economy and that could be tax cuts beyond what the administration has laid out so far and in terms of extending the payroll tax cut, and jobs program, which costs money if you talk about direct hiring, and there is a highway transportation bill pending in the congress that would have a lot of construction jobs associated with it if it is passed. so to some degree, i think that the white house is monitoring the market movements and reassured that the market has gone up after the turbulence of yesterday, and they will take the cues from that, and obviously, you see the market fluctuations affecting the market fundamentals which have been buyss -- biased towards growth and have not produced jobs as we have seen. >> let me bring in steve forbes who is editor and chief of "forbes", and good to see you, steve. are you seeing assurance in the numbers or what are you making

to the markets? >> after falling 1,130 points in the last three trading days it is nice to see recapture 186 points from the loss. the key thing from washington, you will have to see a big change of policy either on the stop the weak dollar policy or a serious effort to fundamentally simplify the tax code and one of those two initiatives would be good for the markets, but i don't see that happening quite yet. >> let's talk about what is good for the markets and the economy overall, because there is a couple themes i have heard over and over as i watched the pundits over the last 24 hours, steve. calling congress back and you heard john say that one high level democrat thought that would be highly productive, and the second is that the president should come forward with a specific plan whether it is what you have suggested or something to really start to move the economy. does he have that kind of power? >> well, unfortunately, the

plans he has put forth in the last 2 1/2 years to move the economy forward have been absolutely counterproductive and the massive blowout on spending did not healp the economy, and the ulfalling value of the doll, and i don't think he is going to repeal obama care or dodd/frank bill, and unless he makes a reversal on some of those fundamental issues, the rest is more cosmetic and nipping around the edges rather than the core issues. >> something else is going on today and the federal reserve is going to meet and make their policy meeting known 2:15 eastern time which is a paper statement and i have heard a lot of things of what to expect. what do you think they will do and what should they do? >> well, they will reassure us that they areal following the situation as if they couldn't.

everywhere you turn, you are getting hit wit, and they will monitor the events and take appropriate action if that is what they feel is necessary. >> but they won't change the interest rates? >> well, you can't knock them down any more than they have knocked them, and in terms of the stop the weak dollar policy, i don't think that ben bernanke will do that. he believes in a weak dollar even though history shows and experience shows it is absolutely counterproductive and we have never had a sustained recovery with a weak dollar. >> let me ask you about the average american, because they don't have big money nin the stock market, but the 401(k) and retirement money, and what do they do? in 2008 most waited it out and recovery and the way it happens so quickly and the more closer to retirement, the more nervous you get. what is the strategy for the average investor? >> well, those who rode through

the stress were rewarded when the market doubled in almost two years. so unless you are about to cash in, i would ride this thing out. market timing never works. i don't know one 1 in 1,000 investors who can do the market timing right more than two or three times. so if you are putting a little bit in each month in the 401(k), continue to do so and eventually this country is going to come out of this and we always do, and don't be on the sidelines when the turn comes. it will come. >> steve forbes, like that we rend og are ending on a positive note. and jean chatskey is here, and tell us what to do with the average american who is freaking out? >> well, first thing, do not fry to panic. if you panic and whether the

market is skyrocketing and you think that you didn't get the tech stocks on time or if it is falling, you make bad decisions, and we have seen it time and time again and sit down and think about what your personal objectives happen to be? what is this money for? when do you need it? and as steve said, if it is long-term pay, doing nothing may be the right call. >> and you say maintain liquidity, and what are you talk about? >> talk about the short-term needs. if you to pay a college tuition bill in the next couple of years or if you have money that you need for a down payment in a house, and you are a retiree and you need cash out of the 401(k) to live in, that money does not belong in the stock market and it did not belong it before and not now. and if the market goes down again, what does that mean to you? >> and with gold we all thought about it, $1,000 an ounce is outrageous. >> and to understand that the alternative asset classes, gold,

oil, cotton belong in the portfolio these days and not as great degree as stocks and bonds, but they need to hold you up when the other categories are take a beating. >> and make sure you are saving enough, and it is something that people did understand out of 2008, the saving rate is going up? >> yes, it is 5%, and it is not great, because you need 10 to 15% of everything that you bring in on a consistent basis in order to have enough money for retirement, and one of the things that we have learned coming out of washington is that the entitlement programs may very well get hit, and if there is not as much money for you from the government as you anticipated? maybe you need to save more. >> you hear more from people, and you are out there, and how nervous would you gauge people to be out there? >> people are nervous. people are definitely nervous, and in is on their minds and what they want to talk about, but i would say try your best to go on with your day. try your best not to get caught up in the minutia of the market,

because if you are in there for the long-term, these swings and they are wilder than we have seen are going to drive yuou a little bit crazy perhaps more than usual. >> thank you, jean. and michael nutter told the phillies' you have disgraced your own race. and he will be here in a few minutes. and there is a whole lot other things going on including british prime minister david cameron who is calling up more officers to deal with the rioting that has engulfed london. looting has run over the country, and it was parked by the police killing of a young father last week, and cameron cut his vacation short to deal with this. >> these are sickening scenes of

people vandalizing and loolting and robbing and scenes of people attacking police officers and even attacking fire crews as they are trying to put out fires. this is criminality, pure and simple. >> hi, chris. it has been unbelievable to watch this, and the aerial pictures and you look at this happening all over the city, and you say, is this london? the violence escalated overnight to several areas including cities outside of london. it is clear and police are even admitting they do not have control over this. the prime minister announced this morning he is putting 16,000 officers out on the streets, and that is thought to be more than they used precautionarily for the royal wedding and they will allow the police to use certain tactics that they have stayed away from thus far using armored vehicles and plastic bullets and here in south london, the first fatality happened overnight.

a 26-year-old man died of gunshot wounds, but we don't know the circumstances of that at this point. what is really staggering to see is the amount of damage that these small groups of young people have been able to cause. i mean, they originally said this was based on anger toward the police and toward the system and one young rioter said that the police have too much power and using it wrongly, but the government has e it rated today, this is sheer opportunistic criminality and thuggery. >> thank you. and dominic strauss-kahn's prosecutor has decided to seek unspecified damages and they are also deciding whether to pursue

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a lot of speculation this morning that another change election could be on the way, because just 24% of people say that most members of congress deserve re-election and according to the "usa today"/gallup poll think that 47% believe that the president should be re-elected. and something that john boehner and nancy pelosi can agree on, no more pages. it costs taxpayers between $69,000 and $89,000 per page, and those high school kids have served as messengers on the house floor, but the senate is keeping their page program. and the first lady is in oregon visiting her brother who is the head of the university of oregon basketball coach.

the girls are with her, and no word on how long the visit will last. and the mama grizzly is grandmama again. her oldest son track and his wife had a daughter, gray, born sunday night, and the couple married in may. while the president is trying to calm america's financial fears and stopping short to calling congress back to work hear what white house press secretary jay carney said when asked about the president should call congress back? >> well, the markets go up and down and we cannot act precipitously in reaction to how the markets behave on a given day or week. >> joining me now is congressman charlie rangel. always good to see you, congressman. >> good to be back. >> you are around and talking to the constituents and people are really, really freaked out with the economy and now with the stock market, and should congress go back the work and do something? >> no question in my mind, and

even if we didn't do something, the president should call us back and to recognize that as important as re-elections are in the house and the senate, the integrity of our country is far more important. just him bringing us together and saying that we are going to work to get jobs for the people and training for people, and people want to believe. we have given them no reason to believe. that's the reason why our credit went down and not because everyone doesn't know that we will pay owl all of our debts, if people can believe that the president is not in charge of paying those debts, and anybody left or right or democrats or republicans can cause us to renege on what we owe, it has nothing to do with the budget. it has everything to do with the integrity. >> and let's talk about the dissenting voice, because here is what the folks who say you should not be called back, they say that congress has proved

they can't get anything done and when they do it is divisive and rancor rouous and why raise hopo get them dashed? >> if you are asking me the question if there is no hope that we can do it? we have to change our way of thinking about the country. our country not obama or pelosi or boehner, but it is a country with hope and vision, and we are the actors, and the tools that are supposed to present us to what people are proud of, and when you lose confidence, you can't buy it. you can't elect it. confidence is something that you feel. and i tell you that we are hitting rock bottom as you reported, so what do we have to lose by going into the white house and saying, hey, we have to give and raise revenue and going to have to cut cost, but the most important thing is that it would give so much hope to people who have been without

work for months and for some years, and that is what the leadership of the senate and the house and the president of the united states, and i would hope they bring in the business people to remind us that the tax code encouraging them to put money overseas and could be changed like this. that would give them incentives to invest in the united states of america. >> and how do you think that the president has been handling? because the markets tanked when he started to speak. and dana milbank's writes in the washington post, the most powerful man in world is powerless and resolute as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency. is that true? >> larger forces? i never would think that a small number of people who don't mind dying, who don't mind taking the country down in the fiscal integrity tells the president that they will not allow the debt ceiling to increase. >> you are talking about the tea party? >> well, i'm not. i'm really talking about the

korngs becau congress, because people get elected and they are elected, and they have to decide if they are going to recapitulate or goal a long with the majority or go along with people who everyone agrees they have their own agenda that has nothing to do with the economy of the united states of america and let the president come in to lay it on the line and tell us that we have a responsibility not to get re-elected, but to have the american people have confidence in ourselves. we don't have it, you don't expect foreigners who invest in this country to have it. >> critics have said, they come from both sides the republicans and the democrats and they say that the president has to stop the blame game and has to stop saying i inherited this economy and i inherited the debt, and the tea party, they were running interference when we were trying to get a bigger debt deal done, and he has to say, here is what

i am going to do. i'm laying it on the table, and here are my ideas, now let's implement them. >> well, i agree and i would join those -- and i wouldn't say critics -- but on that sidef of the question, but on the other side of it, why don't you tell them that we didn't do it, so he has a part tof the party to tel him how we got to we are today, but i agree, any time i have a political problem, i try to sell me, and not the reason why we have the problem, and people don't want to know how we got there, but they want to know how to heck to get out of it, and people in my community, they are waking up in the morning talking about debt ceiling or what is happening to the stock market, and they want to know when can i have hope for my family that i'm going to have a job? i want to pay taxes. >> and when the phone rings and it is barack obama who says you have been around the block a few times in washington and you would tell him to call congress

back and have a specific plan? >> i would tell him to listen to everybody, but as far as charlie rangel is concerned, the people have lost faith in all government, republicans, democrats and the white house and try to bring us together to help ourselves, because through that, we are helping our country, and there should be no issue that's so important that someone is going to say, i don't want to participate, and if they do, whether it is left-wing democrats or right-wing republican party, and we have to participate and not refuse to. our country is more important than who wins or loses and it will. >> thank you, congressman charlie rangel. >> thank you for having me. the irs reported that almost 1,500 millionaires and billionaires paid, get this, no federal income taxes in 2009 o

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>> in what is sure to be a heartbreaking scene, the remains of 30 american service members who were killed when their helicopter was shot down in afghanistan over the weekend will arrive in dover air force base in delaware today. tom costello is there, and he joins me now. tom, good morning. >> hi, chris. good morning to you. and the first of two planes carrying the remains of the servicemen has arrived here at dover air force base and we are expecting the second one within the hour. 30 men and as you have said, 22 members are members of the elite navy s.e.a.l.s team, but there are also army troops on board as well as air force troops. the air force troops were part of a special operations air traffic control unit on the ground in afghanistan, so in all 30 u.s. service member, but another eight service members who are afghans, and special

forces who were in the same attack on that helicopter, in the attack and then killed along with their american colleagues and because of the crash being so horrific, they were unable to separate all of the remains, and so as a result, they are bringing back all 30 men, americans and afghans here to dover air force base and they will conduct what the military calls a dignified transfer service here in private, here on the base, and family members are invited to attend, and we do know that admiral mike mullen the chairman of the joint chiefs will be here as well as leon panetta, the secretary of defense, and then the very difficult task will be for the mortuary services people here at dover to begin the difficult work of trying to separate out and identifying the remains of all 38 men, and then eventually sending the eight afghans back to afghanistan. this is a horrific series of circumstances here at dover air

force base as it is coming on of course the worst attack of any team or military attack in afghanistan. >> thank you sh, tom. and there are random acts of violence that are happen iing i philadelphia, and mayor michael nutter is imposing a curfew -- >> chris, if you will allow me, chris, we are guards to the service members back, and our hearts go out to all of the families. tlt there is an impact here in philadelphia where one of the service members michael strange is from philadelphia. his mother, betty strange is a philadelphia police officer.

our hearts go out to all of the service members, but certainly to the strange family, and our deepest condolences, and we appreciate their service to our country. >> mayor, thank you for that. let's talk about what is go on there in philly, because you have a plan and this has raised eyebrows, parents can be rnlg changed with third-degree misdemeanors and face up to 90 days in jail if their children repeatedly break curfew, and why did you feel you needed the tough love? >> well, we have had some of these episodic incidents of random senseless and stupid and ignorant violent acts. philadelphia is a great city. these things just kind of pop up almost out of nowhere, and we have had a couple of them over the past few years. i have been told that we will not tolerate this activity and take anne carrot and stick

approach, and we have opened up facilities to 10:00 at night for the youth, and the youth commission is working on programs for more positive activities, b activities, but we will not tolerate this activity. we need parents to step up. if you have children, fine, and we will help you, but we are not going to raise your children. if you don't, there are penalties for them as well. these laws are on the books -- >> look. any parent who's had a teenager has had that time when they throw up their hands and feel like you have totally lost at some point they went off of the reservation. >> yes. >> so can you legitimately hold parents responsible in this way, when i'm sure that you know it can be difficult at every minute of everyday to ask them what you are doing, and even responsible

parents. >> absolutely. i have two children and one of whom is a teenager right now, and children can as my mother used to say, they can test your last nerve. i get that. but nonetheless, it is a parent's responsibility to know where their children are, and to know what they are doing, and know who they are hanging out, and that is part of the responsibility that comes with parenting. i am cognizant and sense toif tha -- sensitive to that, and at the same time we have a department of youth services who can provide support services and guidance and counseling and yes, i know it is tough. >> really? you have the staffing to do that because i will tell you even before the latest budget shortfalls that we have been seeing in cities across the country, wherever i have traveled departments like this have had a tough time keeping up with the cases they have. >> we certainly the department has its own caseload, but we have enough support staff to

provide that help and support and private agencies to contract with and if you have a parenting guide, we can provide a lot of help and support. we don't want parents to think they are out there by themselves, and quite frankly, we want to remove for some of them, the stigma of getting involved with the social service agencies, but the bottom line is that they are your children, and you have to be responsible for them. the government cannot raise your kids for you. we can help you, but we are not going to do the jobs by ourself, and quite frankly, chris, the overwhelming majority of the young people here in philadelphia are 99% good and not involved in this senseless random, dumb violent activities, and they are doing positive things, but we have to take control of this situation here where it is the tail end of the summer and school opens in a month and we needed to take control and i have lowered the curfew on friday and saturday in targeted areas. it is a targeted response and combination of carrot and stick, because we will not have this kind of activity here in the

city, and so, we are delivering that message. we have had an outpouring, outpouring, chris, of support from the community leaders and religious leaders and civic organizations and people helping us, and volunteering time on weekends to be out in patrols in the targeted areas and the community has responded positively and rallied around this particular situation. we want our young people safe. >> mayor michael nutter, that has to be the last word, but we thank you so much. and three siblings are on the run after a violent shootout. where are they? soy complex and natural minerals. give you sheer coverage instantly, then go on to even skin tone in four weeks. aveeno tinted moisturizers.

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the midwest, and this is also going to make its way into northeast, and 82 in new york city thursday and the cool air is dropping down into parts of the south. it is going to be a lot drier and the 86 is going to feel wonderful in charlotte. it is stormy getting there and we have showers and storms along the first front and some of those coming into parts of the northeast and looking at lancaster getting storms right now moving into philly and new york in the next few hours and general storms and not severe storms in the northeast which is felt across parts of the south and the high plains going into the afternoon. chris, back to you. >> all right. thank you is much. let's look at other stories that people trauk about right now. in florida people are looking for three siblings on the run after a violent one-day crime spree that spanned two states. nbc's lilia lihas the story.

>> the three fired more than 20 shots at this patrol car in hot pursuit trying to pull them over for speeding. >> they have a flat tire and looks like i won't keep up with him. >> reporter: police say that thege mans mark the beginning of the so-called doherty gang crime spree. >> it is clear that these three are on some type of mission. >> reporter: then they resurfaced in valdosta, florida, with high powered weapons and shooting up the ceiling and escaped in the same white subaru with a undisclosed amount of money, and since the fbi has launched a man hunt for the trio. and now the faces of the three siblings are plastered on hundreds of billboards stretching from florida to texas. authorities say that ryan sent his mother a cryptic text

message while on the run. >> he has actually texted her in the last few days saying that at one point we all have to die. >> their distraught mother spoke to the associated press begging her children to give up. a former next-door neighbor says they were no stranger to firearm s. >> lots of gunshots. like heavy duty weapons, and i don't know what kind, but certainly not a b.b. gun, but heavy duty weapons. >> reporter: but there is not the first time that the siblings have had run-ins with the law. the daughter was charged with battery and hit-and-run among other offenses. under the flicker page lee says she likes to wreck cars and loves guys and says i'm a red neck and i like to cause mayhem with my siblings. and ryan sent hundreds of explicit sex messages to a

underaged girl, and dylan was charged with possession of marijuana. and police discovered an understood ground bunker in their home. >> use everything to be safe, and remember, if you engage them, you will be going to a bat, but i promise you, we will win. >> that is lilia louis ylouisia reporting. and a boyfriend has reported a maryland woman missing in aruba. and what was supposed to be a 60-hour feat, diane nyad had to abandon her feat where the 61-year-old was forced to end her marathon because of heavy winds and currents. you might remember that nyad tried before to make that swim way back in 1978. time to look at the markets

an hour into the trading day and the dow is up over 200 points and back up over the 11,000 mark, and brian sullivan, you have been watching this morning and what are you seeing? >> well, some buyers stepping into the market, chris. look. i'm not going the make light of it, it has been a brutal two weeks and gaining 200 points is nice, but we are still well below where we were and we are waiting for the federal reserve 2:15 eastern time to get a statement from the fed and that could determine the course of trading for the next couple of days, because there is talk that the fed might step in with a quantitative easing or discounted loan program and we have to wait, because it could be a big day. >> and mortgages rates are down. >> if you can get one. 30-year rate, 4.5%, and those are good rates and re-fis have been soaring recently, chris, but as you know, the banks have tightened up the lending and of

course, with all of the bank stocks tumbling, bank of america losing 20% yesterday, there is fear they could constrict lending further because their capitol position has been red e reduced a little bit. >> brian sullivan, good to see you. >> all right. we are talking a lot about money today, but instead of asking more of yours by raising taxes, one school superintendent got creative, he saved about $3 million by soliciting government agencies and companies to reuse everything from desks to computers, and the man with the plan head of clairmont schools in cincinnati and now author of "superintendent saving strategies and stretching the taxpayer dollar in your school." good morning, good to see you. >> good morning, chris. happy to be on the show. >> and you are a thrifty guy and you were raised on a rm farm, b

you have done a dumpster dive to check out the merchandise? >> well, it was a clean dumpster dive, and it was in the duke center in downtown cincinnati and the office furniture in there was better than what was in my office, so i -- >> you are kidding? >> no, i got in and i handed it to the secretary and we loaded it up and we looked like the beverly hillbillies. >> do you still have the desk? >> no, some of the chairs are in the district, but the desk i use right now came from the federal building downtown, and the fbi donated it to the school district. >> unbelievable. you wrote the book, because you think that other superintendents can save money, too. what are you telling them to do? >> well, i have had superintendents call me from all over the state, and one of the main reasons i wrote the book is because i knew that some of the things that we were doing at clairmont northeastern was things that could be done in other school districts, and when superintendents call me, i kind of give them a stop three or

four list that they can do. number one and the biggest thing we do, chris, is a business partnership dinner to bring in the business leaders and the government leaders and the school district leaders and we feed them and give away awards for the business partner of the year and network among each other and then gi go over a top ten list for them, and what we can do for you and they can do for us, and we never ask for money and that is why the partnerships work out well, because businesses today, cannot have school districts or nonprofits coming in to ask them for money, so we let them know how we can save them money and help ourselves out, too. and we started this originally to keep our head above water financially, but so many of the partnerships that we have formed have went into educational-type partnerships to where the partnerships are helping the students out. and for instance, one of the companies that makes hydraulic

pumps is going to start out three students with $14 and pay for three years of college and when that is done, they will be bumped up for $28 an hour, and those partnerships were on one of your morning shows, and governor casey was talking about how school districts and businesses need to partner up to stretch the dollar and we have been doing that for five or six years. >> and obviously, people are taking notice. than you, superintendent. >> thank you. join msnbc this sunday august 14th at noon for a special two-hour program, stronger america and making the grade live from detroit. it is hosted by tamron hall and jeff johnson and you can be part of the online conversation. go to facebook.com/stronra on twitter the orange goo has been

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calories than those who didn't see or use the calorie labeling. i'm thomas roberts and in the next hour on msnbc, markets are rebounding after the manic monday on wall street, and the big question, does president obama need to call congress back to work for the country's economy? and "newsweek" under fire for the portrait of michele bachmann, and now they are releasing the outtakes, and wait until you see what didn't make the cut. and from main street to sesame street, and is elmo the best teaching tool that our kids have had in generations. making the grade with the muppets. i will see yout the top of the hour. thank you, thomas. the push is on in iowa with the campaigning getting more intense, but candidates may be looking over their shoulder for republican governor from texas rick perry. politico is saying that perry is going to compete for air time and making it official in south carolina thae sht he is going t

declare that he is going to run for president. and we are joined by the political reporter for the "des moines register" for 34 years, and good morning to you, david, and you, cheryl. and david, even when you move, we make you talk to us. so what are you looking for in iowa, because nobody knows the presidential politic stage better than you? >> well, the straw poll does have an impact on the race, and it does replace the caucus themselves in term of the impact. the straw poll does one of two things or both. one, elevate somebody out of obscurity and we have seen that in the past with people like mike huckabee, and serve to start winnowing the field. some of them are on life support, and if they do poorly, it is hard to raise money. a lot of eyes are on tim pawlenty as having to do or die here in the straw poll. >> and yeah, let's look at the

latest poll with mitt romney leading with 24% and then rick perry, and ron paul, and bachmann and gingrich and cain, and it is interesting to see the number two guy is not in iowa. is this interesting how this is going to be in the field and can it be a field that supports both a rick perry and michele bachmann? >> well, it is interesting that rick perry chose this weekend of all weekends to say that, and it is totally coincidence and he could not do this sunday or monday this week and it is particularly interesting, because rick perry can compete well in iowa, and there is room in the field for someone like him and michele bachmann and interesting of why he would do it on saturday and instead of making nice with the iowa activists who might be caucusing for him in january. >> we have to talk about the kor of "newsweek" picture of michele bachmann, because it is getting so much air play. and here is a look at the picture and what michele bachmann has to say about it. >> have you seen it yet? >> i have not.

>> this is the wild-eyed photo with a "queen of rage." >> a ha. well, we will have to take a look at that. >> and tina brown said, michele bachmann's intensity is galvanizing voters in iowa right now, and "newsweek" cover captured that. what do you think about that, david? >> well, it does not capture that at all. the photograph should not have been used and it is a distraction. this happens to women politicians all of the time. women are judged by their appearance, and here we go again with another flap over the appearance of a female candidate. they could have used a much different photograph to reflect the intensity that michele bachmann shows here. and you know, the person who wrote the piece, i know her well, and she a good reporter, but this photograph eclipses the story, so my read is that "newsweek" should not have done it, and they will milk it for publicity and attention for

themselves, and they are in the business of selling magazines, and i get that, but i don't think that they should have used a photograph that was this unflattering. >> david, good to see you and shira, come back as you are on your way to iowa. [ woman ] jogging stroller. you've been stuck in the garage while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec® i can love the air®.

and that wraps up this hour of jansing & company, i'm chris jansing and keep it here on msnbc. thomas roberts s s is up next.

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