. >> in a july 26 letter, senators barbara mikulski and ben carter raised the issues of affordability, competition, consumers, and jobs. bryson has not deploy its fios fiber optic network in baltimore. among their concerns, people of color and low-income households will be disproportionately affected. >> it is the competitive nature. it is the type of transaction that provides less competition. less competition means less jobs and not as much service. side of on the wrong the digital divide. there will be no fiber-optic accessibility for schools, for businesses, and for jobs. >> the mayor has urged internet providers to increase access to broadband in baltimore. she has provided funding to upgrade the fiber network. a spokesman said we have not commented on this issue because this is a federal regulatory matter between the sec and to private companies. comcast would not comment. the spokesman for ricin would not comment on concerns raised by critics but says nothing has been announced in maryland yet. these joint ventures are happening in areas where there is no fios service. in flori

>> to know what actually happened that night. >> teresa carter, ann winters carters, ben irwin and johnler, thanks. >>> here's lonnie with another check of the weather. >> good enough, anthony. let's look at the satellite and radar picture for our country. it's the mid section of the country where we see a cold front from top to bottom. we have a low pressure system around the chesapeake. from say the -- significant rain because of that low. look at this. down in south florida, there's rainfalling right now and it's all because of, believe it or not, tropical storm isaac as of the friday a.m. update. 60 miles per hour winds moving to the northwest at 14 miles per hour. currently, 150 miles to the southeast of guantanamo in cuba. later today, much later, we'll be looking for landfall in cuba as a tropical storm and then it hits the warm waters of the florida straits and we think by about 2:00 a.m. monday morning, we could be seeing a hurricane landfall somewhere between, say, miami and key west. lot of rain for the sunshine state. that's a quick look at the national picture. here's a clo

ben foishl what they're saying happened. but the police chief says his officers did search carter twice. they did miss the gun.fled that they missed gun in two searches. >> and then you have to come up -- of course, the fbi is looking at. by the way, they're held to the same as you and i would be. obviously if you or i were in a car and they found a man in the back seat shot in the back of the head, you'd be arrested. of course one of the things they're looking at it is what would be the motive? why would they want to kill him. i don't know that i've seen anything yet that would suggest homicide in the case, but you know this is all going to come down to the physical evidence in the end, i think. >> right. and you can flip it as well and say what was his motive have been to take his own life. they only found $10 worth of marijuana. there was a bag of white substance found in his car but it turned out to be something like sugar. so he would have been aware of that. so what would be his mow tirch? >> he wouldn't have a motive. and i'm not buying the motive of suicide. if the police are not involved in this, i th

carter and except this president. >> the democrats kick off their convention next week in charlotte, north carolina. also, fed chairman ben0:00 a.m. eastern at the central bankers policy conference in jackson hole, wyoming. few economists are actually expecting the chairman to signal that the central bank is about to take major new action to boost the economy but the markets will still be listening for hints that action might be coming soon. >>> let's go now to the conference at jackson hole, our economics reporter steve liesman joins us with another guest, and i don't know, yesterday i missed a couple of opportunities, steve, and my filter was on and i guess it should have been -- >> hold on, joe, joe, what did you just downgrade me again, just the economics reporter, not the senior? >> senior economics reporter. >> thank you very much. continue. >> when you were talking about the trout and all that stuff and you said i think my trout was really long and you know, i just didn't -- but i missed the opportunity, this guy fishes with you, that you have now, right? or no? is this eddie? >> no. >> did you fish yesterday? >> m