the official white house degree reads imminently with an asterisk.e place today, carter? >> reporter: ali, currently futures are down again. not as bad as yesterday. this is the cnn. dow futures down, nasdaq up 20 points, s&p down about 12 points. where is everybody going? again they are fleeing to gold. gold prices over here. gold prices 1772 an ounce. that would be a new record. that's what it's trading at. crude oil below 78 bucks a barrel or 78 1/2. it feels like 'tises are a passenger on a jet that's flying through a hurricane. we walk up to the cockpit and there's no one there. the halls of congress are empty right now. where are these people. they need to come back and do their jobs. >> i hear you. carter we're looking at that flight out of oil which is kind of interesting. that might have some positive benefit. >> we could see gas prices fall to as low as

i am prepared to leave that open and add it with an asterisk of what is the meaning of complicated case and spend a little bit more time thinking about instead of just reacting. i would -- commissioner miguel: it is not defined in the rules. which is all right with me. president olague: we have a conversation about that here. commissioner moore: we might want to discuss that a little bit further. secretary avery: commissioners, i have a feeling that i am probably the only one who is here with the discussion of the creation of complicated cases standards, etc., and the commission had a discussion on what constituted the complicated case. they did not ever put that in their rules and basically it was on the size of the document that came through and the size of the project that was being proposed. and again, it was never ep caps lated in the -- it was never encapsulated in the rules and regulations and you don't have a definition. and if no one was here, it would be hearsay if i came up with the paper from the hearings and it is hearsay from me on what they believe their definition of com

to denote their non-official status, i have added an asterisk to this star right there. [laughter and applause] that means... that means it's either illegitimate or has taken steroids. i'm looking at you, alaska. who me? i've just been working out a lot. bull [bleeped]. next. i've said it before, weather men have a liberal agenda. why else is the weather map a gay pride flag? and now there is a whole new kind of subversive weather blowing into arizona. >> today's word of the day that you must know is haboob. >> official term is haboob. >> haboob. >> haboob -- h after h-b-o-o-b is an arabic name for an intense sand storm. >> stephen: haboob. this is america, bring us the forecast in weather. which brings us to number, two sharia weather. folks, i think it's bad enough that all our weather forecasts contain arabic newman also. what's next? are we going to start saying, man, it's really raining camels and sphinxes out there or teach our kids to build frosty the snow imam? i'm not the only one who is angry inch a recent letter to the arizona republic, one reader complains, "

but it asterisk was actions fair at the station and as a result tonight the new station is -- information is that the civic center and powell bart station are closed. bart and muni are not open. the protesters were warned to clear out or be arrested. it's a story with that we have been on since 5:00 and we will stay on top of its. we will give you the very latest at our website at ktvu.com and a complete update on the 10:00 news. >>> if you have been waiting and waiting place among the mob, it's here. >> first, let's talk up hurricane irene. it's going to go right off of florida. the main story there will be airport delays. or eyes, the high pressure strengthens with the pressure increases. we are going to have one of the warmest inland or hot plates and linda police that the the wii have seen all summer. and it's not going to be record heat or way above average. the issue is going to be in the 90s. and then we are back to 80. this week starting tomorrow, 90s and then we would sow's ear 50s and 60s with plenty of fog but their will be some breaks. as we move through the bay area microclim

different way, the part that says existing controls attached to restaurant uses, indicated by an asterisk, in the planning code would remain for the most part. >> before the most part -- some neighborhoods will or will not want those controls. the mission merchants do not want the prohibition on fast food restaurants. with this legislation, there would be no fast food restaurant definition. things like that we would not continue to include, because they are irrelevant now. commissioner dooley: so if the neighborhood had controls they wanted to continue that would be allowed by right? >> we would certainly try to find a way to adapt the new definition to those controls. for the most part, do we have set up the definitions, everything folded neatly into it. commissioner clyde: first, i would like to just echo my fellow commissioners, commissioner adams, and thank you for bringing this forward. i know it represents a great amount of work and i think it is appropriate cleanup that will streamline, which is one of our charges as a commission, doing business in san francisco and make it more co

trio of riders which included french men so a bunch of analogies just twenty seconds behind the asterisk in the overall standings but it was the spaniard you held on for the win to take the red cheers in a wednesday will see riders tackle the first nineteen stage of this year's race a challenging route from bizarre to see if he hadn't and that's over one hundred and seventy kilometers. an hour the riders will be hoping for some cool weather it was over one hundred degrees there a day before yesterday but now it is time to see what the weather is doing where you are. as you know song was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not inside the song so it should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that sean has been punished is been punished and will be punished. by sours must be executed for the brutal crime committed this is a punishment this is not. imagine. it's to. cause him. any mercy on you whatsoever. no i didn't come here just. and heard a good first. start for this man. finally martin. and my that is now. download the o

i think it i think that government can go along in my view it's better to share the risk with an asterisk just because investors have the. expertise and they know how to build proper objects how to manage them how to make profitable this projects and how to manage costs so that is why i think vital and. tracked private companies through their infrastructure ok let's talk a little bit more about foreign investment later stephen if i can go to you is the this stage creating the best possible legal environment for foreign investors that come in because we have to remind our audience here we're looking at multibillion dollar projects here we're looking at stadiums we're looking at freeways we're looking at all kinds of things the cost an enormous amount of money and take a long time to build is the state doing the right thing when it's trying to attract foreign investors. i think it is i mean i think the government has been taking certain steps to encourage foreign investment in a number of from a number of angles for example there's political support there's a financial support and there's a

economics of the middle ages my final headline here max the help wanted sign comes with a frustrating asterisk so apparently the unemployed need not apply if you look at job ads across america they're saying that they don't want basically unemployed people you have to be employed if you're looking at this and the other way they're . excluding the unemployed. from the jobs market is that you can't have a bad credit rating for many jobs in america so of course people have been unemployed for eighteen months twenty four months and they start to accumulate negative points on their credit score so they get literally they're banned from applying for many jobs. just a fellow wrote the classic world war two book catch twenty two about the insanity of war this is being applied now to the job market you know you can't you can't get a job unless you have a job and you get a job in a job and it goes around and around this vicious cycle because basically companies don't want to hire because they don't want to spend the money because all of their profits come from trading derivatives the banking sector is g

you've got to understand something he disguise heading off a cliff and ease the unemployment is this asterisk and when we do the spending cuts it's only going to get worse if you primary him and push him to the left you'd only be helping him in trying to win the actual general election because if you don't primary him and they do the second round of these cuts and they cut in title and and he goes into the summer with over nine percent unemployment he's going to hit poll numbers he's never seen before he's going to hit into the thirty's and he's going to panic but by that time it's going to be too late i see him rest finegold you mentioned bernie sanders there but do you think that there are real progressives anymore i mean can you name anybody in this country if an elected official anymore who doesn't serve corporate interests and those who essentially pay them over those who elect them. look that's why i always say this isn't personal i don't think that these politicians are bad people i'm sure they love their kids like they were you know they used to say about the soviet union oh sure the

. >> remember who had the most influence in debates was a candidate that was an asterisk in the democratic> absolutely. >> chris cillizza, jackie kucinich, two of the 700 reporters that have gotten credentials for the ames straw poll. fantastic. this sunday on "meet the press," meet the candidates, congresswoman michele bachmann, david gregory's exclusive guest, hours after the straw poll results are announced. a special edition of "meet the press" live from ames, iowa. check your local listings. don't miss it. >>> coming up, carnival rides, fried food on sticks and the butter cow. how the presidential candidates are playing the retail politics game here in iowa. we'll be right back with more. the safety of onstar is now available for your car. ♪ [ recorded voice ] onstar. we're looking for city hall. i'm sending directions to your car. [ recorded voice #2 ] turn right on hill street. go north for two miles. ♪ [ man ] this is onstar. i got a signal there's been a crash. do you need help? yes, please. i've got your gps location. i'm sending help. [ female announcer ] introducing onstar fmv.

. >> it's a yes or no with this asterisk. the fact is people have access to healthcare. it's cost shifting, it's going to -- >> charlie: emergency rooms and that's not the way to go. >> you use the word access. access has a meaning. >> charlie: they used the word -- >> that is right. that's what i'm saying. the president's problem in making, he made two presidency-shaping and perhaps presidency-destroying blders. one was the statement lust which was so ugly. the second was at a moment when the country was desperately frightened by economic events and their jobs, was to say we're not going to talk about jobs, we're going to talk about healthcare. now he turned to a country where 85% had healthcare and that 85% re happy and said we're going to do this but what's in it for me. >> charlie: the other side of that question is he wanted to do it because he thought as every politician nods you get more ne during the first two years of your presidency than you do the remaining six if you have that luxury. so go for it while you've got the majority in the congress. >> i think he a

. >> i feel like wisconsin is an asterisk. >> we saw that last night. it's going to be a swing state. what's the matter with kansas? what's the matter with new hampshire? 40 in new hampshire. >> not 40s, 40. >> 4-0 approval. remember license plate, live free or die. those people do not like government. i actually think new hampshire is more of a problem than the obama political team does. it's a small state. it's only four electoral votes. >> romney is the nominee. >> we're going to see a close election. four electoral votes could make the difference. >> chris, going to see you a lot in the next couple of weeks, brother. thanks for being here. >>> still ahead, we'll take you live to the opening bell on wall street. can stocks keep up their rally? >>> plus taking the pledge. what is it about this political season that's causing pledges with their pledge pins? >>> since 1980 in the years without an incumbent republican president running for re-election, how many times has a dole or a bush won the iowa caucuses? tweet me, the answer @chucktodd, @dailyrundo

the asterisk after yes, we can. america is seizing up. i cite the most obvious example this my book, the ten-year hole in the ground in lower manhattan that should shame every one of us here. because destroying those buildings is something america's enemies did to us. leaving the hole in the ground for a decade is something we did to ourselves. the empire state building, which was the tallest in the world back then, was put up in 18 months during a depression. where's that spirit today? what can you do in 18 months today? at that ten-year hole in the ground in lower manhattan is profound and eloquent in what it's telling us about american sclerosis. g is for global retreat. as written and other great powers quickly learned, the price of big government at home is an ever smaller presence abroad. first comes reorientation and the shrinking of the horizon. after empire britain turned inward. between 1951 and 1997 the proportion of government expendture on defense fell from 24% to 7% while the proportion on health and welfare rose from 22% to

the asterisks mean a lot. already there's one potential wrinkle.essional budget office says the plan as fully envisioned would cut spending only by $1.3 trillion over ten years. we're following all the developments and the repercussions as only cnn can. kate bolduan joins me from capitol hill this hour. wolf blitzer is in our washington studios. wolf, i want to start with you. what do you make of the plan on the table and the likelihood this will reach president obama's desk tomorrow? >> ting senate will pass it. they probably have more than 70 votes in the senate. a lot of republicans and democrats will team up. it's much more problematic in the house of representatives. they need 216 votes because there are a few vacancies in the house. it probably will pass the house of representatives. the speaker is on board. the senate minority leader -- the house minority leader, nancy pelo pelosi, noncommittal as of now. steny hoyer, the minority whip, is on board. eric cantor is on board. we'll see what happens in the house. it will be a bit of a nailbiter

everybody else with 2 or 1 percent or asterisks for that matter.you sake sarah palin and rudy giuliani out of the equation, perry does better. michele bachmann, 12%. gingrich 7%. you see everybody else below in single digit. rick perry, the governor of texas, clearly has moved atop nationwide. it doesn't necessarily mean for sure he'll get the nomination. doesn't necessarily mean he'll win the iowa caucuses or the new hampshire primary, the south carolina primary. it does show at least at this point, nationwide, he's the top choice among those who identify themselves as republicans for getting the nomination. he does better, by the way, with republican men than republican women. but pretty well with tea party supporters. those who say they're not tea party supporters. rick perry is doing rather well right now, doing the fact it's been a couple weeks since he formally entered the race for the republican presidential nomination. good news, i think, for rick perry. he's going to help generate a lot of fundraising for him. he's going to be under enormo

it is full of asterisks and semicolons and all kinds of things that make it difficult. i specialize in simplicity, and that is what you will get. then, we will turn to sarah binder, a senior fellow here at bookings. she is an expert on congress and on legislative politics, and she will talk about the history of supercommittee spirit it is sad to think that there actually have been previous committees like this one. it seems when congress cannot make a decision or force itself to the right thing, they need to appoint a committee or commission or so forth. sarah will describe that and talk a little bit about this particular committee and how it will operate. and, we will turn to bill, the great expert on taxes. he also is the author of several versions of the deficit and 10- year projections with all kinds of interesting baselines. in fact, bill can produce baseline's faster than congress can pass legislation. i think he had this thing out about a minute and a half -- after they reached agreement, a bill comes out with a baseline. shockingly, he is going to talk about bas

do not have an asterisk that says this does not apply eight it did the americans with disabilities actsabilities act does not have an asterisk that says this does not apply during disasters. if you have a high school education, english as the primary language, financial resources and insurance, that is not exactly the most vulnerable population. but that is who we were planning for, and we put everybody else into an annex. that approach is failing and it fails every time. we are going to start planning for the communities we levin, not the communities that fit our plans. we know that we are going to have to address these issues and the response, so let's address them in our corporate perebiynis. -- in our prepare dness. we are going to look that instead of having special needs chapters, having functional access shelters. we were looking at how do you incorporate all of these issues in the planning stage and bring the folks to gather that day to day work with these various communities? i have gotten a lot of push back saying this is too hard to do, and unfunded mandates, it is unrealist

the budget deal has all sorts of asterisks, but it left this $4.50 trillion question completely undefined. there is no god as to the budget deal about what baseline people actually use. think about is the following way? suppose you had been eating badly for the last 10 years and you have been gaining a lot of weight. you want to lose 15 pounds. we will not go with 1.5 trillion palace. the question is compared to what? the way we usually think about it is compared to where i am right now. i want to lose 15 pounds. there is another way to think about it. i had been eating badly for 10 years. if i continue to eat badly the next 10 years, i will lose 45 pounds. i will lose 15 pounds relative to that 45 pounds over the next decade. nobody is serious about losing weight bills in a 45 pound weight increased and says they are going to lose 15 pounds relative to that. but using what the base lines would be the equivalent of increasing the deficit by $4.50 trillion and in st. i am to cut it by $1.50 trillion. that is essentially what is at stake here. that ends the non tedious portion of the top. [

us special, or limiting access to availability disservice is that under the ada does not have an asterisk that's as does not apply in disasters. this is tough for emergency managers. we're basically writing for people that have access to mass transit, high schooler better education, english primary language, financial resources, insured, and not exactly the most vulnerable people in the room, but that is who we were planning for. in pet everyone else in and an ax. we figured that approach was failing and it failed every time. we're going to start planning for the community that we live in, not the communities that are planned. we know that we're going back to address these issues in the response, so let's address them in our preparedness exercise is, how we train, how we staffed and equipped. we now maintain infantine baby supplies at are staging areas for logistics'. instead of just having special needs shelters, we're looking have functional access shelters for people are not turned away because they present with a disability and percent summer else. -- with a disability and present the

the ada does not have an asterisk that says this does not apply in disasters. for peopleriting who had access to mass transit, had resources, insurance. not exactly the most vulnerable folks in the room. that is who we were planning for, and we put everybody in the too hard to do in an annex. we have taken our guide and said, no, that approach is failing and it fails every time. we are calling to plan for the committees we live in, not the communities that fit our plan. we know we are going to have to address these issues and the response, so let's address that , so we now maintain infant and baby supplies in our staging areas for logistics'. we are going to look at instead of just having special needs shelters, working daffodil access shelters were people are not turned away because they may present with a disability and sent somewhere else. how to do incorporate some of these issues in the planning phase and bring the folks together who work with these various committees and work as a team? i have gotten pushback saying this is too hard to do, it is an unfund