johnson, darnel vogel, jim aires, brenda washington. karen fishkin. >> i am aaron, and i guess my time has come. i own a beautiful victorian house. what a trip. i read the report from the san francisco department of public health. this is a very good report. with the prevention and control of bedbugs. a great report. the key to success is going to be in implementation. who will be watching over this for the next couple of years. i was in my room and then there a few weeks only. there was a conversation in the hallway, from my mayor cook -- my neighbor, next door. you have to get out of your room. we have to spray, for bedbugs. i send her a note. she never responded to me. this is 10 days, for bedbugs. i mentioned to her, the note that she sent out. she said, do not worry. we will take care of that. one week later i had

brenda keeler is live in washington. i like that beginning, ohio, because in the campaign we like to say ohio, ohio, ohio. but really, the message is kind of universal for president obama. he wants to hit the economy hard, doesn't he? >> reporter: he'll be talking about the economy and he's trying to draw a contrast. he'll be emphasizing the auto bailout. that plays very big, specifically in ohio, because this is a place that is number one when talking about auto suppliers. he'll also be emphasizing the stimulus. the idea here is this betting on america tour. it's him saying that he made some bets and they paid off, and then he's going to be drawing this contrast, like i mentioned. mitt romney, he'll basically be painting him as he has, from president obama's point of view, a calculating kind of wall street guy who put profit ahead of creating jobs. so what does that mean? yes, more bane capital attacks. you can expect we'll be seeing that from president obama on this tour. >> we've been hearing about this, sort of kicki

reasons british wanted to burn washington was because of the plundering and the burning that the american militia had done in canada. >> i'll let anthony pitch apply. thank you, brenda. >> yes, i already referred to that at the opening of this interview. it was part payback for americans in canada. you're right. burned, plundered, pillaged some of the private buildings, that is correct. >> the book is "the burning of washington: the british invasion of 1814." our guest has been historian anthony pitch. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> you've been watching american history tv on c-span3. a look at the war of 1812, and if you've missed any of our programming and our conversation on the war of 1812, you'll find it in our video library at c-span.org and c-span.org/history. >> you're watching "american history tv" all weekend every weekend on c-span3. for more information, follow us on twitter at c-span/history. >> you're watching "american history tv" which you can see every weekend here on c-span3. this july 4th we're highlighting the war of 1812, the bicentennial, taking an in-depth look of the causes and course of the little-known war that bolstere

brenda. >> veronica. >> i found my home. let's get to the boards. here's some things happening we want to show you. a live shot out of washington, d.c.today. also in chicagoland today, another day of 105. it feels like that. the heat index. this is your last day. relief and cooling in both locations. look at where the cold front goes and watch the numbers over the next three days. chicago, new york, detroit, washington, all improving. that's it. it's only one-quarter of the country that gets relief from this cool front. watch the numbers go up in the west. denver, salt lake city, phoenix, yo 95-100 degrees for daytime with lots of sunshine and the winds out of the west. night time is 75-82 degrees and tomorrow will be hot and a thunderstorms in the afternoon. a cool down on the way by the end of the week. wjla.com >> anniversary? who's anniversary? >> my nana and papa. >> where are they? >> in bend, oregon. >> hold that sign up. happy anniversary. >> thank you, sam. >>> here's a look at what else we have coming up on our "gma morning menu." behind the scenes of j. lo and enrique iglesias' summer store. we'll hear from jennifer's boyf

saunders, brenda head of american federation of state, county, and municipal employees just coming into office and you'll meet him during this clip and then we will be back live on "washington journal" with david harsanyi. [video clip]journa >> and the state of florida -- and stop the privatization of state services and we did it with help of republicans. we have to set the facts straight. the average pension that the retiree receives is $18,000 or $19,000 a year. you have some folks who say that is a huge amount, that they are ripping off the system. $18,000 or $19,000 a year is not a huge amount. it represents money the pensioner has put into that system. this is not money just coming from the state, but it is money that employee has put into the system because they had expected a retirement at the end of the year, at the end of their twilight years. what we've got to do, i believe, it is get those kinds of facts out. but i think we also got to bring together not only folks the labor unions but academics and politicians and sit down and talk about the issue of pensions. i propose to do that, at my first executive board meeting, at that will be a priority for my administra