david anderson followed by lynn stein, lisa welch. if your name is called, you can start coming up to the mike. >> good evening, commissioners. i have a degree in psychology and zoology from duke university. undergraduate studies in bird behavior. i worked 12 years in new orleans with one of the country's preeminent bird collections and advanced programs where we took care of birds that were injured in the environment. i was executive director of the san francisco zoo for 14 years were rehoused a specialized rapture breeding program, the very important pangolins breeding program and a key: the of flamingos. i was for six years national audubon society vice president leading the floor -- florida program and i am back serving on the order of the golden gate audubon society and sharing their conservation committee. i know a lot about birds and i know that -- the dangers that are posed by buildings and a multitude of evidence which you have had will presented to you by staff is established -- has established that. anyone who has a home or

david gergen, paul begala, thank you very much. we're on facebook, follow me on twitter @ anderson cooper >>> up next, a keeping them honest investigation. this is a really fascinating story. a man who claims to be a former islamic terrorist traveling the country advise, law enforcement about terror. just one catch, cnn's found no evidence he was ever actually a terrorist. and actually there's another catch as well. your tax dollars, our tax dollars, are going into his pocket. find out what happened when our drew griffin confronted him with questions >>> and later a very close call for cnn's ben wedeman and his crew in libya. about as close as you can get to being caught in the mid of a fire fight. take a look. >> wait! wait! wait! wait! >> wait wait wait! >> wait until you see what happens next. this goes on. we'll talk with ben. he was all right and his crew was all right at the end of it but some incredibly tense moments that's going to get your heart to stop. we'll talk to ben also and show you the rest of that video. first let's check in with isha sesay. >> reporter: new developments in the halle berry case. her alleged stalker had

. >>> and anderson, happier news tied to a british power couple. victoria and davide the proud new parents of a girl names harper seven. a close friend of theirs told us this seven was picked because it's a lucky number and the baby was born just after 7:00 a.m. on the seventh month. they say seven was also dad easi's jersey number when he played socker. >> i like it. >> i don't know if i want to be named after my dad's jersey. >> who am i to talk about names. i have the name of a 18th century law firm. >> dignified, it matches the grey hair. >> well i had nothing to do with it. >>> time for the shot, courtesy of marine sergeant scott moore stationed in afghanistan. he posted a video onyewu tube and ask the milas kunich to go to a marine corp dance. >> haye, i'm sergeant moore, but you can call me scott. i would like toin violate you to the ball in greenville, north carolina. with yours truly. take a second, think about it, get back to me. bye-bye now. >> mila is out promoting her new movie and with some prompting from her co-star she's agreed to go. >> only a marine

listen to what david gergen said about wall street sending washington a message. this is from a discussion with andersonr and gloria borger. >> i'm still hopeful we'll get something. i think the stock market going down 200 points today, while bad news for 401(k) owners did send a powerful message to the congress. you're really playing with fire here now. the markets are -- you thought monday the markets were complacent. they're no longer complacent. they're sending a strong signal, buddy, get your act together or you'll have real trouble. >> a new gallup poll, this is how it breaks down, romney 23%, perry 18%, bachmann 13% and ron paul has 10%. it places rick perry, undeclared candidate, near the top of the list. >>> a bitter anger and frustration at a town hall meeting for those who got sick after 9/11. the justice department is holding a series of town hall meetings to explain how the victims' compensation fund will work. some are upset because the fund doesn't cover cancer. the world trade center health program concluded at this time, there's not enough scientific evidence to establish a link. more s

david kerley starting us off. >>> and the searing heat across more than half of the country is on the move tonight. let's turn to accuweather meteorologist, brett anderson. good to see you. and we look at the conditions over your shoulder. you say combine that with humidity and we'll have dangerous conditions? >> yeah. anywhere 105 to 110 degrees. during the day on sunday, very dangerous conditions for anyone who has to be outside for a long period of time. >> you were telling me, with the temperatures, you're expecting some powerful storms heading into the holiday. >> especially the heavy rainfall. anywhere from the washington, d.c. area, down through charlotte. and then, westward into parts of the st. louis area. these storms are going to be producing blinding rainfall for many travelers during the holiday. >> all right. we'll be watching. brett, thank you. >>> ananthe developing story we're following tonight, an oil spill in montana. an exxon mobil pipeline ruptured near billings, sending crude oil into the yellowstoto river and prompting evacuations along its shores. the company says they stopped the leak within a lf-hour. but 's unclear how much oi

abc's david muir and sharyn alfonsi gathered a whole neighborhood to show us their favorite thing we might not know are made right here. >> reporter: you'll remember how we left them -- the andersonsn their bench from indonesia. the cooks on their dresser from china. and nikki and karen on their couch from canada. but then, the real challenge. sending these families looking for the one thing left in their house, their favorite thing, made in america, that they can't wait to tell the rest of the country about. we showed up, they'd already lined up. the made in america movement had multiplied in this seattle neighborhood. everyone with their one thing. some hard to miss. >> reporter: hi! but at the front of the line, one by one, these families started to reveal some simple american staples that could create american jobs. debbie and her daughter brought their prized iron skillet. it gets better, more seasoned, every time he coshe cooks her signature eggs and bacon. they guarantee it will be around for 100 years, so, she's going to pass it down to her daughter. >> reporter: there you go. >> reporter: made in america, the lodge skillet from tennessee. the company told us just today, w

david, where do you see the middle ground? where does a compromise occur? >> well, i have felt for some time, andersonto get that deal. that's clearly off the table. i don't think they're going to get a moderate-sized deal either. if they get a moderate-sized deal that would carry us through until february of 200013. we wouldn't have to revisit this issue of the debt ceiling. but they're so far short of that in these negotiate eggses that i think that's likely to fall through, too. i think they're likely to fall back on some sort of short-term, interim solution that president clearly does not want. and there is fear in the white house that if we do a short-term solution it would get us past the default problem but the credit rating agencies like standard & poors could downgrade the credit of the united states. >> and then you have the problem that this continues to come up over and over and over again. and of course it's not going to get any easier to continue this debate the closer you get to an election. and the white house would like to have it done. >> gloria borger, david gergen, thanks. >>> crim

david gergen. jessica, what is the latest on where things stand tonight? >> reporter: well, first of all, the president, andersonth house my north leader nancy pelosi tomorrow to address some of the democratic concerns about where things stand. meantime, the staffs from the various congressional offices are working with white house staff over the next 48 plus hours to see if they can cobble together a deal ahead of this sunday meeting. during this meeting that happened today, the president did two big things. one, he un equivocally ruled ou a short-term deal. he said no way is he going to sign any small debt ceiling increase. he has to have a deal that goes through 2012. secondly, he laid out the terms that he'd like a deal, the deal that they're discussing up until sunday would be the bigger deal. something that is $4 trillion over 10 years. and the thinking on that is, going for some bigger deal allows essentially john boehner, the speaker of the house, to try to put more into a deal, get more deficit reduction and add more sweeteners and more that could get conservative republicans onboard so he could bring m

. >> david gergen, your take on this and especially on this day where moody's is talking about reviewing a potential downgrade of our credit rating. >> anderson, i think the fact that meeting broke up in the way it did is extremely unfortunate, not only for trying to solve the debt ceiling but trying to solve the underlying problem of the mounting debts, the debt crisis that we're approaching. and i don't want to aportion blame here. i don't agree with paul's analysis but i don't want to get into the blame sort of situation. what it does seem to me is this. that thesind the leaders all have to come out of their corners and arrive at some sort of deal in the immediate future that averts a default on the national debt. that's the single most important thing. and whatever that deal is. the president says he does not want a short-term deal. i know personally that he feels very intensely about that. but his own top economic advisor, larry summers, wrote today in his financial times, he's got to get any deal is better than no deal. we have to get past the default crisis and then we can deal. unfortunately we have to postpone this but then we can de

. >> david, from your vantage point, where do you see this going if it does reach the senate? the boehner bill? >> i think we're about where we expected to be, anderson. that is as gloria said we have a boehner bill and a reid bill. each one may pass -- well, the boehner bill's going to pass the house, i think. the reid bill may pass the senate. but then they're both going to die in the other chamber. the real issue is what comes after that? what kind of compromise can be fashioned? and can you find a compromise that both sides -- can you get enough votes from their own party to pass? and there are enough similarities between the boehner bill and the reid bill that with the kind of craftsmanship of mitch mcconnel you might be able to put it together. they both leave out tax increases. that's something the president has wanted. they both leave it out. that makes it easier. but there's still a lot of distance between them on how much to cut and how sure are they of getting real cuts? the reid plan says, well, we're going to cut $2.2 trillion. the republicans come back and say, well, 1.1 of that or more are phantom savings from ending the wars in iraq a