dickey is also a state legislatu legislature. he voted for that anti-immigration bill, knowing full well it might hurt his family business. has there ever been a point you kind of second-guessed that vote? >> oh, absolutely. it hurts me terribly to see some of my farmers not to be able to harvest their crops and get the time and labor. it's going to make some thing more expensive here in the state, with the lack of workforce. >> reporter: georgia farmers report they are 11,000 workers short this season, so the state floated the idea of having felony probationers fill the jobs. some are already working on farms. >> reporter: we're not forcing anyone to take this type of labor. we're simply offering up opportunities for offenders to be employed in the agriculture community, where there's a great need right now.

. >> robert dickey is a farmer.is worried that the law is scaring away the skilled work force he depends on. dickey is also a state legislator. he voted for the anti-immigration bill knowing full well it might hurt his family business. >> has there been a point you second guessed that vote? >> yes. absolutely. it will make some things more expensive in the state with the lack of work force. >> georgia farmers report they are 11,000 workers short this season. the state floated the idea of having felony probationers fill the jobs. some are already working on farms. >> we are not forcing anyone to take this type of labor. we are offering offenders to work where there is a great need. when we started out, it was the first couple of days which were rocky. you had offenders going into a difficult job. >> like dickey says, all peach pickers are not created equal. with time and training, probationers will not be able to keep pace. >> you have tried in the past to have local workers out here. it did not go so well? >> it did

we talk to christopher dickey, the paris bureau chief for "newsweek" magazine.ench press reacting to the sudden turn in the case against dominique strauss-kahn? >> well, it is almost as cataclysmic as when he was arrested. everybody has turned upside down. the french election campaign already under way for next year's presidency, presidential election has been turned topsy-turvy. already 49% of the french are saying they want strauss-kahn to re-enter politics. there's the basic idea that he's completely innocent, that this is all over, that the woman was lying, it was all somehow a setup. which actually isn't the case. so i think there may somebody more turns in this plot in the near future. >> on that point, chris dickey, you have the "new york post" yesterday and today running big headlines saying this accuser, the maid at the hotel in manhattan is actually a part-time hooker. i hesitate to say, i don't know whether that's true. the only news the u.s. provides is a source close to the investigation. i wonder if you think the media is going a little too aggress

rob and tanya, back to you. >> thanks to jim dickey. >> live updates coming up on "good morning america." >>> we turn to the storm in washington. the government will max out its credit card in just four days now, but republicans and democrats are further apart than ever on what to do about it. >> john boehner's republicans can't even get their own house in order. a predicted vote on capitol hill never came to pass. >> abc's karen travers joins us now from washington. good morning, karen. >> reporter: good morning, rob. good morning, tanya. house republican leaders wanted to send a strong message about spending cuts and party unity but some rebellious conservatives threw a wrench in that plan. it was a dramatic night on capitol hill that ended with nothing. shortly before 10:30 last night republican leaders postponed a legislattheir debt ceiling go down it go down in defeat. the plan proposed by house speaker john boehner would cut $900 billion from the deficit and extend the debt ceiling only through next spring. some house conservatives say it doesn't go f f enough, and after a long da

election before the scandal broke out well for analysis of the situation and i'm joined by christopher dickey he's the paris bureau chief for newsweek magazine and they used to news website thanks so much for joining us there in paris let's talk about the timing of this why do you think these latest claims from the french right have only really just emerged as the first case seems to about to collapse. well what she said is that she just was sickened by the spectacle of strauss kahn starting to go free again and having. dinner in luxury of restaurants in new york and sort of the smile on his face. he was there in new york started to be discredited but the truth is that this woman this young woman tristan and i know has been trying to get this story out for a very long time and she didn't think anybody would take her seriously she even did it on television at one point about four or five years ago still nothing happened so i think she thinks this is her last chance to get justice if indeed she's right in making in the accusation she's making what we've heard both the terms political assassinat

but in her interview with abc and with christopher dickey of "newsweek," who got the exclusive printhe stuck by her story. >> when she talked about the attack, she wasn't weeping. and it was -- i would say there was about as much ananr as there was sadness. >> reporter: he describes her not only as the proud mother of a 15-year-old girl, but as someone who took great pride in her job. >> if you know people who are challenged in different ways, who are living on the edge of society, they cling to something that gives them dignity and honor. and -- i -- i don't know why it makes mememomoonal, but it's so sad. she clung to that. her whole life. it was built around being a maid at the sofitel. and that, then, makes her account, where she says, "i thought i'm going to lose my job," credible. >> reporter: strauss-kahn's attorney says she has an ulterior motive in coming forward, saying in a statement, "her lawyers know that her claim for money suffers a fatal blow when the criminal charges are dismissed, as they must be." she says she did not know who strauss-kahn was or that he was a top

or people the high saving razik who paled to high investment but a country that is not the issue dickey it may be because of sustainability because of fast growth in the past three decades they're questioning if they can china sustain for another twenty or thirty years of boss goals and get not what are their fundamental issues if the economy is far too depending on low cost manufacturing to depending on consumption loch lomond thing energy and of prices of raw material energy have edgel increasing for live fights over the last decade so this is something the challenge for the next stage of the roman i think it will be much more difficult for china to face. well let's have a look now at some other stories from around the world to new york where dominique strauss kahn has been released from house arrest state prosecutors have agreed to waive bail in the sexual assault case against him the former i.m.f. chief six million u.s. dollars a surety which will now be returned to him for the release comes after prosecutors raise doubts about the credibility of the housekeeper at the center of the

walking over people the high saving razik paled to high investment but a continent is not the issue dickey it may be the kinds of sustainability because of fast growth in the past three decades they're questioning it can china sustain for another twenty or thirty years of fossils and be not what are their fundamental issues is it the economy is far too depending on low cost manufacturing to depending on consumption the moment to leo thing energy and of prices overall mateen your energy have a truly increasing philip fazzt over the last decade so this is something the challenge for the next stage of the roman i think it will be much more difficult for china to face. well we value your opinion so please log on to our website and participate in our latest poll and today the question we're asking is why did congress is trying to succeed where soviet russia failed so far the most popular response is that china didn't wait to costly wars or sponsor satellite regimes in a close second with twenty nine percent is russia was too hasty to brace capitalism and the less popular responses were that chi

are having a tough year, so the announcer signs off the game skate a's went to night 7 to 5, but dickeyts no. 500. well, yes hit 168 in this country but it is still an achievement. now tiger woods is looking for a caddy, steve williams was let go by tiger officially today, he announced on his web site, that is where-- that is what i am afraid of everyone does their thing by the web site. but now who knows, his wife and tigers ex-wife our friends, the caddy said that he was shocked tiger said it was simply time for a change. now usf baseball is coming off of a great season, they won the west coast conference championship they went to the ncaa tournament, their coach is nino but the real story centering around this man with a sudden kidney failure of his dad miki. and the coach after nine months to step forward and donated one of his kidneys to keep his dad functioning. the surgery was 10 days ago in denver, he explained the process. >> he needed a transplant and he wanted to get back to a normal life and just watching him constantly battled day by day with a dialysis, i just said that, w

duchess of cambridge is -- imagines what a meeting with the two would be like today and i'm joined by dickey. nice to see you. so, after all these years, princess diana's still so adored by so many. how are people reacting to the 50th birthday? >> fairly quietly. one of the things that people tend to pass by is the birthday and they gather really on the 31st of august, which will be the 14th anniversary of her death in 1997 and they leave flowers and notices and they pause for a moment and look at the building where she lived. not in the particular part that you see from the park, but lived in that building. so it really is 31st of august is the day that people remember. >> what about the news week article which i'll have my director, john, throw back up on the screen so people can see this. your chuckling. is that pretty much the reaction over there? there were some who were offended. some who found it intriguing. sort of getting a good depiction of what diana may have looked like at 50 years old. >> it's pretty tacky and it's all about selling newsweek. do a mack up of a picture of what sh

. >> christopher dickey, thank you. you have a beautiful ceiling, the shot, looking right up at the tile there's. thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> we are now less than 48 hours from the 135th and final mission of nasa's 30-year space shuttle program. atlantis is scheduled to blast off on friday during this hour for a 12-day mission to the international space station. but the weather could throw a big wrench into the works. there is a 70% chance that the flight could be scrubbed due to thunderstorms in the area. about one million on lookers are expectsed to be on hand to witness history. i'm joined by cheryl mcnair. she lost her husband ronald mcnair. he was a nasa mission specialist killed during the 1986 challenger shuttle explosion. cheryl, thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> i think one of the big water shed moment that's we all think about when we think of the space shuttle program is the challenger disaster engrained in all of our memories. given the sacrifice that you have made, that your hu

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. >> our coverage continues with accuweather meteorologist jim dickey.a. we continue to watch tropical storm don here moving its way at a good clip north and west toward the texas gulf coast. we're looking at the infrared satellite imagery. we see the bright oranges marking that this storm is slowly strengthening as it's moving its way northwestward. you can see more of a concentric pattern around the center of rotation. we expect it to make landfall around corpus christi as we head toward nightfall. not really expect to be much of a wind storm. we expect it to stay at tropical storm strength. winds, 50, 60 miles per hour as it does make landfall. really more of a good thing here. extreme drought across sg(r f texas. much-needed rainfall. some spots as much as 8 inches. rob and tanya, back to you. >> all right, thanks a lot, jim. >>> now the rest of your friday forecast. we have some rain from the gulf coast to little rock, memphis, nashville and louisville. thunderstorms around minneapolis, chicago, and detroit. stormy in the northeast from d.c. up to n

christopher dickey from the daily beast joins me now to talk about this amazing story.s an extraordinary story. what's even more extraordinary is this interview because we rarely see someone, a victim, come forward like this to give such an emotional and raw interview, but also saying that she wants to see this man go to jail. from the reporting that "newsbeak" and the daily beast is doing, do you find her totally to be believable? do you think she is credible? >> i think she's very credible when she's talking about the incident at the hotel. the criminal sexual assault, the daemtd rape. that story is ?újju)áuq't. it's been consistent all along since the day the incident happened. when she talks about the rest of her life, you know, she's a woman living on the margins of american society. she's an immigrant from one of the roughest countries in africa. there's a lot of gray areas there, but when she's talking about her job at the hotel and about the encounter with dominique strauss-kahn and about her fears that she would lose her job because of his craziness, then it's

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. >> in the 8:00 hour, christopher dickey will join us, the paris bureau chief, he interviewed diallonewsweek" cover story and we'll get his impressi impressions. >>> we would like to get your imprexs of this. you do not see this every day. a man hanging out of a car speeding along. a local tv cameraman in stockton, california, preparing for a live report on friday morning, when this car drove by him with a man being dragged from the passenger window about 35 miles an hour. police say the man mistakenly thought a friend's purse was inside the car and he was determined to get it back. i'm assuming the car was being stolen? >> i don't know. >> nobody was hurt. >> a long way to go for a purse. >> that is a long way for a purse. you can call and cancel the credit cards. no charges were filed. nobody hurt. that's the fascinating part. >> yeah. >> never found out whether he believes that car has been stolen. >> or why he thought a purse was in there. >>> chicago's wettest day ever. all of my friends and sister-in-law were checking their basements. firefighters pulling people from stranded c

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. >>> for more now, we bring in christopher dickey. he is the paris bureau chief for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." his print interview, exclusive print interview, with nafissatou diallo is running today. and also joining us, "gma" legal analyst dan abrams. christopher, you had quite a bit of time that you spent with nafi. just your overall impressions? >> my overerl impression is that when she talks about the alleged incident, she's very convincing. when she's talking about some aspect of her past, it seems a little vague. she seems to be fishing around for what to say. but on balance, i found her a convincing witness. >> did she also with you continue to say that i didn't want to lose my job? >> absolutely. i think you have to sort of see what she's saying in the context of her fear about losing her job. she comes from a poor village in a very poor country. she got to the united states through whatever means. she managed to get this job. she's making upwards of $45,000 a year. she's trying to raise her child, her 15-year-old daugh

it's a fantastic piece by chris dickey and john sullivan that goes out through the whole case and trulynstructs what this maid has to say at this time. it's extraordinary. >> what do you think of that strategy, tina? >> load of bad comment that was unleashed when the whole case got questioned because of her integrity. we go over that at length. i was present at the interview at the time. and there are moments when i don't find her believable in terms of her own story in the past. but where she describes the rate, she's very believable. and i do believe that a rape did happen in that room. but i think she's also a character who has gotten a lot of iffy stuff that has gone on in her past. but in some ways, you have to say, well, a lot of people lied to get to this country. a lot of people lie to get housing and, you know, lie on their tax forms. it doesn't make her, you know, somebody who necessarily goes well in front of a jury. but at the same time, you know, you have to see it in the context of her life. she may not be a perfect human being, but something happened in that room. >> she