doug mcelway, thank you. of course the heat in places like ohio and northern midwest tough to take but out west it is helping wildfires lay waste to portions of colorado. the waldo canyon fire near colorado springs, the latest and largest in the state's history. two people have died. more than 350 homes gone. information coming in this hour and reinforcements are brought and with that, a sliver of hope. as a few evacuees are getting word they may soon be able to go home. >> i have been coming up here, 3, 4 of these sessions and it might be the time we get -- the evacuation and today -- tonight was the time. >> we get to go home and there are many, many who can't and, they won't for a long, long time. >> you can hear the emotion on his voice, and, this we have been covering for weeks, and the high park fire already destroyed more than 250 homes, near fort collins and we are told it is fully contained and we didn't know if we'd hear those words and the last evacuation orders now being lifted. alicia acuna is st

doug mcelway has more on this from washington, d.c. >> oo when the disappointing monthly job numbersout the parties of various constituency groups blamed on congressional republicans who said they were blocking the agenda. the president not congress who takes the blame for the poor economy. boxing the president in the euro zone crisis of which he has very little control. >>> the obama campaign team also explained poor employment numbers according to the magnitude chd r pd rue susz mentdedled said when he took office back in 2009 the country was losing 800 thousand jobs a day it refused to get into this mess it will take long persistent effort to get us out of this. >> they were quick to take advantage of the poor numbers saying it stifled the job creation in the private sector. >> this is a hostile environment for job kree acreation in our economy. that's a sense of urgency in this year's election to be able to turn things arounded the only thing that will change it are changing the policies that means changing the person in the white house. >> the wall street journal reports this mo

doug mcelway is at the white house.h mike. >> reporter: the assertion of executive privilege happened here at a time as the house oversight committee was about to begin its hearing on a vote to hold the attorney attorney o attorney general of the united states in congress. the meeting was delayed as republicans hupb republicans huddled behind closed doors to determine what they should do now. it's opened up a whole lot of questions. a spokesman for jon boehner says an assertion of privy sepbgs alley suggests that the white house was involved in the fast and furious or in solved in the cover up. now they are asking a lot of questions. another leading republican on this panel asked this question, check this out. >> now the president of the united states has claimed executive privilege. that brings into question whether or not eric holder knew about it, and how much did the president know about this? why would the president claim executive privilege unless there was something very, very important that he felt should not be

doug mcelway with the details live in d.c.. >> the irony in the counter suits is that both the justice department and state of florida claim they are filing suit to protect the same thing. in its official filing the justice department says the united states brings this action to protect the rights of the eligible citizens to vote. the doj has similar actions pending against more than a third of the states. >> we will be strong in our defense of the voting rights act. we will be strong in our defense of the rights of americans to vote. and we will examine on a case-by-case basis the stat the touts that are passed -- the statutes that are passed. those tha contra vine the votig rights act we will oppose. >> they reached out to the department of homeland security to get an database to compare to their own records. dhs refused to turn it over and now florida is you suing believeing that as many as 182,000 people who can vote there are ineligible to do so. >> i asked for the database which we are entitled to from homeland security

doug mcelway is on this in d.c. doug. >> reporter: it same to light yesterday in the midst of all the supreme court stuff. it kind of got lost in that. they released a new campaign to taught green energy, beyond solyndra how hraorpbs accelerating america's transition to a clean energy future. fred upton calls that quote an astonish piece of propaganda especially in light of the newest bankruptcy fighting. abound solar received a $400 million energy department loan guarantee back in january of 2011 one of its executive expressed high hopes for its low cost solar panels. >> we are in the process of building our second line right now, we'll build a third line probably late this year. >> reporter: fast forward a year and a half now the company is bankrupt. it issued a statement reading in part, aggressive pricing actions from sign he's solar panel companies have made it very difficult for early stage start up companies like abound to scale in current market conditions. it says it supports enforcement of free trade with c

doug mcelway looks at it live from washington. test reaction, doug, to the president's relaxation of illegal immigrant policies. tell bus it. >> reporter: david plaeffe said it was not political and not designed to win votes in months before the election. >> this again was an enforcement discretion decision. this is not some permanent -- this is not amnesty, this is not citizenship. >> reporter: the governor mitt romney criticized the timing and the method of this executive branch decision, though. >> what the president did, he should have worked on this years ago if he felt seriously about this he should have taken action when he had a democrat house and senate, but he didn't. he saves these things until four and a half months before the general election. >> reporter: in the meantime critics of the policy says it throws present enforcement of illegal immigration policies into utter turmoil. >> how are you going to control this? how are you going to track their documents? are there a lot of illegal documents that they've produced d

doug mcelway joins us with more. >> reporter: that the latest move in this chess match.licans on the house overtight committee are saying they are holding attorney general eric holder in contempt. democrats are fighting back. a memorandum says the house never voted to hold any attorney general in contempt of congress and should not do so in this case. their memorandum uses strong language. the contempt memorandum is contrary to the rule of law it adds, holding the attorney general in contempt of congress for protecting these document is an extreme abuse of the contempt power and undermines the authority of the committee. the response calls the memo without merit. the justice department's failure to comply with a lawful subpoena. the republican chairman darrell issa says the contempt process can be withdrawn, but only if the attorney general turns over internal correspondence after february 2012. as recently as this past tuesday attorney general holder told a senate committee he wants to cooperate with the subpoena. >> i'm prepared to make compromises with regard to the d

martha: doug mcelway joins us live from the white house lawn. like the administration's public face may be different than what they are planning behind the scenes with regard to all of this. >> reporter: that is very much two, mart that. according to highly placed democrats on the hill the administration is privately making con si contingency plans for a bad outcome while publicly debearing confidence that it will be upheld. david plouffe said we do believe it's constitutional. we will be prepared for whatever decision the court renders. if the supreme court strikes down the individual mandate here is what one of the senior staffers tells the "associated press," quote. legislatively we can't do a thing and we will move full speed ahead. that means in effect that the administration will proceed with implementation of the affordable care act. keep in mind, though, martha that most of the provisions don't take effect until the year 2014, so the upcoming general election and the make up of congress could play a key role in how this thing is altered,

question of what he was subpoenaing, and that he was not willing to move beyond this fight, and doug mcelwayutside the white house with more on this. >> reporter: good morning, to you. there is no press briefing scheduled for today here at the white house, as you know the president and hits entourage returned from the g-20 summit very, very late last night about 1:00am. this is largely a day of rest and no public appearances scheduled whatsoever. that may change given the magnitude of the decision from the white house granting executive privilege to the documents. the most recent we've heard in regard to fast and furious from the white house came over a week ago during the press briefing from press spokesman jay carney who said on june 11th when asked about the fact that the house oversight committee was moving toward a contempt citation, he said this. quote, the attorney general himself has spent eight times on the hill, including four hours of testimony last thursday. so have several assistant department officials. given the justice defendant's efforts to accommodate the committee investig