nancy young, executive director, children and family futures, irvine, california. erica asselin, family support specialist and medication-assisted treatment advocate, fresh start, square one, holyoke, massachusetts. dr. kim sumner-mayer, senior advisor, phoenix house center on addiction and the family new york, new york. fran, what is the definition of family within our society currently? that's a very good question. family has changed, the definition. we used to think of family as two parents living in a house with two children and probably a pet or two. now, we have a wide variety of families. we have families that are one parent, single parent, being raised by friends, being raised by grandparents, relatives of all sorts. the good thing about that is it brings the ability of a lot of diversity, a lot of ethnic cultures are different, and i think that across america we have a lot better chance to have families describe themselves in the way that is most comfortable for them. and, nancy, it goes even beyond that. it goes into same sex parenting. it goes into a whol

the details of his assets, they are worried about their jobs and their family's future. >> the former governor headed south monday to raise campaign cash with louisiana governor, bobby jindal. jindal has been mentioned as a potential running mate. danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. >> first lady, michelle obama will be back on the campaign trail in virginia. she is scheduled to visit fredericksburg on friday. >> federal officials just announced new safety standards nationwide and that includes our own metro. these unprecedented guidelines come after a pretty rough weekend for the metro when a computer software glitch left hundreds of passengers stranded. andrea mccarren is live with these new federal standards. andrea. >> after that terrible red line tragedy in 2009 that left nine people dead, 76 injured, the maryland delegation really led the way in pushing for reserious bodily reform and pushing for national safety standards. >> we see ourselves as safety officers. we're going to continue this work. we passed the legislation. >> hard to believe that until now, there was not

details about his assets managed by a blind trust for pete sakes they are worried about their family's future>> reporter: he headed south monday to raise campaign cash with bobby jindal he has been mentioned as a potential running mate. at the white house danielle nottingham. >> romney is expected to announce who his running mate will be in the next five weeks stay with wedge when for complete coverage we will keep you updated on the updates and issues. >>> after a small reprieve, a heat advisory is in effect for much of baltimore it may be slowing some people down, in the city. children in surrounding suburbs are not letting the warmer temperatures get them down they are making the most of summer vacations. outside right now, it is partly cloudy, very hot let's go over to bernadette woods who is tracking temperatures and live doppler radar. >>> hello. yes, a couple thunderstorms to go along with the heat today. first warning doppler radar, these have just been developing over the past hour to two hours you can see they are drifting down to the southeast, not just scattered about we do see a

people are saying when am i going to be able to get a job and save for my family's future and pay my for the gang. mitt romney should be doing better right now but we still have three months, four months to figure this thing out. >> we will talk about that in the next panel. when you break down the numbers we did that with congress woman schulz earlier this hour you have 8.2% unmany ployment but 14.9% overall unemployment. 14.8% for african americans. they have to be motivated to come out to the polls for the president in november if he hopes to win. >> that is true and this is not 2008 and they will not be as uplifted and as inspired. their hopes have been dashed. he needs to make up for working class white vote with minor etan votes. he is hoping to galvanize the latino electorate with his recent announcements and also the supreme court ruling on the immigration law in arizona should be a very big boost to latino turnout because that is a very energizing issue for them. when it comes to african americans it will take a big effort on the part of team obama to convince them this is a

they're worried about their jobs and their families' future.ama, he doesn't want to talk about that. he has a terrible jobs result. he has a terrible record to run on. since he can't run on this record he has gone to dividing this country in order to distract the country to win the election. this is not the 2008 barack obama we thought we were getting. this is not the candidate of hope and change. this is a candidate who is hoping to change the subject by attacking his opponent with attacks that have already been label bid independent fact checkers as deceitful and untrue. >> schieffer: well, you know, scott walker, your governor out there in wisconsin, has been encouraging mitt romney to fight harder. he told dan balz of the "washington post," for example, "never fight a battle on your heels." is governor romney going to have to put out... i know he's put out 58 points or whatever it is of things he's going to do to improve the economy. but can we expect some time in this campaign where he's going to put an economic plan out that there that pe

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this is a federal issue and this is incredibly important to him and his family and the future of his farm. so i think there's more of a sense that the major candidates for cincinnati and things like that, and, of course, the presidential candidates, are just not addressing these issues that are so important to people and that's one of the things that we really try to highlight through this series. >> right. if i could jump in, rob. i think the thing is we get so observed with what this candidate is saying, what that candidate is saying. i grew up in washington. i've covered politics. john has covered politics too. but i think we've got to get past that. that's where the american people are. they want to plan, they want it to be real and that's what the series are. what are the series on the ground. not just what the script is. >> to jump in quickly. >> sorry rob. >> sorry rob. the idea that people aren't able to comprehend big policy ideas? it's hogwash. they are. they want to see the policy ideas precepted. >> you guys can come in any time you have. some of the radio people have som

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. >> that's a major issue, because the saga of a family and whoever owns the family owns the future. issue, god created family for civilization not just christians. and to define is is to define intentions as well as history of civilization and where the family have been devastated and children are growing up with single parents and a crisis of community due to the breakdown of the family and it's now in all races. it's critical that we try to encourage the president to reverse his position on this because the african-american church holds strongly to a public cal definition of family. >> you've written both in your book, as well as in another book you've done, how christians should vote. people ought to look for the character of the candidate more than anything else. do you think that people will automatically vote for president obama because he's african-american if they themselves come from that community or will they take a second look this time and vote more of what their convictions are are. >> the reason i wrote the book is to bring people to dthe bible is full of politics, th