it is producing some result, big results in fact in places like greenville, south caroline.this story live from atlanta. john that? >> reporter: jenna it appears to be a bipartisan combination of fiscal conservatism and strategic government spending keeping greenville's economy moving forward even during the recession. this summer while the federal government was mired in bipartisan brinkmanship, standard & poor's upgraded the city of greenville's bond rating to aaa. >> the council has for a long time worked together in nonpartisan way to get things done. we're very goal oriented. we try to stick to workmanship making things happened here. we're focused on economic development. >> reporter: republican mayor, knox white said the city spent $13 until to create downtown park surrounding a natural water fall. that attracted $150 million in private investments over the next two years. >> i don't think the government tries so much to influence what is done as much as they try to help those things that the go in the right direction. >> reporter: that unified economic vision crosses

my colleague noted yesterday that a woman came up to perry in greenville and actually thanked him forevolution. so they are playing pretty well. >> greenville county, the most conservative county in south carolina, ali weinberg, thank you. >>> we have lots of first read msnbc.com. back to the economy now. among what contributed to the national association of realtors and the city of detroit has been hit hard and police officers outside of the city limits, so far less than a dozen have moved in. >> as they start to visit and see the homes that have available in the city, they will make the same kind of decision that he's made. >> joining me now is detroit city council president, charles. let's start with that low number. why haven't more officers moved into homes so far? >> well, you know, it's an innovated process and try to figure out how it works. a lot of times and because of their homes, and schools ironically because of crime and so those are also issues that we need to work on as a city, improving our schools and reducing crime. we think crime can be impacted by the fact that a

. >> reporter: the greenville river in massachusetts was flooded washing away cars. >> i think it's the crazy thing i've seen for living in greenfield. >> reporter: the storm left its mark in connecticut. >> they have stairs going down to the beach. gone! our stairs are floating. >> reporter: in development, state leaders are considering flooding the state capitol on purpose. the utility spokesperson says to protect the integrity of the mar everyonefield dam, extra water may be released. president obama says while irene may have moved on, its effects may be felt for a long time. our response continues. >> reporter: the cleanup continues. a significant number of people are without power and the damage estimates overall are in the billions. in newport, rhode island, adam housley, fox news. >>> new york governor andrew cuomo are surveying damage by the air. they and fema are fly -- he and fema are flying over the areas. president obama has already declared a -- declared an emergency -- an emergency for new york. the price tag could be in the tense of millions of dollars. >>> irene is still

elizabeth city, all the way to greenville, all the way down to -- even into henderson. watch this, watch what happens when you pull this water in and then you get ten inches of rainfall here. to get to this google map right here, here is the storm track moving across here, the winds coming in, shawn go ahead and move this in here, elizabeth city, right there, right on the water, beautiful part of the country here, but very low, no topography here, the water is getting pushed up the bay, getting pushed up the river and 10 to 12 inches of rainfall coming down the river. it is a tremendous flood potential here and greenville, one more spot, another area where the water is getting pushed back up here in washington, and i assume parts of the city are completely underwater, i don't even have any information on it. i'm trying to get on to some of the websites, but if you can, if you can get on to chadmyerscnn on the twitter account, let me know what is going on here. i'll rely that information to you and your loved ones out there. it is a dangerous situation for that area of t

the texas governor met with locals in greenville, south carolina, before taking a tour of main street. perry announced his candidacy last saturday in charlton. south carolina's gop primary is the key to perry winning the republican presidential bid >>> back here at home, people looking for a bit of memorabilia and saying a farewell made their way to the red vick movie house in the haigt neighborhood. >> they were selling off a giant collection of movie posters. movie theater folded late last month. the sale continues until 6:00 tonight. so you have about an hour and 20 minutes to get over there. we are told that all the posters are priced to sell. >>> the unfortunate of san francisco has a new look for its logo. you are looking at the school's new logo as well as a new tag line, change the world from here. unfortunate officials unveiled the new look yesterday. it updates the school's former logo of 20 years which features just the school's initial. >> facebook is apologizing to activists for an automated system that blocks their post. the social networking site says that an anti-spam

gop presidential hopeful rick perry takes a tour of greenville, south carolina.ron spepaul speaking to supporters in orlando. >>> mret's check in with christine romans live in new york. >> keira, it's been an awful august, the dow down 9.5%, more than 1100 points lost just in the month of august. what will turn it around? what will bring confidence back and what does friday hold for your money? that's at the top of the hour. >>> i'm dan lothian on martha's vineyard where president obama is on a ten-day vacation but the white house says very much focused on fixing the economy and creating jobs. more at the top of the hour. >>> also next hour, she just walked off a show. then christine o'donnell accused piers morgan of borderline sexual harassment. as you can imagine, piers has plenty to say about that, joining me live with his reaction. >>> it was supposed to be a goodwill game, but it turned into a brawl. more on the team, the drama. what was going on, zain? >> oh, my gosh, keira. just take a look at this video. sports diplomacy officially has a black eye. it was

>> i live in greenville, i didn't feel the quake. >> i thought it was a flash mob. i was riding my bike through chinatown, all of these people, i thought flash mob. i stopped and asked somebody and they told me what happened. >> the ground shock. [ inaudible ] [ sirens ] >> greta: griff jenkins headed to virginia. he stopped at a school near the epicenter to find out what happen. >> reporter: we are inside a high school, perhaps one of the hardest hit of this quake. folks here were kind enough to let us in to see the extent of damage. you can see it behind me. we would like to take you through and show you some pictures. clearly, structural damage here. quite a lot seems to be a buckle in the roof here. you can see the damage that came down. more cracked walls, severely damaged wall here. the ceiling, which gave way. the school now is closed until after labor day. the building folks trying to determine whether it is safe. what kind of structural damage might have happened. that of course isn't always necessarily evident to the naked eye this is an administrative bui

closer to greenville than north twin. that might be the updated location. we're watching that and the slowing to the try valley. cc1:s in the 50s where you see the yellow. this is an area of concern. bay point below 50. smooth toward the bay bridge. the golden gate bridge, we have fog from the north bay that will be an issue in spots. santa rosa, typically coming down quite a bit. >> losing the visibility. thanks so much. 6:12. coming up next our live team coverage of the markets continues. we'll have a live report from cnbc. >> reporter: i'm live in san francisco. traders tell consumers not to panic despite the volatile market. i'll tell you why coming up. >> a live look outside, lights out at the oakland coliseum. looking forward to the nice weekend on tap. >> welcome back everyone. a live look at the big board at the new york stock exchange this morning. markets open in about 15 minutes. we're of course keeping an eye on the futures before the opening bell. following this morning's jobs report. phil herrera is live in new york, she joins us with the late

we have that, slowing out of the altamont pass, speeds at 18 coming by greenville because of an accidentin interchange. 33 minutes now and continuing to build as the morning commute continues to build out of the altamont pass and slowing after you get past where some are making a break and heading to sunol. lookscc1: nice for 680 and heading through the area, 580 through the castro valley. it's here as you come down toward the san mateo bridge, the interchange is slow, out of hayward they change the honor ramp down to southbound 880. a little change for that flow south into union city. across the bridge a live look will show you the flow of traffic away from me. that's the taillights going into the haze. visibility may be an issue and in the north bay. a hit and run along this flat section i've been watching. on't see major slowing through: the area. but watch, a bridge crew likely will take care. no injuries reported. you should have a smooth drive and easy drive from the peninsula. a look further south and along peninsula. into the south bay, typical slowing for 880 at 237 and 101 680.

clearing up by just past greenville road there. we do have eastbound traffic that will slow down this afternoon as well, toward the sierra. looking here, 15-minute drive dublin interchange. no major issues here. live look south. sonol 680 shows a nice smooth drive. sun still coming up. roadways still looking good. still slow in oakland. back to you. >> you know what's coming too? >> what? >> football season. i know you're excited. they played football at the coliseum last night. the raiders opened their preseason schedule against arizona cardinals. new coach hue jackson calling the shots on the sidelines for the first time. and sebastian genachowski taking advantage of the new rule that moves the kickoff spot up to the 35 yard line. he almost kicked it into the front row. the raiders lost 24-18. the niners play in new orleans tonight. >> that's right, my man jim harbaugh, good luck in the glorified practice game. the search for intelligent life back in the bay area. >> one in five high schoolers here in california will never cross

again, as i mentioned, if you happen to be tuning in from rocky mountain, greenville, be advised, wemight see more of these throughout the afternoon hours. and we might see some of these pop up into parts of the northern plains, the southwest, keep that in mind. now back to what deb was talking about. she's right, the biggest story we have of all today will be the extreme heat. over the last couple of days, forget that, the last couple of weeks, we've been dealing with the extreme heat in places like dallas. in fact, over a month at this point, 35 consecutive days of triple-digit heat. and the way it appears, we may be dealing with more of that heat through the rest of this week, possibly into this weekend, deborah. if we get to sunday with triple-digit heat, that will be an all-time record of the prolonged heat wave they've had there. >> and heat is so hard, because you can't escape it. there's no wind, no breeze. it's like walking in soup. reynolds wolf, thank you so much. really appreciate that. thank you. >>> we are now going to turn to our breaking news story, which is that heli

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but being a 72-year-old african-american born in the south, greenville, south carolina, my recollection of that was so terrible, i won't even go back. so when i saw the tea party when they first created, the signs that they carried showing the president, i knew that they would be treacherous for the company. thank you so much. have a good day. good to see you. host: let's look at some of the details, this from "the washington post." the highlight of the deal, the debt ceiling increase, what this all hinged upon. the deal allows the debt ceiling to rise by as much as $2.4 trillion, giving the government borrowing power into the year 2013. it includes about $400 billion immediately, and the rest subject to congressional vote. so the future increases would be assured unless they were rejected by 2/3 of congress. discretionary spending, about a trillion dollars in savings over a decade from discretionary cap. it does not assume savings from winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. that was part of the reid plan that was in the works last week. as far as tax cases, there are none in th

greenville, north carolina, 73-mile-per-hour winds. here's the radar picture now.is showing you the swirl of the storm, the threat of tornadoes from virginia beach. in fact, we did get one tornado warning, which is in effect right now. that includes the chesapeake area. we'll zoom in, give you a better idea of what it looks like into the center of that storm. and we still have a lot of structure around the center of it so this is where we're going to be seeing those very strong winds. this is where that surge was. you saw that video a few minutes ago of the guy saying, yeah, it's way up here, we're going to be under water. we have confirmation of that, 6 to 8 foot storm surge has been reporting common right in this area throughout the outer banks and some of these bays is where some of the worst of it has been. we've got reynolds wolf who's been up here in kill devil hills. they've been seeing winds continue to come in from the east like this. so that water is pipe pyling up. that rain continues to be heavy. we're going to be seeing a lot of flooding with this stor

. >> reporter: torrential rains flooded the river in greenville, massachusetts, washing away some of the cars. >> i think it's some of the craziest things i've seen in my life. >> reporter: the storm also left its mark on southern connecticut. >> they have stairs going down to the beach. gone! >> some stairs are floating in the water. >> reporter: in development, state leaders are considering flooding the state capitol on purpose. a utility spokesman says to protect the integrity of the marshfield damage, extra water may be released. president obama says while irene may have move -- moved on -- >> i want people to understand this is not over. response and recovery will be an ongoing operation. >> reporter: no power is causing a lot of problems for businesses in this area. at we talked about, development really having trouble with water. the governor of development has just said it's the worse flooding that state has faced in a century. er tofully. >> thank you. adam. you can find more information at ktvu.com. coming up at 7:15. we'll go live to our washington, d.c. newsroom for detai

there is a crash out at greenville road, a couple of them actually. give yourself plenty of time as you drive through. we'll keep an eye on these crashes. they are not serious, but they are on the right shoulder causing slow downs. not much fog inland, just a little bit, but some of it there is rather shallow, reducing visibility. lows in the upper 40s to the 50s, the fog will burn off sooner. if you're above it, it is very nice. we've got warm temperatures above the fog bank up at the kings mountain at 65 degrees. if you're below that, it could be a little above the cool side, but we're already seeing some sun. the fog though will start to lift as we get towards the weekend. more emphasis on fog than low clouds. otherwise it's clear, sunny. and more of the same tomorrow. mild to warm, but it's looking cooler, yes, much cooler as we head towards sunday and monday. giants, if you're heading out for the game, 12:45. pirates, 68 degrees today. it should be beautiful. there might be some fox around the area, but it look -- fog around the area, but it look

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host: last call, a republican, from greenville, n.c.ler: i have the advantage plan with humana, a ppo. i researched it to make sure that all of my physicians took it because i am in the hospital every six months. for an angiogram, i pay $50 copaiba verses when i would have to pay with medicare which would be 20%. my last angiogram is $54,000. my advantage plan works very well. i also have that vision and dental. i have used my vision, and i enjoy my advantage plan. my doctor appointments are $15 and my neurosurgeon is also in raleigh, n.c., have to drive 90 miles. host: how did you hear about medicare advantage? but sold you? caller: looking through what medicare offered and then what he man offered. i save a lot of money. i get all of my drugs for free except for a few that i still have to pay for, but mostly all of my drugs are free and i am on nine of them. it works well for me. i am hearing is going away when obama's plan comes through. guest: it is not going away. there is nothing that changes medicare as it stands now. the coverag

. >> host: greenville, north carolina. >> guest: yes, concerning local law enforcement and there seems to be a lot of overkill and i didn't know if the fbi has influence in terms of stopping or slowing down the rate of management trains, just regular local police stops where people are approached with their -- officer approaches with the hand on the gun, and you see a lot of cases there where it's become routine. i wonder the civil rights of most of the citizens when their stopped by police officers for routine stops, do you investigate those in cases of abuses of civil rights? >> guest: happy to talk about that. civil rights is the second criminal priority after corruption. we investigate every case of civil rights abuse we get. it's similar to public corruption. if the fbi doesn't investigate it, no one else is there to up vest gait it. we take civil rights extremely importantly, but more broadly to your earlier question, we really partner closely as poll with the state and local law enforcement community. there's over 7,000 law enforcements over the country, and they have better acc

we've had some heavy rain this morning and severe thunderstorms from little rock down to greenville, mississippi that will continue to push south down through central mississippi. that's your travel trouble spot. also, oklahoma city has some thunderstorms to deal with. we're going to have another 100-degree day in dallas. that's the one spot in the country we haven't gotten the relief but how perfect st. louis, kansas city, kentucky, all through ohio, detroit, chicago and minneapolis. this is the type of weather you've been waiting for all summer long. enjoy it while it lasts. >>> wow, the obama re-election team sees mitt romney as the likeliest republican candidate and plans of attacking personally as a phony and here is the key word, weird. why that word, weird? >> well, it's pseudo to bringing in the whole mormonism issue. >> obama is going to use weird as code for mormon. i am really starting to respect that urban rhythmic kenyan secret muslim. >> wow. >>> joining us now a look at the "political playbook" with patrick. >> the republican field getting together all on one stage. wh

host: last call, a republican, from greenville, n.c.ler: i have the advantage plan with humana, a ppo. i researched it to make sure that all of my physicians took it because i am in the hospital every six months. for an angiogram, i pay $50 copaiba verses when i would have to pay with medicare which would be 20%. my last angiogram is $54,000. my advantage plan works very well. i also have that vision and dental. i have used my vision, and i enjoy my advantage plan. my doctor appointments are $15 and my neurosurgeon is also in raleigh, n.c., have to drive 90 miles. host: how did you hear about medicare advantage? but sold you? caller: looking through what medicare offered and then what he man offered. i save a lot of money. i get all of my drugs for free except for a few that i still have to pay for, but mostly all of my drugs are free and i am on nine of them. it works well for me. i am hearing is going away when obama's plan comes through. guest: it is not going away. there is nothing that changes medicare as it stands now. the coverag