isr, command and control. quick response capabilities to response troops in contact if that should be a problem and help provide the security we'll stay in the country a longer longer than other portions will. but the transition will be interesting because we haven't been one for 20 years and our people aren't sure how to act in that environment. 90% of them haven't known anything but deployments to the middle east and this is going to be a change for us. it will be is very interesting transition period i think and it's complicated by the need to modernize. our fleet is aging fairly dramatically. there's no secret about that. we've taken great care of it. it's still getting the job done. but it can't continue forever. we have got to figure out a way to modernize the air force. >> let me take to you this spat with congress though. there's $9 billion in cuts that are being withheld. how will you resolve that issue? come at the cost of pulling guard cuts off the table? cutting more active duty people and what are

left of isre what is it remains. way over theg our next couple of days. you can see that's been in the toward themoving east. arrived courtesy of a federal system that will lift and a warm front that n during the day tomorrow. unsettled weather on the way, looking at doppler radar -- had maryland. we have a storm developing the board at west there. you will see this over the next 15 to 20 minutes. a lighter showers into northeast d.c.. it's not going to amount to a lot. we could be looking at a similar situation later on tonight. pockets of heavy rain. here is the future cast -- highs struggling to make it to 80 degrees. showers and thunderstorms around into wednesday. by midday thursday, the skies be clear. here is the forecast for the overnight -- patchy fog during the early morning hours. tomorrow, it is not going to be pretty. e likely ands ar calls fored outlook the upper 80s. cooling down a tiny bit for the but sunshineend, on the way. some models indicate by saturday night into sunday, you could be increasing clouds and few showers. right now, only

essential allly this walkout isr and teachers will return to the classroom tomorrow. >> 7% wage increase, is that right over three years? >> that is what i said. >> and secondly, is there anything we can report on the teacher's performance ratings issue which was such a roadblock to this whole deal? >> it was a lot of back and forth. they did not want so much of their valuations to be based on student's test scores. but it will now be 30% on this three-year contract. the city was looking for upwards of 40% and some were saying it might go up to 50%. but the teacher s got some of what it wanted and the city got some of what it wanted. >> thank you we appreciate it. >> now to today's other big story. the romney campaign, the gop nominee made at a private mund razois race fundraiser. >> take a listen to mr. trump. i don't think he should apologize. but he should not be apologizing. so just what will the political fall out of this gaff if any. let's go to robert costa of the national review. >> this is a big story of mitt romney. they see this as a one-week story. maybe a 24-hour story. they

he did not say what he plans to e isr when but since 2009 the fed has made moves that have pushed downnterest rates to record lows. we showed you the flooding in louisiana caused by hurricane isaac. well, the storm is now a tropical depression and it is soaking the mississippi river valley tonight. so that part of the country is part of the country that is suffering under a record drought and there dean reynolds tells us isaac is bringing some hope. >> reporter: on tom kissee's thousand-acre cattle ranch there were two blessed events today-- the birth of a healthy calf and the arrival of a welcome guest named isaac. so it's raining today. what does that mean to you? s it's heaven sent. and it's a blessing. we're anxious for more but we'll take what we can get. >> reporter: his spread in mount inceon, missouri, has had almost no rain since early june. his pasture is brown and chewed almost to the soil from his hungry herd of cows. this part of missouri is experiencing what's called an exceptional drought-- the most severe classification by the avderal government. >> i have neighbors tha

these are little things that just inject a certain narrow view of what therobl is at isre cet a thank you mark and john. coming up, how do you spot a campaign in trouble? when you hear reporters -- actually supporters say it's still early or you should see our internal polling. well, you can bet in those cases the candidate is probably headed our internal polling. well, you can bet in those cases the candidate is probably headed for defeat. right now the gop is trotting out the granddaddy of all excuses, the polls are wrong. all of them. we're going to talk about the self-delusion of republicans popping up right now. >>> also, breaking up isard to do. the republican party bke up with missours todd akiafr stwi sing mmen distance of claire mccaskill. the gop may have decided it's better to live with the author of legitimate rape than to have the democrats retain control of the senate. >>> and which republican would democrats most like to pick off in november? here are a few. michele bachmann, joe wals alwe with polls moving their way, democrats are daring to dream of delivering them fro

today we'll talk to a self-described peer progressive and says we can change washington and isre i get the whole world peace thing until it makes me late for work. it's tuesday, september 25th, and you're in the cycle. president obama takes the stage today. his 30 minute remarks focused the deft of ambassador chris stevens. >> in evy culture, those who love fedomheve m ask themselves how much they're willing to tolerate freedom for others. it's a crude and disgusting video, sparked outrage throughout the muslim rld. it's an insul not only to muslims but americans as well. ernope t justifiesre mindless violence. there are no words that excuse the killing of innocence. there's no video that justifies an attack on an embassy. there's no slander tt provides an excuse for pple to burn a restaurant in lebanonr destroy scho inun oft d and destruction in pakistan. >> the president also delivered some of his toughest talk yet againstiran's nuclear ambitions. iran'ssint mmoud ahmadinejad addressed the u.n. >> it's not a challenge that would be contained. it would threaten the elimination of isra

. >> joini me w isr.enate in arizona and the former surgeon general of the united states. doctor, nice to meet you. great to have you here on "the ed show" tonight. i'll go right to it. alth care is in ur whou you are the expert. he's going after you, your opponent's going after you on obama care. but you have been critical of health care in general on both sides. where do youtand on all of wel as rgeogenel, i was very career, and i still feel the same way, as a physician, as a professor, when i responsibility for the nation's health. it was a real problem that our nation didn't have a system that provided access to health care for all, and we need a robust business plan to be able to suppt that. sot'ere stanand ll never waiver from the fact that i believe that every american should have access to a basic set of health care benefits. >> well, you've got a lot of senior citizens in the state of arizona. how do y play with them and is this going to be your ticket? >> well, i don't have any specific ticket.

ec and one of the things i talk about in that second book isr". that our culture has basically gotten some kind of anurul agreement, like i call it sort of the code of silence about what really goes on in combat. on in combat. what really goes on when our nation asks our kids to go out and kill some other kids. i am no pacifist but i think we tend to not want to think about it very much. in my family the same as all families, i was 50 years old when i found out that my father had fought in a battle of the bulge. dad, wasn't that big deal? i get all kinds of stories about normandy and that sort of stuff. our culture are good about don't wind and don't brag. any combat veteran will do you -- to wine and complain about and 4% and the things you want to brag about. and things to start breaking down a little bit. personal history, i grew up in a very small town in oregon. a lot being town called seaside oregon and when i grew up virtually all the fathers had been in world war ii. we called it the service back then. that was when your uncle was in the s

the gap between what we are creating the money at and loaning the students at isr -- is $8 billion that-care. he wants half of all small business income in america. his principle tax cut is taking money from people who pay taxes and giving it to people who do not pay tax. virtually all of his so-called tax cuts involve inessence a transfer payment for the 50% of people who pay taxes to the nearly 50% who don't. megyn: they struggle against his image that the republicans only like rich people. >> i thought convention helped. you have people like susanna march continues and marco rubio. i only went to college because i got a $1,500 a year scholarship. i'm a republican and you saw many people saying we came from modest beginnings. but republicans stand for the trite rise without government being in your way. megyn: what do you think happened to governor o'malley in those 24 hours? >> i think he got whipsawed from the white house. somebody ought to put together, cory berke and o'malley. they ought to put together the stockholm syndrome tapes of all these people recanting what they said. meg

building yesterday and in interviews and again strongly criticized isr l israel, including the unitedank you very much for the update and preview. we appreciate it. >>> ahead of the president's speech the romney campaign is amping up their attacks on the president's foreign policy 37 ryan drawing a parallel to the iran hossage crisis in 1979. >> he made the case the power of his personality and purchase situation powers would calm things in the muslim world. would make people respect us and like us that much more. i mean, they are on tv and -- reminds you of 1979 tehran but they are burning our flags and capitals all around the world. they are storming our embassies. we lost four of our diplomats. >> wolf blitzer who covered 1979 tehran would say not quite so much. at least certainly not at this stage yet. he spent a lot of time there and he says that's overstating it. >>> also criticism today about why the president is not meeting with any world leaders face to face. he will make a stop at "the view." robin wexler, former democratic congressman. he is an obama supporter. thank you fo