as you said, it will be moderated by twitter co-founder jack dorsey. people have been sending in their questions all week long. 140 characters, which is what happens per twitter, the president, however, will be able to respond much longer than 140 characters. he'll be giving verbal responses and then staffers will tweet out sort of condensed versions of his responses. tamron? >> all right, kristen. already gone through a list of some of those that have been submitted. we'll see if speaker boehner gets his question answered by the president. joining me live is jonathan allen, senior political reporter for police coand the marketer for black enterprise magazine. the question from speaker boehner, will you take job-destroying tax hikes off the table? when you open the door for questions, you get questions you don't want to answer? >> a lot easier to ask a nasty question or tough question on twitter than to ask a softball. i doubt the president is going to answer that question certainly not phrased that way. reporters spend a lot of time trying to figure o

subjected to the site's 140 character limit, and questions will be selected by twitter's founder jack dorsey. >>> 4:49 is the time today. the crew of nasa's final space shuttle launch will arrive at kennedy's space center in florida. four astronauts are scheduled to blast off on friday in shuttle "atlantis." the crew will bring supplies to the international space station. after this final flight, "atlantis" will be sent to a museum as nasa closes the chapter on its space shuttle program. in 30 years nasa oversaw 135 shuttle missions, including the launch of the hubble telescope and john glenn's return to space. >>> the woman poised to become thailand's first female prime minister says it will be difficult to reconcile her divided country, but she's ready to do what it takes. preliminary results show 44-year-old shinawatra's party having the votes needed to win the former government. her brother was a prime minister but was ousted in 2006. he's living in dubai to avoid corruption charges that he says are politically motivated. >>> and william and kate will spend the time today on prince edwar

. >> jack dorsey and president obama fielded tweets from all over the united states. one came from john boehner, he accused him on embarking on a record spending spree. other americans also were concerned about the economy. >> what mistakes have you made in handling the recession. >> one would have been to explain to the american people that it was going tatake -- going to take a while to get out of this. >> in april he held a similar meeting aat facebook. >>> twitter is going after another round of funding. the company hopes to raises millions in new finances. twitter is valued at $7 billion. >>> passengers flying from other countries may have to go through extra security. terrorists may have explosive implanted inside their bodies. they are urging airlines and security to ramp up security. the information that led to the warning has the signature of alguida. but doing this is not a new concept. >> it's difficult to detect something that has been put in the body. the best we can do is there might be residue on their hands or body that would allow a dog to detect it.

. >> and president obama has conducted town meetings through facebook, now, through twitter, jack dorsey moderated today's session focusing on the economy. and co-founded san francisco company. abc joins us live from washington, d.c. with more on the efforts to go beyond main stream media to reach the public. karen? >> good afternoon, president obama is not exactly a prolific twitterer. he sent a tweet last week. the white house tries to reengage younger jortz officials sate campaign will be using social media as an important part of the strategy. president obama kicked off his first twitter town hall with a tweet of his own. >> i am toing to make history here as the first president to live tweet. >> over the next hour, the president took questions on a range of issues from taxes to housing, to the space program. he got a question about job creation from a familiar fo ee. our next question comes from someone you may know this, is speaker boehher. >> there gou. >> the questions were limited to the standard 140 characters. the president answers? not so kons yis. >> i know twitter, i'm supp

tweeter in chief taking social media where it has never been before moderated by twitter co- founder jack dorseyn hall follows similar event with facebook in april using social media and re-election campaign could mobilize young voters >> corruption conviction stands stays in prison, george ryan attorneys argued charges should be overturned because prosecutors never proved he took a bribe also argued george ryan should be set free based on eight united states supreme ruling curtailing the so-called honest services laws that have given others, however sent united states circuit court of appeals sided with the government's arguments in the case involved bribery and kickbacks, did not budget honest services stuff and two previous appeals served almost three years of a six and half year sentence. >> casey anthony could be freed tomorrow after being acquitted of murdering daughter caylee, all misdemeanors faces sentencing daughter guilty of lying to police, prosecutors say provided what they thought was a strong circumstantial case but the jury did not think it was enough to convict >> i think the fa

and twitters cofounder jack dorsey will moderate the event. >> you will still get tweets though. someone will paraphrase them. >> very good knowledge, pam. just to think a year ago you were not on twitter. >> i know. now i'm a tweeter. >> most of us are on twitter. you can go to the ktvu home page and find us on the home page. let's take a look at commute. a little bit of fog we are showing you this dramatic shot. okay not that dramatic. you can see the cars coming in and out of the fog as you head out to the mccarthur maze. let's move along and take a look at the bay bridge teleplay traffic is -- toll plaza traffic is light. san jose is still off to a nice start. barring anything major right now it's a good time to be on the road. >> was that your broadcaster voice there, sal? >> yes, it was steve. >>> fog is definitely moving in. it's mainly on the coast. some of it is very thick it's no doubt expanding up the coast. there is a little bit of stronger serge on it. for those inland it's not a factor yet. he has 52-68. some of the higher elevations are extremely warm. 58-82. fog,

twitter's jack dorsey moderated the session.thousands of questions poured in coming in 140 characters or less, of course. here is jake tapper with more on the president president's eo beyond mainstream media to reach the public. >> it was twin citieser's first presidential town hall meeting. >> i will make history as the first president to live tweet. >> president obama is not particularly known for breivity so posed something fo of a challenge. >> it is only 140 characters. >> he opted to speak instead of type with the white house aide paraphrasing his answers. of the 25,000 admitted most focused on the job the economy and the budget. >> one would have been to explain to the american people that it was going to take this. for us to get out of and i take responsibility for that. >> house speaker joh john boehr had one of his questions picked. hear than -- this is a slighty skewed question. what is right is that we have not seen fast enough job growth released la toiive it threlati. >> reporter: the president also used some of hi

jack dorsey will moderate the event. >>> 6:10. sal, somewhere a big deal on 880. what is happening? >> we have a couple crashes there on 880 north and southbound. one of them is northbound at 29th the other one is southbound at fifth. they are not injury crashes. it's taken them awhile to get rid of them. one of our cameras has caught the back up on 880 northbound. although now that backup is gone. that is really good news. i'm glad we have these cameras because if not we would have thought maybe the backup was still there. they removed the accident and we can put the super back on. so nice. so nice. let's move along and take a look at 101 at golden gate bridge. traffic on southbound 101 heading through the fog just use caution. there is also fog in parts of san mateo county in beautiful pacifica, daly city fog capitol. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. fog yesterday was very shallow. way down there. didn't do much. it was right open the -- it was right on the coast. there is a lot more of it today. as you just saw the traffic shots. the cooler breeze is trying to filter in. th

jack dorsey will be moderating the event. the company will choose the questions.is answers will be streamed live on the white house website. you can submit your questions using half tag ask obama. >> are you going to do it. >> it's not limited. >> just ahead, the family of bryan stow releases an update. >> and richmond considers issuing i.d. cards. >> i'm amy hollyfield live in alameda, they are planning the final hours for the search for the missing fishermen. i'll have a live report coming up. can i eat heart healthy without giving up taste? a man can only try... and try...and try. i heard eating wle grain oats can help lower my cholesterol. it's gonna be tough...so tough. my wife and i want to lowe our cholesterol, but finding healthy food that tastes good is torturous. your father is suffering. [ male announc ] honey nut cheerios tastes great and can help lower cholesterol.

i am looking in the valley at jack dorsey warm like thunderbird -- mark zuckerberg. what advice would you give to someone going through starting something and this is their life. would you tell them to take a break? what would you tell them? >> guest: the other thing that influenced my departure was my health. i didn't know -- they fought -- i was cured by age 30 but they didn't know that. a big wake-up call. there are certain things that i don't think our that mysterious that you have to be eternally vigilant about new platforms coming down the pike. if you think about facebook and twitter and they could have been created earlier. think of myspace. >> host: i was on it at fort three weeks. >> guest: when a new platform evolves -- incredibly vigilant and you have to hire the best people and retain them which in silicon valley the reason you didn't move microsoft in silicon valley was everyone changes jobs in 18 months. that was in 1977. so we said seattle. rain. i want to go outside. so anyway our families ritter -- were there. hiring and retaining great people and t

he joined twitter cofounder jack dorsey to tackle questions sent in through the popular social media website. >> all right. i think i have done this properly. >> reporter: the white house invited 30 of its twitter followers to be part of the audience. the site chose eight journalists. >> from ren grade nerd out of atlanta, mr. president, will you issue an executive order to raise the debt ceiling, pursuant to section 4 of the 14 amendmentful. >> i don't think we should even get to the constitutional amendment. congress has a responsibility to make sure we pay our bills. >> reporter: twitter users asked tens of thousands of questions, hours before the event. including republican lawmakers. they used tweets to challenge the president on the economy and the deficit. >> this is speaker boehner. >> there you go. [ laughter ] >> after embarking on a record spending binge that left us deep ner debt? where are the jobs? >> over the last 15 months, we've actually seen 2 million jobs created in the private sector. >> reporter: top white house aides say the president sees social media sites lik

he joined twitter cofounder jack dorsey, to tackle questions, sent in through the popular social mediate. >> i think i have done this properly. >> reporter: the white house invited 30 of its twitter followers to be part of the live audience. the site chose eight journalists to help select the questions, based upon the most popular topics from users. >> from ren grade nerd out of atlanta, mr. president, will you issue an executive order to raise the debt ceiling pursuant to amendment 4 of the constitution. >> i don't think we should each get to the constitution. congress has a responsibility to make sure we pay our bills. >> reporter: twitter asked tens of thousands of questions before the event. including republican lawmakers. they used tweets to challenge the president on the economy. >> this is speaker boehner. >> there you go. >> after emple barking on a -- embarking on a record-breaking spending binge, where are the jobs. >> and. >> over the last 15 months, we've actually seen over 2 million jobs created in the jobs sector. >> reporter: top aides say the president sees social netwo

jack dorsey will select the questions and moderate the forrum. >>> a 19-year-old marine is under custody after going on a deadly shooting rampage. he shot and killed four marines. so far there is no known motive. >>> in egypt an overnight pipeline explosion is called an act of sabotage by the egyptian authorities. the flames shooting up out of that pipeline. that explosion has shut off the flow of natural gas from israel to jordan. this is the third attack after a protest overthrew mubarak's government. >>> thailand is going to have a female prime minister. now outgoing prime minister resigned this morning in bangkok after his democratic party lost parliament this last week. >>> after six weeks of testimony, the casey anthony murder trial is wrapping up. jury selections are reported to get under way today. we have more on the closing arguments. jessica, do we know how much longer they will go? >> reporter: right now we are watching prosecutor justin ashton give his rebuttal marks. after that the jury will get it. keep many find fire works in the courtroom. prosecutors and defense attorne

the co-founder of san francisco- based twitter, jack dorsey, wasf will select the questions and also conversations. >>> vice president joe biden asked the national education association's members to support the president's re- election bid today. biden hug and kissed association members when he took the stage at their chicago convention. >>> attorney general the nea is scheduled to vote on whether or not to endorse president obama's re-election campaign. the nea has more than 3 million members and bills itself as the nation's largest union. biden's energetic speech praised teachers. [ laughter ] >> these children are the kite strings that lift our national ambition as loft and in the end, in the end, we will be judged by whether or not we have honored our obligation to our children. >> you are they acknowledged their unhappiness with some of the obama administration education policies. >>> republican presidential hopeful michele bachmann is stumping for support in iowa. she met with families at an evangelical church in waukee. she spoke about 20 minutes. the des moines register says

twitter town hall or tweetup in the east room. 2:00 in the east room moderated by twitter co-founder jack dorsey. we'll have it live with tamron hall on "news mags" coming up next. kim hart is senior technology reporter for politico. thanks for joining us, kim. how is this going to work? we understand that the questions are going to be limited to 140 characters, but the answers aren't? >> right. exactly. so the way the east room will be set up i'm told is that there will be three screens. one that shows the questions answered by twooit tweeters and twitter followers. another that shows a heat map of where the questions are coming from from around the country. another one that shows the topics and which ones are bubbling up to the top and being the most popular topics. we'll told that it will focus on the economy and jobs and budget and tax issues. so really the key issues that the obama administration is focussing on. >> what do you think politically the white house is trying to achieve? is this an obvious play for younger voters or is this just an attempt to -- or an attempt to expand on their

i am jack dorsey, from twitter. through more than 200 million tweets per day, people around the world use twitter to instantly connect to what's most meaningful to them. in every country -- egypt and japan, the uk and the united states -- much of this conversation is made up of everyday people engaging in spirited debate about the future of their countries. our partners at salesforce radian6 studied more than a million tweets, discussing our nation's politics over the recent weeks, and they found that america's financial security to be one of the most actively talked about topics on twitter. they further found that president obama's name comes up in more than half of these conversations. and so today this vibrant discussion comes here to the white house and you get to ask the questions. to participate, just open your web browser and go to askobama.twitter.com. neither the president or i know the questions that will be asked today. that decision is driven entirely by the twitter users. and so let's get the conversati

i am jack dorsey, from twitter. through more than 200 million tweets per day, people around the world use twitter to instantly connect to what's most meaningful to them. in every country -- egypt and japan, the uk and the united states -- much of this conversation is made up of everyday people engaging in spirited debate about the future of their countries. our partners at salesforce radian6 studied more than a million tweets, discussing our nation's politics over the recent weeks, and they found that america's financial security to be one of the most actively talked about topics on twitter. they further found that president obama's name comes up in more than half of these conversations. and so today this vibrant discussion comes here to the white house and you get to ask the questions. to participate, just open your web browser and go to askobama.twitter.com. neither the president or i know the questions that will be asked today. that decision is driven entirely by the twitter users. and so let's get the conversati

. >> he's sitting there with jack dorsey, a founder of twitter. have explained to the public more clearly that the recovery would take a long time. steven, i'm sure you have plenty you could add to the list of the president's mistakes. what do you think he should have done differently? >> awg -- i agree with him on the housing. the mortgage foreclosure plans haven't worked. the reason it's taken so long to reach the bottom of the housing prices is we've prevented the market from working. i think that's been a mistake. the other thing, i think the president should have concentrated on fixing our tax system, our corporate and business tax system isn't competitive in this global economy. and it's pretty easy to fix. >> jim, that's something they want to put aside when they're talking about this big tax reform and the liberals want to put entitlement reform aside, the conservatives want to put tax increases aside. i don't know. do you think we're going to have any kind of meaningful tax reform any time soon? >> i don't think so. we're a little too clo

subject to the site's 140 character limit, and questions will be selected by the twitter's founder jack dorsey. >>> the duke and duchess of cambridge will spend the day at prince edward island. it's best known as the home of anne of green gables, the fictional stories about an orphan who lived on the island, and it's apparently one of kate's childhood favorites. >> people from all over the world come to visit this site because they're familiar with the story and want to see where the story was set. >> later today prince william, who's a search and rescue helicopter pilot, will copilot a chopper making an emergency landing. the couple also have plans to take part in a dragon boat race. they'll spend the next few days in canada before visiting california beginning on july the 8th. >>> the 2011 major league baseball all-star roster has been announced, and the nats will have a new representative this year. reliever tyler clifford named to the squad, the first of his career. the 26-year-old has been fantastic out of the bullpen for washington, posting a 1.96 e.r.a. while striking out 57 in 46 innin

from all over sent in their questions, a handful were picked and then posed by twitter co-founder jack dorsey to the president, who answered verbally without the 140 character limit. >> you know, that's a terrific question... >> brown: aides, however, did tweet shortened versions of his responses. many of today's questions focused on jobs and the economy. >> it comes from david: tech and knowledge industries are thriving, yet jobs discussion centers on manufacturing. why not be realistic about jobs? >> we have to be successful at the cutting edge industries of the future like twitter. but we also have always been a country that makes stuff. what we want to focus on is advanced manufacturing that combines new technology and research to see how are we going to create the next twitter, create the next google, how are we going to create the next big thing? but make sure that production is here. >> brown: it was the third such social media event for the president this year. in april, he took part in a town hall hosted by facebook, and in january, he answered video questions submitted via youtube.

the questions will be selected by jack dorsey, the man who founded twitter, five years ago.witter now claims around 200 users. >>> take a look. the gold trim seal likes like it's painted onto the limo, but that's actually a magnet. somehow it came off. the next day, an officer found the seal on the side of the road and returned it to the secret service. the secret service says that magnet frequently falls off. >>> michigan congressman thaddeus mccoter announced his candidacy yesterday, he performed at a freedom festival hosted by a conservative radio station. party insiders consider him a long shot. but he believes he will drum up support through his platform. >> right now, we're he not hering anything about the restructuring the government needs to do to get smaller and more accountable. nothing about our trade deficit with china. >> mccoter is a 45-year-old attorney born in detroit. he becomes the tenth republican to announce a run for president. one of his opponents is someone he knows quite well. michele bachmann. she is spending the holiday in the pivotal state of hawai

those questions will be selected by the twit core founder jack dorsey.sident obama is no scrapeger to social networking. he used youtube and facebook to reach out to the fellow americans >>> congressman in michigan is harnessing the power of social media to explain each and every one of his votes. fox steve brown tells thus is a facebook friend whose status updates are worth reading. >> i explain every decision i make. >> you will find the 400 votes he has cast in the house since being sworn in, in january. >> when a vote comes in, i put my card in and press yes or no and i go to the ipad which is on the house floor. >> that is not the only way he is unique. the "washington post" vote data base indicates the michigan congressman is next to last when it comes to voting with his fellow house republicans. in an interview conducted via skype, we asked about that. >> have you spoken to member of the caucus? >> asking what are you doing? why are you doing this? >> i talk to members of the congress about this. we discuss the reason for the vote. >> is up their