the democrats lost two of their numbers, joe lieberman and jim webb, both retiring senators -- >> ifill: lieberman an independent who votes with the democrats. >> you're right. he's a democrat, he votes with them. but interestingly not for political considerations because they're both leaving. neither of these gentlemen has to worry about reelection. >> ifill: but jim webb still represents a state that is in a very tight race where the democrat he hopes will succeed him probably wouldn't want that hanging around. >> jim webb volted no on both proposals, the republicans and democrat, because of the earned income tax credit which is not extended in the republican provision. he really cares about that. it hits a lot of middle-income people. this isn't just about marginal rates, your income taxes. there are others mixed in, earned income tax credit, tax deductions for college tuition, estate tax if you're wealthy-- all of those things are sort of in the mix now. >> ifill: the congressional budget office, julie, to bring you into this, they said because of the affordable care act, because of

. >> two former virginia governors are squaring off to succeed retiring senator jim webb, george allenaine locked in a close race. >> it's dead even and this is so critical and so important for both parties because the republicans control the house. they're four short in the senate and they feel that george allen can come back after losing to jim webb six years ago and this is the battle of the titans between allen and kaine. kaine, allen is going to try to tie to barack obama, say he's just going to be a mouthpiece for obama because he was the dnc chair and the whole united states senate might really depend on who wins this election. >> let me ask you this. in red states like say montana, north dakota, tying the democratic candidate to president obama is kind of gavin with obama not -- a given with obama not necessarily strong in the red states. in virginia my understanding is the president still has a small polling average over romney. so obama isn't necessarily going to hurt webb, is he? >> you're very well informed. four years ago the last time the democrats carried a president in

had ousted republican george allen from the senate in 2006 and replaced him with a democrat named jim webb. they have a popular governor named tim warner. the democratic part of the state were growing and becoming more influential in the state. if virginia was not exactly cobalt blue by the time of the obama election, it was trending to a bluey shade of purple. barack obama wins it really big in 2008. and then, since then, virginia has been through kind of a big reversal. the electoral equivalent of whiplash. in 2009 virginia elected an anti-abortion activist governor, bob mcdonnell. a guy who drop what he was doing in the mid-30s so he could go to path robinson's university. he wrote a graduate thesis on how government should design public policy to punish homosexuals and fornicators. hey, that's me. he spent his time cosponsoring 30 bill ls. and in 2009 virginia elected him governor. the same year if 2009 virginia picked this guy as governor. he spent his first years in office suing the federal government over health reform. how did that work out? he also designed a new and more modest v

jim: webb simpson pops it up and will make a par. scruffy finish it's been for the u.s. open champion. might be a while before we see him again. his wife is expecting the couple's second child at the end of this month will probably will take him out of the open championship. nick: yeah, it will give him some time to think about this. a head-scratching afternoon. you come in as champion of the u.s. open and all that pressure. bottom line, he couldn't handle it today. that will put a little dent in his forward step for a while. jim: 40 coming in. last year he was 48 on the last nine. had a chance to win it each of the last two years. seven instead. peter: working with rookies on tour like this, their number one goal and worry is whether they can have a job next year. one of these two is going to be -- have a job for at least two years and one is securing a place on the money list from this finish. nick: as long as ted doesn't drink too much iced tea up there on the balcony. too many arnold palmers. right. he's just sitting there, just -- not 100% sure. you don't have to se

. >> both candidates are vying for a seat vacated by jim webb, but they've been locked slew a virtual dead heat in the polls for about a year now. >>> here's a story we first reported on 9 news now at 6:00. families of inmates at the d.c. jail say they're being charged to visit the jail. specifically they say the d.c. corrections department is forcing them to pay some $9 to visit and chat with their incarcerated family members on camera. the teleconferences are recent. we don't know how the money is being used or what happens if a family simply can't pay. we haven't been able to reach a spokesperson for the corrections department this weekend. we'll stay on this. >>> just ahead, will we get >>> one of those days to stay in the house. i don't know if it was a good day or bad day. >> if you like it for your garden, i say great. i have friends worried about their tomatoes and peppers and all the things they carefully planted in the spring and we've been hit with very little rain at all throughout the summer season. that's changing for us. instead of the thunderstorms that came rolling on

federal election in 2006 prince william went for jim webb.er, with the whole country having a backlash against bush he went to president obama. you have a crucible here that is a bellwether for which way virginia will go. >> a lot of places virginia drives the day. what other issues are important? >> one of those is immigratio immigration. this county had a local ordinance that became a model for law that arizona passed in order to allow local law enforcement to check the in thetion status. county and detained by law enforcement for one reason or another. that was a hot issue several years ago. a candidate for statewide office is on the local board of supervisors architect behind, the spearhead of that effort. so that issue is a hot button one. >> bret: do you agree? >> absolutely. especially in the wake of attention that the immigration got at the u.s. supreme court. >> the issue is over the radar in the past five years since the flash point of 2007 when the ordinary ordinary was first passed. with corey stewart running for statewide office

you have two people who caucus with the democrats, joe lieberman and jim webb who said they will opposeplan, the democratic proposal, if it goes up on the hill. nothing is going to happen. it's getting kicked into after election day. again, everybody's panicked over this. if romney wins, it won't matter. he'll be the one who controls the agenda. if nothing happens before january 1st when he becomes president, everything will be done retroactively. if obama wins he has to make a compromise as he did in 2010 and that will happen at the 11th hour. >> i want to go over the vote. a series of votes are to. harry reid wants a simple majority because it's a budget issue, 50 plus 1 and they could pass there. usually in the senate it takes 60. take one more listen to the senate majority and minority leader today. >> they want to vote on theirs, vote on ours, we'll do it with a simple majority. so i hope republicans don't insist on doing this the hard way. and why are republicans delaying votes they asked for in the first place? >> my guess is democratic leaders won't allow a vote on the president

reportedly dipping the president's big event, but it is not just the convention virginia senator jim webb, and senator lieberman of connecticut have other issues namely his plan to cut taxes on those making less than $250,000 but not for anyone else, so, they are not supporting him and it does not end there. democratic governors are grumbling about the health care plan, seven are said to be noncommittal about whether they support the expanded medicaid programs. and my guest says there is trouble in paradise, with the independent women's forum but this is, again, getting to be more than trouble in paradise but a contagion. what is happening. >>guest: well, it is in doubt that the president faces an uphill battle in november but it is no longer just with voters where the approval is under 47 percent. now we are really seeing one lawmaker after another and party infrastructure that is no longer solidly behind the president so i imagine that by the time we get to september, it will not be the party we anticipated. >>neil: when i think of charlotte, and why though decided to have it there and

. >> both candidates are vying for the seat vacated by jim webb and they've been locked in a virtualheat in the polls for about a year now. >>> the world's largest conference on aids was held in d.c. over the weekend. some 30,000 people from nearly 200 countries are here to discuss living with h.i.v. and aids. also how to prevent it and educate those who still don't know about h.i.v. and aids. at bell high school in northwest washington, organizers hosted a soccer game to attract and teach teens about aids. the latest report shows just under 3% of all d.c. residents over the age of 12 are living either with h.i.v. or aids. another 5,000 could be infected and not know about it. in the u.s. young people between the ages of 15 to 24 account for a whopping 40% of all new aids cases. experts say educating teens is crucial. >> if we're going to make an impact, it's the young youth and youth of today that we've got to get the message out to about ending the epidemic. it's theirs to own and control and take care of. >> last night the attention turned to the kennedy center at a gala bringing

one of the virginia senators, jim webb said the same thing. he's not going to get it.t not to get it. this is a distraction. it's a distraction away from a terrible recovery that's not going on the way it is supposed to go. if you're rcoming out of a recovery you should not be making 80,000. you should be way up there. investment causes that. this is fine for people getting the break. for everybody else this is a distraction and a way to tamp down investment. jobs are good for the middle class, not the tax cut. >> come on, guys. cutting taxes for 95% is not a distraction. you guys should be cheering it saying the obama is acting on the jobs report and coming forward with the tax plan of one year tax cut for americans. >> that point is okay, larry. >> that's just ludicrous. >> that part is okay. the problem is he's allowing tax increases to go forward on everybody else. >> by 5%. >> he's preventing investment. >> let me agree with the governor. this is right. what the democrats fail to realize and tell the american people is we need additional revenue in this country. w

with two democrat, joe lieberman and jim webb opposing. the republicans' plan failed. the vice president was there himself in the big chair in case he needed a break a tie. on the surface, this may look like a big win for the president and his party. but before breaking out the champagne, here's a reality check. this is all just political theater. no real legislation that will affect you or me came out of capitol hill today. and every member of this kabuki congress knew it. instead, we're still playing chicken with the fiscal cliff. tax cuts expiring for everyone automatically. now, the cbo says if congress let this is happen, economic growth could contract by 1.3% during the first half of 2013. but the agency said would probably be judged a recession. our economy is only projected to grow between 2.% and 2.8% next year. not only are we speeding towards that fiscal cliff, we're wasting money with all this mindless bickering. this week, we actually learned the cost of all this sandbox politics. $1.3 billion. the government accountability office calculated the cost of la

ultimately vets take care of vets better than anybody else and look noç better than senat jim webb andohn mccain. what they've done for the veterans office ha been faef snook are you specifically suggesting someone in particular is taking it lightly when what they talk about sending people to war? >> i'm not citing out any one individual in particular. what i'm saying is politicians when they go downrange to deploy and if you haven't served in the militarying yo ire getting what i call is a dime tour. you're taking to relatively safe fobs. you're not going to be taken where i was. gold top if someone like me had been elected to congress or if we had people like pat murphy who actually served on these small bases, they'd understand what it is for soldiers to go through war. i can give you a prime example. on april 28th, which is what i call my alive day, i got surrounded by 45 members of the taliban with 14 of my fellow army brothers and we fought our way out of an ambush. we ran out of grenades that day and i put in for a request. and that quest came on november 309 as illustrated in m

nebraska and bill nelson, florida, and claire mccaskill of missouri and jon tester of m montana and jim webbinia retiring and they have in the past indicated they may not go along with the president on his new initiative today which is really not a new initiative. he has been consistent saying this is what he wants to do for a long time. >> well, this is about framing the presidential debate. this is about barack obama differentiating himself from mitt romney. it is a reprieve of the fairness argument na we h that we have b hearing over and over and over again. this is a time in the presidential campaign when people's perceptions and views start to harden, wolf. so what the president just had last week was some very bad employment news, and there is a worry in the campaign that those kinds of bad numbers are going to have people's views hardening about the economy staying in a ditch or going into the ditch, so what they are trying to do now is so to speak switch the subject to say, i'm the president who believes in fairness and i want to repeal the tax cuts for the wealthy and extend them fo

specifically pertaining to what they called a penalty, they probably wouldn't have gotten the votes of jim webbnot even john tester of montana. so unlikely that it would have passed. remember, as it is, it only passed by one vote. so given that fact, you wonder whether the law as passed now called a tax, was actually kind of fraudulently passed. and everybody is trying to shift the ground here when they're asked, well s a tax or not? well, it doesn't matter whether it's a tax or not, david axelrod said. well, i guess it's now declared constitutional by the court, but for future precedent, which as a former clerk myself, i'm concerned about. i think it really does matter whether the court after the pack can rewrite a statute in order to uphold it as anthony kennedy said in the dissent. i believe you shouldn't able to do that. >> brian: governor romney's senior advisor yesterday said he believes that the governor believes it's a penalty, not a tax. totally different than the republicans were saying, the republican leaders were saying over the weekend. >> yeah, well, what i think is that as a lega

virginia start jim webb is a no and speculation that senator benne nelson and bill nelson from floridaoo, senator joe lieberman, an independent who generally sides with either the democrats or the republicans, depending on the issue when it comes to the tax plans his preference is neither. and we know that now because he just said, quote, the best thing congress can do to restore economic growth and job creation is to enact a comprehensive bipartisan plan who balance our budget along the lines of the bowles simpson report. there's plenty of time this year to get this done if we want to, for this reason i will vote against both the president's partial repeal of the bush tax cuts and the republicans plan to extend all of the cuts for another year. now, it's not all gloom and doom for the democratic leadership though because senator clare mccaskill says she fully supports extending tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year and supports them for families making up to a million if it was part of a compromise to reduce the debt 4 or 5 trillion dollars. back to you in new york. >

jim avila. >> one of the once on the bottom. >> reporter: shopping day for barbara webb. bracing for a sharp jump in food prices over the next nine months. >> of course i'm concerned. i'm concerned for the people who can't afford it. >> reporter: usda forecasts expecting a 5% food price hike. an expensive jolt brought on by the great american drought. you have a family of three, two children. in a week you're spending what? >> $150. >> reporter: which means she'll be spending $160 a week next year. adding up to $500 more from her budget. it's affecting the foods americans eat most. last year's milk price, $3.57. by early 20 13rks projected at $3.84. ground beef -- $2.77 a pound, by next year, more than $3. eggs last year, $1.77 a dozen. by 2013, nearly $2. >> this is exactly the kind of thing we worry about with climate change. >> reporter: farmers and consumers had better get used to tougher growing conditions and higher prices. >> the new normal for agriculture is going to be frequent episodes of very high temperatures. temperatures at which pretty much any crop doesn't

jim: he's in that dangerous pack at eight under par. so 54 holes complete and the u.s. open champion is the story here. webb simpson lives about a four, five-hour drive away over in north carolina. webb simpson has had three strong rounds. here's the lineup tonight on cbs. "48 hours: mystery." we'll be back tomorrow at 3:00 eastern time to follow it all. for sir nick faldo, ian baker-finch, peter kostis, david feherty and all the crew, jim nantz saying so long from the nantz saying so long from the greenbrier. three words dad, e-rainde financial consultants. they'll hook you up with a solid plan. wa-- wa-- wait a minute; bobby? bobby! what are you doing man? i'm speed dating! [ male announcer ] get investing advice for your family at e-trade. >>> coming up next on wjz eyewitness news, record breaking hit. the hottest day of the year sizzling maryland. when can we expect the cooldown? plus, houses are battling boiling temperatures without power. the latest on the restoration efforts. and. >> creating a habitat that not only oysters can enjoy. i am tim williams with more on the new project underway ,,,,,, >>>

jim: he's in that dangerous pack at eight under par. so 54 holes complete and the u.s. open champion is the story here. webb simpson lives about a four, five-hour drive away over in north carolina. webb simpson has had three strong rounds. here's the lineup tonight on cbs. "48 hours: mystery." we'll be back tomorrow at 3:00 eastern time to follow it all. for sir nick faldo, ian baker-finch, peter kostis, david feherty and all the crew, jim nantz saying so long from the nantz saying so long from the greenbrier. three words dad, e-rainde financial consultants. they'll hook you up with a solid plan. wa-- wa-- wait a minute; bobby? bobby! what are you doing man? i'm speed dating! [ male announcer ] get investing advice for your family at e-trade. >>> as temperatures climb over 100 degrees across the washington area, the burning question tonight is when will we get some relief? good evening everyone, i'm matt jablow in tonight for bruce johnson. excessive heat warnings are in effect for the entire region with temperatures climbing into the triple digits. that means there's the high risk for heat exhaustion or ot

jim avila. >> reporter: shopping day for barbara webb, bracing for a sharp jump in food prices over the next nine course i am concerned. i am concerned for the people who can't afford it. >> reporter: usda forecast predict a 5% food price hike, a jolt fueled by the great american drought that consumers will soon start to see at the checkout. you have a family of three, two children. approximately in a week you are spending what? >> $150. >> reporter: if the usda economists are right means she will spend $160 a week next year adding up to $500 more out of her yearly budget. a hike so broad it is difficult to shop around. affecting the foods americans eat most. last year's milk price, $3.57 a gallon. by early 2013, projected at $3.84. ground beef, 2011 price, $2.77 a pound. by next year, more than $3. eggs last year, $1.77 per dozen. by 2013, nearly $2. >> this year is very emblematic of the type of thing we worry about with climate change. >> reporter: the doctor's studies for climate central which monitors global warming says farmers and consumers better get used to tougher growing conditions and

jim avila. >> what are the ones at the bottom? >> reporter: shopping day for barbara webba sharp jump in food prices over the next nine months. >> of course i am concerned. i am concerned for the people who can't afford it. >> reporter: usda forecast predicting nearly a 5% food price hike, an expensive jolt fueled by the great american drought that consumers will soon start to see at the checkout. you have a family of three, two children. approximately in a week you are spending what? >> $150. >> reporter: if the usda economists are right means she will spend $160 a week next year adding up to $500 more out of her yearly budget. a hike so broad it is difficult to shop around. affecting the foods americans eat most. last year's milk price, $3.57 a gallon. by early 2013, projected at $3.84. ground beef, 2011 price, $2.77 a pound. by next year, more than $3. eggs last year, $1.77 per dozen. by 2013, nearly $2. >> this year is very emblematic of the type of thing we worry about with climate change.

jim avila tells us. >> what are the ones on the bottom? >> reporter: shopping day for barbara webb. bracing for a sharp jump in food prices over the next nine months. >> of course i'm concerned. i'm concerned for the people who can't afford it. >> reporter: today's usda forecast predicting nearly a 5% food price hike. an expensive jolt fueled by the great american drought, that consumers will soon start to see at the checkout. you have a family of three, two children -- >> right. >> reporter: approximately in the week, you spend what? >> $150. >> reporter: which, if the usda economists are right, she'll spend $160 a week next year, adding up to $5 $500 more out o her yearly budget. a hike so broad, it's difficult to shop around, affecting the foods americans eat most. last year east milk price, $3.57 a gallon. by early 2013, projected at $3.84. ground beef, 2011 price, $2.77 a pound. by next year, more than $3. eggs last year, $1.77 per dozen. by 2013, nearly $2. >> this year is very emblematic of the type of thing we worry about with climate change. >> reporter: in fact, the doctor