i wonder if they feel the same way when they hear common, joe scott. i wanted to share that. tavis: when you got here, when you arrived in china, how were you treat initial sflip >> everything i experienced in america prepared me for this. growing up middle class in the states, i felt like that fish out of water from the very beginning. i was raised in neighborhoods that was jewish-white, middle class. i always had that sort of internal chip, i'm different. so when i came to china, what turned itself a bit was it was you're different but you're different in an exciting way. people would come up and go, can i rub it off? no, you can't but it excited me and it gave me an opportunity to -- in every moment let another human being, a chinese human being know that our humanity is fully intact. never mind what you see piped in here by hollywood. and who we are once you get right down to it, is somebody you can relate to and share with on a very full and deep level. so it excited me, honestly. tavis: i have traveled to a number of places around the world and i've been amazed at the e

joe johns, are you hearing me okay? >> reporter: i'm sorry. hi, wolf. >> i was making the point that ben nelson, the democrat from nebraska, voting with the republicans. scott brown, the republican from massachusetts, voting with the democrats. joe mansion, the democrat from west virginia, voting with the republicans. they all face re-election a year from november. >> reporter: absolutely. there was a handful of three or four people originally that we believed the democrats were going to go for who were republicans who were up for re-election and actually might well have voted with democrats. this is the kind of situation where members of congress are looking at their own personal interest, looking at what's coming down the road, and realizing that, you know, this is an issue that has totally broken through with the public, people are concerned about it, and however you vote, you're definitely going to have to go back to your home state and defend how you voted with people in town halls and on the campaign trail in that election just coming up, wolf. >> so what happens after this what's called a cloture vote, this vote on trying to break a filibuster fails,

joe montana's multi-million dollar pitch. >>> a cal student arrested in a rally now faces deportation. >>> it's wednesday july 13th, this is "today in the bay." >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. it is 4:30. let's go to meteorologist christina loren for the forecast. >> it's been very, very cool lately. as we head through today, even cooler. what i can tell you, we're not going to get out of these overcast conditions for the next five or six days. low pressure stationary as a result. thick fog, so thick it's generating a mist and slick road conditions. let's find out if we have anything to worry about on the roads. >> we're looking at the south bay, looking at a mist, need windshields here. not a major problem for speed sensors. construction zones, 85 split 101, alameda off-ramp through downtown as well. further south, where the ambassadoroocity 880, off the summit, scott, one-way traffic control. that's the long-term project overnight. should be clear by 5:30, 6:00. >>> we're following developing news about a controversial new dog park. live in oakland with more about the dogs, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. there are two dog park locations being look

and that joe will surrender his world number one ranking to talk of which on monday the spaniard however never quit in the day second final semifinal against world number four on the murray scott murray taking the first set seven five refused to be cornered any further by twenty five rule running off three separate sets remaining on course to defend his wimbledon title five seven six two six two six four the final score down making sure to graduate the next opponent afterwards. i. number one. which is. what he did this first season is something really impressive really fantastic i am happy about how i did i think in the normal conditions will be number one. meanwhile joe will fritz tsonga who majestically knocked out roger federer in the previous stage was on able to continue his or roots against the person adel was speaking about a moment ago novak djokovic the serb taking ukraine couple of sets before dropping the third order though restored in the decider seven six six two six seven six three the final score. motions i was really happy. this is one of those moments where. where you can't describe it with words you remember all your career all your childhood everything you w

scott smiley. >> then don't let the baby faces fool you. these brothers play some pretty mean blue grass. ♪ youtube stars the sleepy man ban joe boys.adies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applause] welcome everybody, and thank you very much. what a great audience, we've got here tonight. here in new york and welcome to huckabee, from the fox news studios. and well, i begin today with a most important message, this is my wife's birthday, and i better say happy birthday. i better do that, so, happy birthday. [applause] >> i know that some of you are asking, how many is this for her? well, i'll let you do the math. she was born in 19-- none of your business. and a gallop poll saying that president obama would be defeated by a generic republican, but he leads any specific candidates he's paired against. what does all this have mean? frankly, absolutely nothing. you know, a poll at this point in time only tells us where things are today. not where they're going to be in 15 months when it's going to matter. some voters are going to automatically vote democrats and some are automatically going to vote republican. the election is go

joe biten. there's been speculation that he would be replaced with -- with andrew cuomo. president obama's'ss are saying here's nothing to -- president obama's aides are saying there's nothing to 9 rumors. >>> scott macfarlane is live in our washington, d.c. newsroom to explain how the cuts could affect transportation cuts here in the bay area. >> reporter: congress considering major cuts as to what it spent -- spents on transportation. the u.s. house committee expected to propose almost chopping in half what was expected to be spent. the chairman hinted these cuts were coming. >> i think what people are looking for is in our most congested areas that that doesn't -- that it doesn't burden the tax payer. >> reporter: in about 45 minutes we expect to hear reaction from this from senator boxer. she has a press conference in the capitol at 8:00 a.m. pacific time. back to you. >> thank you scott. >>> well, the brentwood city council will reside -- will decide which housing programs will be fund. the downturn in the housing industry has meant a drop in the developers' fees to fund the programs. most of those -- most of those programs are created during the housing boom. >>> international buyers are ta

scott free, and that's not fair. >> that's true. sorry, no argument. >> i hope you are still on joeing here. all that talk about the rich taxes is making john nervous here. >> i am looking at the tax chart there. >> thank you, congressman clyburn. >> when i see charts like that, if we lived in a self respecting country there will be riot in the streets. the fact there's not more outrage over the inequities in the tax code shocks me. shocks me there is not a huge move towards getting equity -- >> the good news here is that there is actually common ground where people on the left -- and steve, i think populists on the right, think it's unfair for most americans to pay less of a rate than a family of four -- >> the reason why the rate went down so much is because of the cut in the capital gain cut under bush. i would be in favor of raising them. but, the people on the republican side of the aisle are not in favor of raising them, and that false into the rates category, and if you raise it 10%, it would be $80 billion over ten years. >>> thank you very much. chuck schumer is next. we'll