. >>> we have a developing story from texas where kay bailey hutchison is getting ready to announce her attention to run for governor of texas. she announced last month she plans to resign from the senate. if she does, it will set a tough match with rick bar. >>> we are following breaking news out of prince george's. there was a deadly stabbing in college park. >> kathy park is on the scene. >> police are saying one man is dead now after an apparent stabbing death stemmed from an altercation. the call came from about 4:00 a.m. this morning. the crime actually happened nearby. it involved two hispanic men. they drove from the crime scene in a blue pontiac. it is near the 7-eleven at rhode island avenue. police are saying the men got out of the car and were found on the ground with deep lacerations. both of the men were flown to nearby hospitals. one man was pronounced dead. police are still at the scene of that crime scene. this all happened a few hours ago. this investigation continues. we will bring you more information. kathy park, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> 72 degrees. >> when we

kay bailey hutchison voted no. she is running for governor in texas. there are primary implications. within texas, there is this issue of the hispanic vote in the republican base both. and the k bailey hutchison decision to oppose a nominee sonia sotomayor. the president will be very happy about this. this is what they thought they would get. halfway between but justice roberts god and justice alito -- halfway between what the justice roberts got and justice alito. although there were some tough questions, it did not take on the sort of partisan divide that some of the previous ones did. they hope the white house and president obama will have gained some traction in this area. of course, health care, and energy issues are proving that not to be so easy. shepard: how much did the white house do on getting votes for sonia sotomayor? >> very little. they understood going in that the republican base, knowing the importance of supreme court votes, knowing that there's a certain constituency that takes the supreme court nominations very seriously, there would

senator kay bailey hutchison is running for governor.ffered -- awkward. you are taking on the race in your own party. it looks like there will be blood on the floor in this race. ç>> it does not have toç be tt way, but i think there are real differences in our approach, and what i would do for the future of texas, and i have a record of voting for tax cuts and promoting tax cuts, and we are going to talk about his record of increasing taxes, so i think that it is important that we do this. i am very committed to it and very excited about the response i am getting. greta: talking about the response, you made your announcement today, and right away, you have seen governor perry coming out swinging. they say you have violated things and flip-flopped on basically every promise to voters, about the federal bailout -- they came swinging already. >> of course the and they have been swinging really since the first of the year -- of course, they have been swinging really since the first of the year. i just think it is time for a change. i think

kay bailey hutchison has announced that she is a 16-year incumbent.m operator that gets things done. rick perry has been governor since 2000, the tenant governor reelected twice -- lt. gov. reelected twice. this battle will reflect a lot of what is going on in the republican party nationwide. hudgins and argues that gov. perry has been to conservative. -- too conservative. he supported those who wanted to secede from the union, he has been bashing washington, accusing k bailey hutchison of taking too much of the t.a.r.p. money. she is a supporter of abortion rights, he is opposed to row vs. wade. i have to get down to a whisper as they readied behind me. i think that they're going to do the pledge of allegiance. i will keep selling, as they say, this battle will be lengthy and one of the most expensive, reflecting what is going on in the gop, write verses centrist -- right versus centrist. bill: thank you, carl. carl cameron, live from lubbock, texas. megyn: milwaukee, finding a hero in their mayor. mayor tom barrett rescued a woman and a child from a

kay bailey hutchison wants to be the governor of texas. she made the announcement today. the senior senator from texas will square off against gov. rick perry. he has been elected to two terms after completing governor bush's term. gov. terry has been around too long she says. >> he is a dedicated public servant. i know that he loves taxes. but now he is trying to stay too long. she will rollout her campaign with stops in san antonio, houston and austin. >> coming up next, how your internet surfing could cause it to spend more money. cell phone users are taking at&t to court. why they are -- why they are upset about what is not on their iphone. >> it may surprise you to see who sits in the driver's seat. >> we have some clouds out there this afternoon, but the brain is west of us. we will talk about the insta- weather plus cast. right now, it is gecko: uh, you wanted to see me sir? boss: come on in, i had some other things you can tell people about geico - great claims service and a 97% customer satisfaction rate. show people really trust us. gecko: yeah right, that makes

. >>> texas senator kay bailey hutchison announced she is running for the governor of the lone star state. she says he current governor has over stayed his welcome. he tookover for president george w. bush when he was elected to the white house. if re-elected in 2010, she could serve 14 years as the governor of texas. >>> have beens of foreign wars was told that he will veto my defense bill loaded with pork. president obama spoke in phoenix telling the vets the wars in iraq and afghanistan are not necessarily what americans wanted but they are wars that need to be fought. >> as i said when i announced this strategy there will be more difficult days ahead. the insurgency in awful didn't just happen overnight and we won't defeat it overnight. this will not be quick nor easy. but we must never forget, this is not a war of choice. this is a war of necessity. those who attacked america on 9/11 are plotting to o so again. >> reporter: othepriorities in the president's speech today, increased spending on veteran's health care and he assured them no one would take away their benefits. >>> outside

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kay bailey hutchison has been in the congress for quite a while as well.hey are giants of the state. these are the two big dogs in the party. there will be a lot of money. they can both raise quite a lot of money. you have unlimited contributions in texas. all lot of money will be spent. many people will say it is a fight for the soul of the republican party. host: what are the major issues in texas right now? what will this race be about? >> it depends on who can drive the message best. perry webb like it to be about the texas economy. primarily that in the past few years texas has fare better than the rest of the country in terms of job growth. he talks about that allow, and is not shy about taking credit for that. there is also a flip side in that, in the texas economy has not done as well this year, and something that hutchinson mentioned several times yesterday was job loss. only california lost more jobs in june. there are also some differences on the so-called social issues that perry will try to exploit. he has a more clear pro-life record than she

kay bailey hutchison will go on to challenge as governor. she probably would have, too.he senior editor of politics magazine will talk about what this means in the bigger picture. and a former supreme court nominee by ronald reagan who was not confirmed will be here. his rejection is the one that made his name into a verb. that ushered in a new era of supreme court justice's nomination processes. we look forward to it. you never know what weirdness might happen tree realty will be here tomorrow. martha: i will be there tomorrow. you guys will talk about after this process happens. once somebody becomes a supreme court justice, we are often surprised. they raped her across the coals -- they raked her across the coals. it is always hard to figure out until their on-the-job. shepard: you could ask george bush about that. they just never know. her judicial history on these matters does not really give us an enormous clue as to how she will vote on some matters that matter especially to some hard- core conservatives. you mentioned the abortion issue. there are others. it is c

kay bailey hutchison of texas as well as jon kyl. they all announce they plan to vote against her.till her nomination is expected to win easily when the vote is taken. >>> the senate majority leader is promising swift approval of an extension to the popular cash for clunkers program. harry reid said it will get passed before break. as he made the announcement a republican from south carolina said he would not block the bill. he was a vocal critic of cash for clunkers calling it washington's stupidity. two other senators had opposed more funding. they've changed their mind. the ford focus, honda civic, and toyota corolla, prius and camry the top five cars people are buying under the program. >>> one of every ten americans 6 and older was taking anti-depressants. it doubled from 1996. but fewer people are seeing therapists. columbia university researchers points out it shows doctors who are not psychiatrists need to learn better how to diagnose depression. >>> ryan o'neil said he was so fr fr frazzled at his girlfriend's funeral that he actually hit on his own daughter. >> it's been

that means -- oh, and plus with kay bailey hutchison retiring and mel martinez retiring, texas and floridaed by a senator they did not vote for. and if you throw in massachusetts, then that number goes up to 28.7%. the constitution calls for a special election if a house vacancy occurs. there's no such thing in the senate. but you know, at some point, people are going to have to come around to the fact that governors -- and we saw this in horrible circumstances in illinois, where the governor was trying to sell the seat to the highest bidder, what happens when governors put their own personal self-interest ahead of the people. >> russ feingold drew that fine point after blagojevich saying we have to get away from the culture jonathan was describing get to people voting for who represents then. take a listen to mr. feingold. >> enough is enough. it's time to replace senators with what belongs from the people and i don't think it should be any different. >> are we there? >> when ted kennedy first joined the senate in 1960, he wasn't old enough by the constitution to run. his brother arranged

jane: in the state of texas, senator kay bailey hutchison is kicking off her campaign for governor todayties across the state that she will be stopping in this week. she served as a senator from texas for 16 years. she is facing a tough race for governor. she will have to beat the state's longest serving governor and fellow republican rick perry. jon: as president obama and his democratic allies in congress try to regain momentum on health care reform plans, there are some brand-new polls showing the opposition party is picking up support among americans. when likely voters were asked who do you trust more to handle health care, for the first time ever, republicans are favored over democrats. take a look. 44% favor the g.o.p. that's up 3% since june. 41% liked democrats to handle the issue. that is a big dip from 47% just two months ago. also take a look at a brand-new fox opinion dynamics poll on next year's midterm elections. in august, 40% favor republicans. that's a big boost from 33% back in april. democrats lost about 6 percentage points over the last several months. it seems the h

think because he's stuck in traffic is matt mchoey, former press secretary to senator kay bailey hutchis hutchisonget to work today. there was a mayor ton. i'm really mad at news radio. i'll take that up with them after the show. let's talk about health care reform. if this bill is passed without a public insurance option, is it still a victory for the white house? >> absolutely. i think it's a huge victory. i think it shows the white house knows how to compromise. i think the more important point is it's a real victory for the american people. we've been talking about health care reform for 40-some-odd years. it's time we saw some move toward that. it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a good step. >> do you think that -- a question i was going to ask matt for the republican perspective, try to be independent here for a second. would republicans have to concede to the passage of any health care bill? is it a huge victory for a democratic president? >> they should concede. i doubt that they would. that is unfortunately part of the political game. i think what could happen, if democrats pass this

judd gregg, kay bailey hutchison, lamar alexander who all said that's the type of idea you might be abletand, this is a government-sponsored enterprise they are talking about. this is fanny med in every state they are talking about. we see what it's done to our financial markets. we cannot afford the same concept applied in health care. if we want competition between insurance companies let's take away the barriers for interstate competition. it makes no sense to create a government plan to have competition when we won't let insurance companies compete across state lines. >> i guess my question, where are you willing to give. if you're looking for a compromise, where would you be willing to reach out? >> we don't need to sit down and compromise about what type of insurance plan to have. any republican that does that should not be a republican. we need to talk about how to get health care in the hands of every american. no american should go uninsured. there are ways to do that. but the fact you can look at this legislation and there's no reform of lawsuit abuse tells you that this is not

in texas, senator kay bailey hutchison kicks off her campaign for governor with a five-day tour that includes all the major texas cities and three border towns. she was elected to the senate in 1993 and will now talent gov. rick perry in next year's march primary. new york democratic yorknadler says president obama should not keep eric holder from appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the bush administration's interrogation practices. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> "washington journal" continues. host: from new york city, philip alcabes, author of "dread." let's get right to it. early in the book, you write that epidemics fascinate us. host: give it your best shot. describing an epidemic for us. what is it? how should we look at? guest: bitan epidemic is always a story that a society tells itself about a disease outbreak or the threat of a disease outbreak. sometimes we talk about epidemics that do not qualify as diseases in the classical sense. for instance, we talk about an epidemic of obesity nowadays. 10 years ago, we were talking about an epi

. >>> kay bailey hutchison is making it official, running for governor as texas, challenging rick perryys she'll give up her senate seat this year to focus on the governor's race. >>> and get this -- tom delay certainly wasn't known for stepping lightly when he was a house republican leader, but we'll soon be seeing a very different side of him. delay is among those on the new season of "dancing with the stars." he left congress in 2006 after being indicted for campaign finance law. the case is still pending. he tells "usa today" he's been working out like crazy, getting ready to compete. remember, for the latest political news anytime check out cnnpolitics.com. they used to call, jack cafferty, they used to call tom delay the hammer. maybe he'll do the hammer when he's "dancing with the stars." >> isn't it interesting that in our society somebody who is indicted for violating campaign finance law is now a celebrity? he ought to be running for, like, prom queen in san quentin or someplace. >> he hasn't been convicted yet. >> oh. got a quick correction on this story out of chicago where

senator kay bailey hutchison declaring herself a candidate for texas governor today. she faces a tough primary against fellow republican and current governor rick perry. he's been the governor of texas since 2000 and many say the battle for the job once held by form former president bush could divide the state gop. >>> iraq's government is urged to crackdown on groups that are allegedly torturing and killing gay men. i don't know if you have seen this video yet. a group called human rights watch is reporting hundreds of men have been tortured in iraq in recent months and it accuses authorities of doing nothing to stop the killings. it's particularly bad apparently in baghdad's sadr city neighborhood. earlier this year several gay men's bodies were found there with derogatory terms written on their chest. >>> a woman was stranded in kenya for three months because officials said she didn't look like her passport video. she showed several forms of i.d. officials agreed to a dna test to prove her identity. >> i'm really happy to come home. i'm really, really happy. i'm gl

texas senator kay bailey hutchison announced her plans to quit three years before her term expires inrnor. >>> the lines are getting slightly smaller and the white house said that is evidence the country is pulling back from recession. the jobless rate declined in july for the first time in 15 months. but still on shaky ground with the employment at 9.4%. the july numbers were better than the economists were thinking they would be. other encouraging numbers, layoffs for last month were at their lowest point in a year. workers logged more hours than in june and wages, yes, wages rose just a lull bit. >>> and president obama's pointing to a new employment report as a sign the economy is on the right track. he spoke in the rose garden about today's jobless numbers. >> today we're pointed in the right direction. we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. we've pulled the financial system back from the brink and a rising market is restoring value to those 401(k)s that are the foundation of a secure retirement. we've enabled families to reduce the payment on th