legions of co-workers and friends he touched along the way. >>> well, the debt ceiling crisis continues in washington today. late this s could be belled together and imagined a bill that included a balance budget amendment that doomed to defeat from senate democratses in a vote that took place just within the last 30 minutes. the vote tally in the senate 59-41. capping what has been a fpracti net tick week in washington. congress is running out of time. it will be in crisis for real come august 2nd. >> so he rolled out a plan to grow the state's economy both at home and overseas. he unveiled his plan today in the south bay. we're joined by kimberly tere who was with the lieutenant governor today and was it this a political posturing by him or a viable plan? >> reporter: i don't know. is t. sounded like a viable plan, but you never know with politics. so i think can he only answer that. what i can tell you is that we've seen a lot of these plans on how to stimulate the economy, create more jobs. well, here's another one. the difference, though, according to the lieutenant governor is in the follow-through. something he propped to see t