mike emmanuel, fox news. >>> good morning. we take a live look over wisconsin avenue this morning. it is thursday, september 23rd. remember thursday is connected to friday so that is good news. maybe not good news though. temperatures are going to be a little bit warmer when you head out this morning. i'm sarah simmons in for gurvir dhindsa. let's get a check of weather with tucker barnes. i felt like i was still in july when i walked outside. >> it does feel a little like july. our dew point temperatures are up. humidity is up from the overnight rain. >> mosquitos were hanging around. >> i know you said the mosquitos were hanging around. not much happening. the shower and thunderstorm activity, we only had a few pop up. those that got going, somewhere on the strong side, and they are out of here. still some localized fog developing. today should feature more sunshine than yesterday afternoon and some hot temperatures again with highs once again about 90 or so and humid as well later this afternoon. so again, summertime weather for the first full day of fall. this will continue int

mike emmanuel traveling with the president and live in the home of buckie badger. what's the president saying? >> good evening. president obama really trying to pump up the crowd here, trying to get that youth vote that was so critical for him two years ago to go to the polls five weeks from today. here is the president making his case a few minutes ago. >> we can't let that happen. we cannot sit this one out. we can't let this country fall backward because the rest of us didn't care enough to fight. the stakes are too high for our country and for your future and i am going to get out there and fight as hard as i can and i know you are, too, to make sure we keep moving forward. >> the president promising his supporters that change will come if the supporters are prepared to work with him on it and to fight for it. >> shepard: look at the crowd next to him. the president gave an interview to rolling stone and he said people need to buck up. >> yeah. poking his face, saying it's inexcusable for any democrat or progressive to stay on the side line during these midterm

mike emmanuel, fox news. >>> labor day celebrates the american workers, but a new ucla study finds thatcalifornia with union jobs has fallen since last labor day. 18.3% of all workers in the stay were union members. that fell to 17.3% this year. researchers blame the recession which has been hard on private- sector union jobs with over all loss of $1.4 million since 2008. nationwide union jobs fell to 12.1% over the last year. >>> san francisco city workers are paid some of the largest salaries in the state to compensate them for the high cost of living. but a new study by the bay citizen finds a majority of those big salaries is being spent on homes outside san francisco. 57% of all city workers live outside the city. 62% of those making an average of $14,000 live in another county. 77% earning an average of $216,000 a year live outside the city. >>> the word censored popped up over the weekend on craigslist. the ads that the website no longer carries and the reaction tonight. >>> and we although that losing weight is hard, but keeping it off even harder. up next, which gender is doing

our mike emmanuel joins us live from des moines. hey, mike. >> gretchen, good morning.rd discussion in this charming des moines neighborhood. should be similar to the scene we saw yesterday morning in albuquerque, new mexico and then from here, the president will travel to richmond, virginia, aides say the president likes going to different parts of the country, having conversations with voters to talk about how they were affected by the economic down turn and to try to make the case for what he has done to try to help the economy. last night the president was in madison, wisconsin at the university of wisconsin trying to energize the youth vote which was obviously quite critical to his election two years ago. here is a sample of his message in tone. >> i know sometimes it feels a long way from the hope and excitement that we felt on election day or the day of the inauguration, but i've got to say, we always knew this was going to take time. we always knew this was going to be hard. i said it was going to be hard. remember? >> so the president today hosting a couple of

mike emmanuel, no relation to rahm emanuel, is live at the white house with developing details. ng. the latest we're hearing from this senior white house official is we should not expect anything today on the chief of staff's decision. all indications are that is that tomorrow would be the big day when many expect that the chief of staff will announce that he's deciding to leave his position and all indications are the president would say some form of farewell. what we are hearing from the chicago sun times that rahm emanuel may go on a listening tour of chicago neighborhoods this weekend to get a sense of the issues that a lot of people in the neighborhood are most interested in, chasing that story. don't have it yet. let's give them credit, guys. >> gretchen: let's say that rahm emanuel does in fact leave. what about the possible replacements? >> the name i've been hearing for the better part of a couple of weeks is pete rouse, who is a key member of the obama team. he was at one point the chief of staff to then senator barak obama. so obviously somebody that the president has