and get unemployment down and then when growth is back ontrack and unemployment is down you really wantet, cut the budget, cut the spending, you want to get the fiscal house in order. but you don't want to do it, the fiscal house in order before you get jobs and growth back. >> you're advocating more short-term stimulus? >> you need -- well, look. >> we want to call it -- whether we want to call it or that. >> stimulus is a bad word. call it a short-term boost. you certainly don't want to start cutting that because if you start cutting down now -- >> in any area no cuts? >> you want to cut waste regardless. i mean, you can't argue for waste. but you don't want to cut any kind of public budgets now because consumers and the private sector businesses are not yet able to generate enough gland for goods and services. one reason the entire economy of the united states slowed is because government pulled back. if government continues to pull back, and cut the budget deficit, we are going to see more and more sluggishness. >> debts and deficits don't seem to worry you as much as others. >> the

reporter: across the country in new mexico, more than 1,000 firefighters are battling a wildfire that's ontrackbecome the largest wildfire that state has ever seen. meanwhile, beryl may have knocked out power to 25,000 homes and washed out the holiday weekend, but it also washed in some unwelcome guests. sharks. surfers at beaches in brevard county, west of orlando, say they've seen swarms of sharks post beryl. a university of north florida shark expert tells me sharks have a keen instinct for changes in the weather. >> they're able to key in on the changes in the barometric pressure and allows them to reels there's a storm coming and move out of the area. >> reporter: and another twist, from the heat to the rain to majestic super cells like this one in texas last week. mother nature has been very busy. >> let me put that picture back up again. tell me what we're seeing there again. >> that's a super cell thunderstorm. when i'm storm chasing, we see them all the time. but that is such a crisp view. and that part of texas is so flat, whoever took that picture got a perfect image of that circulat

they ontrack and say the message. this is a man who came into office talking about hope and change. nothing that he has tried to do has worked. now he is going to scare the american public into thinking that they better reelect him where it's going to get worse. to have him be such a bully in school republicans and say i can't believe you're trying to cut in the form these entitlements and try to really prioritize spending -- that is exactly what mom. his going back to the new deal, looking for government to grow and save everybody from themselves, i'm telling you that the rest of the american public is saying, that's not what we want anymore. government messes up more than it fixes, and we realize that now. i think that there is a two-minute opportunity after seeing him fall apart a little bit. by bullying the supreme court. he has reached a new level of trying to figure out where he's going to go. because he knows he can't go on his record. so he is desperately trying to make sure that he does someone us. what is happening is he's looking like a bully and he can show leadership an

if the current plans remain ontrack facebook will hold its ipo on may 18th. >>> next and new at 5:00 targeted by thieves but he didn't back down. tonight a local firefighter recovering from heart surgery talks about a frightening encounter. >>> feeling the heat, the mother accusationed of putting her 5-year-old daughter in a tanning bed fires back today a day after appearing in court. >>> it's an urban legend in prince george's county and now a local man is bri >>> firefighter recovering from open heart surgery had the scare of his life today when a group of thieves broke into his house with him inside. it happened this morning on tindel springs court in month good morningary village. news 4's pat collins joins us live with the drastic measures the victim was about to take. >> reporter: jim, sometimes when the door bell rings you never know who is going to be on the other side. here now the story of firefighter phil herbert. we begin with a 911 call for help. >> montgomery county 911. what is the emergency? >> yeah. there is somebody breaking into my house right now. he's trying to c