peter doocy standing by with the top stories. >> hi, shannon.er of people know exactly where casey anthony is right now. she left the orange county jail after midnight with her attorney jose baez. she was found not guilty of murdering her daughter caylee two weeks ago. white house budget director jack lew says there is still time to hash out a deal before of the august 2 debt deadline. he told "meet the press" there is still time to get something big done. the president made clear he wants to do something substantial. speaking of president obama, he is wishing the u.s. women's soccer team good luck before the big game. the president sent out a tweet that read "sorry i can't be there to see you play but i'll be cheering you on from here. let's go! "the u.s. women take on japan in the world cup finals this afternoon. >>> jane fonda is speaking out against qvc because they canceled an appearance to talk about her new book. she claims that qvc decided not to have her on after they got phone call to boycott the channel over her opposition to vietnam

peter doocy had more. >> hen someone checked the voice mail.d an emotional message by a girl who said the congressman involved her in an unwanted sexual encounter. all the congressman said so far. this is very serious and i have no desire to bring unwanted publicity or stress to a young woman and her family . that's it. the newspaper reported that it is a daughter of a long-time wu campaign donor and she doesn't call because there were not witnesses . wu has admitted something sexual happened. but he said it was consensual and this is not the first time he had to do explaining. this photosurface sent it out to the staff. showing the tiger and other bizarre behavior and other e-mail messages. some staffers want him to enter into a mental hospital and he refused. accusations of this kind are not new. he tried to make a girl he used to date have sex with him. >> peter doocy, thank you very much. an moment in ground zero. crews lowering the world trade center cross in the museum. a worker discovered it in the rubble after 9/11 and many people thoug

peter doocy reports from washington. >> reporter: today is july 2nd. the administration says the debt limit will be reached august 2nd. president obama says to tackle our massive national deficit, tax breaks must be targeted with wasteful spending but nothing is off the table. and it is time the government stars living within its means like families do. >> the president: it would be nice if we could keep every tax break, but we can't afford them. if we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires or hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners or for oil and gas companies pulling in huge profits, without our help, then we'll have to make deeper cuts somewhere else. >> reporter: the president says anything is possible. most republicans are probably going to disagrees. they will not get behind any tax hike. in the weekly gop address senator coats from indiana says the president should do what indiana's governor did, cut taxes, lower spending a pay down the debt. then everything will get better. >> president and democrats in congress

peter doocy joins us live with more on david wu, peter. >> reporter: as you kind of just said, democraticsman wu continues to attract attention to him. this time, a voice mail left on a young woman's phone. an unwanted encounter with the seven term congressman. we've got a short statement from wu, this is serious and no desire to bring unwanted publicly and stress to a young woman and her family. the newspaper doesn't say how old she is, but graduated in 2010 and registered to vote last august. apparently the daughter of a long time friend and daughter to the congressman and police weren't involved right away when the incident took place in november. she felt it would be her word against his word and she didn't have a lot of evidence she did not involve the police. speaking of evidence. a lot of people thought this photo was proof he was mentally unstable. it was taken last october. sent the tiger read to pounce to some of his staff. and the recent campaign focused mostly on advertising and not events with constituents or interviews and pushed him to go to a mental hospital. wu refused to

peter doocy is live in washington. hey, peter. has congressman west backtracked at all on that e-mail? >> reporter: no, patti ann. and, actually, when he said the congresswoman was not a lady, it appears he meant it because he is not backing down, and he is not apologizing. >> i have not received an apology, i haven't received a phone call. i know he has my e-mail, i haven't gotten an apology on my e-mail nor on my fax machine in my office. >> reporter: well, she can probably stop because west is waiting for wasserman-schultz to say that she's sorry. in fact, we're waiting on an apology from her is what his spokeswoman says. he's still upset that she called him out on the house floor saying she couldn't believe a fellow floridian could ever support the cut, cap and balance bill. he talked to kevin mccarthy, and all is fine. patti ann? patti ann: well, meanwhile, wasserman schultz's female colleagues are weighing in on this. what are they saying? >> yeah. a handful of democrats held a press event, and they basically took turns says

peter doocy joins us to explain why. hi, peter. >> hi, shannon.se of the failed agreement on capitol hill the f.a.a. had to furlough about 4,000 of their 47,000 employees and some federal taxes on plane tickets have now been suspended. that would mean all tickets just got cheaper since those taxes have been taken off the top. but, that's not the case if you are fly on u.s. airways or american airlines. their prices are the same. you will pay the same and they will pocket the difference. raise their prices slightly 8 bucks a round trip. the transportation department is expecting to lose $200 million a week as long as these taxes are not being added on to the ticket. the problem here is purely political. here's republican senator tom coburn explaining why the f.a.a. is in crisis. >> the american people ticket in subsidy to people that are riding from airports with six passengers on a plane when they could drive an hour and a half and get an airplane and we wouldn't be paying the thousand dollars. so it continued waste and duplication in the federal

peter doocy has the top stories. afterwards, defense will finish closing arguments. earlier today, prosecution said that casey killed her daughter because she didn't want to be a parent. she is charged with killing her three years ago and dumping the 2-year-old body in the woods. senator lindsey graham is criticizing the way that president obama is handling the troop drawdown in afghanistan. appearing on sunday sunday with special guest host shannon bream graham accused the president of not listening to his generals and putting forward a withdrawal schedule too aggressive. >>> crews in montana trying to mop up an oil spill in the yellowstone river. exxon-mobil pipeline leaked 1,000 barrels of oil yesterday before it was shut down. the clean up crews are deploying booms and absorbent material to soak up 25-mile plume as it moves downstream. >>> quebec evident to plan to protest on another stop on wince william and his bride kate tour of canada. yesterday in montreal, a small group booed at the newlyweds, but the protesters were heavily outnumbered by the fans. top sto

allegations that teenage daughter and donor accusing one of an unwanted sexual encounter and as peter doocy, this isn't the first time the congressman has been in the spotlight. >> when somebody checked the voice mail they heard an emotional message left by a girl that graduated this is just last year, saying the congressman involved her in an unwanted sexual encounters. all the congressman has said so far, this is very serious. i have absolutely no desire to bring unwanted publicity or stress to a young woman and her family. that is it. the newspaper is reporting this young lady is the daughter of a long time wu friend and campaign donor. she didn't call when the incident happened because she didn't think there was enough evidence. he says it was consensual and this is the not the fires tim he had to do some explaining about his activities. this photo surfaced a few months ago. it shows the law school graduate as a tiger. it came in the midst of other bizarre behavior and other e-mail messages. some staffers wanted them to enter a mental hospital. he refused blaming it on stress and exhaus

peter doocy has more on this from washington. >> final bell rain for 413 dc public school employees. all of the public teacher district of columbia . 288, of them were rated subparby the city's school valuation system. they look at how well their kids do and current school chancellor said that is a fair way to do it. the we are recognizing our higher performers . move out our low performers. >> she is trying to make sure every child has acess to a good education. they are taking aim at the ruleses. and they are proving to be a biace. they determined that they were highly affective and visible for 25 bone uses . kaling for pieceful reforms. we can't verify it. but thousands of syrians are taking to the street for profest already filled. they are urging the government to revolve the conflict peacefully. every country should organize and you thang makes for more accountable and effective government. >> clinton denied they have organized opposition groups to assaud's regime. >> remember the rescue miner in chile. in iraq a bomb explodes and killing three people and wounding nine accordin

they ended up getting fired or suspended and peter doocy has more. over 20 fired in the last five months while using their phones and more are suspended for breaking the rules . they are not hidden. these cameras cost three million to install . turn on any time the bus makes a sudden move. 5000 sudden moves . 80 percent of the time it is harmless or where he needed to make a sudden move. but 1000 other cases led to punishment. we found 20 operators have been using their service models . and still driving the bus. they say they were duped. they lied and said it was a training tool and bus riders have noticed changes with the drivers some of the time. they actually got off of the bus and then get back off. at least they got off. they do that, the cameras turn on and they get in trouble anyway. >> i was wondering about that. thank you for the update. >> residents in texas are bracing for tropical storm that many had highway patroled would bring relief to drought-sticken areas and it left little rain behind. they are live in corpus christi, texas with th

and and peter doocy is live with the story. and helping out ordinary folks . they are going to be tied when it comes . to get out of the big hole we are in, he will go after waste and tax breaks and nothing is off of the table. it would be nice if we can and it is millionaires and billionaires and are for hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners and oil and gas companies pulling in huge profits without our help. we'll have to make deeper cuts somewhere else. republican senator dan coats . mitch daniels said the government should follow daniel's lead. he turned things aroundd by cutting taxes . paying down debts . get it focused on. >> the president and democrats in congress recognize that their game plan is not working. it is time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem. it is time for bold action and a new plan to address our current crisis. >> and since it is the 4th of july weekend. both touched on the american spirit. senator coats wanted to make sure that the country is in good enough shape . all sides nee

peter doocy is live in washington with the latest. the speaker of the house officially lay out the plan that he has in mind? >> reporter: jamie, we don't know a specific time but heechdz this morning it should come by the end of the day and there will be a g.o.p. conference call at 4:30 p.m. and what the speaker is trying to do, right now, is find a doable amount of common ground between the two parties, but if he can't do that he will pull the trigger. >> i would prefer to have a bipartisan approach to solve the problem. if that is not possible, i and my republican colleagues in the house are prepared to move on their own. >> chris: today? >> today. >> reporter: the speaker also said it's not physically possible to do everything that needs to be done with one step and it will be a two-step deal and he insisted he'll keep working within the framework of the cut, cap and balance act, though it died in necessity, and he made clear he does not want to default and what he wants, he says is the best thing for the country and is prepared to

peter doocy has more from washington. >> the final bell rang for 413 dc public school employees yesterday fired. 206 were teachers. that adds up to 5% of all the public school teachers in the entire district of columbia, a big chunk of the workers let go. 288 rated sub par by the city's school evaluation system called impact. it was thought up by michelle ree when she was the school chancellor and determines who the good and bad teachers are by looking at how well the students do and how well the lesson plans are laid out. the current chancellor says it's a fair way to do it. >> it's allowing us to do what we set out to do, which is recognizing and reward our highest performers, which is to support and develop our people who are struggling, and to move out our low performers. >> she also says she's trying to make sure that every child has access to an outstanding education, but the teachers union doesn't buy into any of it and they're taking aim at what ended up dooming many of them. >> impact as an evaluation system is biased and most if not all evaluation systems run by other human bein

. >> peter doocy live in washington with latest. peter? >> brian, pray for the gang of six is what the chairs of president obama's debt commission said yesterday. that's erskine bowles and alan simpson. their ideas inspired the democratic senators who put this out yesterday. it's getting a lot of buzz and support. here's what it's all about. two step plan cut deficits by $500 billion right away and $4 trillion over the next decade. that's part of step two and then they want to strengthen medicare and medicaid keeping those entitlement program structures the same but spending money a little smarter with them and then fundamentally reform the tax code, reducing marginal income rates and totally getting rid of the $1.7 trillion alternative minimum tax known also as the wealth tax and then they want to strictly tighten the government's budget process by basically restricting how much freedom they have when making their budget, setting up spending caps and using the money they have left over at the end of the year to recoup any overspending tha

peter doocy in washington. >> a handful of federal taxes on plane tickets just expired, that means cheap airfare, right? not if you are flying on american airlines or u.s. airways. because congress was not able to keep the faa running they had to furlough 4,000 employees and some federal taxes are being taken off the top. american and u.s. airways will pay the same price because those carriers jacked up their fares so prices will remain the same and they will pocket the difference. southwest and air tran praised about $8. spear customers won't see them budge a penny. we heard the big problem with faa is purely political. >> the american people are paying thousand dollars in tickets in sub disfrom people that riding were six passengers on a plane when they could drive an hour and a half and get an airplane and we wouldn't be paying the thousand dollars. it is continued waste in the federal government. >> the chief of staff chose to focus less on waste and more on what he sees as republicans blocking an important bill. >> this dispute between the house and senate broke down and 4,000 peopl

peter doocy is live in washington, d.c. with the details. peter? >> brian, you guys have been talking about it. tuesday's deadline getting closer by the minute so today, congress, are going to keep going back and forth, house and senate, republicans and democrats doing the best for their bases. the house today led by speaker boehner is going to first vote at some point. we think the final series of votes will come sometime around 8:00 p.m. on a g.o.p. bill that would cut spending by $1.2 trillion and raise the debt ceiling by more than $900 billion with more spending cuts coming later on. they want that later on to be fixed months from now smack dab in the middle of campaign season. no matter what happens in the lower house, this is not expected to ever pass the senate because all 53 democrats in the house sent speaker boehner a letter yesterday saying it's not going to pass the senate. no way, no how. they would prefer their leader's plan, democrat harry reid saying the best solution is to raise the debt ceiling $2.4 trillion and cut spending a li

peter doocy has more on today's top story. >>reporter: you are right. president obama is touting his debt plan including spending cut tax increases and the president said the wealthiest people must pay their fair share. or rin hatch argued for tax increases and called for a balanced budget amendment. >> one of the nation's biggest freeways is getting a make over so the crews can get a billion dollar expansion project . it is so far . no signs of jams. one motorist called the project karma heaven. >> zanela gonzalez is suing casey anthony saying her reputation was harmed when casey anthony lied. she was acquitted of murdering caylee and released tomorrow. >> final installment in the harry potter series will break the sales record earning 191 million in a day. box office are expected to hit all-time high. >> 92 million and quite a record there. not bad at all. >> could your social security be on the chopping block? nancy pelosi said everything should be on the table in the debt talks. but one lawmaker said those who think about touching social security wi

our peter doocy live now in washington with more details and peter, this is becoming quite a umbroliowhat can you tell us? >> president obama says it's time the government starts living within its means like families do and want to help folks in the economy by reducing the national deficit. he says to do that he'll need to get rid of waste and tax breaks, but that nothing is off the table. >> now, it would be nice if we could keep every tax break, but we can't afford them. because if we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires or hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners or for oil and gas companies pulling in huge profits without our help, then we'll have to make even deeper cuts somewhere el el else. >> reporter: so even though the president says nothing about the table, the republicans say they will not support any tax hikes. that could be a sticking point where the debt limit is reached exactly one month from today. and now in the weekly g.o.p. address, senator dan coates from indiana says the president needs to do what his governor from indiana, mitch

peter doocy live now in washington with more details on this, peter?lly, as you said, metro buses here in d.c. have new cameras on the win shield that turn on anytime the bus makes a sudden move. it turns out, sudden moves was because of drivers on cell phone and because of that, 20 drivers have now been fired and 222 others suspended for other things. >> we found that 20 operators over the last few months have been using their cell phones in nonrevenue service, meaning without passengers, but again, were still driving the bus and makes it an unsafe situation. >> reporter: based on what the cameras are showing, metro bus says about 40% of their crashes could have been prevented, 5% higher than they estimated before they could see what's going on in the driver's seat, but the union that represents most metro bus drivers in d.c. say they were duped, quote, it's amazing when they convinced us to accept the cameras, they lied and said it was a training tool. it's not bad for all drivers. 80% the cameras are turned on it's not for anything illegal and bus r

peter doocy is in washington with more. >> a handful of federal taxes on plane tickets just expired and cheap air fares for flyers everywhere, not if you're on american airlines or u.s. airways, because congress was not able to pass a bill to keep the f.a.a. running, the f.a.a. has to for low 4,000 employees and some federal taxes are taken off the top of ticket prices, but american airlines and u.s. airways flyers will pay the same price even without the taxes because those carriers jacked up fares so prices remain the same and the carriers are going to pocket the difference, southwest and air tran both raised their prices by about $8 a round trip and spirit airline customers won't see their prices budge an opiniony and on the sunday shows today we heard that the big problem with the f.a.a. right now is purely political. ing the american people are paying $1,000 a ticket if subsidy, riding to airports, six passengers on the plane and drive an hour and a half and get an airplane and we wouldn't be paying the $1,000. continued waste and duplication in the federal government. >> the presi

peter doocy, are you saying the bad teachers will go? >> reporter: i'm not saying that. they had to do a yeoman's job, moving them forward. 206 teachers were not up to the challenge. so they fired them as part of a mass layoff that had 413 public school employees looking for new jobs today. a majority. 288 as you just said were let go because they can't score well on the rating program called impact. the brainchild of michelle rerer read when she ran the program. 35 minute classroom visits to determine which teachers should stay and go and the teachers union says they don't like being judged like that. >> impact after the evaluation system is biased and most, if not all, evaluations systems run by other human beings have proven to be biased. >> reporter: but the d.c. school system defends impact, to ensure kids are learning a lot from the most qualified educators. >> impact is allowing us to do exactly what we set out to do. recognizing what or our highest performers and develop our people who are struggling and move out our low performers. >> the rewards that she is say

>> dave: the end of the world is upon us. >> chris: peter doocy is live from washington and stuart varneyosing our good financial reap pew tays and we talked a moment ago and you say today could be judgment day. >> it is. this is the first opportunity for the world of money to pass judgment on what we have been up to in the last two days to get resoluti resolution. let me take you through the chronology, by 4:00 p.m. this afternoon, speaker boehner wants a short-term plan on the table, which would allow the debt ceiling to go up, by a trillion, with a trillion dollars worth of spending cuts. 4:00 p.m. eastern, he wants it on the table. two hours later, 6:00 p.m., eastern time, the markets open in east asia. where u.s. stocks are traded. you will get an indication, right there, at 6:00 tonight, as to which way the markets, the money men of the world, think about our debt crisis. then... >> 8:00 a.m. this morning, tim geithner said we are not doing the short-term... >> yes. right after that you have to watch what the democrats do. specifically, harry reid and president obama. if they say, a

peter doocy is live in d.c. with the details. give it to us. it not, peter? >> it is, eric and later on today, the president is going to suggest a $4 trillion deficit reduction over the next 10 to 12 years. instead, it's a $2 to $2 1/2 trillion he had been floating before. to get the g.o.p. on board, social security and medicare reform are going to be discussed and the administration admits that some of these cuts are going to hurt. >> we need to look at entitlements and we have to say how do we protect and preserve medicare and social security for not just this generation but also future generations and that's going to require some modifications even as we maintain its basic structure. so what i'm hoping to see over the next couple of weeks is people put their dogmas aside, their sacred cows aside. >> today's white house meeting is going to have the president, vice president, speaker boehner, senate leaders from both parties, reid and mcconnell, house speakers from both sides, pelosi and cantor and the senate whips from both side, durbin and k

. >> reporter: peter doocy has the latest on this. hi, spirit. >> reporter: hi, let's start at the beginning and republican congressman alan west gets on the house floor and speaks about cut, cap and balance and debbie wasserman schultz follows him and she was critical but never mentioned his name, just his state, listen: >> president obama has vowed to veto this bill, which ends the medicare guarantee, and incredulo incredulously, the senator from florida, who represents thousands of beneficiaries, unbelievable from a member from south flashes and, it is essential to winning the future in favor of protecting tax breaks for big oil, millionaires and companies who shift american jobs overseas. >> reporter: here's what the response was, to that, in part, you are the most vile, unprofessional and despicable member of the u.s. house of representatives. if you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up. you have proven repeatedly that you are not a lady. therefore, shall not be affor

peter doocy, live in washington, thank you.an west will be martha macallum's guest coming up on "america live". you will not want to miss that. stick around after "happening now.". jenna: is there such a thing as keeping your kids to save? to save, is that possible? jon: my kids made it through childhood. jenna: we're not talking about lindsay lohan by the way. i guess that question couldp a ply to her. jon: i wouldn't let my kids right in a car with her, that's all. jenna: there is new report on playground peril and how is it could impact your children for the rest of their lives. wait until you hear this. we have that straight ahead. >> today on "america live" we get back to the issue that is the most important one right now for americans and that is jobs. with a measly 21,000 plus created in the last two months, and nasa, cisco, and borders among those who are announcing new job cuts, we asked this question. is the administration helping or hurting the economy? join us for a panel debate on that. also joining us today, the p

he was here several weeks ago talking about his white house bid and, is speaking again today and peter doocyas the latest. he is focusing on the economy. >> reporter: he is, and he said he thinks we can turn the economy around by giving small businesses a break and he's a beman and he said his career what's been about problem solving, not politics and lowering taxes on the small businesses is the only way to get the economy restarted. >> the engine to our economic growth is the business sector. this administration has put nothing in the engine and everything in the caboose. we are never going to grow until we lower those tax rates and remove that capital gains barrier and suspend taxes on repatriated profits and that is why the economy is stuck install. >> reporter: the former ceo of godfather's pizza spoke about a controversy he injected himself into, support of some en a tennessee communities trying to stop a mosque from being built there and he said the people in the town want american laws and court and not sharia law and backs them up because they know, he says they know what is best fo

. >> peter doocy live in d.c. with the details. peter?ublicans got from speaker of the house john boehner yesterday. speaker dromd by the conservative senate steering committee after his meeting with the president at the white house and g.o.p. senator bob corker from tennessee was there and he said this about a debt deal. "i think the world and all of us will know something very shortly. they'll either have a grand bargain or they won't." now, after sitting down with leaders from both parties in congress, president obama popped into the press briefing room at the white house where he said the meeting was constructive and all the key players have agreed to work through the weekend before meeting again on sunday. >> everybody acknowledged that we have to get this done before the hard deadline of august 2nd to make sure that america does not default for the first time on its obligations. and everybody acknowledged that there's going to be pain involved politically on all sides but our biggest obligation is to make sure that we're doing the r

. >> dave: and turning to our old spice man, peter doocy. >> juliet: young spice. >> dave: what the heck one about bill. senate with one bill and votes happening at 1 a.m., give us-- >> and old spice. >> reporter: no, congress is coming back to work this afternoon and the house at noon and senate at one and the senate is going to be keeping an eye on. our best bet is if a deal is made in time before the deadline, today should be the day. should. if they come it a compromise look for harry reid to kill his own plan, that shared sacrifice resolution and bring the boehner bill back to life even though he would like to gut it. make things easier for him, procedurally, now, the house is going to consider a version of reid's bill today and the house republicans are likely to debate it and then kill that one, but again, the big action is going to be in the senate today. republican john kyl sounds hopeful that something can get done. >> republicans believe we must solve our debt crisis and webl week solve it no one can get everything we want and can't solve our problems at once, but surely, we c