job, and this president, when you look at what we are confronting, and we must reelect president rob obama. -- president barack obama. [applause] here is something to consider. if we do not reelect him, there are people who have already said in written as well as spoken words that they will do away with the department of education. they are going to eliminate it. they have said they will do away with minimum wage laws. there will be no minimum wage laws. they have said they will do away with early childhood development programs. they have said they will privatize social security. they have said they will voucher medicare, so we have a challenge that goes beyond jobs. we have got to put this president back in the white house to protect the gains we have made. >> thank you very much. do you have a comment spam of >> i just want to say to you and to the audience that are raising questions. it is not just the president. it is not just members of the congressional black caucus. one of our problems in america right now, and we are too quiet. we have to make some noise. during another time in our

but online political bloggers are saying there is no way she can rob president obama of the deal, keepinghe key to her success in the house is her strength among liberals in the caucus. for senator barbara boxer, she is all for the deal saying, quote, this agreement would help us to avoid a catastrophic default and keep republicans from holding the full faith and credit of the united states hostage. the deal will be presented to both caucuses at 8:00 pacific time. and laura, a vote is expected afterwards. >> we're of course keeping tabs on this for you. thank you. we're going to have more on the debt ceiling deal coming up in a live report from washington. that's at 6:40. we have an update from richmond where deadly violence overnight claimed the life of a 25-year-old mother of four. investigators are interviewing witnesses and still looking for two suspects they say are responsible. damian trujillo is live at the scene and joins us with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. it's been a busy few weeks in richmond, seems like one murder after another. the victim's bod

job, and this president, when you look at what we are confronting, and we must reelect president rob obama. -- president barack obama. [applause] here is something to consider. if we do not reelect him, there are people who have already said in written as well as spoken words that they will do away with the department of education. they are going to eliminate it. they have said they will do away with minimum wage laws. there will be no minimum wage laws. they have said they will do away with early childhood development programs. they have said they will privatize social security. they have said they will voucher medicare, so we have a challenge that goes beyond jobs. we have got to put this president back in the white house to protect the gains we have made. >> thank you very much. do you have a comment spam of >> i just want to say to you and to the audience that are raising questions. it is not just the president. it is not just members of the congressional black caucus. one of our problems in america right now, and we are too quiet. we have to make some noise. during another time in our

job, and this president, when you look at what we are confronting, and we must reelect president rob obama. -- president barack obama. [applause] here is something to consider. if we do not reelect him, there are people who have already said in written as well as spoken words that they will do away with the department of education. they are going to eliminate it. they have said they will do away with minimum wage laws. there will be no minimum wage laws. they have said they will do away with early childhood development programs. they have said they will privatize social security. they have said they will voucher medicare, so we have a challenge that goes beyond jobs. we have got to put this president back in the white house to protect the gains we have made. >> thank you very much. do you have a comment spam of >> i just want to say to you and to the audience that are raising questions. it is not just the president. it is not just members of the congressional black caucus. one of our problems in america right now, and we are too quiet. we have to make some noise. during another time in our

job, and this president, when you look at what we are confronting, and we must reelect president rob obama. -- president barack obama. [applause] here is something to consider. if we do not reelect him, there are people who have already said in written as well as spoken words that they will do away with the department of education. they are going to eliminate it. they have said they will do away with minimum wage laws. there will be no minimum wage laws. they have said they will do away with early childhood development programs. they have said they will privatize social security. they have said they will voucher medicare, so we have a challenge that goes beyond jobs. we have got to put this president back in the white house to protect the gains we have made. >> thank you very much. do you have a comment spam of >> i just want to say to you and to the audience that are raising questions. it is not just the president. it is not just members of the congressional black caucus. one of our problems in america right now, and we are too quiet. we have to make some noise. during another time in our

. >> reporter: good morning, rob and tanya. president obama will spend his 50th birthday here in washington after a quick fund-raising trip to chicago last night, but there is not much to celebrate as he now turns his attention to the economy and jobs. at a fund-raising bash celebrating his 50th birthday in chicago, the president who sounded so beleaguered during the debt ceiling debate was back in campaign trail mode. >> when i said change we can believe in, i didn't say change we can believe in tomorrow. not change we can believe in next week. we knew this was going to take time. >> reporter: president obama said he's turning his focus back to job creation and plans to take a bus tour later this month to talk about his ideas. first, there is an immediate jobs problem at the nation's airports. 4,000 faa employees and some 70,000 construction workers are out of work because congress failed to extend funding before lawmakers left on summer vacation. >> everybody wants to play hard ball and hard ball hurt us. >> reporter: the problem, house repu

or sell their pc division this announcement is comes two years after combined those smart phone obama rob p also announced to buy an economy corp. they're expecting to send $10 billion on that scale >> this morning bart camp officials are asking commuters to find alternate or transportation because of the protest coming up on monday >> this is coming up all over the internet open scheduled for monday that hacker group anonymous man is responsible for many officials with part say they are prepared in a statement i cannot speculate i know what we are expected to do and that is to transport people from point a to point b and we will do our best to keep them in that instance 75 officers what was used in a peaceful protest when commuters were trying to get home bart said they will be prepared on monday to make sure things do not get out of hand their reasons behind the protest anonymous claims multiple shooting by part officers and censorship by bart officials >> if you plan on coming home during the afternoon commute you have some options if your station is closed you can take the muni bus to

good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, rob and diana. president obamay have been crisscrossing the state of iowa and the texas governor had choice words about the president. since leaving texas to campaign in iowa this week, governor rick perry has been quick on the draw. >> his idea is to study this thing. we don't need to study this anymore. we know what the problem is. we're being overtaxed, overregulated and overlitigated. >> reporter: preside obama, also in iowa, has been trying to talk economics in small town america. >> i'm announcing that we're ramping up our efforts to get capital to small businesses in rural areas. >> reporter: but the president has been dodging one cow patty after another from perry. >> the only job he cares about is the one he's got. >> reporter: what does he think about federal reserve chairman ben bernanke, first appointed by president george w. bush? >> printing more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is aost treasonous in my opinion. >> reporter: perry a newcomer to the campaign, joining m

rob nelson. >> and i'm tanya rivero. >>> president obama made the announcement last night. a deal to allow the government to continuing borrow in exchange for major spending cuts. >> now a vote in congress could come as early as tomorrow. top lawmakers have to twist a few arms in all of this. we have the details from washington. good morning, scott. >> reporter: good morning. at least four people accepted this deal. president obama, speaker boehner and the leaders of both parties in the senate. the trick now is getting enough support in congress in getting the deal to the president's desk. the deal is done. now, president obama is trying to calm america's nerves and the world's financial markets, saying it's time to vote. >> it will allow us to avoid default. and end the crisis that washington imposeded on the rest of america. >> reporter: asian stock markets liked ththnews. but, with less than two days before the united states risks a default that so many say would catastrophic, it's not clear congress can pass the deal. >> pretty pleased with this, right? >> reporter: spe

obama. >> i think rob makes a great point.you look at the money on the outside, there's an argument that these officials party numbers are almost meaningless. when you talk to most candidates on the ground, their campaigns, they're word in a way that's more than usually the case. in the last two weeks, you've got millions and millions -- with every one of these senate races that the uk spence on the whole campaign. how does that factor into how we should look at this? >> look, the republicans have been very good about raising tons and tons of money for outsiders. the name of bill burton's group escapes me at the moment, but former deputy press secretary, he has an independent group racing money hand over fist to do battle before karl rove's groups. rob said something interesting about the fact that republicans aren't rallies around behind everything. that might explain why the numbers -- i would like to say that it's because of reaction to republicans taking over the house and some governorships around the country that the rea

rob nelson. today, president obama is sending a top-level team to tour damaged areas.rising in some areas of that state. while damage heads now into the billions of dollars. many travelers are still heading nowhere here in the northeast because traiain and airline schedules are still not back to normal. >> slow commute for lots of folks still. >>> also ahead, outrage in southern california where a father is accused of throwing his 7-year-old son off a boat. find out who came to the rescue and how the father has been in trouble before. >>> later this half hour, you rely on your cell phone in life or death situations. a woman in colorado is truly, deeply thankful for her cell phone. there was gunfire outside of her home, and amazingly her cell phone stopped the bullet. >> i want to know what cell phone she has. >> i want to get one of those, wow, man. >>> first, the rivers and lakes of vermont are overflowing this morning in some of the worst flooding the green mountain state has ever s seen. >> nearly a foot of f rain fell from irene, and the effects there haveveeen dow

rob and tanya. the white house tells us president obama did not feel the quake in massachusetts where he was vacationingd, but a few blocks away from here at the white house, they felt it. capitol architects are still assessing the damage of a quake that has rumbled all along the atlantic coast. the east coast just isn't used to this. >> we are not prepared at all. our buildings don't sway like those in california and japan. our buildings would collapse if we had a major earthquake in manhattan. >> reporter: it was all too reminiscent of something else. something worse. >> i heard people saying, it's a bomb. a couple scream, it's an earthqhqke. >> reporter: the 5.8 magnitude quake rattled the white house. it rocked the capitol. and it rumbled through the corridors of official washington, evacuating parts of several federal buildings. >> a couple things fell off the table and then everybody scrambled to the exit. >> reporter: the temblor radiated southwest of washington. the shutters convulsed the ground as far south as the carolinas. they rumbled the earth in new york, shaking the federal courthouse. at

robs, so blame matt. he always takes the bullet. >>governor huckabee: i don't think president obama things he has made a mistake. >>neil: to your point because he is proposing more of the same that we is done. >>governor huckabee: it is the classic old definition that einstein gave of insanity when you keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. somehow there are people in the white house and people who believe in the idea of government intervention to fix the economy that we just did not intervene enough. i hear commentators all day who come in from the left on this network who say the problem wasn't that we spent a lost stimulus money but the problem was we didn't spend enough in stimulus money. and you scratch your head and say are you serious, we spent $1 trillion. >>neil: they say given the severity, the magazine -- magnitude of the progress. >>governor huckabee: if you are over your head in water the last thing you need is another 100 gallons of water. >>neil: quick making so much sense. >>governor huckabee: that is why i am here and not in washin

online today about whether high unemployment will hurt president obama's support from black voters in 2012, dampening the enthusiasm. robvolunteered, supported and voted for the president but i'm done. can't help but ask why did he run in the first place? don't see how it can get much worse if he's gone. mitchell writes i'm not enthusiastic about working for president obama, not because of the unemployment but primarily because mr. obama has been unenthusiastic about traditional democratic values. he's emerging as more of a republican collaborator. deb tweets so rick perry will be better for jobs in detroit? that's a good one. and criticism of obama does not mean we don't wish him success. it means we want him to fight. i would like to hear what you have to say about this or any of the stories i cover. get to me, folks. follow me on twitter or facebook. or you can always e-mail me. >>> heading back to the congressional black caucus jobs fair in atlanta. right now, long lines of job seekers waiting in the sun, looking for somebody to take a clear look at their resumes. jeff johnson is live there in atlanta and jeff, what

obama's numbers are way lower than bush and -- >> and reagan. >> -- and reagan. just saying. >>> okayay, robhour, a real stinky -- yeah, this one stinks. this stinks. skunks are taking over a tennessee golf course that's about to host a big pro tournament. jim mcneil of knoxville's wate sniffed out the story for us. >> the last thing we really need out here is a skunk problem. >> reporter: course superintendent ss the trapper they hired has caught more than a dozen in just the last two weeks. >> what typically happens is the members will call during the day and say, hey, there's a skunk over here. that happens occasionally. this year it's almost daily. >> reporter: wildlife control expert mike mcmillon says there aren't more skunks this year, but this is the peak population season. >> the baby skunks, could be baby raccoons, whatever, that were born in the spring, grow very rapidly. the subadults are equivalent to our 16 to 19-year-old teenagers, okay? you know, they're inexperienced in life. >> reporter: that's why you might see them in unusual places at all hours of the night and day. >> t

rob. >>> as promised, let's go to washington navy yard where president obama is there about to reveal more on a jobs incentive program for military vets. let's listens in. he's also likely to talk about today and he job numbers. unclear what the pause all did there pe -- now you can hear in the back ground that is why. let's listen in. >> thank you very much, everybody. good morning. i'm glad somebody told me that was the last one because i had lost count. it is great to be here at the navy yard and, first of all, i want to thank admiral mullen for being here and for his four decades of extraordinary service to this country. and i want to thank him for saying that for an old guy, i look okay. i appreciate that. this may be one of the oldest ship yards in the united states. but today, it's used to develop some of the most advanced technology in the military. although i hear your engineers are still working on a solution to the traffic when the nationals are playing. that's not ready yet. let me start by saying a few words about our economy. there is no doubt this has been a tumultuous year.

rob and tanya. pentagon officials say gadhafi is still likely somemewhere inside libya but exactly where he is inside that spacious country nobody knows. president obamahe situation is still very fluid. there remains a degree of uncertainty. and there are still regime elements who pose a threat. but this much is clear. the gadhafi regime is coming to an end. >> reporter: the fighting is still not over. it is fierce in some parts of the city. and the president gave gadhafi one last chance to lay down hihis arms, in the president's words, for the sake of libya. >> although it's clear that gadhafi's rule is over, he still has the opportunity to reduce further bloodshed by explicitly relinquishing power to the people of libya. >> reporter: the signs, however, that things are coming to an end are strong. state television has gone dark. and the presidential guard has reportedly switched sides. the world is now waiting for gadhafi. whether his four decades of rule ends peacefully or whether there's more bloodshed depends largely on him. rob and tanya? >> wow. and the fight is not over yet because he still has loyalists in tripoli who are going to fight to th

obama calling it the end of the gadhafi dictatorship. it's monday, august 22nd. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, i'm rob nelson >> i'm linsey davis. it is a momentous day in tripoli where both of moammar gadhafi's sons are now in custody and celebrations erupted in the middle of the city. you'll hear how dangerous and dramatic the past 24 hours have been as history is being made. >> the end of a 40-year era, we are witnessing it this morning. >>> also ahead in this half hour, tropical trouble. a storm named irene has already flooded parts of the caribbean. strong winds, downpours and floods are now hitting puerto rico and the storm system could strengthen in the next few hours. >>> and d ter this half hour, the planning involved in a secret wedding. how the groom gave his bride the surprise of his life. it's our favorite story of the day. >> some women in the news room didn'tike this idea. i thought it was pretty romantic and considerate. >> as long as he picked out everything according to plan. >> yes, always a tough part. >> just how she'd like it. >> we know to follow orders. >>> before that, breaking news

. >> rob, are you on some top secret e-mail list from president barack obama that you know what he's thinking while congressmen that work with him every day does not know what his plan is, does not know what he's thinking? what you heard from the congressional black caucus is the thing you're hearing from average americans. we're unemployed, the economy is bad, you're not creating jobs, you don't even have a plan to create jobs, we don't even know what your plan is. so you're telling me that you have some top secret information that his own congressional leaders don't even know what it is? i mean, can you spin it that bad when the economy looks like this? megyn: go ahead, rob. >> actually, i am on that top secret list and i'll forward you a copy! megyn: forward it to me, too! >> and forward it to maxine waters! >> that's the situation we're in. the president capitulated to a congress that said let's not tax the wealthy, they're the job creators, give them the money, they'll create the jobs and the president said all right, you do it. megyn: interesting thing. let me ask you this. let

robbed the middle class blind and they sure that there have to campaign contribution checks to the republican party are big enough and influential enough to prevent them from ever being held accountable let's hope president obama's new jobs plan proves to the g.o.p. that this country is not broke and we can put americans back to work by investing in infrastructure and helping the long term unemployed get their jobs back. our next comment came to us via facebook will wrote i think it's past time that ninety nine percent of this country or everyone who's not in who are millionaires zillionaire or billionaire realize that we are in this together you better what you call yourself republican democrat independent tea party or we need a new unite or die in movement it really is us vs the our guards who are truly hell bent on turning the us into an eye on rand libertarian acid test where we serve our billionaire masters so eat out or die it's really that simple will you are absolutely right it really is that simple for a great start on that go to van jones web site and rebuild the dream to work that's it for your take my take tonight if you like your comments or questions heard this segment of the big picture listen up

rob. the senate will vote later today on that debt ceiling compromise deal but don't hold your breath. this will pass in the senate. after it will be sent straight to president obamaveryone is happy. this is a tough pill to swallow for senate democrats. they wanted revenue in the final package. >> this 11th hour deal with so many strings attached that it has become a tangled web of conservative social values is nothing more than a concession to the radical right of one party. and it flies in the face of our values as a nation. >> reporter: some are saying having any deal is better than default. >> as my son would say, we've got to suck it up, buttercup. at the end of the day, we are going to do it because it's the right thing to move forward. >> reporter: the drama today in the senate won't unfold like it did in the house of representatives last night. a surprise. congresswoman gabby giffords returned to the house floor for the first time since her january shooting. an emotional moment met with an applause. giffords cast her vote for the bill saying, i strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the american people is more important than party politic

rob is a guy who i think of as a jekyll and hyde. >> the mystery deepens. in "the secret life of a soccer mom." >>> here what's happening. president obamad at camp david after a helicopter was shot down in afghanistan killing 31 americans. defense officials tell nbc news more than 20 americans killed belong to the elite navy seals team. the taliban claimed responsibility for shooting that aircraft down. rangers at yosemite national park found the body of a california man who died after being swept over a waterfall nearly three weeks ago. >>> now back to "the secret life of a soccer mom." ♪ >> you can stand on the front doorstep here and i believe you can see five miles. and i believe everything happened in that area. >> as the weeks passed, search-and-rescue teams scoured the countryside around grand junction, colorado, looking for the popular young mother of three who had suddenly vanished. >> and you stand here and you look and you say, i know you're there. but where? >> they searched on horses, atvs and on foot combing through brush land, deserted lots and the murky river running through the canyon floor. hoping to find something. af

joining us now rob jessmer, the executive of the republican committee and guy cecil, the director of the democratic senatorial campaign committee. let's start in the broadest swath, if barack obamao pick up four seats, if he's defeated, three seats. i know you know these numbers more than i do, 23 democratic seats, people that caucus with democrats and a couple of independents that caucus with democrats are up in 2012, just ten republicans. guy, let's start with you because you've got the more seats to defend. what do you do with numbers like that and a president who is not all that popular? where do you go? >> first of all, it will be four seats because the president will win re-election. >> you heard it here first. >> you heard it here first. the fact of the matter is senate democrats are changing the math every day, and we're changing the math first of all because we're outraising the republicans not only the dsec, but if you look at all the senate democrats they've raised $70 million to $50 million for the republicans. we're doing it by outrecruiting the republicans, if you look at massachusetts and indiana and certainly like nevada where shelley berkley currently leads the

obama administration. if you put rules in place -- we want to bring manufacturing back to the u.s. megyn: robts of advantage payroll service. >> we spent the last 30 years trying to figure out how not to manufacture things in the united states. what we have been talking about is regulation, overregulation. i run a small business of 35 employees. my payroll service company has thousands of small business clients. they tell me every single day without lifting regulations for small businesses and making money available to them to expand their businesses, it's not going to happen. that was $30 billion that was suppose to be lent out with the obama jobs bill. megyn: kelly, you are an expectant mother and actress. i saw you shaking your head in agreement with arianna. >> i think it's been a long time coming with the current administration. ann as an actor i'm consistently underemployed. megyn: people always talk about the next generation of children. they are getting the shortened, they rack up enormous debts. >> we are concerned. megyn: you want a change of administration. do you trust obama to tu

robbed of their gold chains recently because the price of gold has skyrocketed. >> interesting to make that connection. >> yeah. weird. scary, too. >>> political news this morning, president obamahe president should have stayed at the white house to work on the nation's economic problems. abc's john hendren has the latest. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, rob and diana. republicans for months have been hammering on the president's previous stimulus package, saying it hasn't worked. so, it may come as some surprise that included in the president's upcoming deficit reduction plan is also new stimulus spending. as president obama takes a brbrk on martha's vineyard, republicans are not taking a vacation from criticism. >> i have one goal in mind. it's this -- to make barack obama a one-term president! >> reporter: the republican national committee has come out with the line of economy-themed obama postcards noting the president is vacationing among high unemployment and economic turmoil. gop presidential candidates are keeping up the pressure. >> we need one strong hombre or hombrette. i'm the hombrette to stand for you in washington, d.c. >> reporter: the president p

the government and crash the economy in hopes of discrediting obama and getting power back so they can keep up with their agenda of robbing the rest of the american people. to line their own pockets. the response has been awful from the republicans. they're saying any money to go for hurricane relief has to be cut from education, food stamps, you know, things like that that actually help people. so we'll give it to them with one hand and take it back with the other and we'll pay for those rich mansions on the coast to rebuild them while we take away, and kick a few more thousand people off of head start or chips. thank you. host: again, a fema briefing at 11:30 eastern time here in washington. they'll probably continue to track the path of the storm on the video screen like they've been doing and then the homeland security secretary and orntsdzes likely to be out there again. 11:30 live here on c-span. some of the big insurers putting out ads in the papers today. making it clear they are ready to act on claims. they put their numbers here and zwroust the right here on the "washington post" state farm has its ad here on ge

obama and insisted his days in the white house are numbered. it is friday, august 12th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good friday morning, everybody. i'm robalededn icy political rivalry and sparred onstage. political watchers wonder if rick perry will replace mitt romney as the front-runner when perry announces his candidacy tomorrow. >> getting hot in here. >> gloves are off. >>> also ahead this half hour, up, down, up, down. the mayhem on the stock markets, this roller coaster ride we've all been on. what led to a big gain yesterday on wall street and when we might finally expect some stability. that sounds like a nice thing now, stability. >> stability in the stock market. two words that are not going together. >>> later this half hour, a new type of theme restaurant where diners need to be game for just about anything. >> looks like a pretty cool spot. >>> before all that, the two candidates from minnesota generated the most heat in last night's debate. meanwhile front-runner mitt romney emerged pretty much untouched. >> tomorrow romney is going to have a major challenge to his front-running status. abc's tahman bradley is in washingt

obama's foreign policies formed the continuation of his last two years of the bush foreign policy including bob gates in charge says secretary defense. >> the phases are different. >> tying in with rob said about what alex said early about how bush's processes seem to vary and his policies are also seen to various foreign-policy. we often have a stereotype that he was a big general laterals cowboy was going to blow up the world. that is beguiling to some but actually what is happening is six different foreign policies and burying policy processes. more so probably than any recent president and we are still trying to figure out why. [laughter] >> i want to echo steve's point about the constitution and law. we are talking about unilateral presidential power. i mean bush went into iraq with an authorization to use military force. obama bombs in libya without the consent of congress, without consulting congress and those few days afterwards he sent a letter to congress where he mentions the war powers resolution but he doesn't invoke it are. in fact there's only been one president since the war powers resolution was passed in the early 1970s that didn't and that was actually after the m