robert miller. >> i'm director of veterinary archives, and i want to thank mayor newsom for having the fortitude, the foresight, and the temerity to stay with a program for the very beginning -- since the very beginning. he took a chance on main street. we want to take that chance on government. our first higher was in june 2009, and our last was yesterday, the last day before the door closed. we believe the program benefits both sides of main street. the employee, giving them a real job doing real work. 145 people that are working for me are building a free, online digital library of 1 million books which will go to every school in america. it gives them pride. it gives them professional confidence, and gives them a job they can go back to their families with and make a difference in their community in terms of funding, financing, and confidence, and if america does not have the confidence to go forward on one side of wall street, how can we make the decisions that we need to? this is not a handout. this is a hand up, as far as i'm concerned. this program is fantastic. as an employer

robert miller is contacting other businesses in 10 key states to target lawmaker lawmaker autos we're starting a campaign to petition senators in each state. not only for employee side, but from a business side. let us create more jobs. >> congress returns from recess next week. >> we're getting an i'd wraa how much it will cost owe-to-drive on new express lanes. the lanes, first toll lanes will run to milpitas. the price to access them will vary depending on traffic. 4ss today $6 maybe more during peak commute hours. the lanes open september 21. >> and this cool summer weather pushed back a start of a grape harvest by two, maybe three weeks. in livermore today, a rabbi and a minister conducted a blessing ceremony. >> for thousands of years, wine play aid central role in how men and women have understood abundance of god's blessings. >> no matter how skill fully we practice our craft we must put our faith in the source of the grapes, the source of the weather. the source of the earth. >> growers expect to pick up to 16,000 tons of wine grapes over two months. this weekend is the annua

robert miller is contacting other businesses in ten key states to target lawmakers. >> and we're startingpaign to petition senators in each sat, not only from an employee side but a business side. let us create more jobs. >> congress returns from recess this week. there's one part of the bay area economy that's showing some positive signs in terms of job growth and an influx of new companies. a number of high-tech companies are landing in dublin and pleasanton, an area that as laura anthony reports some are now calling silicon valley east. >> one bay area company that's growing. and moving from its current location in concord to a building twice as big in pleasanton. >> we're trying to draw resourceless of hi-tech people. we want to be as close as we can to silicon valley. plus the right mix of a technical company like us. >> san jose software is another company moving in. >> they find suppliers and vendors they wanna work with. software companies want to be with vendors and other software companies they can learn from. >> since 2006 the number of jobs in pleasanton has dropped 11%. 2008

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robert jordan. >> and i'm jackie bang. jade miller is in the newsroom with the story. >> reporter: the first year, one of her parents has been able to muster up the courage to walk through the intersection where the four- year-old was killed. a walk that draws hundreds each year to this lincoln park neighborhood, but triggers countless memory, good ones and bad. >> as of today, it has been four years, four months and four days since my sweet little girl was taken from us. >> >> reporter: maya would have been eight today, but her life was cut short by a hit-and-run driver. >> it is hard for me to wrap my mind around how slowly and quickly time has passed. >> reporter: today, hundreds took to the intersection where maya was run over after leaving the zoo with her mother and brother. >> the intersection will always carry memories for us of how maya was killed, we want you to remember as you walk how our little granddaughter lived. loud and silly, loving and well loved. >> reporter: today's walk helped to raise money for a park bench that

today, we're lifting up robert newton. ireporter cindy miller attended his homecoming and sent these s outside during the funeral. she brought her 4-year-old son with her. she said the turnout was amazing. she said robert had just turned 21 in iraq. this was his second tour. she said, we were heartbroken, he was one of our own. if there's someone you'd like us to honor, go to cnn.com/home and away. time in the member's name and type in the pro file. we promise we will keep your hero's memory alive.

most republicans will support joe miller. >> robert, do you agree with that?. three criteria you need for an effective write-in campaign. name recognition, money and conducive environment. the senator has all three in alaska in her favor. everybody knows who she is, she is capable of raising money and the environment is in her favor. people have woken up and are surprised even in action at the extreme positions of miller. so that race, the florida race, where a tea party candidate forced republican candidate in a third party candidacy. are interesting and as frank said, not ideal for the republican party. >> eric: you know, frank, robert used a magic word. he said, "extreme." that's what some accuse tea partiers being, radical extreme, out of the republican party. what is your reaction to that? after they've been doing so well. >> my reaction is the better answer they're capturing the mood of the voters right now, which is anti-washington. anti-tax and spending and anti-deficit. marco rubio for example is the republican nominee. not governor crist. latest poll

joe miller in alaska, beating incumbent lisa murkowski. incumbent robertennett was ousted in utah. a new york tea party candidate won last night's republican primary for governor. >> if we've learned anything tonight, it's that new yorkers are as mad as hell. >> reporter: victories for the tea party, but democrats claim victories also for them. >> we feel very, very comfortable that we're going to win races in november that six months ago we felt like we were going to lose because of these candidates. >> reporter: but the republican establishment is racing to embrace its new winners and their fiery rhetoric. >> it's time to go fire nancy pelosi. >> reporter: and it's not clear whether christine o'donnell and tea partiers like her will help or hurt the gop in the fall. the irony is a raft of candidates rejected by republican leaders now have the job of winning back republican control of congress. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill. >>> sad news out of iraq. seven people are dead after a joint u.s.-iraqi raid in fallujah. the operation was led by i

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miller. independent voters are split equally between all three. >> julie: and special election to fill the seat of robertn west virginia? >> this is a race, this is animal with a 69% job approval rating in the state. any politician would be happy with that. when raesee got into it, he is going up you have% disapproval rating for -- 66% disapproval for president obama. here is the key. 28% of republicans still say they are going to be voting for joe manchin. this could be an upset in november. >> democrats have been attempting to push through the dream act legislation that would provide a path to shiom for children under the age of 16 who are illegal immigrants. talk to us about poll numbers there? >> we did some polling, if people are brought here illegally by their parents and they have completed two years of college should they be eligible. just over half say yes. much wider supported if somebody came here was brought illegally by their parents and served in the u.s. military, yes, those people should be given a pass to citizenship after their military service. you know, this is still a difficult issue

robert plant, great to have you here. >> very early, good morning. i believe it is the morning. i want to introduce the band. buddy millert, and singing with you is patty griffin. i think a lot of people may not know the band of joy has a history with you as a name. >> yeah, it was the -- it was the name that john bonham and i elected to use before we got that golden phone call. i think it was a jungle drum, to send us rocketing into the '70s. >> before you joined the other band as you call it. >> yeah, yeah. so it was a moment for us british guys. we didn't have the musical knowledge that you guys have got here. but we tapped as much american spook music as we could, as much blues, mixed it up. nobody liked it. and so -- but the feeling of freedom was fantastic. and i think as we started to make this record, buddy took me down to nashville and we started working together. so it felt like a liberation again. >> the song we're going to hear is a new single off of the album called angel dance. let's hear it. robert plant. ♪ good-bye don't cry ♪ ♪ ♪ let them fly across the wall let them fly till the morning comes ♪ little a