but i'm really trying to make sure that this race in southern arizona is about southern arizona.onent continually tries to nationalize this race and tries to associate me with bills that i've never had anything to do with. i think if voters of southern arizona want to know, what is the candidate and whs for them? that's where i'm trying to stay focused and not get drawn off. >> do you think it's important that you have to draw contrasts with the president? look, he's for this, but i'm not. i'm for "x." is there something specific you can point to where you say, you know what, i disagree with the president on "x"? what is it? >> i don't really want to get into agreeing or disagreeing with the president. because i think what voters have asked me as i've gone across this the district is, what are you going to do to help middle class americans get back to work? what are you going to do to make sure we bring our deficit and debt under control? what are you going to do to make sure that medicare and social security is solvent into the far future? and that's where i'm focused. >> i don'

what are people concerned about in southern arizona, they tell me plenty about that, about middle classoncerned about veterans. they want someone to go to washington who is going to be focused on their issues. not be subject to a diversion of the race. this is a race for district 8. >> you are both democrats, he is the president. just for purposes of clarification, are you a big supporter of the president? >> well, when it comes to the november election, i will support the president, i will vote for him, quite clearly his policies will benefit the middle class much more than his opponents, it's really clear than what we've seen so far. i want to go back to the real issue for me, which is what is on the table for people who live here. >> ron was gabby's director of district operations when the awful shooting happened, and she wanted him to stand to run for this. why should he run? >> one with of the things we talked about early, who would be -- who's the right candidate for this district? i mean, who is the pen that is going to stand up for these people in southern arizona the way gabby

tony colson, the dea's agent in charge of southern arizona during fast and furious said that many dea field agents knew that the atf was walking guns to mexico, but their supervisors told them to back off when they objected. have you investigated who within the dea knew what about fast and furious and why they did so little to stop gun walking to mexico? >> thank you, sir. as i mentioned earlier, those statements, as i understand it from mr. colson, were actually recanted. he said he was misquoted and he's recanted that. we are very excited and we are waiting on these results from the oig, because prior to mr. colson's statements, we were not aware that dea agents in arizona were aware of the tactics that atf was using. so the investigation is being done by oig. that should answer. we made all our people available. that should answer the question about who knew what for my agency. in the meantime -- >> did mr. colson explain why he made the statements in the first place if he later recanted them? >> i have not had any discussions with mr. colson. i just know that right after there was

tony colson, the dea's agent in charge of southern arizona during fast and furious, said that many fieldhat atf was walking guns to mexico but supervisors told the agents to back off when they objected. mr. colson was among one of the first senior public officials to admit knowing about the botched operation. he claims he raised objections to then dea chief elizabeth kemp shaw, and was told it was taken care of. after attending a meeting with the atf agent in charge colson said he knew fast and furious was not some sort of benign pie in the sky publicity stunt. guns were actually getting in the hands of criminals, closed quote. as with the columbian pr prostitution incidents, i'm not aware of any discipline from in the dea. most recently this last april adea offices in san diego literally forgot about a 23-year-old in a holding cell. dea agents arrested daniel chong during a raid on a party in the san diego area where there were illegal drugs. after questioning him the agents apparently told mr. chong he would not be charged before they placed him back into a holding cell. the agents the

voters showed up in southern arizona today to pick a replacement for former congresswoman gabrielle giffords in january stepping down to focus on recovery after being shot in the head during a meet and greet last year in tucson arizona former aide rob barber against jesse kelly nearly missed the feeding gabrielle giffords a two years ago next six months of her term. getting treatment for sleep apnea more than just improve your health next new research shows also improves your mood and inside chicago and new museum of broadcast medications and the grand opening gala event tonight at high marks for chicago high school class sending all of its graduates to higher education. medical watch ground breaking therapy experiment psychologists used avatars to talk to students about fears and social phobias give kids a way to practice social encounter study because it's hard to make friends start conversation with compliments and ask and answer questions voiced by clinicians computer simulation positive feedback and give confidence to patients who suffer from anxiety. kids from all ages more secure with

only exception the cold front hasn't quite made it through southern arizona. tucson to phoenix you'll keep it warm. the cool air is in place. we're at 40 in boise, 48 in salt lake city after a very warm period, little shock to the system as you head outside. forecast wise, only rain left, little bit in seattle and spokane, should be exiting during the day. that's a lookhe desert southwes. still hot around tucson. quite a storm for zune june. very impressive. >> the picture was insane. >>> coming up, is stimulus coming from the fed? more facebook doldrums, who is coming to the aid of women in the business world? your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. plus a stunning health revelation from singer sheryl crow with a happy ending. >>> coming up, a homecoming, extra innings and game five of the eastern conference finals goes down to the wire. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> scientists say early stage breast cancer patients may

. >>> voters head to the polls tomorrow in southern arizona. special election is being held to replace gabrielle giffords. she stepped down in january to focus on getting better after getting shot in the head. as bill whitaker reports, sentiment and politics rarely mix. >> it was a dramatic moment as it is every time gabrielle giffords steps out in public. a wave and a wave of emotions saturday night as she campaigned for the man seeking to replace her in congress. ron barber was giffords district director. he was shot twice that killed six and left giffords critically wounded. barber is in a race considered too close to call with jesse kelly, a republican who narrowly lost to giffords in this republican district two years ago. when giffords what is recovering there was a reservoir of goodwill, many hoped that it was a sign that republicans and democrats just might get along. but politics as usual seems to have returned and it's personal. >> don't let them cut my benefits. >> don't worry, grandpa, i won't. >> with jesse kelly there's a lot to w

so there is a large part of southern arizona covered by the dust storms and strong gusty winds, back here in the bay area, calm weather and sunny skies from coast to inland. current readings at 82 degrees, 81 in concord, warm weather continues. our highlights, patchy clouds may develop but there won't be a strong marine layer there. mild to warm again, tomorrow, and there is slightly cooler over the weekend. there is a large ridge of high pressure bringing us this nice quiet mild to warm pattern. there is a steady one as well, starting at 7:00 there is some patches of coastal fog. by afternoon, sunny skies again from doft inland and mild to warm. there is a mild night foremost of the bay area. there are lows into low to mid-50s and cooler near the coast where lows drop into upper 40s, tomorrow, sunny skies into the south bay. highs into upper 70s to low 80s. there is highs ranging from 76 to 78 at los altos and there is mild with low to mid 60s, downtown san francisco, there is 67 degrees tomorrow, 62 into sunset district. there are highs to about 81 in clear lake. and near east bay

the community partnership of southern arizona is the regional behavioral health authority in pima county. and one of the things that, as an organization, we're very much tuned into is kind of the changing needs in the community. i came to the va about 5 years ago and i had worked in the community for many years and had worked with cpsa a lot when i worked at some of the public agencies. so, i had already the relationships with a lot of the people there. and then, once i came over here, i think that partly that we were having sort of a surge in kind of more mental health funding coming into the va. there was just kind of more tension because of all the returning iraqi vets. we believe that a system like ours can be of tremendous benefit to organizations like tricare, the department of defense, in providing behavioral health benefits to enlisted military and their families. and, in fact, have developed the proposal and have been working very closely with tricare and samhsa to try and move that forward. the two issues that you really see are peer support and in-home care. it's peer support

ron and his wife, nancy, have dedicated their lives to southern arizona. they run a business -- they have run a business for more than 30 some-odd years. a business that helped young parents provide for their own children. they raised their two daughters, jenny and krisy, right at home in tucson. they're watching their four grandchildren in tucson. but ron also wanted to do more for his community, so he spent 30 years with the arizona division of developmental disabilities where he worked countless hours, helping people with disability get out of government-run institutions and back into their community, fully employed, contributing to their society and living with their families. his service has been expanded beyond those assisting gabby giffords' her constituents, experiencing personal problems with the federal government. and now these same people are ron's constituents. welcome to the house, ron barber. mr. speaker, i'd like to yield some time to my distinguished colleague. the speaker: the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. flake: on behalf of

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. >>> in southern arizona voters are sending democrat ron barber to washington to finish the term of he was her chief of staff he won yesterday's special election over republican jesse kelly. giffords resigned to focus on her recovery. barber was already injured in the 2011 shooting rampage that took the lives of six. giffords stayed out of the campaign for the most part but barber got a hand from her and her husband over the weekend. >> thank you for your support. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> life takes unexpected turns and here we are. >> that was mark kelly, giffords' husband and former astronaut. barber will run in november for the full term. >>> new poll leased two hours ago showed president obama's popularity dropping. in the latest poll only 43% of votes expressed favorable opinions about the president's economic agenda, 40% say the same about mitt romney. among independent swing voters, 54% see mr. obama's plans in a negative light. 47% rate romney's economic plan as negative. >>> firefighters in colorado managed to make some progress battl

tony coulson, the dea agent in charge of southern arizona during fast and furious said that many deafield agents knew that the atf was walking guns to mexico, but their supervisors told them to back off when they objected. have you investigated who within the dea knew what about fast and furious, and why they did so little to stop gun walking to mexico? >> thank you, sir. as i mentioned earlier, those statements, as i understand from mr. coulson, were actually recanted. he said he was misquoted and he has recanted that. we are very excited, and we are waiting on these results from oig. because prior to mr. coulson's statements, we were not aware that, that dea was aware -- dea agents in arizona were unaware of the tactics that atf was using. so the investigation is being done by oig. that should answer. we have made all our people available. that should answer the question about who knew what from my agency. in the meantime -- >> did mr. coulson explained why he would recant, why he made the statement in the first place if he later recanted them? >> i have not had any discussions wit

brian was killed in southern arizona when he and his team got into a gun fight with a crew of armed illegal immigrants. two of the guns recovered from the crime scene were ak 47 rifles that had been lost during the botched fast and furious gun walking operation and brian terry was just 40 years old. attorney general eric holder invoked brian's name today while criticizing house republicans. >> instead of trying to correct the problems that led to a series of flawed law enforcement operations, and instead of helping us find ways to better protect the brave law enforcement agents like agent brian terry, who keep us safe, they have led us to this unnecessary and unwarranted outcome. >> joining me now from san diego, brian's cousin bob hare and from detroit brian's mother josephine terry. mrs. terry, first to you, your reaction? eric holder obviously mentioned brian, said he was, you know, bravely trying to defend this country and our interest but then went on to say, look, i did what i could. i shut this down. i saw that it was wrong. stopped this policy. and corrected what was obviously a bot

gabby, southern arizona missed you dealer and we cannot wait to have you home. >> if your home is in, massachusetts, home to harvard university, there will soon be a soda ban. that's right. officials there are moving to try to prevent soda from being bought or sold in cambridge, massachusetts. people don't like it very much. >> if our government needs to tell us what size drink with our meal, what else are they going to try to tell us. >> they may tell you smoking is bad for you or you shouldn't eat fatty foods or get exercise. government never does that. good grief. just stop drinking soda. i don't know. maybe we should have a tax on that in cambridge. maybe that's a better way. >> don't drink so much of it. >> we are a fat nation. we are. we need to slim down. but -- >> are you a soda dinker? >> i am not a soda drinker. i say ban it. it's bad. bad for your health. >> everything in moderation. >> i don't think the government should necessarily -- that's my personal view. i don't want the government, though, taking away people's soda. i think the government has better things to do. t

. >>> in southern arizona voters are sending democrat ron barber to washington to finish the term ofr representative gabby giffords. he was her chief of staff. he won yesterday's special election over republican jesse kelly. giffords resigned a year after she was shot in the head to focus on her recovery. 66-year-old barber was already injured in the shooting rampage that killed six people. giffords stayed out of the special election campaign for the most part but barber got a hand from giffords and her husband this past weekend. >> thank you for your support. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> life takes unexpected turns and here we are. >> barber will be running again in november's general election for a full term. >>> new report says facebook ads do have some value for users after all. >> jane king is live at the new york stock exchange with that and also events in the nation's capital tracked closely now. >>> that's right. one of the world's best known bankers on capitol hill this morning. kaeuplgss for the industry. jamie dimon ceo of chase has been

interviewed ranchers and talked to a lot of residents along the southern arizona border who are so appreciativee apio. what is happening to him is reprehensible and politically driven. he is up for reelection and everybody from george soros to president obama to laraza have targeted him for defeat. this is guy that represents this kind of common sense. our soldiers stay in tents. the tent city concept is nothing new. it's only an issue because political opponents wanted to stop him. frankly as i was there at the border. you talk to the people who are dealing with problems of illegal immigration and quality of life. they love sheriff joe. this man --. >> heather: he has been unprecedented foiv terms. going back to conditions tend city, men and women both held here, 2,000 inmates, what do you think bit? >> i go back to my sunday school lessons. this is just inhumane. you don't put people outside in the arizona eat. give them edible food. this is just something to me that no one deserves. no human being deserves to be treated this way. also i think we have to begin to reposition this conversation

brian terry was killed in a firefight with suspected undocumented immigrants along the southern border in arizona and it was later discovered that one of the guns that killed the agent terry was traced back to the a.t.'s fast and furious gun running machine a month later the a.t.f. ended the fast and furious program and the republicans began their conspiracy theory which against attorney general eric holder here's republican congressman tim walberg throwing out his conspiracy theory at attorney general holder during a hearing in february that this thing was good has gone wrong which was set up to go wrong and frankly i believe was set up to go wrong in order to deal with second amendment liberties of of law abiding citizens and pushing into a perception that it was the problem of the second amendment as opposed to law enforcement and more importantly mr attorney general the oversight of an agency of a department of individual leaders in that apartment that have not been held accountable . well with all due respect and i mean this with great respect the notion that this was an operation set up to

a lot of people in southern arizona notice what happens. what happens is big money all over the world has smashed opportunities for little people. the big people rule the world. host: thanks very much for sharing your comments, robert. we will move onto the republican line from florida. caller: one thing that is being lost in the discussion is not one dime of taxpayer money was involved in this loss. this was a business that made a bad investment decision and lost the money -- $2 billion or more. nevertheless, jpmorgan chase is going to make a profit this year in excess of $10 billion. how much of a profit is our government going to make this year? i think we all know we are going to be in excess of $1 trillion in debt. we are presently $16 trillion in debt. businesses, like people, make that investment decisions. i have made them. i am an investor. i don't think we need to get too excited about investors losing money. host: thanks for the call. those involved in this transaction, the headline from the washington times -- and more from yest

at the beginning and most of the campaign in the primary and general election in tucson, in southern arizona. but in the past three days she has really come out. she attended a voter rally on saturday night and then went around visiting stations where volunteers were calling voters in support of ron barber. then this morning she will be showing up at a polling place with the candidate ron barber and her husband mark kelly to cast her ballot. host: there's a story in arizona republic by you. how successful is ron barber looking at connecting with voters? guest: up until just yesterday, it really looked like it was going to be a nail biter. it is a tossup district foreshore with slightly higher republican registration than democratic presiregistration. that can help both parties, depending on who is running. yesterday a prominent polling firm came out with a poll saying that ron barber was a huge margin over his opponents jesse kelly. those camps-- both camps were quick to say they were not seeing the same. it does appear ron barber is pulling ahead in these final days. host: jesse kelly has t

the dea agent in charge of southern arizona and fast and furious said that many field agents knew that the atf was walking guns to mexico but the supervisors told them to back off when they objected. have you investigated who knew what about cost and furious and why they did so little to stop the unlocking to mexico? >> thank you. as i mentioned earlier, the statement as i ever stand were actually recanted. he studied and has recanted that. we are very excited and waiting on these results from oig because prior to mr. with colson's steegmans, we were not aware that the dea was aware of the agents in arizona were aware of the tactics that the atf was using when he said the investigation is being done by oig with that have made all our people available that should answer the question about who knew what from my agency. >> did he explain why he would recant -- why he made the statement in the first place if he later recanted them? >> i've not had any discussions with mr. colson. i just know that right after there was a reporting of what he had said he called a rare headquarters and said h

the fire is is now 50 percontained and other wild fires burning across wyoming and arizona and southernalifornia. >>> the video so incredible when you look at it. it is heart breaking. >> it is heart breaking. >> it's like what the midwest did and tornado alley has to deal with and people don't realize the fire is no joke just like flood something no joke. so here at home, we are about to get hot, we are about to get humid and bringing it all on. >> it's summertime. >> i do. >> how was the play other than that. >> okay fine. i will find a silver lining somewhere. just watch this weather cast. so as we check out what's going on the satellite and radar picking up on clouds out there this morning. we have showers that rolled through overnight. but the majority of those pushing off into sea right now. we have a couple of showers trying to pop up now across northern maryland and this is all coming down from the north. so, this will gib to fizzle out going throughout the day. and today is not going to be as hot as it will be as we get to the next several days so take advantage of today. now,

other fires are burning from warm dry weather in wyoming and arizona and southern california. here's lynette with our weather. >> that's a shame to see. and you see across the nation the wet weather across the northern states and too bad some of that can't drop southward and help the wild fires. as of now we are dealing with a few showers this morning. mainly to the north and to the south. we do have a little bit of drizzle out there as well. so as you head out and about be prepared for that. the radar can't pick up on that because it's just too small for the radar to detect and we have lots of cloud cover around this morning. and also we are a little more humid and that humidity is starting to get the act together and we will be feeling it through the nex several days but for this morning temperature wise at 68 degrees in -- 67 in arnold and catonsville 66. we look at rainfall totals and yeah, they are on the light side about 1/100 of an inch in arnold and centerville and also we have a little patchy fog to talk about this morning. reduced visibility especially in york pennsy

field agents in southern arizona were aware of the gun walking being done by a.t.f. tony coleson, the d.e.a. agents in charge during fast and furious, said many d.e.a. agents knew the a.t.f. was walking guns to mexico, but their supervisors told them to back off when they objected. have you investigated who within the d.e.a. knew what about fast and furious and why they did so little to stop gun walking to mexico? >> thank you, sir. as i mentioned earlier those statements as i understand it from mr. coleson were actually recanted. he said he was misquoted and he's recanted that. we are very excited and -- we are waiting on these results from the o.i.g. because prior to mr. coleson's statements, we were not aware that d.e.a. was aware -- d.e.a. agents in arizona were aware of the tactics that a.t.f. was using. so the investigation is being done by o.i.g. that should answer, we have made all our people available. that should answer the question about who knew what from my agency. >> did mr. coleson explain why he would recant -- why he made the statements in the first

the heat is having an impact on the crews trying to find wild fires burning in miami, arizona and southerner in florida recovering after a freak accident involving a spear gun. doctors had to cut the three- foot pier from his head before they could even do an x-ray of the 15-year-old lopez. may day police say that a friend accidentally fired it on june 8 while lopez was swimming in a lake. the remains conscious and alert that is until doctors surveyed in him. >> it is a striking injury something you don't see every day. a patient lying awake and speaking with a three-foot spear through his head. >> it is miraculous that it missed blood vessels in the brain >> . the surgery took three hours. doctors credit paramedics with keeping the teenager calm and the spirit intact. morning america will have more on this amazing survival story. >> president obama and other world leaders wrapping up the g- 20 summit in mexico. >> that is where they are expected to announce a major agreement on shoring up the global economy. tahman bradley has a preview. parks world leaders meeting today in mexico will un

there are over 100,000 veterans in my southern arizona district. let me tell you about one of them. christopher murray a disabled desert storm medic and combat veteran who came to our office to seek our help when i served as congresswoman giffords' district director. a bank was foreclosing on his home, he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. we were able to rescind the foreclosure and allow him to stay in his own home. the simple digny of being in our own home during your final days is something we all too often take for granted. we must not deny that dignity to those who like mr. murray served our country so well. my amendment offered every one of us to do what our office did then, to ensure our veterans get our help and have the simple dignity of a roof above their heads. my amendment does that while recusing -- reducing the deficit. the passage of this amendment will not, will not prevent passage of this underlying bill. if the amendment is adopted, it will be incorporated into the bill and the bill will be immediately voted upon. and so though we may disagree on par

and people in the southern arizona area notice what happens. big money all over the world is foisted on little opportunities for little people -- i mean, for big people. you know, in a sense, they rule the world. host: we will move on without the people waiting to get through, but thank you for sharing your comments -- other people waiting to get through, but thank you for sharing your comments with us. california. good morning. caller: yes, good morning. what is being lost in the discussion is that not one dime of taxpayer money is involved in this loss. this is a business that made a bad investment decision and lost some money. $2 billion, perhaps more. nevertheless, jpmorgan chase is going to make a profit this year in excess of $10 billion. how much of a profit is our government going to make this year? well, i think we all know -- >> jamie dimon testifies next tuesday before the house financial services committee. donald rumsfeld is entering the room with the former defense secretary is joining former assistant secretary of state john negr

storms and we have those hot temperatures once again, triple digits stretching from parts of southern arizonae mid atlantic and again, fact or in the humidity. it feels even hotter. here's a look at some of those temperatures. 103 in raleigh, south carolina. 101 in kansas city and albuquerque, new mexico, expecting a high temperature at 101 and it's going to continue into tomorrow, you guys, more triple digit heat across parts of the southeast. the plains and into the desert southwest. ali? >> maria, thanks so much. and come on in for some pizza. it's the organization that sends a slice of home to our troops serving overseas and this year, pizza for patriots is looking to break its own record. they hope to send 30,000 pies to afghanistan for the fourth of july. here's mark evans. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> thank you for the goodies you bring me. i love the scarves and the hats. >> now you have your summer scarf. with the dalai lama in tibet. >> you have to do everything when you're a master. >> tell us about the record you're trying to break. how many pizzas? >> we're shipping 36

attorney in southern california, arizona or new mexico, we are not exactly clear where the application came from, but we know it was a federal prosecutor in that part of the country, did he just have no curiosity about what was going on and say yes? the bottom line here is the evidence keeps mounting that the justice department knew, people in the justice department with significant authority knew about this sooner in time than they have told congressman issa who is on the screen now, or congressman smith, who was just interrogating the attorney general. jon: they knew about it, apparently and were looking the other way. but there is also the question about the release of this wiretap information. congressman issa calls it the results of a whistle-blower. some would suggest -- well it is a federal crime to release that information about those wiretaps, isn't it? >> yes, yes. this has really added a new dimension tot dimensions the interrogation of the attorney general holder. congress is using documents -- they haven't got even to the documents yet, i gather they will before the day is