. >>> nancy pelosi and pennsylvania senator spector have set up a wager over chocolate. if the giants win the nlcs senator spector will send speaker pelosi a load of hersheys chocolate. if the phillies win, pelosi will send spector a load of ghirrardeli chocolate. >>> democrats bringing out the big guns here in the golden state. the big political name campaigning today in california. >>> a bay area airport construction dome. i'm consumer editor tom vacar, an economic act of faith still ahead. >>> the bay area did cool off today. even a few patches pushing back into the bay, coming up i'll show you where the fog will be tomorrow morning and also a noticeable temperature change for the week end. w e e k end. -- weekend. >>> a dramatic breakthrough in switzerland. workers today punched through the last stretch of rock on the way to completing the world's longest tunnel for railroad cars. the 35-mile long tunnel beneath the swiss alps has been 20 years in the making at the cost of $12 million. the goal is to use more environmentally friendly trains. engineers say they hope t

. >> paul: matt, i want to ask you about the race in pennsylvania for senate, sestak who beat spectorn the primary and toomey the republican. toomey has been leading democrats are saying sestak is catching up on class war themes blaming wall street and so on. running against the rich. any traction there? >> i was at a dinner the other night where sestak spoke. he claimed in his internal polls he's up by 3%. no other poll shows him near 5%. the fact of the matter is toomey sounds reasonable to a lot of pennsylvania voters today. he's an direction the issues they care about. the issues that turned some of them off to him are not part of this race. >> paul: thanks. when we come back the democrats' assault on corporate america. they are an being tag the chamber of commerce and other groups that oppose them in an attempt to top businesses from participating in politics this year. it has worked before, will it work again? sold out online in 17 minutes. beauty editors are raving. the clinical results are astounding. olay professional pro-x. read all about it at olayprofessional.com. is a pow

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the president raising that spector yet again yesterday in boston. >> that's why we'll fight the efforts some in the other party to privatize social security because, as long as i'm president, nobody's going to take the retirement savings of a generation and hand it over to wall street. >> reporter: and, thomas, one site that we have not seen from for two years since the campaign that put president obama here in the white house, michelle obama, standing noex him on the campaign trail that will end today. they head to cleveland, there will be a closed fundraiser in cleveland, then we'll see him in columbus, ohio, late tonight, about the 8:00 hour, another one of the big rallies trying to get the youth vote out on the campus of ohio state university. in the coming days he also has travel to the west coast, oregon, to washington state. he'll be in california for two days, back yet again to nevada to campaign for harry reid and other democrats. he goes to minnesota for another rally, to raise more money, and back to new england, to rhode island. a full slate of travel on tap for the presiden

>> i think that arlyn spector is being deployed strategically in the city of philadelphia. he is still very popular here in philadelphia though his favorable, his unfavorable ratings in the state are not so great. i think that this is a chance for joe to raise some last-minute cash. he is known to close late. no one knows that better than arlen specter. he was behind in the polls and with the help of a rather devastating political campaign commercial closed the gap and beat specter quite handily in the end. specter is now going to help him raise the money that he will need if he is going to have a shot at former congressman pat toomey in the general election. >> the event is in philadelphia. what are the details? where will they be and when? >> they're going to be holding it at a downtown law firm. it's a private event. it remains to be seen whether specter will have anyth

and the job creation is not occurring, because there are spectors of increased taxes, there is tremendous new array of regulations emanating from the government, and the unemployment numbers today are so disappointing because they show that even when it's over a trillion dollars in new additional spending, and the deficits that we have incurred, even government jobs cannot be sustained. the stimulus package -- we're not even creating government jobs. jenna: let's go back to that first question again, if you were in the chair, what would be the top of your list, would it be sure that we keep the bush tax cuts, would it be to sign another stimulus plan? what would be your game if you were in office, because a lot of people say it's just going to take time. >> i think there has to be a recognition that you cannot continue to create uncertainty in the economy by having high taxes. our taxes are going to increase automatically in january of this year if the congress does nothing. and even -- and this issue was not raised just before the congress went out, because there was tremendous division

chairman julius genachowski announced the release of the spector report that emphasizes the spectrum shortage in the united states. more airwaves need to be freed up to accommodate the mobile devices. steps include broadcasters releasing spectrum for broadcast. this portion of the meeting is about 40 minutes. >> i am she of the office of engineering and technology. >> together we chair the commission spectrum task force. today's summit will focus discussions on the opportunities and risks associated with skyrocketing demand for spectrum and potential policy solutions to help insure that the demand is met. today we will be releasing a report that provides an in-depth analysis of demand projections and the benefits that can be realized if we have the additional spectrum that the projections call for. the data in this report provides support for the repeated calls by the president, but the chairman, and the broadband plans, by many others, to unleash more spectrum. clearly from the number of peoples in the room, and the lines that security, these issues are of great interest and importa

with respect to the adequacy of the regulatory process, the training, the performance capability of spectors, i think we can infer that we will have strong recommendations with the reform of that enterprise. secretary salazar has already undertaken some of that, and we expect some of the things that he has said to us, that there will be proposals for better training. it is extraordinary that on-the- job training >> we will leave the "washington journal" to take you live to the state department. >> well, good afternoon. it has been in a great pleasure to be with minister qureshi once again. i am happy to extend the hospitality that he and his government so graciously extended to me during my last trip to pakistan in the summer. we have just wrapped up three days of intensive discussions in our third u.s./pakistan strategic dialogue. each of these sessions has been more productive as the last as we deepen our understanding of each other's needs and discover new opportunities for cooperation. this time we have final blueprints for each of our 13 working groups. they lay out specific agreements,