they said no to a middle-class tax cuts sprea. they said no to clean energy jobs. they said no to making college more affordable. they said no to reforming wall street. they are saying right now, no to cutting more taxes for small business owners and helping them get financing. somebody out here was yelling yes, we can. that was our slogan. their slogan is no, we can't very [laughter] [applause] no ,no, no. [chanting - yes, we can] i personally think that yes we can is more inspiring than know, we can't. to steal a line from our friend ted kennedy, what is it about working men and women that they find so offensive [laughter] where we passed a bill earlier this summer to help states to save jobs, the jobs of hundreds of thousands of teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters that were about to be laid off, they said no. [applause] and the republican who thinks he will take over as speaker [laughter] i am just saying that his opinion, he is entitled to his opinion. when he was asked about this, he dismissed those jobs as government jobs that were not wo

firefighters say the wind caused the fire to sprea two people at th scene yesterday were treated forries. >> i ran to the guy's house. he was in the house. like a teenager of some sort. heas in a panic trying to call the fire department. i told him you have to get out of the house. iwent to the garage. i looked through the house and the whole back of the house was on fire already. >> again, three homes. a -- three homes damaged by the fire. eight total damaged in this fast-moving blaze. again, firefighters have been on the scene here all morning long watching for the hot spots, putting water on the areas just to keep an eye on it. again, no cause just yet. joe, back to you. >> elaine reyes reporting live. thanks, elaine. >>this morning chancellor michelle rhee's future is still not clear. she and d.c. mor vincent gray met yesterday. both acknowledged their strong differences on education reform. there have been reports that arne duncan wants her to stay in the district. gray, though, is giving few clues about his plans. >> we did not talk about the chance lar stayi chcellor staying o

obama administration is to require the presence of death penalty lawyers at the guantanamo trial spreasress just passed a bill to investigate lawyers in guantanamo for supposedly endangering national security. i do not know anybody who is going to go down there and participate in those trials under the circumstances that go forward. in the courtroom itself, if you want a public trial, it is actually sealed off. the people in the audience far behind a piece of glass. they cannot hear the proceedings. it is on a 45-second delay could someone from the cia sits in the courtroom. if someone gets close to saying something classified, they sit a switch and the whole courtroom looks -- goes dark. everybody wonders what happened. it is ridiculous in terms of having a public trial at all. the one time that click sheikh mohammed mention their relationship between richard nixon and pat buchanan, the machine turned off. [laughter] all of us were shocked to know what that was. it turns out that the agent had sat on the button. that is what that was. [laughter] they do not have any translators in guan