this is a cow into steening ray.e comes right up to, just amazing, the barracuda and the sharks in there as well. this exhibit is being replaced. outstanding time. all right. let's get a look at the weather out there. right now we got primarily a storm threat for southern maryland, so this is good compared to last night when we had big time storms. it does look like the area will be south of our viewing area, d.c. and through the salisbury viewing area. that's where we anticipate most of it. not that we couldn't see a pop-up shower. we've seen a few. show you the weather through the day. again, in downtown baltimore today the weather is the same in the aquarium but outside the aquarium, you can see a mix of clouds and sun, more clouds than anything. today on the gray side. we expect gray sunny skies. if you didn't appreciate the murkiness of the pattern, improvements are on the way come tomorrow. chesapeake bee. current conditions at bwi 82679 the dew point is 6 -- 82. the dew point is 68. the showers are just to our

. >>> the threat of thunderstorms and the pain of jellyfish steenings -- stings, forced diana nyad to end her swim. >> reporter: sharks, squalls and jellyfish doomed diana nyad's latest 103-mile swim. it was her third attempt in a year. she was pulled from the water one day shy of her 63rd birthday. >> she's severely sunburned. she got multiple hits. she has a strained by seps must -- biceps muscle. >> reporter: her face and suit were smeared with black paste to stave off hypothermia. this time nyad faced more treacherous waters, sharks encircling parts of the day. her support group saying all hell breck loose. that squall dumped so much rain that it put her back six hours. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >> a trooper. >>> katie's new show is set to premier here. we know plenty of people want a chance to see the show in person. right now the folks at katy are running a contest to win a trip to see the show. this is when she was here and we talked to her. the premiere is on september 10th. here's how you cannen -- can enter. like the page and tell them why you're katie's biggest fan.

. >>> a minnesota steen is standing up to cyber bullies -- teen is standing up to cyber bullies by killing them with kindness. he was not happy when his classmates were using twitter to bully other kids, so he quietly made his own twitter account to start lifting spirits. kevin starting singling out students and praising them. kevin decided to let everybody know he was the one sending out the good vibes. >> find a kid that can be strong enough to take the other angle and the positive angle on it. so that was very cool and very mature of kevin to do something like that. >> turns out kevin's idea is spreading. similar pages have popped up at nearby schools. kevin has taught his classmates the nice guys do win. >> that's a nice thing. >> the summer is relentless, hot and dry weather, fueling a brutal wildfire season in the western u.s. >> now crews are in 13 states fighting flames and as stacy cohen reports, even the u.s. military is pitching in. >> reporter: this is an aerial view of california burning. at least 70 wildfires west of the mississippi are ravaging tens of thousands of acres and

but as i mentioned a moment ago, jake is in for george first thing on "this week" steen yore strategists pairing off tomorrow morning. >>> and we move to afghanistan where there's new orders at all u.s. forces. troops at every base must carry loaded weapons after all times. as the so-called insider attacks mount nine american troops, killed in ten days. working her sources, martha raddatz. >> reporter: there are nine of them mostly marines, ethan martin. sky moat. ryan jess ski on his sixth deployment. jesky was on the hbo series generation kill. and lance corporate greg buckley just 20 years old. all dead at the hands of afghan security forces who were supposed to be trusted partners. but buckley told his grieving father just days before he was killed, that he feared afghan soldiers. >> he called me on the phone, he said dad'm not feeling good. he said somebody's going to hurt me, but don't tell mom. don't tell my brothers. >> reporter: the number of attacks, deaths by afghan forces already this year, exceeds the total for last year. earlier this year, after a spade of attacks by afghan

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james peterson is director of african studies, and sam steen is a political he had for for the huffington post and a contributor to msnbc. i want to start with james on this. what do you make of this? they're running it relentlessly and throwing in bill clinton him here. they make him the good guy and obama the bad guy. i see race here, and i don't see it all the time. i see welfare queens and food stamp talk. it's the same ol -- it's not even code. it's direct. my thought. yours? >> it's pretty direct. no, you're right here, chris, and i'm glad that we can move beyond this ad. this ad has been debunked this ad has been debunked across the board. joe scarborough came against the ads as being inaccurate. why are they used? there are racial codes inherent about public assistance and welfare. we can talk about the history of welfare queens and the ways in which welfare has been racialized historically. once we realize they're not accurate, we have to conclude that the romney campaign has a sinister strategy here about welfare and public assistance being only used and exploited and fraudulent

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and people like steven spielberg and harvey wine steen and the rest of them all endorse obama and goo his $30,000 a plate dinners. >> let's speak to this, the point is she was making a point about what people who are rich tend to do. the argument here is not about whether or not she consciously endorsed mr. romney and he's going to accept that endorsement. the point is that people who are rich are attracted to republicans who are good for their bottom line. but not good for the bottom line for the rest of america. we're going to have to stop right here. john, patricia, and michael -- >> what you said wasn't true. >> a multiplatinum artist who isn't afraid to talk politics. musician nas joins me next to talk about all that and more and his new album as well. [ donovan ] i hit a wall. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothi

neither did gloria steen em.ou have children along with want to go have a high-powered career and a marriage that's really meaningful that the rubber meets the road. so, you know, women can have it all but not all at once. i think we've come to learn that. >> woodruff: gail sheehy, remembering helen gurley brown. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day. president obama and republican challenger mitt romney traded barbs over energy policy today as they and their running mates fanned out to four different states. syria's newly-defected prime minister claimed the syrian government is near collapse, and he called for other military and political leaders in damascus to follow his lead. and a wave of bombings in afghanistan killed at least 46 people and wounded more than 70 others. online, we examine how an early spring has affected seasonal farm workers. hari sreenevasan tells us more. >> sreenivasan: we traveled to michigan, where early blooms were vulnerable to late fros

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joining me is now gjared fern steen, and david weigel is a pl political reporter for slate.e, i'm going to start with you on this. why does gold have this alluring idea on the republican side? milton friedman, who is president ronald reagan's chief economists for a period, he hated the gold standard. he said that was real government intervention because you had the government setting the price of gold. but that hasn't seemed to really take. and conservatives seem to sort of being gold bugs again. >> i guess the simplest explanation is one that lewis lair minute, one of the men on the gold commission, one of the minority members with ron paul who said we should return to it, wrote about this in 2011 and said basically if you brought the government back to a gold standard and was kind of writing this as an endorsement of paul ryan, it doesn't have the ability to inflate and it thus wouldn't have the ability to spend. when you hear rick perry talk about it, when you hear republicans who are not ron paul talk about it, it comes back to that. they look at what the federal governm

they include eric furn strom, steen yor adviser, kevin madden, his wife ann, of course. bob white is one of his closest friends. stewart stevens, one of his top strategists to name a few of the individuals who are here. picking up the conversation you were having with andrea about the fact this adds enthusiasm for republicans and democrats, top democrats have been e-mailing, making the point, the push to add paul ryan to the ticket was what they described as, quote, a recognition that the gop is not enthusiastic about romney. they're describing ryan as an extreme agenda. in the way romney folk were trying to get reporters on board with the fact that the president in his campaign has been so negative in attacking romney. it appears some of the top democrats are going after paul ryan. so even before he arrives on the ground in virginia, the harsh language is coming out. >> andrea mitchell, we know what democrats will try to do. but remind people what has been the political landscape over the last six weeks. it's clear, mitt romney was taking on water. the president -- peop

. >> we've got steve weiss on the steen as most of you know steve has been the most bearish on fst money on jcpenney. you're not willing to give ron johnson the time josh brown says this may need. today you write the short story is as good as it ever was. >> it's actually better. i did listen to the conference call. and i will say one thing about ron johnson, he's a much better salesman than ron popeil. so, here's what the real story is. coach reported last week sales were up 12%, eps up 27%. they are making tons of dough, it's great management and selling at 14 times earnings. yet they took the stock down 15%. here we are jcpenney with traffic down again, the average ticket down 3%, they gave away 500,000 free haircuts, they're going to make it a million, so of course traffic is going to improve, and while johnson did say that sales are tracking 2% better in a question that he was asked, and the spin was off when he clarified, he said sales are still down 18% this quarter. >> they are down. traffic certainly the decline, at least has slowed. steve, don't you start to think that maybe he

. >> it's a bit like william and bur steen, people wanted to be reporters. >> right. to make sure that more and more women are brought into the fbi? >> there is but the fbi is a tough nut to crack if you are trying to get a job there. as jan said in the interview, many are called,called, few are. a quarter of a million people get to the fbi's employment page and as far as the application every year, but only a few hundred are actually out there. >> this is the question gayle would ask me so i'm now going to ask her, would you like to be an fbi agent if you were not a broadcaster? >> i would not. i would not. i'm afraid of guns. i'm afraid of guns. >> that is kind of a requirement. >> that rules me out. thank you, john. >>> it is -- i was going to ask you at the >>> americans, it seems, are very fascinated with celebrities and the ken dis. this morning we'll look at why taylor swift is suddenly becoming part of the camelot legend apparently. the story right after the break. stay with us please. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] with swiffer wetjet, cleaning better, doesn't have

crist steen was showing us the pros and cons of the report, strong job gains next month but doesn't mean another round of stimulus is off the table you especially when you consider the string of weak job gains christine pointed out in the few like three or four months before and of course this recent slow down in economic growth. all comes down to perception, if the fed looks at the pos sive side of this it could keep it from firing off that big bazooka we have been talking about stimulus into the market. >> heard the political spin from both sides what does it mean for you if you are looking for work or worried about your own job and what does the employment picture look like for various groups suffering? i want perspective from georgia te economist danny boston. good to see you. you have mentioned when you saw this and saw felicia say, wasn't a great report but it was, you know, i mean, it was good enough. how do you see this overall? >> this is really in many ways it is very, very important because the recovery now has been taking place for three years, believe it or not, started in j

to her right is doug wine steen -- -- weinstein, a longtime analyst on these issues and expert on many issues, from oil and gas development to master limited partnerships for renewals, which is a recent study of his, two things on call and utility issues. -- to things on coal and utility issues. finally, my good friend steve lavigne -- levine, who writes about the geopolitics of oil. he will focus more on some of the global impacts of what the gulf means. i am pleased to have everybody here. i will turn it over to director bromwich to get it started. >> we will go from there. >> thank you for inviting me and for assembling this panel. let me talk about the recent past, present, and future of offshore drilling with the focus on the gulf of mexico. we begin with deepwater horizon, the fire and the spill and the 11 deaths at the 4.9 million barrels of oil. that popped the bubble of complacency on drilling for many years. it led to a comprehensive review of the accident itself and of the structure and the content of the regulation of offshore drilling. it led to examination of ways, overha

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address that sort of paradigm that you guys are big hitters, we're just doing -- we're going to be even steenat the end of this maybe. can you compare what you do and maybe take on that sort of concept that labor and the american -- are doing the same thing. >> any legitimate study says we're outspent significantly but we turn out people at the -- level which hey can't do but now we can reach out to nonundown workers and talk to. he it used to be we would do a nor knock and there would be 500 houses in a small community. if 100 of them are union, we had to skip 400 houses. now we can go to those 400 houseses, talk to them about the issue, get information to them about the issues that they find important or they deem important. we're also going to be doing a couple other things differently. we'll have an energize our volunteer system a whole lot more actively than we have. last election, last cycle, we had 300,000 volunteers on the ground. this time we are shooting for four and we think we'll exceed four because we got three so quickly. we were able to get over 300,000, actually 32 5 very, ver

to her right is doug wine steen -- -- weinstein, a longtime analyst on these issues and expert on manyssues, from oil and gas development to master limited partnerships for renewals, which is a recent study of his, two things on call and utility issues. -- to things on coal and utility issues. finally, my good friend steve lavigne -- levine, who writes about the geopolitics of oil. he will focus more on some of the global impacts of what the gulf means. i am pleased to have everybody here. i will turn it over to director bromwich to get it started. >> we will go from there. >> thank you for inviting me and for assembling this panel. let me talk about the recent past, present, and future of offshore drilling with the focus on the gulf of mexico. we begin with deepwater horizon, the fire and the spill and the 11 deaths at the 4.9 million barrels of oil. that popped the bubble of complacency on drilling for many years. it led to a comprehensive review of the accident itself and of the structure and the content of the regulation of offshore drilling. it led to examination of ways, overhaul