the texas tacoma. >> reporter: they're the numbers driving rick perry to the national stage. under the governor's watch, texas has become a jobs machine. 1 million new ones over the last decade. a full 40% of all jobs created in this country are here. >> jobs bring security, they bring pride. they briri further opportunities. >> reporter: and for rick perry, they could bring the presidency. we set out on a 400-mile journey through the heart of texas, where oil boom and natural gasas exploration has made a new class of millionaires out of random texas landowners in small towns like this. >> people are coming every day. we're building hotels and restaurants. of course, the bank growing with deposits. >> reporter: we found more traditional job creation outside of san antonio where toyota builds tacoma and tundra pickups. no unionons in texas. no state income tax. toyota employs more than 4,000 people here. just down the road, business is booming for bill cox, desperate to hire three more workers at his small manufacturing business. these are not mcdonald's jobs? >> these are ful

. >>> people in tacoma, washington, are remembering the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.eneral retired in the tacoma area in 19 today and the city held a memorial service for the general today. he died july 23rd at the age of 75. he'll be buried at arlington national cemetery. >>> the university of alabama has finally been able to hole commencement ceremonies today. three months after deadly tornadoes ripped through the state. the commencement, planned back in may, had to be postponed. six students from the university were killed when the storm hit tuscaloosa. their parents accepted posthumous degrees for them today. >>> the nfl's hall of fame inducts new players. deon sanders and marshall faulk are both getting in for their first year of eligibility. shannon sharp is in his third year of he willy bill. he'll be joined by his brother, former wide receiver sterling sharp. >>> tiger woods is back from his three-month injury layoff but he's out of the mix at the bridgestone invitational. he shot a two over par 72 today. his excaddie riding high though. his new employer, adam

if you're watching us in seattle, washington, in nearby tacoma, eegyptian artifacts at the search for the essential mummy at the washington state historical society. that's your event of the day. >>> sounds good. >>> now here's an early look at headlines in entertainment. a classic battle of the champion versus eager newcomers is shaping up at the box office this weekend. the defending champ is "planet of the apes" which outperformed expectations last weekend. experts thing in defense of its top spot, it should take in at least $25 million. the challenger is the debut of "the help." based on the best seller, it boasts great reviews, and its buzz could see it earning as much as 25 million this weekend and the top spot if the apes falter. "final destination" where you can't cheat death always kills it at the box office. ba-bump-bump. could surprise the front runners. another possibility, "30 minutes or less" starring jesse eisenberg. it's expected to finish in the low teen millions, and glee, the 3-d concert movie featuring the cast from the show, also debuts and might break into the do

tacoma plays its part in osama bin laden raid. or my favorite, tacoma mom gushes about son's role in finding osama bin laden. [applause] >> she is beautiful, by the way. his mother is beautiful. but i was eagerly reading this thing, he must have called her and told her everything about the raid. he told her nothing. in fact, he didn't call her for four days after the raid. she really didn't know anything about it and he called to tell her when his retirement ceremony would be taking place essentially. this is what she said, to eric she said, it occurred, it was successful and now we're on to today. now, we're hoping to get a bit more than that from him tonight. but i am going to tell you right off the bat that admiral olson has had a career, a successful career as a navy seal because he's kept his mouth shut. so i know this is not a forum he is used to. we have talked in advance. this is how far i got in an off-the-record session which he's now allowed me to talk about what he said in that off-the-record session. i started talking

senate banking committee even as it issues new downgrades of big cities like miami and atlanta and tacoma. there could be more to come, too. we wanted to find out who are these people and how reliable are they? abc's jim avila has that part of the story. >> reporter: in detroit today, a populous backlash as homeowners still struggling to save their houses from foreclosure in a three-year-old housing crisis many blame on standard & poor's speak out. >> what credibility does standard & poor's have as a credit agency when they did such a terrible job? >> reporter: abc news receiving angry e-mails from the outraged, calling the s&p downgrade ridiculous, unpatriotic. saying the company should be a shamed. judy from georgetown, texas says credit agencies are a scam. so who are these guys who meet in this new york city command center and make the decisions some americans seem so angry about? standard & poor's rating service has been grading corporate bonds for 90 years. today, it has more than 1,200 employees. with $75 million in business every we're. in more than 20 countries. but one of its ma

alexander bennett, 24 years old of tacoma, washington. pilot ryan nichols, reservist from kansas city, missouri. the pentagon has not decided whether to release the full list of names of those who were killed in the helicopter crash. >> bret: jennifer, live at the pentagon tonight. thank you. >>> it is just that, 11:00 p.m. in great britain where they have been unable to head off another night of violence. senior foreign affairs correspondent amy kellogg has the latest from london. >> it started again on tuesday. before dusk in parts of northern england. on the move and the nervous shopkeepers boarding up businesses, fearing the worst in third night of rioting across the u.k. monday night led to scenes some liken to world war ii. the south london borough in flames, where this woman was forced to jump from her life from a burning home. there was widespread looting in several suburb of london monday night. individuals were looted. this man was beaten. help it up and had content of his knapsack taken off his back. >> these are sickening scen

. >>> people in tacoma, washington are remembering the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.shvili died july 23 at the age of 75. he'll be buried at arlington national cemetery. >>> the head of s&p's sovereign ratings committee said there's plenty of blame to go around over the u.s.'s first ever credit downgrade. he laid out the main reasons to anderson cooper last night. >> two reasons, the first reason is the one you've outlined being from our view of the political settings in the united states have been altered. we have taken them down a notch, taken the rating down a notch. the political brinkmanship we saw over raising the debt ceiling was something that was really beyond our expectations, the u.s. getting to the last day before they had cash management problems. there are very few governments that separate the budget process from the debt authorization process and we also think more broadly that this debate has shown that although we do have an agreement that we do believe will deliver at least $2.1 trillion of savings in the last decade, it's going to be difficult to g

>> ann marie burr is the oldest unsolved case with the tacoma police department and we are in the end developing our cold case unit here with ou police department. we have approximately 190 unsolved cases here and her being the oldest case and the fact that she was a child and ted bundy's name has been a suspect's name that pops up in that case over the last year. however, there really has been nothing to link him to the case. >> wow. so here is what is interesting, detective. you started looking through the files. you're going through this one specific cold case. and you find the name of this detective in florida that may have some dna evidence, but what he comes back with is actually a vile vial of blood. how did it remain on the shelves unnoticed for so many years? >> the blood vial was discovered actually by the lab director for the tallahassee, florida, department of law enforcement crime lab. and i had contacted him early on back in december of last year to find out if ted bundy -- in the database. he told me that it wasn't. so we got to talking and sort of putting our heads tog

. >> dignitaries from around the world came to tacoma washington to pay final respects to retired generalrmer chairman of the joint chief of staff died two weeks ago and will be buried at arlington national cemetery. >>> if you live in the southeast, don't be surprised to see these faces on digital bill boards. the fbi is going all out in a manhunt for a brother and sister and half brother. they are wanted for an armed bank robbery in south georgia and attempted murder of a florida police officer. >> this may look like any ordinary airliner to you but it is not. boeing 787 dream liner was unveiled yesterday. the $200 million jet promises to revolutionize air travel because it's made of lightweight carbon composites making it much more fuel efficient. nippon will fly dream liners by the end of the year. >>> in new york, the ultimate endurnlg test for athletes. the try an lodge with more than 3,000 athletes swimming and biking. this year's winner ben collins. >> u.s. treasury secretary tim geithner will participate in a conference call tonight with world financial lead everies. he'll discus

. >>> tacoma, washington, october 6th, 2007.ing and technology foundry, home to hundreds of workers, is taking a routine delivery of propane from an 8,000-gallon delivery truck. but this delivery doesn't go as smoothly as planned. a security camera captures what happens. >> what it shows is the driver trying to make the connection with his hoses from his truck to the plant. and you can see suddenly something went wrong. what that was, i don't know that we'll ever know for sure. >> the truck and driver become surrounded by an ominous and dangerous cloud of extremely flammable propane. >> it's very explosive, plus, that leak happened at a very remarkable speed. it was literally, i believe, under 20 seconds. >> the driver, fearing something isn't right, tries to shut down the gas. but he's not in time. suddenly, the propane ignites. >> unfortunately, at that point, you know, it enveloped the driver, too. he was in that cloud. the driver of the truck, you can see it explode. that's horrible. >> the explosion rocks nearby buildings a

. -- everything you read in "the tacoma press." "tacoma plays it's part in osama bin laden raid." or "tacoma mom gushes in son's role in finding osama bin laden ." [applause] way. beautiful, by the he told her nothing. he hadn't called her for four days. he called her to tell her when his retirement ceremony would be taking place. it occurred. it was successful. and now we are on to today. well, we are hoping to get a bit more than that from him tonight, but i will tell you right off of the bat that amaral olson has had a successful career as a seal because he has kept his mouth shut. this is how far i got in advance. in an off the record session, what he said in that session, i started to talk about drone attacks. and he asked, "are you talking about unattributed explosions?" the idea that i could take down a navy seal, i am good, but i am not that good. he has had an extraordinary career, and i hope we can hear a lot about it, and i know he will talk as much as he can about the osama bin laden raid and the future of special ops. when you think back in the last 10 years and how s

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and i think i have been -- not welcome in tacoma. someone asked me why i really like mexican food. and i said where did you hear that i liked mexican food? we saw you were a taco man. if you read tacoman you get talk a man -- taco man. the moment we knew bin laden was dead by thought was what is the next item on the checklist? that is what it is. obviously you are pleased but anybody in this business of this long is conditioned -- >> but bin laden! >> the very next thing could go wrong. are we going to get anybody hurt? what equipment will we find? you are on to the next thing. [applause] >> thank you, sir. as your mother said, everyone should appreciate someone who spends his career making the rest of us safe. >> thank you very much, and l.a.. -- enjoy. [applause] >> this week's events leading to the dedication of the martin luther king jr. memorial include the civil-rights pioneer function at noon eastern. participants include attorney general eric holder, rev. jesse jackson, live coverage is on c-span at noon eastern. also live on c-span at noon friday is a luncheon honoring wom

police in tacoma, washington are very interesting in comparing it to the case of ann bird.napped and murdered in 1961 and was 8 years old. she lived in the same neighborhood as bundy's uncle. she visited a lot. they believe bundy who would have been 15 at the time may have committed his first murder with ann burr. they didn't have enough evidence. now they think they can see if there is any connection. before he was executed ted bundy wrote a letter to the burr family saying he was not responsible for that. police don't buy it. remember bundy was first caught in 197 -p 5. he was convicted. hhe escaped twice, he went to florida, he murdered three florida state could he edz before killing a 12-year-old girl in the orlando area, and that's the crime he was executed for in 1989. very interesting to feigned out if any of his dna matches any of the cold cases from northern washington state all the way down to florida. much more to come, shannon. shannon: thank you very much. the dow down right now almost 300 points. a little bit over, actually there as we continue to watch the st