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Interstate 5 where it started from, well, what some believe is, actually, humans started this fire a couple days ago. containment is at 20% as of last night, so well pay attention to that. jon: we are talking a lot about those unemployment numbers today, but another key sector of the economy is housing, and some new numbers show the housing market just might have bottomed out. william la jeunesse live in our l.a. bureau with details. could the worst really be over, william? >> reporter: its been...

Been bigger and continued. but the -- >> spend more money. we are broke. we are broke. hold hon julie. we spent nearly one trillion dollars and jon points out in that initial stimulus they sold it as kind of a economic stimulus and infrastructure all the things america needs. the bulk of that money, nearly a trillion dollars went to transfer payments to states and local governments to keep government payrolls going. weve had over the last 3 1/2 years unprecedented fiscal an monetary stimulus and...

A plan to raise taxes on small business, taking the tax rate from 35% to 40%. the nfib, the national foundation of independent businesses, has said that will cost the presidents -- jon: mitt romney in north las vegas, nevada, speaking about his plans for the economy. lets take you to the other side of the country now. president obama is speaking at the eisenhower executive office building next door to the white house with. lets hear what the president has to say. >> but lets acknowledge weve wit...

So quickly. >> reporter: well to the credit of the director of national intelligence which is the nations top intelligence official, james clapper, he testified to the senate armed services committee in february there were already signs that al qaeda in iraq has crossed the border into syria and was infiltrating. at the time he said they did not believe the opposition was aware of al qaedas presence. there is a key marker weve not yet seen in syria when it comes to al qaeda. what weve not seen i...

>> -- saying they were going to use the powers of government to crack down on this company because they dont like the views of its leadership. jon: right. lets bring into the discussion judith miller, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and author. judy, what about that? rahm emanuel, the former white house, you know, obama chief of staff is now mayor of chicago, he said chick-fil-a doesnt represent chicago, and he tried to lobby against expansion there. same with the mayor of boston. ...

8.2% in june. whats the impact on november? monica crowley is a fox news contributor and radio talk show host. julie roginsky also fox news contributor and former political advisor to senator frank lautenberg of new jersey. what is the impact, julie? >> good question. remains to be seen. the numbers are good for the administration obviously we have strong job creation and we have the strongest job creation in the past five months. however the unemployment is rate is unacceptably high for most pe...

I mean, especially with the russian veto being the way it is. russia has interests in syria that are diametrically opposed to ours, and the idea we can reach an agreement with the russians on this has been a fantasy, in my opinion, from the get go. so i think the united nations security council has been largely irrelevant from the outset, and the fact that the obama administration decided thats the only route its going to go suggests, as many have proposed, that this is the way for the administr...

Romney to julys jobs report. it has something for both campaigns. nearly three months before election day. paul gigot is editorial page editor for "the wall street journal." paul, we created more jobs than anybody expected but yet the unemployment rate ticks up. can you explain that? >> two different surveys, jon. one showed an increase in the number of jobs is the survey that goes to employers. they said okay, how many people did you hire? that found some new hiring. the other one goes to house...

Because you said it is not about governor romney. en i go into voting booth i just dont vote against somebody i have to vote for somebody. it is hard to vote for a guy he essentially proposed a plan 95% of the people in the country see the taxes go up. he proposed a one-page job creation plan which is joke. >> actually when you have incumbent running almost always a referendum on this incumbent. >> not true. >> you have 3 1/2 years evidence of economic destruction under this man. when you look a...

Engineers and science people that put these missions together. and also its really important for us to explore and to answer some really basic questions, are we alone in the universe? this is important stuff. and plus, what we learn in doing these really hard things pays off time and time again in the rest of society. ive seen reports that indicate all the money we spent on going to the moon and the space program has had up to a 7 to one return on investment back here in the economy because of a...