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america, "john king, usa" starts right now. >> good evening, everyone, tonight rare good news for president obama in the polls as he warms to a jobs fight with republicans, the new numbers show big support nationwide when the president says this -- >> if you want construction workers back on the work site, pass this bill. if you want teachers back in the classroom, pass this jobs bill. >> but theres bad news for the president, too, and lots of it. for starters, democrats lose a new yor...

fewer americans filed first-time jobless claims last week. the labor department says that it got 395,000 initial claims. thats a drop of 7,000. it is the first time the number dipped below 400,000 since early april. united nations says that the drought ravaging the horn of africa has not peaked. that means a long-term threat of famine. the u.n. says 12 million people, if you can believe that, are at risk. desperately needs more than a billion dollars to feed them. musician and activist...

>> hes the president. come on out to the lawn of the white house with a microphone and tell us your plan on entitlement reform. and he wont do it because he doesnt have the courage to do it. >> im candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." >> late into the night, leaders scrambled for a last-minute debt deal, a two-step plan that would raise the debt ceiling through 2011 in exchange for about a trillion dollars in spending cuts. both sides are on board. but the hang-up is a secon...

>> ill make sure that priority of people in this district, conservative republican district, are heard loud and cheer in washington. i suspect republicans will pay attention. >> the national response to hochuls win that was perceived to be bellwether by many has been swift. harry reid said the result is rejection on what he called the republican plan to kill medicare. >> american voters have a chance to do something about it. >> they ran on the plan. promised to dismantle medicare. >> throughout...

Trying to make clear what his plan would really do. >> martha, let me say the special elections are not bellwethers for national elections coming down the pike in 2012. and, democrats can crow and nancy pelosi can take a victory lap on the special election, but, it really is meaningless. if anything, what happened in district 26 is this: the tea party can upset the apple cart for republicans. here you had a situation where a well-funded tea party backed candidate who happened to be a democrat, b...

>> ill make sure that priority of people in this district, conservative republican district, are heard loud and cheer in washington. i suspect republicans will pay attention. >> the national response to hochuls win that was perceived to be bellwether by many has been swift. harry reid said the result is rejection on what he called the republican plan to kill medicare. >> american voters have a chance to do something about it. >> they ran on the plan. promised to dismantle medicare. >> throughout...

Right way and not on the backs of our seniors, if i have my wayened i hope i do, we will keep the promises we made to our seniors, who spent their entire lives paying into a medicare system so it would be there when they needed it. its that simple. that simple. >> john heilemann, this is jack k kemstras old district, this is a republican district. >> it has not been out of republican hands in a century. people are going to -- a huge win for democrats and one of those bellwethers both national pa...

Channel, well be out there chasing them today and keeping people warned. we invite you to stay tuned to the weather channel and weather.com. >> thank you for your report, mike. politics. the polls are open in upstate new york in a special election with national implications. the republican plan to reshape medicare has become a defining issue in this three way race for congress. that suits some democrats just fine. reed wilson is national chief of hot line and matt bias. chuck joins for this co...

Democracy from there and why these two countries you may ask? senior administration officials say egypt because its a bellwether for the region and tunisia because thats where the arab spring uprisings began. brianna keilar, cnn, the white house. as president obama extends a helping hand to egypt and tunisia, hes taking a different tact elsewhere in the region. the u.s. is imposing sanctions on syrias president and other figures in the government and calling for damascus to end its brutal crac...

syrias president and his cronies. new sanctions as the u.s. calls for an end to the security crackdown. waiting for water levels to fall, for thousands of people forced out of their homes by the mississippi floods, life becomes a waiting game. and the disaster that rocked an economy to its foundations, japan sinks back into its third recession in a decade. dominique strauss-kahn has resigned as head of the international monetary fund to focus on clearing his name. his decision fo...