generate them from within the country. thanks very much for being with us this morning. thank you. thank you, commissioner. so continue, we see al qaeda moving, we chase them in afghanistan, they go to north africa, they go yemen all over the place. i mean it seems like we re constantly chasing shadows here. i don t think we really have a strategy, trillions of dollars later. we ve been at this for more than a decade. i remember going to yemen, i was invited by the president of yemen about seven years ago. the place was a mess, but it wasn t al qaeda. i came back to washington and said there s a hunger crisis, a drought crisis, maybe some help, some attention. yemen, what do we care about yemen? we don t care about any of this stuff. then we end up with this kind of
why the secret service is taking this all very seriously. frightening story there. also this morning, the traffic also this morning, the traffic jam on the mississippi river. and what it means to you and your money. the drought crisis there may impact you even if you live far from the mighty mississippi. we talked about this story yesterday. now the we are getting a clearer picture of the financial impact. i mean, when that river has an issue, i mean, there is there are definitely some economic ripples. learning more about that this morning. later we will open the wnn inbox and all-out search for noah s ark, and what led this former playboy model on such a big journey. uh. first, that bizarre story we mentioned at the top of the show. a 70-year-old woman facing the possibility of spending the rest of her life behind bars for the death of her long-time husband. now, lois goodman is in custody this morning and will be
breaking down the july jobs report this hour. i want to get to t employers added 163,000 jobs in july, much better than the 95,000 that economist also predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 8.3%. the latest political spin as president clinton and mitt romney weigh in on this report. go beyond the numbers to find out what the report says about the state of our economy. we are also going to see how wall street is reacting. president obama and mitt romney did not waste any time giving their take on the jobs report. romney is on the campaign trail r he is in vegas. president obama had a meeting with middle class families at the white house. romney points to the 42 moments with unemployment above 8%. he said the jobs report is more proof that the president s policies are failed. well, we continue to have 23 million americans out of work or have stopped working for look or underemployed and see job numbers bounce around month to month to month butno question that we now have 42
according to the times, november s winner should win at least two of those three states. meanwhile, rockny is about even with the president among independent voters in florida and ohio on the key issue of the economy. the obama administration is calling syria s president bashar al assad a coward for remaining in hiding while telling his military to step up the fight against rebels. assad s call appeared in his army s official magazine. meanwhile, the united nations reports a significant escalation in syria s civil war with the military using war planes to fire on opposition fighters in the battle for the country s largest city, aleppo. back at home, the nation s staggering drought crisis is spreading. on wednesday, more than 200 counties were added to a list of disaster areas covering massive parts of the u.s. and the fallout from weeks of hot, dry weather is going well beyond the farm fields, as nbc s ann thompson reports, it could
we ve been talking about aleppo. you can see the neighborhoods we ve highlighted. the largest city in syria where government forces are expected to win in this battle but that has yet to happen. as we told you just yesterday rebel forces captured this army base and today they have captured not just one but two maybe even we re hearing three police stations in various parts here throughout aleppo. we have video of one of those battle. take a listen to this. [ gunshots ] again, these are syrian rebel s in the process of capturing a police station. hala, come on over. walk on over in front of map. because you know so much and you have sources in this city. i just spoke from someone inside aleppo and given me new information. let s start with that. you were showing and i like that map with the neighborhoods here because the very dire situation is happening in salahuddin right now. the people aren t able to get food or bread or fuel. that s what ivan was saying. if you