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Verified i have my concealed carry permit on me, verified everything through the proper channels. and ultimately they escorted me back to my vehicle. they didnt want to put me back on the bus and say it was just an active shooting situation. so instead of putting somebody else with a weapon on the bus they just let me grab my own vehicle off campus. >> reporter: today is a very to say the least unusual day, and -- in douglas county. what is this place normally like? >> its a close-knit community...

>> well follow it shannon, thank you. the house has approved just before leaving for august recess a bill to extend highway construction for three months. the vote was 385-34. this averts a shutdown of highway programs at the end of the month. provided the senate approves the bill in the next two days. a buffalo-area man is facing terrorism charges tonight. federal agents raided arafats? najis home this morning. hes accused of traveling to turkey with the intention of joining isis. federal a...

Time for news by the numbers on this nurse. first, 12 pennies. thats how much gas prices would go up if a new proposed federal gas tax goes through. great. its pitched as a we to pay for our highway programs. next, $15. thats seattles new minimum wage thats now sparking a lawsuit from franchises claiming the wage hike will put them out of business. 15 bucks. and 30 minutes. thats how long facebook was down early this morning causing a bit of chaos on line. one person even tweeted, quote, people ...

The taxes you pay on the fuel you put in your vehicles. del cat chris murphy and republican bob corker have a plan to raise the taxes on gasoline and diesel by 12 crepts a gallon over the next two years. theyre trying to boost the fund that pays for highway programs set to go broke in august. on capitol hill, just two days after gm announced its latest massive recall. on the search for answers about a problem that just will not go away. >> reporter: with pictures of 13 dead posted in the heari...

Or spend that differently? what would be the next step? >> well, i dont know. you know, we dont even know what the budget is. but heres what you do know, we spend billions and billions of dollars, thats number one. number two, you know, we have 16 independent agencies, in many cases doing the same thing. so obvious questions even from a managerial standpoint, is there duplicately occasion? are they running into each other? cooperation, coordination? if this was 16 different food stamp programs o...

Going to be coming out from the federal government today and you might not pay attention to every single detail of a lot of these reports but this one you might want to because this report is going to be scathing in the sense of how much money we are wasting right now billions in government bloat and overlap with programs that do the same thing and may not have any results. >> lets take a look at the big board over there, gretch and look at the number of federal programs that cover the same stuf...

Better jobs report next month. still lets look at the bottom line here. the unemployment rate still sitting at 9.7%. and thats double what it was two years ago when the rescission started. so if youre unemployment health could be on the way, the house of representatives passed a $15 billion jobs bill. the bill now has to go back to the senate where they hash out their changes. thats going to delay its passage until probably next week. if they hire currently unemployed workers. it also funds high...

Im sure you have an explanation. >> excuse me! >> are you concerned about those that are going to lose their benefits? >> well, i read a report that said he was going back down to the floor because the democrats in the senate could approve it with unanimous consent. at issue is this -- on sunday night, a bunch of government programs expired including highway and transit programs and included in that were unemployment benefits for 400,000 americans. now, theres a whole another bill -- >> extensio...

Left without these benefits. even if congress passes an extension, people wont be able to get missed payments. its times like these when congress pulls something like this, leaves reasons for americans to think are these members of congress really in touch with the american people, kyra? >> youre talking about a price tag of $10 billion. and this bill includes a lot more than just an extension of unemployment benefits. theres a lot of other things that are going to be impacted as well. >> exactl...

Megyn: what do you think? does brian have it right? does he accurately characterize how middle americans feel? americans are debating harry reid -- harry reid $15 billion jobs bill. it includes tax breaks for businesses that hire the unemployed as well as transit and highway programs. five republicans joined the democrats to advance the measure. among them massachusetts senator scott brown. but the show of bipartisan did not last long as evidenced by two senators on the floor today. >> the fact ...