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>> one interstation is china is basically lending us the money to buy stuff from t >> brown: we get reaction to the wide-ranging proposals to cut the federal deficit made yesterday by the leaders of a presidential commission. >> lehrer: judy woodruff talks to senator-elect chris coons of delaware. >> brown: and on this veterans day, ray suarez updates the investigations into mismarked graves and other problems at arlington national cemetery. >> one grave site was empty. one grave site ...

fredericksburg and southern maryland, additional showers popping up. in the mountains near winchester if we are looking at a couple of showers. nothing is expected to become severe. our forecast on this fourth day of august, daytime highs around 90-95. chance of isolated showers or thunderstorms later this afternoon. lets get an update on the rush hour commute with lisa baden. it was a stressful drive this morning because the rain was coming down in buckets. my vehicles hydroplaning....

96 points today closing at 9,772. analysts blame investors concerns over a weaker than expected jobs report. todays session closed out the second quarter which saw the dow fall 10%. army secretary john mchugh is vowing to do whatever it takes to fix what he calls the unimaginable wrongs at arlington national cemetery. an army investigation revealed massive mismanagement and failures at the cemetery including 211 graves misidentified or mislocated. he has taken several steps to rectify the situ...

we have just learned that hurricane alex is gaining strength with winds up now to 90 miles an hour. it could slam into southern texas and northeast mexico just in a matter of hours. it is a category one storm right now. just shy of being upgraded to a category two. alex is unleashing heavy rains and winds along much of the gulf coast. now, that is creating delays in the oil cleanup operation in the hard hit region that it simply cannot afford. oil skimming ships have been forced back t...

>> reporter: there is already a state of emergency as alex makes its way ashore. as hurricane alex lumbers its way onshore. >> were getting flooded in. were putting sandbags down. >> reporter: it already taking a beating. >> the island itself is just a low spot. there really isnt a high spot. >> reporter: flooding is becoming a serious threat. power line have started to fall and it is only expected to get worse. >> a lot of broken trees down already. >> reporter: with the state of emer...

and time. we have seen the sheen in the waters along the coast. and nasty globs of thick tar on the beaches. but the latest forecast models indicate that the worst of the spill, the massive continuous slick could make landfall for the first time in the next couple of days. >> essentially the wind continues to blow in the wrong direction. they are blowing out of the south or southeast. they are coming from the water to the land. >> reporter: frustrations and raw emotions from the disast...

>> its brought all race s all nations in south africa together. more than anything else. the spirit is different all together. this we never experienced before. >> woodruff: plus, ray suarez debriefs fred about what the matches mean for south africas economy and its sense of pride. >> lehrer: jeffrey brown talks with journalist sebastian junger about his new book, the story of a platoon of u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. >> one guy said to me, you know, some guys hate each other in this ...

>> lehrer: and fred de sam lazaro has a pre-world cup report about post apartheid south africa. >> its brought all race s all nations in south africa together. more than anything else. the spirit is different all together. this we never experienced before. >> woodruff: plus, ray suarez debriefs fred about what the matches mean for south africas economy and its sense of pride. >> lehrer: jeffrey brown talks with journalist sebastian junger about his new book, the story of a platoon of u...

They are still trying to identify the second black widow in those attacks. meanwhile tensions easing between the united states and china after a lengthy phone call between barack obama and the chinese president. lawmakers accused china of under valuing to out source unemployment by rigging the currency. china said it will make its own decisions on how to manage the exchange rate. you know how they do this is a pegged discount to the u.s. dollar. they guarantee exports and our manufacturers cant ...

Specific and updated terror threats. the new plan approved by the president is the result of a security review following the christmas day attempt to blow up a jetliner headed for detroit. theres been a surge of violence in gaza that may complicate efforts to break a dead look in the u.s.-backed effort to restart israeliy/palestinian peace talks. reports are saying several children have been injured following israeli air strikes on the hamas-ruled gaza strips. it follows rocket attacks from ga...