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welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and all around the world, im kim brunhuber. coming up on "cnn newsroom." the search is on for a suspected killer in texas. ahead, what were learning about the victims of this latest mass shooting. plus, evacuations are happening in sudan, but many say its not easy to get out. hear one womans story about how the u.s. government did nothing to help her parents leave. plus, tv stars mingled and mixed amid the white house...

and surreal. i dont know anything about politics. but the most important job that i have is daddy. and my two whys i have to take that off the table of running for president. one is 6 and the other the 4. >> i totally respect that its beautiful. but kids do age. thats not closing the door for 2040. even before them, 2036, theyll be in college. what about then? youre not closing the door forever is what im asking? >> no, not at all. i wouldnt do that. like thank you for asking that, for...

Can get to yes and thats what were focused on. how do we move forward not screaming at each other, but sitting down and figuring out where where ked make congress. >> how do you deal with rear fellow republicans. they dont want to make any deals with the democrats, because they dont trust the democrats and really dont want to go forward with such deals. how do you do that? >> you lead. thats why -- you know, obviously sticking our neck up and josh sticking his neck up, were putting people before...

Services for the neck up, like we do for the neck down frankly, we would have done something. background checks, community mental health services for veterans coming home, for people in the community. we could say at the end of the day, okay, we have done something that is meaningful and will change lives. >> senator, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much. >> and thank you michigan for running ads. >> i thought it was my introduction. pure michigan. come to michigan this summer....

Is. >> bret: thats right. neck up, the congress looking to -- next up, the congress looking to pass legislation that deals with china undervaluing the currency. take a listen. >> we are sending a message to china. the jig is up. you either revalue your currency and play by the rules or youre going to face severe consequences. to the administration, were saying that the time for asking china nicely is over. >> in the tough economic time we ought not to allow any of our trading partners to rig the...

Is. >> bret: thats right. neck up, the congress looking to -- next up, the congress looking to pass legislation that deals with china undervaluing the currency. take a listen. >> we are sending a message to china. the jig is up. you either revalue your currency and play by the rules or youre going to face severe consequences. to the administration, were saying that the time for asking china nicely is over. >> in the tough economic time we ought not to allow any of our trading partners to rig the...

bachmanns top staffers. ed rollins, a familiar presence on the show, stepping back to what is called an advisory role citing health concerns and david pulenski is leaving the campaign entirely. the two had, quote, strategic differences on the path forward. politico saying it is unclear who will take either mans place. joining us are james carville and ari fleischer who can be reached on twitte twitter @arifleischer. james, what do you make of the shakeup? >> its possible ed rollins cou...

and, deputy manager leaving the campaign entirely. unclear whos taking either mans place. joining us right now is james carville. >> its not outside the realm of possibility that he does have health issues. and also, these differences in campaigns happen. it would be early to call this significant. it may be, but theres probably a lot more to find out about it before i deem it significant. >> if it is health, thats one thing. if its not, could this also just be the growing pains of a c...

good morning to you. it is tuesday, august 23rd. this is "am: wake up call." im carol costello live in new york. lets get started with that big storm crashing through the atlantic ocean right now. irene is getting ever more powerful and may be heading toward the united states. people in south carolina already getting ready for irene. the hurricane is near the dominican republic right now. take a look at the storm from the international space station. irene is now a category 2 hurricane...

Kentucky. some people lost everything they had, and the estimated damage could top $1 billion in nashville alone. the real cost of the flooding is the human toll. in just a matter of seconds one tennessee woman lost her husband, her daughter and her home. on sunday morning the creek near the family home began to rise, overflowing its banks. in just minutes it went from leg level to chest-deep waters. bob knew it was bad. he moved quickly to get his son to higher ground and he tried to rescue his...