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Question and the romney war chest and the fact that it is not as formidable, perhaps, as we thought it might be given where he is numbers wise in terms of fund-raising and actually the donor base he's looking at which is high dollar donors may be getting towards maxing out and in terms of small donors those are giving less than $200 in august, romney had 9.4 million in small doughtations, obama had 25.1. >> that is a significant figure. that has been an issue, trying to build out the small donor model. they've had a tremendous amount of success at the high donor level. surprising to me how muc...

A family of four. those experts say poverty is on the rise in suburban, america where it's already at record levels. we won't get the official levels will until the government releases the census this fall when those figure could say play a huge role in the november presidential election. how big a jump are we talking about here. >> well in 2010 it was 125.1% of americans living in port it could go to 15.7%. most likely come in at 15.2. this is a record you don't want to set. this takes us back to roughly 1983, very close to the worst year ever in 1965. >> shepard: a number of factors in play ...

Apple juice. let me show you what is happening, the six-month price percentage moves. this is six months. this is six months with just a few of the necessities. cotton is up 125%. six months, sugar 82, corn 59%. coffee 41%. rice 40%. look at others, oats, if you are a horse, panic. copper, 36%. lumber, up 33%. put some gutters on it, why don't you. have the old-fashioned thing called electricity. oil 25.1%. during that same six months stretch what has the dollar done? the dollar has dropped by 6%. every time we print more money the value of your dollar that

Federal spending was 19.6% of the gdp, the deficit was $161 billion. here we are in 2011 the deficit is projected to be 25.1% of gdp. >> reporter: spending. jon: i'm sorry, federal spending 25.1, that's why i brought you in because you're smart and the deficit projected to be 1.3 trillion. >> reporter: that's right. some of that is the recession and it would have happened no matter who was in charge, okay. have you a recession, revenues go down and some counter circumstance louisiana cal spending for unemployment benefits goes up. the difference is we had an incredible increase in the last two...

Jacksonville knows this late night landmark spot, marina cafe behind me, you can see has taken on flooding this is the new river the rainfall and the storm , the new river is causing the problems and let me just walk you through the parking lot of the marina. in the distance is where the new river comes up there's actually a marina obviously behind us but it is at almost record levels maria at 14 feet the new river floods. that's the flood stage level but it's at 24.08 this morning the record is 25.1. where i'm standing right now this is the parking lot. the dock master you see in the distance...