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Are paying the new taxes, seniors are figuring out, it's $200 billion in new medicare taxes for seniors. plus, $575 billion is being pulled from medicare. they are really going to take it on the chin on obamacare. they are very upset. but you look at literally millions of people who are about to lose their employer-sponsored health care. if you like your health insurance, you can keep t. no dice. it is not going to happen. people are seeing through it. that's why the people who are revved up are the people who are going to make mitt romney president, have 50 in the senate and hold on to the ho...

Meet with flood victims and some of the state's first responders. >> meantime the mississippi river still on the rise and in vicksburg, the flood waters forcing more road closures, homes in the area, getting swamped. dang springer is live at the flood gates in downtown vicksburg. how high is the water in vicksburg today, dan tion and when is it expected to crest? >> reporter: jon, it's still rising slowly here, the number is 56.7 feet here in vicksburg, expected to crest at 57.5 on thursday. now, that number may not mean much to you but it's at an all time high, the record set in 1927, but thi...

Why? how does that work? >> first of all, people have options to move out of the state if they think the taxation levels are too onerous. they have options to move out of the state, which is what i did. the last thing you want to do is push people that have the ability to invest and create jobs and be philanthropic, you don't want to drive them out of the state. i think what they did was good and it's about time. >> brian: and listen how this breaks down. if you look at the revenue right now made up by income taxes, it's 56.7%. the highest income tax rate around. it's 8.97% here and the income...

For the board and relationship with ceos at hewlett-packard. >> that's true. but they sell the most pcs of any company in america. >> all right. steve liesman, cnbc senior economic reporter. thank you very much. trivia time. what member of congress once worked as an accountant for george w. bush? the answer, texas's mike conaway. just in case you didn't notice, today is august 9, 2010. this is not a reference to nixon's resignation. today's date is 8/9/10. at 12:34 and 56.7 seconds newsroom roit will be 12345678910. you won't see it for another 100 years. live the moment -- i mean the seco...

So even in a part of the usa accustomed to extreme heat and heat waves, this is a particularly difficult and indeed extraordinary situation. death valley, california on friday recorded a high of 54.1; celsius, 130 fahrenheit, matching a temperature recorded in august last year which some argue is the highest temperature reliably recorded on earth, but the official record at death valley actually goes back to 1913 at 56.7 degrees celsius. now, whilst not expected to threaten that this weekend, we still see temperatures getting a little bit higher over the weekend in death valley. gradually, tem...