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Growing share of federal outlays in some cases growing rather rapidly. without addressing that path of spending it would be extremely difficult to put the budget on a sustainable path. >> reporter: now the cbo director has warned the committee he needs its recommendations much sooner than the end of november just before thanksgiving in order to officially score the savings. sometime around the beginning of november which of course is next week. so, they are right up against the deadline, jenna. jenna: that is good reminder. i had to think about that for a second. november is already here. real...

Board full-time undergrads borrowed on average $5,000 on that same period. all of them borrowed on average that number about. what does that mean to the economy when we're working with that kind of debt to get an education. fox business lori rothman is working on the story. >> the numbers are staggering, jenna. americans owe more on students loans than they do on credit cards. the amount on loans as you mentioned one billion dollar mark. outstanding loans here, more than one trillion dollars. we're seeing more americans borrowing money to get advanced college degrees hoping to land a job. amer...

four hours or so. morgan stanley come out with a global note cutting its global growth forecast and saying the u.s., the world is dangerously close to recession quite frankly and naming a couple of different reasons why they think that global growth will not be as strong as they thought. among them, europe's debt problems and also mentioning what they call policy mistakes in the u.s. and also the drama about the debt ceiling. they say, overall, consumer confidence, business confidence, almost this negative feedback loop we are on the verge of people being so worried and not able to b...

this "american morning.". busy weekend. good morning, august 1st. a lot going on today. >> it was an agonizing weekend and we were all up late last night. e-mails flying at midnight. >> it was busy. >> but things are a little brighter today than they were last night and saturday night and a little brighter. >> tiny bit. we start with that possible break-through in the debt ceiling crisis. in a few hours the house and senate are expected to vote on a plan by president obama and congressional leaders to raise america's borrowing limit in exchange for massive spending cuts. >> i want ...

Parking garage. this is just coming in fox news and our satellite with brand new pictures. >> we'll move on to something that everyone is feeling. average gas prices. pennies away from the four dollar mark . according to triple a, the average regular unleaded is 3.97 . it is giving home that the national average may miss four bucks a gallon. but are paying far more than that. casey is in a place. disgraceful that number behind you. >> harris, it is a killer when you pull up to the gas pump. it doesn't matter where you live. check out the price for a gallon of unleaded regular and