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you're in the situation room. it's part economics snapshot, part political football and there's only three more jobs reports coming out before the november election. the latest one released today has something for everybody. the labor didn't reports better than job gains in july. the unemployment rate still picked up a notch. dan, how does all this play out on the campaign trail? >> reporter: for mitt romney it allows him to say see, i told you so. unemployment still going up. it's still above 8%. what the president is doing is not working. the president was putting the spotlight o...

breaking down the july jobs report this hour. i want to get to t employers added 163,000 jobs in july, much better than the 95,000 that economist also predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 8.3%. the latest political spin as president clinton and mitt romney weigh in on this report. go beyond the numbers to find out what the report says about the state of our economy. we are also going to see how wall street is reacting. president obama and mitt romney did not waste any time giving their take on the jobs report. romney is on the campaign trail r he is in vegas. president obama had ...

Twawrt sources are the difference between a robust crop or a devastating loss in the fall. it's the sound of relief, desperately needed water that mother nature is not bringing lately. >> last two years, our peanut crop has been a total loss. we harvested very few acres,s about,s about the been destroyed. >> reporter: with crops, drying up and baking from the deep south to the midwest, farmers are not just hoping for rain, but turning to technology. elton sharp can barely keep up with the demand. farmers all over georgia are calling irrigation installers like him, as repeated droughts risk the...

>> with crops drying up and baking in the heat from the deep stoouth to the midwest, farmers aren't just hoping for rain, but turning to technology. >> elton sharp can barely keep up with the demand. farmers all over georgia are calling irrigation installers like him as repeated droughts grip the state. >> 20 years we tried to convince them and now we have to convince them we have the right thing for them. >> the irrigation business is booming nationwide. and in 2008 farmers spent a whopping 2.1 billion dollars to install, maintain and upgrade systems. >> the trends seem to be that we're havin...