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Focus the water to the main channels. the only shut downs have been for nighttime navigation and when a barge runs aground. martha: interesting story. beautiful part of the country. thank you so much. gregg: it's meant to protect you of course from germs. just how safe is that hand sanitizer you've been using? well, we'll tell you coming up.
Huge number. >> okay. the debt as of right now is 15 trillion, 972 billion. do the math. in $28 billion time we will hit the milestone, 16 trillion. we've never been there before. we're adding to the debt, roughly 3 billion a day. that means in nine or 10 days we'll hit 16 trillion. this is weekend right before the republican con -- convention. gee, martha, do you think the republicans will make an issue of debt hitting that $16 trillion number right before they have the convention? odds are they will. martha: we'll hear a lot about that number. it has been extraordinary what has been added to...
Martha: president obama speaking out for the first time since the vice president joe biden's controversial comments. here's what he had to say. >> what joe biden was talking about, again, is an example of a substantive argument, a substantive issue that the american people should be concerned about and his phrasing is a distraction from what is at stake. martha: according to the president, what mr. biden meant to say that americans would be worse off if republicans succeeded in dog away with new restraints on banking and financial institutions on wall street. here is the original comment from ...
Details about additional speakers for the republican national convention later this month. some big names have been added including senator robb portman of ohio, virginia governor bob mcdonnell and louisiana governor bobby jindal. remember fox news is america's election headquarters. "america's newsroom" will be live in tampa for the republican convention and in charlotte for the democratic convention as well. the event is august 27th. complete coverage though begins sunday, august 26th. martha: we'll be there. looking forward to that. a lot coming up. some are saying purple may soon be govern...
Congressman ryan is very enthusiastic about the medicare debate, telling fox news and others we think we can win this debate. key to that will be the appearance on saturday in central florida, home to many seniors and many medicare recipients, martha. martha: sure is. a lot of buzz in the crowd behind you this morning, james. we also understand congressman ryan will address or has just addressed the, speaking error you might call it. one of joe biden's gaffs. the vice president made pretty controversial remarks in virginia on tuesday. what did he say about that? >> reporter: this was congressm...