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>> love it, man. welcome back "the five." we talked yesterday about the palestinian push for official statehood, that looks like it could be happening this week at the u.n. it's a hot-button topic because it's not clear whether the president will make the request. and if so, whether the request would be accepted by the general assembly and really where president obama will come doub down -- come down on it. i think this is the obama administration cutting a deal with the palestinian authority to say, look, back off, obama says to the palestinians, back off. we doll this another time and he can...

>> love it, man. welcome back "the five." we talked yesterday about the palestinian push for official statehood, that looks like it could be happening this week at the u.n. it's a hot-button topic because it's not clear whether the president will make the request. and if so, whether the request would be accepted by the general assembly and really where president obama will come doub down -- come down on it. i think this is the obama administration cutting a deal with the palestinian authority to say, look, back off, obama says to the palestinians, back off. we doll this another time and he can...

>> dan simon, living the collective dream in san francisco. cnn newsroom continues right now. >> hello, everyone, president obama is just about to land in columbus, ohio, to campaign for the jobs bill that republican leaders of congress are openly rejecting. barely 24 hours ago the president showed off his american jobs act and demanded congress pass it with, and i quote, no games, no politics, no delays. but then came the details of how the $447 billion package would be paid for. two words. tax hikes. and you could hear the opposition digging in. the biggest hike by far would be a c...

>> i am the luckiest person in the world. my family is safe. now i need to check on my neighbors. >> michelle's home burned in the steiner ranch community northwest of austin. today we are reminded not all fire victims were lucky and we may not know all the dead. the biggest fire has killed at least two people, and two others, a mother and toddler died elsewhere in the state on sunday. today a 100-member search team from texas task force one plans to fan out southeast of austin where authorities fear not everybody fled when the flames approached. take a look here. this is an interact...

Shep? >> shepard: anita more violence to the south of mexico for you today. a car bomb went off outside a television studio 200 miles south of the border. nobody hurt. senator john mccain is commenting on this violence now, right? >> he is. he makes the point that this violence is happening so close to the border that it could easily spill into the united states. mccain, of course, is fresh off a primary win in arizona. immigration is likely to be a hot button topic in his re-election battle for his senate seat. he pointed to the president's comments that the border is the most secure it has b...