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that's where we are at this point. you can see just beyond us fire crews are continuing to set backfire so they can burn out all this dry brush that's right in the path of the walker fire. i want to show you some video we just shot right up highway 20 from this location a short time ago. this is where we came upon a crew, an engineering company from the hayward fire department. they've been up here helping to battle these two large wild fires they were right along the edge of highway 20. essentially their main goal was to make sure the leading edge of the walker fire didn't cross ove...

but what romney delivered was his standard 20-minute campaign speech, that according to the "associated press." president obama on now to new york city for campaign fundraisers and a visit to the world trade center site where he and the governors of new york and new jersey will sign one of the final deebeams installed ine world trade center building. >> the story behind the star-spangled banner. this weekend on american history tv. mark the bicentennial of the start of the war of 1812, from ft. mchenry from the site francis thought he would see through the rockets red glare. live sat...

poll is dead-even, 43-43 for the president and mitt romney. we know from the polls the jobs and economy are the most important issues for the american people. on anything that has anything to do with the economy, taxes, job creation, federal spending, mitt romney has substantial leads over president obama which is why you see the romney campaign focus so completely on the economy. they believe that any day on the campaign trail that is not spent talking about the economy is a day that is wasted. martha: they definitely believe that is their wheelhouse. they are also reading the polls...

handle that issue more than the president. he is at 39% on that one. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. here in "america's newsroom". >> i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer our nation's security is a big one. martha: president obama has a big lead on that over governor romney. 46% trust the president more on how to keep the country safe from terrorism. mitt romney at 34% in that regard. bring in byron york, chief correspondent for the washington many camer. -- examiner. >> thank you, martha. martha: on taxes job creation, government spending, mitt romney is doing resound...

has done to help the economy and this number sticks out, the bottom of the screen. forty-six say done nothing to help. >> beyond that, beyond the 43 percent who say he's done nothing, only 7 percent point to the stimulus bill. remember that was the signature domestic policy achievement of this administration's first year in office. it's the first thing that they got to business doing, congress passed it right away, it was going to jump start the recovery. remember 2010 was going to be the summer of recovery, the white house had an entire team set to go around the country, including c...