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>> rick, i look forward to having you by my side. >> well, you can't beat brenda lee. according to an article in this week's "new york times" magazine some republicans in texas are beginning to feel the same way. a crisis of confidence deep in the heart of texas, quote, explains it like this. quote, typically we close ranks when faced with criticism from outsiders, but the possibility of a president perry has brought about a strange and to my mind never-before-seen turn of events, bragging about how bad things are here in texas. wow. texans really turning their backs on the governor? mimi schw...

Rick perry's performance, if you can call it that in the last debate, has created doubt about him in the minds of many people around the country, but an ad from the texas democratic party apologizing for george w. bush and warning the rest of the country to be wary of rick perry sums up how democrats in texas feel. take a look. ♪ >> our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. they never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. ♪ so sorry >> you might be a little surprised. you might be a little shocked. you might be a little appalle...

about this for years and under the president's plan anyone making more than $1 million a year would paper the same percentage of taxes at the middle class. boy, it does not sit well with republicans. >> when you pick one area of the economy and say we're going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, that's class warfare. >> warren buffett has been honest and others i know who have haven't fortunate in life and wealthy say, for goodness sake, raise my taxes if that's going to help this economy move forward. >> brianna keilar is on the phone in washington with mo...

aircraft, that p-51. this is what ntsb officials had to say just a little while ago. take a look. >> for new information, first of all, there had been reports about a mayday from the pilot. thus far, our investigators have found no information of a mayday call from the pilot. next, the investigators have found that the accident aircraft was equipped with a video camera, facing outward. they have also found camera fragments at the wreckage site. and among the wreckage site, they have found multiple memory cards that could have come from the camera. >> reporter: so, don, that's what we...

fred whitfield has the weekend off. our top story this hour, a week after hurricane irene battered the east coast, tropical storm lee is targeting the gulf coast. heavy rain falling now in mississippi and louisiana, both states under a state of emergency. mandatory evacuations are under way in parts of jefferson parish in the new orleans area and some parts could get up to 20 inches of rain. vermont is one of the states still cleaning up from irene. remember that storm? six days after irene slammed the state, nearly 700 vermont homes are still without power. and the search is still o...