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Spreading across the country is a fight for fairness in america. standing up against corporate greed in new york, boston, los angeles and chicago, and against the politicians who support the 1%, and forget about the 99%. this movement has been building from the state level, where a group of republican governors have embraced an extreme agenda attacking the middle class. joining me now is one of the biggest fighters for the movement, former governor of ohio, ted strickland. welcome. >> reverend al, thank you for having me. >> i was in your state over the weekend, going back to saturday. you hav...

thank you for waking up with us. i'm live in new york. let's start in texas, shall we? it's a dry, scorched burning place this morning. its wildfire problems are getting worse. more than 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the biggest and maybe the most dangerous is the one you're looking at in bastrop county, 30 miles from downtown usa. p let's go to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. we're going to get to chris welch who's in texas just a bit. i wanted to talk to you first about the dry conditions in texas and if they're going to get any relief from mother nature. >> we d...

>> that was cool. "american morning" continues right now. after the deluge, i'm christine romans, tropical storm lee now a tropical depression, but still, packing plenty of rain after dumping a foot on parts of the gulf coast. >> i'm carol costello. right now massive wildfires threatening to burn down thousands of homes in texas. it is the worst fire season in state history and it's far from over on this "american morning." all right. good morning, everybody. it's monday, september 5th. labor day. welcome to "american morning." ali is off today. >> happy labor day. i hope you're ...

Table through the people they elect. the reason we have done this, judge, is because we need to give the flexibility to the local governments to control their costs and it is estimated local governments could save well over a billion dollars which helps them to cope with less dollars flowing to their jurisdictions and we have to create a growth economy in ohio, judge. ohio has lost more jobs in the last ten years than every state in america except for california and michigan. this is part of an overall reform program to eliminate the structural deficits to lower the cost for businesses to come...

And our focus right now is on the recall effort. we'll be involved in all six of those recalls -- >> in wisconsin? >> senators and we are going to be heavily involved in the referendum recall on s.b. 5. >> well, i want to show some poll numbers here, michael. a gallup poll, who do you agree with in the battles? state labor unions or governors. 48% say they the end to side more with the labor unions, 39% with the governors here. you know, what is it that the governors have gotten wrong in this fight? obviously you don't like the policy but messaging-wise seems like you are getting your mess on ...