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what are the presidential candidates spending it on? >> brown: ray suarez begins a special series about the impact of natural gas and oil surpluses in america. tonight he's in a north dakota town trying to cope with its sudden prosperity. >> woodruff: track and field heats up at the london olympics as gymnastics winds down. we get theatesfrom christine brennan of "u.s.a. today." >> brown: anwe remberobe hughes and judith crist, two legendary critics of the arts whose deaths remind us of another era. >> warner: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour...

with thief the fourth wife of drew peterson ... the interview where peterson asked to sit and as a professional courtesy ... the judge denied the defense request to strike the testimony but they saw the fbi agent to took the statement have this testimony entered ... the local official said that he did not view the death of kathleen savio as anything but an accident and did not collect evidence ... expected to testify today is a friend of kathleen savio and an old classmate both said that kathleen savio told them that she feared drew peterson would kill her ... a teenage girl was sexu...

worst drought in decades. no congressional approval is needed to use the money. the president called on congress to pass a stalled $500 billion farm bill. now to the presidential campaign and latest abc news poll on the candidates favorability. romney's favorability has dropped to 40% among americans polled. 49%, view the candidate unfavorably. president obama's numbers are up slightly. with a 53% favorable view. 43% have an unfavorable view of the president. his popularity is lower among registered voters. keeping with politics, president obama heads to colorado today for two da...

have found dozens of young people being held who should be released. we will speak with dream activist marco saavedra just released from detention. in richmond, california, over 900 residents have sought medical care after a massive fire at a chevron oil refinery. we will speak with the richmond mayor, one of the only green party mayors in the country, as well as local activist andres soto. >> the richmond refinery is the single largest refinery -- producer of greenhouse gases in the state of california. gases move through the streets, go into the central valley. >> texas executes ma...

good evening. we begin with a warning for every american family packing up the car for one last vacation during these dog days of summer. the price of filling up is about to go up again, way up. look at this. for weeks, the average price of gas has been on a steady climb. now, it's about to take off. the week began with news of a 14 cent surge, the biggest one-week jump in a year and a half. tonight, new signs of trouble, including a fire out west that could spike gas prices across the coast. abc's neal karlinsky explains. >> reporter: you've hear the predictions for months. tensions...