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need folks to leave. i've been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. >> lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washington, d.c. wolf, i'm sure you'll be talking about this in the situation room later today. >> we cer...

>> and now it's time to talk about jobs. >> all right. let talk about jobs. here's one, neil bowlen's job with the faa new on furlough. >> i have a hard time understanding their partisan bickering and rhetoric. we're reaching into our investments, savings, signed up for unemployment, and that's barely going to make the electric bill, much less the water and mortgage, so, yeah, we're incredibly disappointed. >> he says congress could have prevented his ordeal with just a day's work. here's why they failed to. it's a little complex but worth knowing. since 2007 the faa has been running...

might be losing their paychecks. that's because badly-needed construction at american airports is at a standstill. air safety inspectors, for instance, are working without any pay. and the government is not collecting $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes. that's 1 billion tax dollars lost between now and when congress gets back to work. now remember, the lawmakers responsible for blowing this hole in the budget just spent months railing about the deficit. and when they got done with that, all they could talk about was jobs and how are going to be focused on creating jobs. >> t...

for this wednesday, august 3. we have just gotten confirmation that bomb squad officers in australia have secured the safety of an 18-year-old girl who was in a house with a suspicious device attached to her. the operation to free her lasted three hours, they say her life was potentially at risk. nearby houses were evacuated and neighboring streets closed off. i'll talk to a reporter there in just a few minutes. stocks across the board are lower today, investors are worried about the weak economy and the debt deal that has done very little to reassure the markets. the dow has bee...

Mining and not just in the mines, but in the entire area. you talked about the health effects of the actual mining and the health effects in the surrounding area. there's a coal processing facility beside us. there's an elementary school that lives in the shadow and if you wipe your finger along the window sill you pick up dust. >> magnesium, cadmium, lead, just about every metal you can think of. you have these hill tops, what happens to all of that? a lot of times there's a slurry that's made of the coal processing. those are sometimes injected into the mines underground and seep into the wa...