today, who or what will move the u.s. economy out of its stall. we begin with tea party patron, jim demint, and then mr. hoffa. and we have homeland security chairman, joe lieberman. and all things political with peter baker of the new york times and mike duffy with time magazine. i am candy crowley, and this is state of the union. the nation s capital and campaign trail will be a wash in jobs plans and presidential politics this year. the president s big unveil is on thursday, and republicans that want his job have ample opportunity to vie for it. dau mint holds twa in the tea party, and the tea party may hold considerable sway in the republican party. senator, thank you so much for taking time. i wanted to start off talking about jobs. what you think has to be in a presidential jobs plan that you will hear about on thursday night and what cannot be in it. well, candy, i have spent the month of august visiting a lot of businesses, and manufacturing plants. i have b
the sea walls, but i think the worst here is orr and it passed. amazing how well they ve weathered this here. we have not seen any damage. just a quick ride through downtown nassau, and it seems that they ve got lucky and their preparations really worked. some of the southern islands in the bahamas didn t make it well. we have reports of serious did he have tags in some of the settlements down there and even some of the biggest islands, cat island that are both popular tourist islands had just gotten hit there. still trying to get communications back up to get word and a look at damages on those islands as irene moves through. right here tentatively in nassau people are pleased that the worst didn t happen here and they made out relatively okay. randi. jim, we got reports of one community that was the 90% destroyed. are you hearing anything about injuries or even deaths? reporter: we haven t heard anything about injuries or deaths, but those communities in the settlements
governments are facing a crisis. one alabama government is getting ready for one of the largest municipal bankruptcy in history. why in the world would anybody name their child cheeto or limoncelo. those are all real names. this hour, more names to tell you about. why people do it and whatnot to name your child. good morning. thanks to my parents for naming me t.j. holmes. glad you could be with us. that clock is ticking on the debt ceiling crisis. tuesday is the deadline. the deadline for what? the government may not be able to pay its bills. we will have to decide which ones to pay and which ones not to pay. here is the rundown on capitol hill. the house is getting to work at noon today after some debate, they are expected to vote from the senate majority leader harry reid. that is expected to fail. on the senate side, they open debate on the same reid bill at 1:00. that debate could go as long as 12 hours or so. it might not be until you are asleep. the senate gets to
and there s that clock that we speak of. just under two days away from a time when we re told by the treasury, this country will not be able to pay all of its bills. so let me give you the rundown of what s happening today. the house gets to work around noontime today. that s just about two hours from now. after some debate, they ll vote on a proposal from senate majority leader, harry reid. that proposal is expected to fail. then on the senate side, they open debate on that same reid bill at 1:00 eastern time this afternoon. the debate there could go on for some 12 hours. now, it may not be until a lot of us are asleep that the senate gets to vote on that reid bill. the senate has moved on to the reid bill after deciding not to vote on the bill from house speaker john boehner. the nays are 210, the bill is passed. without objection to motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. what you re seeing there is that speaker boehner s bill actually passed. it finally passed th