peter doocy live in washington with more. peter, tell us what could happen at the end of the year. reporter: gregg, you know, it s the eve of the biggest shopping day of the year, a lot of americans are going out of their way to save money, but they might end occupy losing money if congress can t extend that payroll tax cut. because president obama says if they don t do that by the end of this year, it s going to cost the average american family a thousand bucks. end of text month, end of the year, this tax cut ends. and if we allow that to happen, if congress refuses to act, then middle class families are going to get hit with a tax increase at the worst possible timement. reporter: congress also has to extend unemployment insurance by the end of the year or else that s going to run out, too, and democrats say this is congress big chance to show constituents that they can do something. this is the way to begin fresh. we let everybody down with the supercommittee, le
the courtroom in orlando. over the weekend prosecutors had a hair specialist testify about a single strand of hair that was found in the trunk of casey s car. listen to this forensic scientist from a bit earlier, his testimony: he said it was a 9-inch brown hair. that s correct. even at the end of the day you still can t say that that hair came from a dead body? that s correct. it has characteristics that are consistent with that, but i can t say absolutely. thank you ma am. bill: joey jackson is a criminal defense attorney, ann marie mcevoy is a federal prosecutor. good morning to both of you. it appears we re at the half way point through the prosecution, based on the evidence they ve an. ann marie, how are they doing? they re doing a doing a very good job. this isn t the easiest case to prove,is it s a circumstantial case but they ve started with she s a pathological liar, nothing she comes up with be possibly believed, the next thing they did, they worked on the def
barbecueing is starting this season? the president s top economic adviser, downplaying the latest report. what you want to look at are what are the recent trends because one month is not a trend, in the last six months, we ve added a million jobs in the economy, the last 15 months, we ve adoo we ve added 2 million jobs. look, we re coming out of the hardest downturn since 1929. there s no question we re facing frajit recovery and fragile recovery and we ve got to get the private sector to stand up. alisyn: take a look at may, a huge dropoff from the last couple of months. bill: that brings us to an obvious question from stuart varney. does the white house have an argument that this was just a one month thing? the white house argument is that this is not a trend, the white house has something of an argument there, but the alternative point of view is this. all indicators point to the economy, stalling just in the last couple of months, all indicators across the board, an
violations yesterday as he slips further into political and legal trouble. how will these charges and possible trial impact his fellow democrats heading to the november election? joining us for a fair and balanced debate, senior fellow at project 21 and fox news contributor. immigration attorney michael wilds and ann marie mcevoy, former law professor at fordham university. good morning to all of you. ann marie, let me start with you. looking at these charges against charlie rangel, he could go to prison. he could. after this is all over, there s a good possibility there may be a criminal investigation that follows. he doesn t have any prior arrests or convictions so they may work out some sort of a deal where he wouldn t go to prison even if he s found guilty of the charges criminally but there s a possibility. sure. michael, you re a democrat. he s bad news for your party. up a former mayor and i have to tell you, i remember almost 30 years ago being on capitol hill meeting him
after the bear tore through his tent while he was sleeping at a campground in montana. another victim described how she managed to escape the same fate. something inside me just said i want to live and i just told myself play dead. and i went totally limp. and as soon as i went limp, i could feel his jaws get loose and then he let me go and he went away. oh, my gosh. a third victim was bitten on the leg. wildlife officials are confident they have the right bear now because it returned to the same site where the man was killed but they will use d.n.a. tests to confirm. at dawn in california, firefighters will launch an aggressive attack by air against this fast moving wildfire. you can see orange flames and literally exploding they are in the dry brush. 1500 families ordered to evacuate their homes in los angeles county. right now, there is zero containment of this fire. it s already burned more than seven square miles. three buildings have burned to the ground. three u.s.