through a drought the it is no longer fit for human consumption and livestock. even that wouldn t solve their problems. at the end of the day, if there is not enough rain, it is tough on the farmer, costs you more to feed your family. patti ann: mike tobin live from illinois. thank you. bill: he is a baseball legend. cal ripken, jr.. and his mom was kidnapped recently. she s okay but there are some things we do not know like who is the kidnapper? what happened here? they re setting up for a press conference and cal ripken, jr. perhaps explains a lot of this in the next few moments. we have an ear on that. patti ann: security leaks that many argue are coming from inside the white house. we ll talk with house homeland security chairman peter king on what he wants the fbi to do about it. every leak out of the white house is a signal to other countries, be very careful about cooperating with the united states of america. because if you do, you very likely will end up running the risk at
involved in there with us, they are actually furious that we compromised it. we have the situation in syria now, if we believe the reports, where turkey is now being compromised because they disclosed the location in turkey where the c.i.a. command center is going to be according to reports. this damages us across the board and puts lives at risk, american lives at risk. bill: peter king we ll see you when you get an answer from the f.b.i. thank you for your time today. thank you. patti ann: cal ripken jr. speaking out about his mother s kidnapping and calling for the public s help in finding the person responsible. she is now safe but the question remains how does the mother of a pwaeubl supersta baseball star get a abducted. bill: most people think that president obama s views are stronger than mitt romney s. what it could mean for the
finally, a job s report that beats expectations. sure, expectations were low, under 100,000, but look at this official net gain for july. 163,000. that s the most new jobs since february. the unemployment rate, meanwhile, a separate survey ticked up last month to 8.3%. christine romans watching this all-important gauge of economic vitality, shall we say. would you call the july numbers vital? i would say it s vital to the president s re-election prospects and vital to every single family in america who is trying to figure out if they can keep their job or get a job. yes, this is a really a important report. you gave the headline numbers. let me dig in a little bit. i took 40 pages of tables and graphs and put it in one graph to show you how it works. the private sector created 172,000 jobs, kyra. but the government is still a drag on overall job creation. 9,000 more government jobs lost. in the month, you have almost 500,000 government jobs that have been shed since february
ins priebus and dominique dawes and ryan beatty. starting point begins right now. our starting poirnt this morning, america s new golden girl is gabby douglas making history last night. 16 years old, first african-american to women the all-around gold medal. amanda davies, it was so z exciting to watch her. just perfection, out did herself each and every time. how was the feeling while everyone was watching her? reporter: it was incredible. it was probably written in the stars, did you know if you rearrange the letters of gabby douglas s sir name, what does it spell, but usa gold. and this really is where the next chapter of her life begins. she is now up in the a list of superstars as the morning after, night before, media commitments have started. she s been retweeting the incredible tweets these had from people like oprah nicki minaj and michael phelps. she finished with that fantastic floor performance with that techno music. it became like club gabby. we can still ge
breaking down the july jobs report this hour. i want to get to t employers added 163,000 jobs in july, much better than the 95,000 that economist also predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 8.3%. the latest political spin as president clinton and mitt romney weigh in on this report. go beyond the numbers to find out what the report says about the state of our economy. we are also going to see how wall street is reacting. president obama and mitt romney did not waste any time giving their take on the jobs report. romney is on the campaign trail r he is in vegas. president obama had a meeting with middle class families at the white house. romney points to the 42 moments with unemployment above 8%. he said the jobs report is more proof that the president s policies are failed. well, we continue to have 23 million americans out of work or have stopped working for look or underemployed and see job numbers bounce around month to month to month butno question that we now have 42