the homes are truly historic. full service meals up 6.6%, and the fast food 8%, and men s apparel 8%, and new or purchased sales up by 8%. foot energy prices up, and chicken up by 10%, and the biggest by 2004. and gasoline, of course, nearly 50% more decade a year ago, and i suggest that these numbers ae not going to be an easy task. thank you. and now, the new legislation of voting rights is too important to give up according to the president, and we will have a bipartisan reform for new
consumers. they are here to say we don t like this. shepard: the price of the corn i want to eat on saturday nights is going up. t is going up. so is the price of beef, chicken, ham, you name it. it will continue rising. we have seen beef up 8% this year. chicken up 7. ham up 6. you will see more of that particularly little later in the season. gerri, thank you. you know, iowa produces more corn than anybody else. and/or any other states. and federal forecasters warn that iowa is on track for its fifth dryest july on records dating back more than a sen at this. are folks in the midwest getting any rain at all this week. i wish i had better news, shepard. we could get half an inch to an inch of rain next five days for areas that really need it. look at the drought. it continues for much of the country. the central u.s. farmers dealing with these exceptional drought conditions and as you can see on the satellite radar
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like a chicken up in a campaign ad? it started when a senate debate between a republican and democrat got postponed. rayburg said he had to be somewhere else. but if you ask, there s another reason he was not at that debate. they say he was too chicken to face tester. i think in hollywood, they call that high concept. anyway, the obama campaign has been pushing their dinner