you re in the situation room. it s part economics snapshot, part political football and there s only three more jobs reports coming out before the november election. the latest one released today has something for everybody. the labor didn t reports better than job gains in july. the unemployment rate still picked up a notch. dan, how does all this play out on the campaign trail? reporter: for mitt romney it allows him to say see, i told you so. unemployment still going up. it s still above 8%. what the president is doing is not working. the president was putting the spotlight on what he says is working even though he admitted there s still a lot of pain. thank you everybody. reporter: surrounded by a group of hand picked middle class and workers, president obama defended his policies and emphasized gained in a struggling economy. 163,000 jobs created in july. 1.1 million so far this year. 4.5 million over the last 29 months. those are our neighbors and family membe
a commuter airliner and two other planes dangerously close to one another. it happened at washington s reagan national airport. and in an extraordinary move, the faa administrator and the transportation secretary came out today to talk about what happened. our brian todd is at the airport. brian. reporter: yeah, candy. extraordinary because for the first time we re getting the hard information from america s two top transportation officials that this was really too close a call. they came out in a hastily called news conference to say, yes, it was too close a call. another part of that news conference they really want to brush back on initial media reports saying that these planes were on a collision course. they re saying they would not have collided. that would not have happened. essentially the way they lay it out is this. it all played out pretty much over where i m standing here tuesday afternoon. there was a whole line of planes coming in from that direction toward me