right now are under a heat advisory. details on those hardest hit and what we can expect later in the week. we begin with this fox news alert from washington. president obama holding an emergency meeting at the white house today one day after house speaker john boehner pulled out of the debt limit talks and now president and congressional leaders are racing to strike a deal as the default deadline looms. our wendell goler from the white house has more details. wendell. reporter: today s meeting ended without an agreement to hike the debt ceiling and lawmakers left the white house without commenting to reporters and no indication the president would make an appearance in the briefing room. he had told congressional leaders to come here with a plan to extend the debt ceiling through the end of next year. house speaker john boehner said he was coming with his standard demand, that the deficit be cut more than the debt ceiling is raised. now, the meetings here at the white house lasted
republican nomination, should he be talking about the debt limit talks. i assume at some point he will. he probably do you think he should be? i think he needs any candidate for national office will have to get out there on how they would propose solving this problem. i assume in due time that he will. this will come to a head. not there yet in the next three weeks i expect you ll hear from all of candidates for national office. senator john thune, member of the leadership south dakota. thanks for joining me this morning. thanks, chuck. if it s tuesday, somebody is voting somewhere and today that surprisingly competitive special election in a fairly democratic district house in los angeles. it features what may be the nastiest political ad i ve seen. a we knew it would cause both parties pain but it s worse than we thought. nobody is happy on either side.
should expect of us. not the most that they should expect of us. i m ready to roll up my sleeves over the next several weeks and next several months. i know that people in both parties are ready to do that as well. and we will keep you updated on the progress that we re making on these debt limit talks over the next several days. thank you. how was the meeting with there we had president obama addressing this morning s jobs report that came out that doesn t look so hot as well as talking about what s taking place, the front and center conversation of the debt ceiling talks in washington, d.c. but we want to talk more about the jobs front here. lakshman achuthan is the co-founder and chief operating officer of the economic research cycle institute. he joins me in studio. you re a frequent guest on our hour and we love having you here, especially when we can talk right on the heels of the president there talking about the economy. and this is a president that s running for re-elect
not the most they should expect of us. i am ready to roll up my sleeves over the e next several weeks and months and i know people in both parties are ready to do that as well and we will keep you updated on the progress we are making on these debt limit talks over the next several days. thank you. shepard: the president speaking at the white house on the jobs numbers today. unemployment is now up to 9.2%. they were expected somewhere between 95,000 and 125,000 new jobs to be created in the month of june and turned out to be 18,000, and very bad news today on the jobs front with the unemployment rate up to 9.2%, but we have good news here. and it is that the launch is still a go for the shuttle. the final launch, we re just moments away from that. the weather is still a bit of an issue and we re waiting to hear definitively from nasa. they have not decided yet an
capital. the celebrations weren t just here in america. over in afghanistan, the marines chowed down on some delicious barbecue. that is it look good. almost like famous dave s. almost, yeah. almost. like famous dave petraeus. famous dave petraeus who is counting down the days. especially july 4th. senator mccain and senator graham. i think general petraeus is really going to miss the troops. spending his whole career, going to the c.i.a. is a great move for him. i know he ll miss those troops very much. i m happy for his family because he ll get to be stateside for most of the time oochl ahe ll have to run some errands. yeah, i think so. that honey do list got a little closer. exactly. meanwhile, speaking of senators, the senators will be working today. house returns tomorrow. they had planned to recess but because of the looming debt limit talks, they re back there right there at the u.s. capital. now, what we understand is they re going to be talking more