initial witness statements that dunn pushed the child out of harm s way. knowing jim it would not be surprising had he done that if you know jim at all. that would be an instinctive reaction that he would have. doesn t surprise me at all because that s the type of person. he d put himself out to protect somebody else. that s the kind of thing he did. reporter: to protect and serve something dunn knew well. he was a nearly 20-year veteran of the school auxiliary unit and among the first responders in one of the darkest hours, fatal amtrak crash in march of 1999. first one through the door if you call to muster up people. he s the first one to arrive and what do you need? reporter: he s survived by two children and relatives and friends say the death speaks to how he lived. he is a true hero. if in fact it s determined that he pushed that child out of the way, that would be a selfless act that he would have done. jim dunn was a 46-year-old
pursuit of nuclear weapons. they argue there was no real gain from removing the use of nuclear weapons effectively except in the event of nuclear attack from the united states. jane: james rosen in d.c. for us, thanks. reporter: thank you. jon: are you ready for a little bit of good news for once? there is some to tell you about today, and it revolves around consumer spending. fox business network s jerry willis is here with that. what s going on? reporter: chain store sales up 9%, the best performance since march of 1999. consumers back in the stores. wall street analysts were shocked by this, they didn t expect it. bj s up 10%, costco up 10%, i m sure you know target up 10%, so good news there. jon: i guess i was under the impression that a lot of consumers scaled back, they had really changed their household
foxnews.com. martha: and you may be struggling to make it to work today, but congress, not so much. here s a live look at washington, where both the house and senate that s 23409 that s out somebody s window that, might be steve centanni s car window, and you literally you can barely make out the capitol. the house canceled votes for the rest of this week, its members are on vacation next week, so there s two weeks gone. the senate is closed today, but may think about reopening tomorrow. so when is the last time this happened? march of 2009, both the house and senate canceled all votes due to snow, april of 07, the house canceled votes and march of 1999 the house postponed all floor votes due to a storm. and interestingly, we get these numbers, along with that news, from the latest rasmussen poll that shows just how fed up americans are with lawmakers. these are shocking numbers.
president of the june of 1999. three months where we are right now. these people have plenty of time in the age of the internet and cable tv to get their messages out. challenges. what s their narrative. what have they done? what is the expectation of the american people ought to have about the values and activities that they are going to pursue? what is it that they will do to unify the party and more importantly then reach outside the party to take people who think like republicans but don t vote republican and bring them in. how will each one of them handle the moment during which the american people will decide whether or not they think that person is up to the job of being president? that s going to be a spontaneous moment by and large. they won t be able to prepare for it. you need to put this on your card. you don t have this on the card. okay? president bush was a bush. he had the machine behind him already. everybody knew him because is he a bush. now you have. and he almost
three months where we are right now. these people have plenty of time in the age of the internet and cable tv to get their messages out. challenges. what s their narrative. what have they done? what is the expectation of the american people ought to have about the values and activities that they are going to pursue? what is it that they will do to unify the party and more importantly then reach outside the party to take people who think like republicans but don t vote republican and bring them in. how will each one of them handle the moment during which the american people will decide whether or not they think that person is up to the job of being president? that s going to be a spontaneous moment by and large. they won t be able to prepare for it. you need to put this on your card. you don t have this on the card. okay? president bush was a bush. he had the machine behind him already. everybody knew him because is he a bush. now you have. and he almost lost the nomination to a guy w