and a cost of living increase, so should the benefits so should congress do the same? huh, there s an idea! want to tell you about the congresswoman who wants fellow lawmakers to take a pay cut. that s coming up. it s rollback time at walmart, and everyone s pitching in, from driving more fuel-efficient trucks. to using less packaging. and even using renewable energy at our stores. when we save, you save. that means thousands of rollbacks all over the store. my name is rickey,
catastroph catastrophic, if washington d.c. doesn t work together angela, we ve had that conversation for two years now, working together and mary anne we re at a point where something s going to have to be done. and even with the new taxes every american pitching in, we can t cover our debts. first of all, what do you think the chances are that the president will do that and what if our country gets downgraded again? what will that mean for the administration? mary anne? that can t happen. that can t happen and it s clear that the the president s going to do everything he can and he s made that clear last week. he s not going to put up with the last minute drama again. not going to put up with the last minute brinksmanship. jamie: how does he do that? well, i think the republicans have to understand if they don t get this job done with the president, if they shut down the government, if the country on the bills they ve incurred, then they re going to lose the next election, t
intend to carry forward as president. because it is a vision that has worked for the american middle class and everybody striving to get into the middle class. it s about working together. it doesn t matter if you re democrat or republican. the message is that we have to work as one. and the president says it s a message that will resonate around the world. this november you can remind the world how a strong economy is built. not from the top down, but from a growing, thriving middle class. this november you can remind the world how it is that we ve traveled this far as a country. not by telling everybody to fend for themselves. but by coming together as one american family all of us pitching in, all of us pulling our own weight. this november you can provide a mandate for the change we need right now. you can move this nation forward and you can remind the world once again why the united states of america is still the greatest nation on earth. thank you.
her young daughter. this is a tough time for her. she hasn t been able it go back to work, hasn t been able to go home. jeff, thank you so much. it is a race against time along the mississippi right now. the diverted floodwaters are making their way toward small towns in louisiana. everybody is pitching in, even prison inmates who have been filling sandbags and delivering them to homeowners. nbc s janet shamlian is live in stevensville, 65 miles south of baton rouge. and, janet, i understand the inmates just dropped off some sandbags at the home you re by right now. reporter: yeah, they made a couple of trips here, chris. in fact, there is one car load full of them right here. i think i ll standing in their path. and several others in the background here, they made a couple of trips to help out this family who are permanent residents here. right now, they think they might stay because the water line or where the water is going to come to has been revised downward. initially they
a serious melt down. and relief efforts are now kicking in, about 50,000 japanese troops are involved, we have been seeing helicopters going over us right now. and, the international community getting involved, the 7th fleet is getting involved, and the ronald reagan aircraft carrier, is steaming in this direction, and, as well as other ships, the international community pitching in, in this effort which is now a race against time. rick, this country had seen earthquakes a lot and seen tsunamis a lot but haven t seen anything quite like this. i haven t seen anything like that, either, except one time and that was the huge tsunami and the next days we ll move closer into the area and the scenes there, absolute devastation and one more note here, sunday morning you might be hearing sirens in the background and i m looking at the local school here, smoke coming from that school, and a fire there, and, a place where refugees have been coming, and