it either. kate baldwin looks ahead. >> reporter: if it does pass in the house, it has the potential of hitting a huge road block as soon as it gets to the senate. at the same time, that house speaker john boehner's office was putting out this release, the good news about the cost estimate, senate democrats released a letter at almost the same time with 53 signatures on it saying they don't support the plan in the senate and really essentially making clear that it cannot pass. so while all eyes are still on the house to see what happens with john boehner's plan in the house, it has serious problems in the senate if it gets there. >> you figure the democrats wouldn't be friends, that's just politics but this bill is make something republicans cannibalize each other. we're seeing the difference between republicans who play the game and the new tea party favorites who say the game helped us get into this mess. listen to these two republicans, old school and new school. that. >> is not fair. that is not fair to the american people, to hold out and say we won't agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it's unfair. it's bizarro. and maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. others know better. >> i'm a freshman. maybe i'm naive but i don't think unless we force -- unless we force republicans and democrats to balance their books every year, they won't. the only way we can do that is to force them. the only way we want force them it "s" to put a balanced budget amendment in the constitution. we have to do that. we can't yield. >> that was congressman walsh. he was one of those who is not going to be supporting speaker boehner's decision. one more story about congress. representative david wu of oregon says he's resigning after the debt ceiling issue is resolved. he's a seven-term democrat accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward the daughter of a campaign donor. accord together national taxpayers union, wu could be eligible for more than a million dollars in benefits over the rest of his life. that's not too shabby for a little more than 12 years of work. jokes like this 71-year-old canadian didn't stay at a holiday inn express last night. trebek explained why he showed up to an event in san francisco on crutches. >> yesterday morning chasing a burglar down the hall at my san francisco hotel until my achilles tendon ruptured and i fell in an ignominious heap. >> police arrested and charged a 56-year-old woman with stealing his stuff. if you're flying continental out of newark or another hub, make sure the flight is still on. continental had to kans billion 24 flights yesterday because a bunch of pilots called in sick. the airline and pilots union are in labor negotiations. if you bought a plane ticket before the airlines had to stop charging tax, you might be able to get that tax money back. the faa's authority to raise revenue expired yesterday at midnight. time now for a check on the world markets. the hang seng closed slightly higher with, the nikkei closed higher. the ftse and the dax are both down. sony is reporting big losses. let's go to kyung lah, live in tokyo. good morning, kyung. >> reporter: good morning, ali. it's not just sony but it is a bad day in a lot of boardrooms and many of the electronics companies here in japan. we saw a lot of reporting of the quarter from april to june. sony posted a loss of 191 million u.s. dollars. panasonic, down 390 million. sharp down 630 million and nintendo says they lost in that quarter 327 million u.s. dollars. why? well, partially because of the march 11th earthquake. they are still trying to recover from the poor sales and the supply problems. the other theme we keep seeing over and over again from these electronics companies is the currency problem. the u.s. dollar is sinking. sinking very rapidly in these last six weeks. u.s. manufacturers, just like japanese manufacturers all operate on the u.s. dollar. and so when japanese manufacturers then have to repatriate these funds here, they lose if the dollar is sinking and the yen is rising. what is pushing the dollar down is all of that u.s. debt ceiling talk, the uncertainty, the world markets are in havoc. what that's translating to, ali, a lot of concern, a lot of corporate loss and concern this is now really going to affect japan's economy. ali? >> kyung lah, joining us live from tokyo. the economy is the talk of the nation. and jay leno wants you to know how bad he thinks it is. >> the economy is bad, it's bad. >> come on, jay, how bad is it? >> the economy is so bad, my stockbroker told me i have to go screw myself. okay? the economy is so bad i saw larry king having himself apr z appraised on "antiques road show." the economy is so bad, people can no longer afford crystal meth, they have to use cubic zarconia meth. >> let's go to rob marciano, live in atlanta. tropical storm don expected to make landfall soon. when and where and what kind of storm is this, rob? >> it's a minimal tropical storm. it's been hugging the yucatan peninsula of mexico. it is heading into the gulf of mexico. some buoys are approaching 80 degrees in water temperature. that's fuel for the fire. we expect this thing to intensify as we go throughout the day today. here's the forecast track from the national hurricane center. the landfall is expected across the texas coastline anywhere from brownsville to just south of galveston and corps-- corpus christi, the forecast is for it to be a strong potential storm. beneficial is going to be the rainfall. we'd like to have it farther to the north and through san antonio and dallas. anybody in texas will take any sort of rain they can get. a ton of rain in chicago. they've set records as far as july rainfall, more thunderstorms expected today. that's where we'll see flight delays, chicago, could see delays up and over an hour. detroit, tampa, orlando, miami and san francisco as well. on the space front news here, want it tell you about a new discovery from nasa, orbiting potentially the earth's orbit are these asteroids called trojan asteroids. they've seen these kind of whirling around jupiter and saturn and usually asteroids don't orbit around planets but we haven't seen many orbit around earth. this could be interest that we keep talking about man visiting asteroids. >> right. >> so this may be an easy way to do it, some that are close to home. >> we have one. great, excellent, we have an asteroid to aim for. love it. any flight cancellations to look at. >> not sure cancellations but chicago will be the problem spot. o'hare. >> right. the cancellations -- i'm confusing stories. the cancellations are the continental flights canceled out of newark yesterday because of a bunch of pilots calling in sick. we don't know if that will happen again today. you have your handle on delays. thank you. could newt gingrich's campaign t-shirts be politically incorrect? he'll explain what's inside this t-shirt. here's our quote of the day, aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern there should be about come together table and compromising with democrats? this is not leadership. this is almost like dictatorship. mull it over. i'll tell you what newsmaker said it right after the break. nine minutes after the hour. ...or something small? ...something old? ...or something new? ...or maybe, just maybe... it's something you haven't seen yet. the 2nd generation of intel core processors. stunning visuals, intelligent performance. this is visibly smart. vietnam, 1967. i got mine in iraq, 2003. u.s.a.a. auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation, because it offers a superior level of protection and because u.s.a.a.'s commitment to serve the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto insurance quote. u.s.a.a. we know what it means to serve. 13 minutes after the hour. the quote of the day, aren't we a to the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming together with the democrats? who said it, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz of florida, talking about democrats debating the debt ceiling on capitol hill. comedians have done brainstorming and they've come up with their own ideas. >> the white house said it's working on a plan "b." unfortunately the "b" stands for bake sale. plan "c" is car wash. >> things are so bad, folks, america may have to move in with canada for a while. want to do that? just bring our stuff. let's go over there at 4:00 in the morning. we got kicked out. we didn't pay our bills. >> the kardashian sisters, kim and chloe, they made $65 billion last year. maybe they should be running the country. they're making money. >> ladies and gentlemen, when you hear your name called, do me a favor, come up here on stage and tell bus your debt reduction plan. >> all right. time now for your political digger with tim farley. tim, you're not so old but you've been around washington long enough to have seen a lot of stuff. have you ever seen what's going on here with the republicans going at each other the way they are in you almost forget the democrats are in this debate. >> we see more than we used to see, ali. it is true, we're at a level of contention that's probably unprecedented in our history or at least before we had television. it's pretty rough right now. john boehner was saying to the republican caucus, he had a conversation with them, he told them to get your ass in line. i use that word because he used it. he acknowledged that he used that word when he was talking to laura ingram yesterday. he also said, i didn't put my neck on the line and go toe to toe with obama to not have an army behind me. this is about rallying the troops right now. that 217 he needs to get to in the house today is something that will not make or break the leadership of speaker boehner but will go a long way to cementing his position of leadership with republicans in the house. >> all right. by the way, david wu, is he going to be voting? >> i don't know. is he -- he was con front by a "washington times" reporter yesterday. he said he would be resigning to help his family. that was his priority. unfortunately the priority seemed to be staying around for that debt ceiling vote. at this point it looks like he will be voting. it remains to be seen whether or not he'll be staying in congress for some time. >> this whole august 2nd deadline, the place we got that from was treasury secretary tim geithner back before the debt ceiling was reached. on may 16th he said i could probably move things around until august 2nd. what's he saying? >> the bipartisan policy center also said that was the date. those things are always a little bit movable. the secretary will be testifying in front of a house committee. he's giving a sense of the world global economy and talking about the oversight of the financial situation. i think you'll hear the word greece and debt in there with questions. i'm not sure if it's going to go exactly where he wants it to go. he is still saying this is a very real deadline. when you're talking a few days and trillions of dollars, is it that big of a deal or a difference? >> we'll find out. >> we will find out. talk to you later. >> thank you. >> he's the host of morning briefing on sirius xm, live from washington. newt gingrich had explaining to do with his campaign teachers because the label reads made in el salvador, not made in america. listen to this exchange between gingrich and an abc producer. >> we asked for t-shirts to be sent to us. they were made in america. i just picked up that one and they were made in el salvador. printed in atlanta. it was a big thing when we talked to your campaign about how you wanted things to be made in america. do we have plans to change thing? >> i have to ask the folks who ordered this. >> gingrich campaign spokes pirn sa said the shirts were a rush order. this is not what you usually see on a wednesday afternoon in toronto. they're filming the new total recall movie there. it did cause a few present-day traffic headaches. those are supposed to be -- those will be flying cars. these are the regular cars you usually see in toronto. there's an actor. the international space station, by the way, only has a few more years in existence. after 2020 it will be plugged into the ocean. that's the word from the russian space agency. they think they'll be forced to sink the iss or it will become dangerous space junk. we're stacking up the most fattening destinations, something to think about the next time you pack your bags. first, speaking of that, it's a special special day today. today is national milk chocolate day. don't get it confused with chocolate milk day. it's milk chocolate day. chocolate milk day is later in the year. oh, that's good. 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