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spread to half of the country. it s been linked to ground turkey. what you need to know about this recallo keep your family safe. i m ashe velshi. burning up another day of searing heat. it s already proving deadly on this american morning. good morning to you. are you awake yet? you will be. happy thursday. it s august 4th. this is american morning. there s a lot going on today. we should get right to it. i want to talk first about the heat. heat is on congress to finish their business as we ve been reporting. they ve left washington without resolving a dispute over funding the federal aviation administration. that s resulted in tens of thousands of american workers not getting a paycheck today. on last night s in the arena with tom foreman, one worker voiced his frustration. running ourselves into debt, selling assets. unlike our congressmen and senators who are on vacation. nice congressional junket. i m sitting here watching the grass grow. wat ....
14% approval rating. that s about right. and the other and the other terminology of a zombie just walking around and doing the same thing until this debt discussion, that was pretty much the way that it went, you know, they just raised the debt ceiling. without even making news. a little bit different. yeah, hats off to chris white from our staff who put that all together. coming up on the show, you ve heard democrats say that the wealthy need to pay their fair share but they already pay more than anyone else so what does that actually mean? we re going to break down the numbers and break out your calculators or at least come to your tv screen. you can check it out. does this look like your marriage? full of passionate kisses? of course it does. stick around to see how you stack up to the average couple. average couple doesn t make dresses out of drapes. ooo whatcha got there? ....
but you won t get away. the video that has everyone talking on this american morning. good morning. it s wednesday, august 3rd. this is american morning. a lot going on today. we should get right to it. yes, we should. isn t the debt deal done? it s not done yet. they have to do the super committee. and decide what they will cut, cut food inspectors, education grants, they are going to cut stuff out of education. at least some of it is done? some of it done. one of the bitter and dangerous debates this recent history is now history. the bill to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending is law. this is a picture of president obama, he signed the bill in private. nobody around him. notice that. he doesn t look very happy either, does he? he called the compromise a first step toward fixing the economy, though, and argued more must be done. this is, however, just the first step. this compromise requires that both parties work together on a larger plan to ....
trillion in cuts over ten years, raises the debt ceiling about about the same amount, sets up a bipartisan committee to find other ways to trim another trillion and change from the deficit. think of it as a deficit posse. it calls for both chamber of commerce eventually to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. they don t actually have to pass it, they just have to vote on it. and the president and house speaker admit that the plan is not perfect, but hey, there s a deadline tomorrow. here s what the president said, then you ll hear from a freshman republican who, by the way, is dressed casually. give him a break, it was late on sunday night. now, is this the deal i would have preferred? no. but this compromise does make a serious downpayment on the deficit reduction we need and gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year. and to have bold changes to something so systematically broken is going to take tim ....
this american morning. . busy weekend. good morning, august 1st. a lot going on today. it was an agonizing weekend and we were all up late last night. e-mails flying at midnight. it was busy. but things are a little brighter today than they were last night and saturday night and a little brighter. tiny bit. we start with that possible break-through in the debt ceiling crisis. in a few hours the house and senate are expected to vote on a plan by president obama and congressional leaders to raise america s borrowing limit in exchange for massive spending cuts. i want to announce that leaders of both parties in both chambers have reached an agreement that will reduce the deficit and avoid default. the default that would have had a devastating effect on our economy. a sense of what the agreement looks like, going to increase the debt ceiling by up to $2.4 trillion. that is enough to get us through 2012, we hope. the plan also includes $917 billion in immediat ....