>> they're two guys from west texas. same texas boots. same kind of ideologies. similar manners and some of that west texas swagger. >> former air force pilot and father of two. >> met his wife in elementary school. he holds a day-prayer and carries a laser-fired pistol. he is george bush on steroids. >> jon: no. no, he's not! he's not george bush on steroids. rick perry is what happens if lex luthor disstilled george bush's essence in a laboratory and crossed it with gun powder and semen from the finest thoroughbred and strappeded that concoction on to a nuclear missile and shot it into the (beep) sun. and then waited, waited, waited, until one day on the anniversary of the alamo a solar flare yada yada yad rick perry. how do i know that this creature is george bush-plus- plus? oh, i'll tell you how i know. >> he's a man of trust in his family. his father-in-law actually did his vasectomy. (laughing) >> jon: may i remind you, his father-in-law is not a doctor. (laughing) just one of these. hold still, rick. which want do you want vasectomyed first? so now with p

wet on i-10 from jacksonville to mobile and new orleans and slick from el paso to west texas. delays are possible in port minneapolis, kansas city and memphis. >>> well, the so-called dougherty gang is being held in colorado this morning on more than a million dollars bail each. >> the sister and two brothers are facing attempted murder charges after a week-long manhunt ended with a dramatic police chase. the sister admitting she deserved to be shot. >> reporter: the three watched and occasionally smiled as the r judge read them their rights and set their bond at more than a million dollars each. all are accused of trying to murder a police officer. the oldest, 29-year-old lee grace dougherty is in a wheelchair after being shot in the leg following that wild car chase and shootout. according to just released court documents she told authorities "i deserve to be shot" after pointing a gun at a cop. but she still denies the more serious charge of firing at officers as they chased the trio down a busy colorado interstate. her fiance back in florida says she called him from jail -

he even showed me around the compound in west texas that was raided by texas rangers to show cnn that there was nothing inherently bad taking place. >> so where are the carrots? >> well, there. >> reporter: today jessup says warren jeffs has betrayed his church. >> and he said is he a very wicked man and he confused to doing some very terrible things, including molesting his daughter and sister and others. i think his own words describe himself. >> reporter: jessup is talking about diaries submitted as evidence that he says were left by warren jeffs after his arrest in las vegas five years ago. he's talking about these. pictures showing jeffs embracing and kissing young girls no more than 12 or 13 years old, jess sufficient says. >> his conduct will never be sanctioned by me. i don't think there's anyone in my church that will ever sanction what he has done. it's just a matter of time until they come to terms and figure out how to cope with what he has done. >> reporter: according to authorities in both texas and canada, jeffs orchestrated what canadian police have called a child traf

hey, we're from west texas. absolute. >> those cowboy boots actually go into stirrups, occasionally. unlike the first w. who was scared to death of horses as we know. this is really for both of you guys. wayne, you can start. rick perry would seem to have some real deficits when it comes to policy ideas. he wants to do away with social security. thinks it's unconstitutional. apparently wants to do away with the federal income tax. which provides 80% of federal income. how is this a winning platform for a presidential candidate from any party? >> you know, it's interesting. you pointed out his book. when that book came out less than a year ago, perry said, this is evidence that i am not going to run for president because anybody who wanted to run for president wouldn't be saying social security is a ponzi scheme. we ought to change medicare. medicaid is bad. the voting rights act has questions about it. the fed is a problem and we ought to get rid of the income tax and all the rest of this -- this right wing diat

of robert lee out in far west texas. so dry and heat and those temperatures today will be rising to some very dangerous levels. many people worried about the power today. state regulators urging people to conserve electricity, saying the likelihood for blackouts the real. >>> 40 years later, it's the fbi's only unsolved hijacking. but now several new developments in the db cooper case. we'll talk to an author who got exclusive access to the fbi files. purina cat chow helps you well-being. we're all striving for it. nurture it in your cat with a full family of excellent nutrition and helpful resources. purina cat chow. share a better life. >>> all righters. she lost out on an oscar for "the color purple." but oprah winfrey is being recognized by a humanitarian award. >>> and charlie sheen, he's been sentenced to death, the season premier of 2 1/2 men includes a funeral for sheen's character. he was kicked off the show for dangerously self-destructive conduct. >>> and '90s supermodel linda evang evangelista says it takes m

you, this west texas optimist sees our brightest hour as just around the corner. >> reporter: he will join the other candidates. grilling pork loin this morning at the iowa state fair, the front-runner mitt romney. after keeping a low profile for months, he's now jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. the former massachusetts governor is, in these trying economic times, emphasizing his time as head of an investment firm. >> i didn't inhale politics. i'm still a business guy. and private citizen. >> reporter: romney's detractors call him insincere and note his propensity to gaffe. as happened today when he said corporations are people. >> one is we could raise taxes on people -- >> corporations, corporations, corporations. >> corporations are people, my friend. >> no, they're not! >> of course they are. everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. >> reporter: and there's the upstart, in first place here in iowa in one poll, minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann, beloved by conservative christians and tea party activists for her strong stance against new governm

texas oil what's driving the prized gap between them. well to be very fair if you do market analysis and you really want to compare oil prices across the globe one shouldn't look at. the price reflects bottled up price in the middle of america and it's quite different from the prize that anyone else space in america in the gulf in the east coast or in the west coast the better price to be looking at is something called easy on a light in the gulf coast prior to this interview i checked the price and that price is close to one hundred six dollars per bottle. that is the prize that a normal refinery would be in the gulf coast the prize that you see for the eye around eighty five dollars is the price in the mid continent area of the pipelines to where the consumers want to buy it so that price is really not one that anyone should really be looking at so the prices in america are between one hundred and five hundred then the prices in europe are between one hundred five one hundred ten and the prices in asia are between one hundred five one

. >> reporter: in this withering west texas patch, oil still flows. problem is you can't drink water. finding water is getting tougher. it brings us to the town of vicksburg. this is the spring in big spring. more than 100 years ago it was a popular watering hole for settlers heading west. those days are long gone. you won't believe what people around here are having to do now to find drinking water. crews are now building a $13 million water treatment plant that will turn sewage waste water into drinking water by the end of next year. treated raw sewage water, lake water. >> i will never drink it. >> the idea still doesn't taste right to a lot of people. >> that's not a good idea at all. >> reporter: you don't like it? >> no. if they do we will have to leave town. >> reporter: really? >> yeah, yeah. that's too much. >> reporter: are you kind of the salesman for this plan? >> somebody has to. >> reporter: john direct it is colorado river municipal water. it is his job to find drinking water for half a million people in the area around midland odessa.

texas, kentucky, indiana kept getting shifted from place to place. their superiors decide they are too much trouble and are untreatable. by 1945 they were in indiana and once again the commanding officer in this case created 1 officer's club he designated for supervisors all of whom were white. they returned combat veterans. they risked their lives and came back to freeman field in indiana. it is not just a southern problem but a national problem. they are segregated in officers' clubs. 104 of them refused and physically refused to enter the white officers club. not all 104 did that. several dozen did that and three were arrested. they refuse to sign a letter that said i agree with this policy. three were court-martialed. the others had marks on their record for the entire careers. they were shifted again, transferred to kentucky. they would have been trained and ready to go to fight in the pacific as had been the plan all along. in 1944 or 1945 had it not been for these extra curricular they did not refuse to go along with this. remarkable story com

he showed me around the compound in west texas that was raided to show us that there was nothing bad inherently taking place. >> so where are they? >> right there. >> can i see them? today, jessop says warren jeffs has betrayed his church. >> he said he's a very wicked man and he confessed to doing some very bad things include molesting his daughter, his sister. i think his own words described himself. >> jessop is talking about diaries submitted as evidence that he says were left by warren jeffs after his arrest in las vegas five years ago. he's talking about these. pictures showing jeffs embracing and kissing young girls, no more than 12 or 13 years old, jessop says. >> his conduct will never be sanctions by me. i don't think there's anyone at my church that will ever sanction what he's done. it's just a matter of time until they come to terms and figure out how to cope with what he's done. >> according to authorities, of both texas and canada, jeffs orchestrate had with canadian police called "the child trafficking ring." as i understanding as many as 30 young girls, ages 12 or 13

cnn's ed lavandara found out some residents are not happy about that. >> in this withering west texas patch, oil still flows. problem is that you can't drink it. finding water is getting tougher. which brings us to the town of big spring. this is the spring in big spring. more than 100 years ago it was a popular watering hole for settlers heading west. those days are long gone. you won't believe what people around here are having to do now to find drinking water. crews are now building a $13 million water troomt plant that will turn sewage waste watt near drinking water by the end of next year. the treated raw sewage water will be mixed with lake water and treated again three times in all. >> i will never drink it. >> reporter: the idea still doesn't taste right to the a lot of people. >> that's not a good idea at all. >> reporter: you don't like it? >> no. if they do we are going have to leave town. >> reporter: really? >> yeah, yeah. that's too much. >> reporter: are you the salesman for this plan? >> somebody has to. >> reporter: john directs the colorado river municipal water dist

showers across west texas and billings to bismarck. thunderstorms along the gulf coast. >> 90s from atlanta to miami. 80s in the northeast. 78 in minneapolis. 82 in detroit. and get this, after 40 days of triple-digit heat, 40 days, dallas actually y lls short of the 100-degree mark for the second straight day of record, first set in 1980, two days shy of breaking it. 90 in boise. 87 in sacramento. >> they only got a degree of relief. >> 99, yeah. nice and cool. >>> here in new york city, this week a bull got one last whiff of freedom with a run on liberty avenue. >> liberty avenue, i like the symbolism there. the animal escaped a slaughterhouse in queens and took off in traffic. a tow truck operator saw the bull run by. when it came around a second time he took these pictures with his cell phone camera. >> workers eventually did catch up with the escapee and took him back to the slaughterhouse. that's too bad. why'd they have to take him back there? >> that close to freedom. just to end up -- >> honestly, that is no bull. >> that is n

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it's a towny town there in west texas. look at the cracks there. john jacobs is the mayor of robert lee. and he is on the phone with me. mr. mayor, thank you for calling in. i've got chad myers here, been watching the weather as well. i want him to chime in on this. this is stunning, this number. your town is down to less than 1% of its water supply. 99% of your water source is gone. sounds like you don't have much more than a mud puddle left. >> well, that's true, ma'am, it's getting pretty low. there's still some in the neighborhood of 353 acre feet out there. we've still got some water. >> i know it is your birthday, 65 years young. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, ma'am, not with this much heat, wind and lack of rain. this is a first for me. >> let me explain. i know you know this very well. just west of your town is a reservoir that serves right around 1,000 people in your town. you are the only town still using this reservoir. if the rains don't come, mayor, then what? how do you get water? >> we're in the process of negotiating

and carl rove basically sent perry out to west texas to roam around from one farmer meeting to the next. he put $3 million dollars into one of his patented negative campaigns to come after me, but the significant thing about perry is that he has become a formidable campaigner, but not anything really when you probe it all that strong. for example, he won reelection last year as governor of texas, and he's now bragging about that across the country saying see, i win sweeping victories, but what he doesn't tell you is we had the lowest voter turnout in america. 33% of the people of texas voted in that election. he's the choice of about 18% of the people of texas. >> 18% still gets him in the governor's house, right? >> it does because the democrats refuse to run as democrats, therefore, could not get 19%. that's the pathetic tale here. >> erica, you covered perry for awhile, you wrote an interesting piece on your website saying don't underestimate this guy, he has been beating expectations. what is the source of his appeal, his ability to win every race he's ever been? >> well, to use ano

texas, east texas, central texas, south texas is suffering terribly. you drive out in the country and you see brown land that's been burned up by the sun or black land that's been burned up by fire. >> ifill: how do you measure in agricultural terms. there's a beef industry, there's a cotton industry, there's even winter wheat planting. >> $5.2 billion and counting, that's how we measure it so far. if you go out at the cattle auctions, they're having five and ten times the number of cows for sale because the state is emptying itself of its cattle. a cattle auction which would have between 500 and 1,000 will see seven or 8,000 cows. the auction will start at 10:00 in the morning and go to 1:00 in the morning. luckily cattle prices are high or we'd really be in trouble. the international demand for meat is pushing the price of cattle higher so at least these ranchers aren't selling in a down market. >> ifill: but they're auctioning the cattle because they can't support it? >> that's right. i mean, a bale of hay is going for $65 to $85 for a bale of hay.

texas street. somewhere along the street is where she lives. take a look at this video, they said that she became a camp counselor and may for the kids get extreme routine camp--team camp city officials would not give us the location of the camp, but on july 29th parents of the 14 year-old discover suspicious text messages on their son's phone from her, she allegedly had sex with the boy after fairfield home on july 28th. the sergeant says that she admitted to having sex with the boy. first we will hear from the sergeant and then the public information officer. >> at this point in the investigation does not appear that any criminal activity occurred during the business operations. >> month and we were first contacted by the parents, the city staff immediately remove the employee from employment. we do not have any information that would indicate that there were inappropriate relationship between this individual and anyone else involved. and >> police are asking if there were any victims out there t

i used for all intents and purposes we could have been on a bus in west texas as the view was identical. i yellow line raised beside the foreground followed by metro metronoming telephone tolls eliminated by the faint light of the setting sun. in a vain attempt to be like my dad was back there who was a working musician until always borne i remembered the hook to a song i once tried to write. staring out the window the miles pass on by and france merges with texas in the twilight sky. how many times in how many conditions have ridden the bus? whatever the final tally i could add to this on one mortars. as i dream of peace in israel and palestine it is another long bus ride. it is just another long bus ride. it is just another long bus ride. [applause] if you do end up reading the book there's a chapter, the second loss of the season, it is called losing stocks. i am sweating so much sweat is dripping off of the brim of my cap. i literally can't hold on to the baseball. i am just going to throw it and we will see where it goes. that is what i feel like up here. i am sweating. you need to

meantime, the entire community in west texas is coming together to help the family with their medical bills as officer campbell continues his recovery. back to you. jenna: as we mentioned, more on this story, jon. it's truly an amazing story for so many reasons. jon: it is really amazing, that's really the only word for it. generosity and be forgiveness involved as well. the officer's wife, amber duncan campbell, is joining us on the phone. amber, everybody in west texas was asking you how they could help you, and you had a response on your facebook page that has just amazed so many people. tell us what you put on. >> well, i decided an effort to get past and forgive, that's the best thing we could do was to take care of the man who shot my husband's children. they deserve to know love and feel peace about the situation too. jon: well, tell us -- all right, so you put on your facebook page you asked that people donate to support those children because their father was, as we said, shot and killed after he attacked your own husband. >> exactly. i asked that people would rally together

. >> in this withering west texas patch, oil still flows. the problem is you can't drink oil, and finding water is getting tougher, which brings us to the town of big spring. this is the spring in big spring. more than 100 years ago it was a popular watering hole for people heading west, and you won't believe what people around here are having to do now to find drinking water. crews are building a $13 million water treatment plant that will turn sewage waste water into drinking water by the end of next year. it will be mixed with lake water and -- >> i will never drink it. that's not a good idea at all. >> reporter: you don't like it? >> no, if they do, we will have to leave town. >> reporter: really? >> yeah, yeah. that's too much. >> reporter: are you the sales man for this plan? >> somebody has to be. >> reporter: and it's this man's job to find drinking water in the half of million people in the area around odessa. when you hear people say these people will be drinking their own urine. this part of west texas has seen three inches of rai

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comes after a raid of the remote west texas ranch. he faces up to life in prison. a report of a possible gunman at virginia tech shutting down campus for five hours on thursday. three teens reported seeing a man walking quickly with what may have been a handgun covered by a cloth. police issued a stech of the man they were looking for and searched, but found no sign of him. i'm marianne rafferty. now back to "on the record." for your latest headlines, go to foxnews.com. now back to on the record. >> greta: sizzling summer in wisconsin. days from headed -- from heated recall elects. remember a couple months ago protesters swarming the state capital? how about 14 senators who fled the state and hid out in illinois? apparently people are still angry. six senators are facing recall elections days from now. they have new back-up, the tea party. joining us is chairwoman of the tea party express, amy kramer. why did we decide to jump into this one? >> thanks for having me. we've decided to jump into it because we want to support these conservatives that are being recalled

bush and rick perry, both have been governors, both from west texas, they both have this cowboy swagger, served in the military, both born-again christians, but what about policy? are they similar at all? or how similar are they? jonathan? >> if you look at when george w. bush were in for president, craig, in 1999, 20 on 00, pell expressly ran as a compassionate conservative. he was not newt gingrich, he was not goinging to the angry white guy. he represented a break from that, and it works effectively. he was obviously a two-term president. rick perry is not modifying his version of conservatism at always. so i there there are definite differences. perry is much more unapologetic on his views. a this moment i think that plays well. the question is how would that play in swing states where perry has a great message on jobs, but would voters even get to that point in the conversation, because they are so overwhelmed by his sort of cowboy booted persona, craig? >> thank you solve so much. >>> we have some breaking news we want to get to right now. breaking news in tampa, florida. police h

he's won state wide, he's won in a west texas state house seat, he's won for governor, what explains his electoral success if as you say this is a guy who talks a big game but doesn't do things. >> well, that tough talk and appealing to the extremes has been a formula for success here in texas, even against a very conservative united states senator who challenged him for governor, he's always willing to take another leap to the right. i think taking outrageous statements and moving to the extremes has worked for him in texas and i think it can work for him in the republican primary. the harm he has caused to our education system and his inability to come up with a winning strategy for jobs, i believe that will hurt him if he does win the nomination andck perry, nor do i under estimate his ability to talk around this jobs problem. i believe we need a strong plan, and all he offers is to do less, the same old formula that got us into this mess under the last tex texan who was a governor. >> would rick perry be a better president or a worst president than george w. bush in your estimati

he's from west texas. comes from -- >> does he worry you more than any of those other republicans you saw up there on the stage last night? >> i'm not worried, john, i'm trying to let democrats know this is one texan they better took seriously just like they took george w. bush seriously. he knows how to run. he will run to his right and run as you saw with that clip to try to out-tea party even the most extreme tea party members. he will be a crowd pleaser. >> how would you run against rick perry? >> totally take him on, the so-called texas miracle because once you get away from the myths you'll see that rick perry is a big government guy. >> alex costianes in closing will we talk about rick perry in three months? >> i think he's not yet demonstrated he can last. i think governor romney has been around this track and you saw that presence on the stage last night. i still bet on romney but could be and by the way, john, if you were here i'd buy you a fried beer. they sell everything fried here. >> have tha

i'll tell you this west texas optimist sees our brightest hour as just around the corner. i believe in this country because i believe in americans. >> you know, it says something about mitt romney's fragile hold as front-runner that every time it seems this race is about to finally take off, finally we know what the state of the race is going to be, it is noncandidates or new candidates that seem to be everywhere, everyone is looking, looking for something else. at some point, it is as if they're saying to romney, we still want to date before we settle on you. the next three days will be crucial for the minnesota republicans who essentially camped out in iowa. tim pawlenty and michele bachmann. can bachmann stick to her script? they have canceled her single event for today, a backyard chat this morning will be rescheduled. and tim pawlenty damaged the last time the candidates met on stage, said he's no wimp and he's prepared to go on offense. >> we want the republicans to know you can put the hammer down like, for example, michele bachmann can. >> everybody has different s

this is a rough, tough republican, fredricka, talking about west texas a few moments ago, he came from a town with no stop lights, it is a true one-horse town out there in pan creek, texas, and that kind of upbringing, rick perry says, has steeled him for the rough and tumble politics of 2012. he says he's ready and he's off right now in just a few moments to new hampshire. he's going to be talking to republicans up there he's going to be in iowa tomorrow and the very same spot where michele bachmann announced her campaign a few weeks ago. before he does that, he's meeting with some south carolina republicans in private meetings. he's been doing that all day today. not only getting the activists behind his campaign and also the fund-raisers that he's going to need to get his campaign up and running. >> he's proven to be a very impressive fund-raiser. you mentioned style of rick perry. you cannot help but hear his voice and hear former governor george w. bush and there have been lots of comparisons that are made. does rick perry embrace that? does he try to run away from any of those co

i think he's going to have to really focus on trying to sort of dial back some of that west texas swagger, some of that texas a&m persona, because he's never going to get his jobs message if the suburbanites cat get past the cowboy boots. >> chuck, you cover the white house day in and day out. on this program, we've been talking about it almost three years. the defining debate this campaign is an ideological debate, it's a philosophical debate, it's about the role of government in our lives, particularly in a distressed economy. and what did you hear here on this stage and from rick perry yesterday? let me just give you a flavor. >> mr. president, get the government off our backs. i'll promise you this, i'll work every day to try to make washington, d.c., as inconsequential in your life as i can. >> i mean, again, this is the debate -- get government off our back or government is part of the solution? >> i couldn't believe washington, d.c., is inconsequential. the capital of the country is inconsequential. i understand the message he's trying to send, but that seemed a little bit bold of