attacks squarely on president obama in their introduction to the nation. we'll talk about who won last night's gop debate. >> i'm christine romans. three pieces of duct tape front and center in the casey anthony murder trial. they were found with the remains of 2-year-old caylee anthony, but an fbi fingerprint expert says she can't positively connect that tape to the suspected killer. and i'm kiran chetry. the president now weighing in on the anthony weiner sexting scandal and offering some advice. the new york congressman may not be able to ignore on this "american morning." welcome to "american

morning." it is tuesday, june 14th. good to be back, good to have you back from the debate. >> late night. >> wiping our eyes this morning. not a ton of fireworks actually, but we will get through what some of the candidates said and how people that were watching felt they rated. >> that's right. >> up first, jobs, health care, blasting president obama, seven gop presidential contenders faced off last night in the first major debate of the presidential race. it went pretty easy on the front runner, mitt romney, but focused on their fire on the man they're hoping to beat in 2012. jessica yellen has the highlights. >> reporter: at the first major debate of the primary season. >> say hello to your seven candidates. >> reporter: there were seven different voices but one common message. >> this president has failed and he's failed at a time when the american people counted on him to create jobs and get the economy going. >> this president is a declinist. he views america as one of equals around the world.

>> reporter: no surprise the candidates drew a bull's eye on the president's economic stewardship. >> has he done one thing? done one thing right when it comes to the economy in this country? >> that's a tough question. no, no. i can't think of anything. >> reporter: but what did surprise some? minnesota governor tim pawlenty passed up an opportunity to confront mitt romney on health care. even though just the day before, he had ridiculed the president's health care plan as obamay care. >> i called it obamay care. >> we didn't use top down government mandates and individual requirements from government. >> reporter: given a second chance, pawlenty ducked again. >> why is it not obamay care standing with the two governor right there. >> >> president obama looked to massachusetts for designing his program. >> reporter: representative michelle bachmann made some news. >> i filed today my paperwork to

seek the office of the presidency of the united states today. >> reporter: former speaker newt gingrich avoided his news. never mentioning his massive campaign team defections, focusing instead on the issues. >> the congress this year, this next week, ought to repeal the dodd/frank bill, the sarbanes-oxley bill, start creating jobs right now. >> reporter: for former pizza ceo herman cain this debate was something of a national debut. >> i am not ale potition. i am a problem solver. this economy is stalled. it's like a train on the track with no engines. >> reporter: for rick santorum, an opportunity to underscore his dedication to social conservative issues. >> not only have i been consistently pro life, but i've taken the -- i've not just taken the pledge, i've taken the bullets to lead on those issues. >> reporter: all the candidates plan to stand against abortion rights, same-sex marriage and

reinstate the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military, but the main focus of the night. >> we're going to win. just make no mistake about it. i want to announce tonight. president obama is a one-term president. >> reporter: this is the spin room where operatives from each campaign tell us why they think their candidate won. why was this such a tame debate? the big reason, it's still early days and none of the candidates wants to be seen as too negative, attacking their fellow republicans, especially when they're only just introducing themselves to their key voters. jessica yellen, cnn, manchester, new hampshire. >> so who did well in the first major republican debate and who didn't? joining us now for some morning after debate analysis, cnn's senior political editor mark preston live in manchester, new hampshire. what surprised you last night, mark? >> well, you know, i think that michelle bachmann certainly came out of the gates swinging.

she announced she was going to run for president, christine, and then she did very well on stage. in fact, talking to folks who were in the debate hall afterwards they walked away with a new look on the minnesota congresswoman. they thought she was very succinct, on point, and i think this really begins the day for michelle bachmann as we head down the road towards this republican presidential nomination. >> i also think it's interesting, tim pawlenty taking a lot of heat this morning, getting panned in some of the reviews saying he should have gone harder on mitt romney, referring to the health care bill on obamaeny care on a sunday talk show but didn't go after him last night. why is that a big deal? >> he set the stage on sunday when it seemed like he came out swinging against mitt romney. we expected him last night to come out and to continue forward. you know, the big knock against him, pawlenty, he's too vanilla, not energetic enough. we thought we would see that

last night. when given the opportunity to really take it head to head to mitt romney, he decided to decline not to do it. not once, but twice. as you just said, as we've been talking this morning, it was very civil here last night. we shouldn't be too surprised about that. this really is the first debate as we head down the road over the next couple of months. that's when things will start get acrimonious between the seven candidates. >> the frontrunner by a long shot of the declared candidates is mitt romney. did he hurt himself or help himself last night? >> i think he looked well last night. bottom line, mitt romney had a lot on the line. he was standing in the middle of everyone else, he is the frontrunner at the top of the hill, people will try to knock him off. he did pretty well addressing the whole idea he is tied to president obama because of the health care law. he seemed to do pretty well on that. what i found interesting is none of the candidates really took an opportunity to take a shot at him in saying that he is a flip-flopper. that's one of the things that some critics have said about mitt romney. they were given a chance last

night to really take it to him on that. no one chose to do so. herman cain, one of the candidates on stage, said case closed. mitt romney another big winner out of this debate last night. mitt romney and michelle bachmann have a lot heading forward, a lot going forward after what we saw last night. >> thank you so much, mark. >> just ahead, at 6:30 eastern, we're going to talk live with minnesota congresswoman michelle bachmann who by all accounts more than held her own in last night's gop debate. a serious contender. we're going to ask her what she thinks on serious matters facing this country. for the first time president obama decided to weigh in on the anthony weiner sexting scandal when asked about it in an nbc interview. the president talked about what he'd do if he were in the congre congressman's shoes. >> ultimately there's going to be a decision for him and his constituents. i can tell you if it was me, i would resign. >> meantime the house voted to grant congressman weiner a two-week leave of absence that

he requested while he seeks professional help. an fbi fingerprint expert took the stand yesterday in the casey anthony murder trial. elizabeth fontaine testified she examined three strips of duct tape that were found with the remains of 2-year-old caylee anthony. prosecutors claim caylee's mother used the tape to cover her daughter's mouth when she killed her. the fbi witness couldn't make a positive connection. >> your conclusions when inspecting q62, q 63, and q64 was after doing a complete and total workup using multiple different techniques, you were not able to find any fingerprints on either piece of duct tape? >> that is correct. >> the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case today or tomorrow and the trial could go to the jury next week. in iraq about a dozen gonemen have taken hostages northeast of baghdad. officials say the attacker stormed the pro vince shall

council building in baqubah after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the main ens trans. a car bomb exploded nearby. the two attacks killed eight people and injured more than two dozen others. fire crews making progress on the so-called wallow fire in arizona. it's burned more than 700 square miles. the fire is about 10% contained. fire crews are shifting their focus, building new fire lines in new mexico. officials there closed the famous carlsbad international park after park employee working the back country reported a fire. the rising missouri river punching two holes in two separate levees along the iowa/missouri river. the first breach 300 feet wide. officials feel it could flood hamburg, iowa. the second failed in missouri, sending flood waters into nearby farmland there. >> rob marciano in the extreme weather center watching this for us. floods in some parts of the country, fires in other, a lot of dry weather. what's it looking like?

>> we're watching the rivers, the missouri, dump into the mississippi and we have flash flood warnings that are posted because we have some rainfall in these areas as well. so some thunderstorms that are rolling through the missouri and through illinois. just south of chicago. this is mostly drive doing down to the south and east. most of these are tame, but they are producing a fair amount of heavier rain. this is what it looked like yesterday in colorado, where some severe thunderstorms rolled through east of the rockies and we had hail stones the size of golf balls at times. these guys managed to get this video for us. look how dark the sky is and the white hail stones being -- creating cite quite the contrast. we don't expect to see quite that in colorado but we will see a fair amount of severe weather across the midsection that can produce hail. it will be hot again across the southern half. 100 expected in dallas, 98 memphis, 91 atlanta. meantime a chilly 65 degrees expected up there in new york.

a far cry from the 90s and 100 degree temperatures you saw last week. hope you're enjoying that. >> we complained about the cold weather for so long and now after a few days of heat i'll take the 65. >> 65 is great. >> i'll take that year-round. where was all that hail, in colorado? >> yeah. eastern colorado. >> body shops will be packed today. >> exactly. >> hear the dents. >> thanks, rob. jo hockey's stanley cup is going to a seventh and deciding game. the boston bruins beat the vancouver canucks 5-2 last night in boston to even the series at 3-3. the bruins scored four goals in a four-minute span in the first period and never looked back. >> boo. >> in the series the home teen has won every game in the series. >> and game seven is tomorrow night in vancouver. >> are you a sports fan or just a canadian? >> i'm a canadian. >> not sure what sport is being played. he heard vancouver. >> every level i have more to do with boston than vancouver but

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getting rid of the black beret as standard headgear for the army combat uniform. one soldier according to the army times complained it felt like he was wearing a wet sock on his head and made him break out. it's being replaced with a camouflage patrol cap. the army said the change came after thousands weighed in on surveys in social media. >> they will still be all issued the black beret for their official part of their uniform, but that the camouflage patrol cap -- >> this is fraught with controversy. the army rangers were irate a decade ago when they did start issuing the black berets because that was supposed to be their special. they changed it to beige. observe and report, part of our in depth look at last night's republican debate. >> did the candidates connect with the republican voters? martin savidge watched the debate with a family in south carolina. he's live in greenville, south carolina. what did they come up with? >> you know, you to realize how important south carolina is when it comes to the republican cause. since 1980, the winner of the republican primary here in south carolina has gone on to become

the republican nominee. this is definitely a red state which is why people here, especially republicans, were keen to hear what the candidates had to say. take a listen. meet the carnes. brad former military turned executive, his wife wendy, a realtor, two daughters, margaret and rebecca. politically. >> i would say she probably tends more to the left and i'm always right. >> reporter: last presidential election the wars in iraq and afghanistan mattered most to them. this time, it's the failing economy which in a realty job wendy has seen and felt. >> it's been hard. worked the same or more hours as i did five or six years ago in making a third of the money. >> reporter: and that's just how the debate started, with the economy. >> what would you do as president of the united states to create jobs? >> the thing we need to do is to get this economy boosted. >> what we need is an economy that's unshackled. >> what this president has done

as has slowed the economy. >> reporter: all of the candidates blasted the obama administration. but 35 minutes in, brett still wasn't hearing what he wanted to hear. >> that's the stupidest answer i've ever heard. it's been political posturing, getting their talking points out. they have to check those blocks. i haven't heard anything about me. >> reporter: after two hours, the couple still hadn't heard enough when it came to making the economy better. frustrated by a format that stressed short answers. >> taken several years for us to get in a situation and they're not going to solve it in a 30-second answer. >> did you see a candidate up on that stage you think that can beat president obama? >> yes, all seven. how many did you see? >> i think it would be interesting to watch one of them debate him. >> i do see a little bit of a divide here. >> just a little.

>> reporter: very friendly divide. it should be pointed out that really for this family, it was like the old song, getting to know you. there were a number of candidates especially brett was interested to hear from them, tim pawlenty, mitt romney, but he was impressed with herman cain and that's a candidate that a number of people here liked the plain speak and like the fact that he is a ceo, a man who has done business, and they believe best business is what needs to be done now. >> herman cain gets that strong voter intensity, the idea people like him and really stick with him and loyal, but in our polling of republicans, in general, of that crowd only mitt romney polls amongst republicans as being able to defeat president obama. but i guess this debate will be happening in people's living rooms as you saw. thanks very much. when it comes to bringing home the bacon, size apparently matters a lot. the headline of this study, which is pretty interesting, had

us talking from the "journal of applied psychology" is that women who weigh less, make more, and men who weigh less, make less. that's right. according to the study, what they said was, that women who are 25 pounds below the average female weight take home more than 15 grand a year than other women. yet, men who are 25 pounds below the average male weight take home about $8400 less than other men. >> should men be overweight or average weight? clearly women should be, to make more according to the study, under average weight. >> that's right. but the thing when they say 25 pounds overweight for men, where it gets harry. no pun intended. is that it could be muscle or fat. they just say that apparently the connotation is a guy who's skinny is sneaky. >> a bigger man is a bigger presence in the workplace. >> apparently. >> and the thinner woman is rewarded for being thinner in the workplace. >> are you growing on us here?

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but i'm also human. and i believe in stacking the deck. 29 minutes past the hour. a look at your top stories this morning. the first big debate of 2012, they attacked the president rather than one another. seven republicans faced off in new hampshire. the candidates blasting the president's policies on everything from jobs to health care to foreign policy. congresswoman michele bachmann made news in the middle of the -- actually right around the beginning of the debate announcing she is officially in the race. the prosecution could wrap up its case in the casey anthony murder trial.

an fbi fingerprint expert took the stand yesterday. elizabeth fontaine testified she examined three strips of duct tape found with the remains of 2-year-old caylee. prosecutors claim caylee's mother used the tape to cover her daughter's mouth when she killed her. the fbi witness could not find any fingerprints on that tape. president obama adding to the pressure on congressman anthony weiner. the president saying weiner has embarrassed himself and, quote, if it was me, i would resign. the president is leaving for a historic visit to puerto rico headed for a fund raiser in miami that he attended last night. it's the first presidential visit to that island in 50 years. people living in the u.s. territory are american citizens but they can't vote for president. but 5 million puerto ricans living on the mainland who have full voting rights may be watching. investigators trying to figure out what caused a goodyear blimp to burst into

flames and crash over the weekend in germany. witnesses say the blimp caught fire while trying to land. the pilot was killed in the accident, but he managed to save his passengers, telling them to jump to safety moments before the blimp exploded. investigators say it could take weeks before they know what went wrong. quite a square for the dozen or so people in this pool when a utility truck went crashing into it. it happened in johns creek, georgia. police say the driver lost control of the truck after going into a diabetic coma. half of the people in that pool were children. they were all shaken, but authorities say no one was injured. ali? a lot of buzz this morning about michele bachmann's performance in last night's republican presidential debate. many bloggers and political observers believe she stepped out of sarah palin's shadow and emerge as a viable contender for the white house, repeatedly slamming president obama's policies after scoring some early points with a carefully calculated announcement. listen.

>> i filed today, my paperwork, to seek the office of the presidency of the united states today and i'll very soon be making my formal announcement. as president of the united states, i will not rest until i repeal obama care. it's a promise, take it to the bank, cash the check, i'll make sure that happens. we need everybody to come together because we're going to win. just make no mistake about it. i want to announce tonight, president obama is a one-term president. we'll win. >> minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann joins me live from manchester, new hampshire, this morning. congresswoman bachmann, congratulations, good to see you this morning. listen to what they're saying about you, some say you stole the show, others calling your performance electrifying, dana milbank said you rose above the usual positioning. national journal political insiders, 51% say mitt romney won the debate, 21%, though, bringing you in second, say you

won the debate. how are you feeling this morning? >> well, we're feeling great. we're looking forward to getting to all of the states and taking our message of job creation and turning the economy around. but we are very pleased last night, ali. i also want to thank cnn, cnn was a wonderful host last evening. >> thank you for that. are you surprised by how surprise dd some people seem toe with your performance? >> you know, i wasn't thinking about performance. i was really just thinking about president obama and what we can do to make sure that he is a one-term president because frankly, he hasn't done a great job serving the interests of the american people. so that was really my focus last night. >> let's talk about that. you mentioned that he's a one-term president. i happen to know you're good with numbers, given your background. i know you won't see these polls but i'm going to put them up for our viewers. a cnn/opinion research corporation poll taken last week. republican's choice for nominee in 2012. a field of ten people.

mitt romney at the top, then sarah palin, rudy giuliani, herman cain, newt gingrich, ron pahl, then you at 4%, 20 pinz behind mitt romney in that poll but the one more important, you said you want president obama to be a one-term president. we have the same poll asking republicans who can beat barack obama, mitt romney with 65%, giuliani 56 president, palin with 44% how do you get into that space and can you get in that space with sarah palin still toying with the idea of running? >> i just announced last evening on cnn that we filed our paperwork for me to seek the office of the presidency of the united states. so we're just out of the box and i'm excited that we're -- that we're starting, we're off and running, and i think that now, we'll be able to make our case to the american people and i think that we'll see then an increased level of support around the country. >> all right. you have said in the past that

you feel very, very strongly, and this is before the tea party movement got started, you feel very strongly that government should be limited to what it is allowed to do in the constitution. now the fact is, when we have to change things in society, government has had to provide incentives to capital to move into certain areas. think about energy, think about the environment. do you really believe that the federal government should offer no incentives, should undertake no planning with anything that doesn't have to do with powers granted to them in the constitution? >> well, i think there's two very different roles of government and one role that president obama takes is a command and controlled view of the economy where the government has a very heavy hand. the best example is obama care. what's wrong with that, ali, is the fact that under obama care, even the congressional budget office says we will lose 800,000 jobs. that's something we can't afford in this economy. that's why i subscribe to a supply and demand view of the

free markets. i want to see job growth. we'll create hundreds of thousands of jobs under the free market as opposed to the command and control view of president obama. that's the message i look forward to taking across the united states. >> congresswoman bachmann, i enjoy having this conversation with you, because i know you know taxes better than possibly anyone standing on that stage. it's a constant republican mantra that lowering taxes will create jobs and that america has some of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. you know full well that really american corporations don't pay those taxes, so on balance, american corporations are not taxed more than others. how do we deal with that? >> well, the taxes are paid as you know by the consumers in this country. those are the viewers that are watching you this morning, they pay those taxes because the corporations have to pass them on to the consumers. that's why what we want to do is to be able to create all of the incentives that we can so we can

have job growth in the united states. i'm really tired of seeing outsourcing of jobs outside of the country. and yes, a corporate tax rate makes an incredible difference on job growth, but so does the regulatory burden that burden from the epa on businesses all across the united states, the environmental protection agency, also is causing us to lose literally hundreds of thousands of jobs. that's why we desperately need reform in the united states and i firmly believe that we can turn the economy around and it won't take more than but a quarter to and we'll begin to see job growth emerge here in the united states. >> we are going to see a very serious discussion, possibly come down to the wire on the debt ceiling. you have said before, you said when you were with me, that you have voted against it, you will not -- you intend to still vote against it unless there are serious cuts. where do you think we're going to be at the beginning of august? >> well, i think harry reid in the senate has said he expects to see tax increases.

i think that's president obama's expectation as well. that we'll see tax increases on the american people, on our businesses, that won't turn the economy around. we know that that's a plan for failure and a prescription for failure. so what we need to do is actually work on the issue. here's the problem, ali. president obama once again on the economy is leading from behind. as president of the united states, i would lead from the front because i believe the united states should be the head and not the tail. that's why we cannot continue doing what we're doing. we've seen a 35% increase unfortunately in the debt under president obama. and just like president obama said, more eloquently than i could, he said it's a failure of leadership to have to deal with this debt ceiling issue. as president of the united states i would seek a policy that would take us to balance so that we never again raise the debt ceiling in this country. >> as a leader of the tea party caucus and republican party, do you see yourself voting in favor of or against debt ceiling

increase by the beginning of august? >> at this point i would be voting against a debt ceiling increase because i don't see any serious cuts on the table whatsoever. i only see tax increases. and that will hurt the united states. remember, the debt ceiling is all about giving the government additional authority to borrow money that we don't have, about $2.4 trillion, that will only get us another year down the road and we'll be that much more in debt. this is a prescription for failure for our generation and for the next generation. we can do so much better than this, ali. >> representative michele bachmann, good to see you. congratulations on your performance in the debate last night. we look forward to talking to you many times in the future. >> thank you. >> representative michele bachmann is now a presidential candidate. at 7:15 eastern time, we'll be joined live by former minnesota governor and republican presidential candidate tim pawlenty. last night's republican presidential debate did any of the candidates connect?

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it's the morning after the big republican presidential debate. seven candidates squaring off in new hampshire with 17 months to go before america votes. we want to know which candidates, if any, connected. joining us from manchester new hampshire are three undecided voters to watch, tyler, a student at the university of new hampshire, wayne, is a salesman and joined by wayne's mother maureen. welcome to the program. did these candidates connect with you and do you feel as if

all the pundits are saying this morning that the two big winners were mitt romney and michele bachmann? do you agree? >> i definitely think that michele bachmann differentiated herself. i think that if i was sarah palin back in alaska, i would be shaking in my boots because michele bachmann really impressed me with how smart she was. mitt romney, he didn't do anything to lose vote last night, but i would -- i'm not sure i would classify him as a big winner. >> maureen, you said he didn't really impress you that much either? >> maur m maureen, did he impress you? >> i've been hearing that mitt romney since 2008 and i think i pretty much know everything about him. at this point, i was more impressed with michele bachmann

and ron paul than i ever dreamed i would be. i thought it was a good night for both of them. >> that's interesting. tyler, i wanted to ask you, what do you think about you're 19, you're at the university of new hampshire, you're probably not worried about medicare all that much which is something older voters have been talking about, medicare and social security. you are worried about the deficit. are you seeing enough separation of the candidates on the issue of debt? >> well, i think the big -- what i am seeing is the fact that all of these candidates seem to be serious about, you know, doing -- actually doing something about the deficit and i think that's important to young voters because all of the, you know, the young electorate is very worried about, you know, our future and the future of america because of, obviously, if we don't do something about this debt then, you know, our, you know, there's -- there isn't going to be a prosperous america in the future. >> tyler, mau rene said she was

sort of impressed by ron paul. there was a comment from ron paul on the subject of same-sex marriage that stood out for you. let's listen to that. >> the federal government shouldn't be involved. i wouldn't support an amendment, but let me suggest, one of the ways to solve this ongoing debate about marriage, look up the dictionary, we know what marriage is all about, but then get the government out of it. why doesn't it go to the church and why doesn't it go to the individuals. i think -- i don't think government should give us a license to get married. it should in the church. >> with all this talk, tyler, about the economy and you and i talked about debt, how important are social issues to you? to young voters, young republican voters in general? >> right. i think social issues in this political climate right now are going to take a back seat to the economy because of how sluggish the recovery has been. but i do like what ron paul had to say about gay marriage. i don't think that the government has a role to play in

handing out marriage licenses. i believe that if we do want to achieve equal rights we have to get the government out of marriage and have to be able to have anybody, any loving couple, be able to get civil unions and then we leave marriage by definition up to churches and religious institutions. i very much like what he had to say about gay marriage. >> the polls show the younger the voter the more like willy t are to feel the way you are. tyler, you have a father of three, traveling salesmen, consider yourself a libertarian, independent voter, but vote most often with the republicans. anything last night on the economy that these republicans told you makes you think they have a better plan than the president? >> well, i have full confidence that republicans have a better plan for the economy than the president. i mean i think president obama has done a terrible job with the economy. however, i will say this, i'm

not so sure that we see the winner of the new hampshire primary on the stage last night. i think that i wouldn't be surprised if a rudy giuliani, rick perry or jon huntsman gets into the race here and really supersedes what we saw on the stage last night. they all seem it to be speaking the republican playbook and i'm looking as an undecided voter, i'm looking for a candidate who has a real plan of attack and not just blaming president obama. i'm not sure i saw that last night. >> wayne boroughs, maureen boroughs, tyler mcafy, thank you so much for letting us know whether this -- these candidates are connecting with you. thanks, everyone. we're going to be right back. it's 48 minutes after the hour. (screams)

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caylee anthony. youren van der sloot expected to appear in a court today. her body was found in van der sloot's lima hotel room last year. president obama weighing in on the anthony weiner sexting scandal describing weiner's behavior as highly inappropriate saying if i was him, i would resign. the disgraced congressman has resisted calls to step down. hockey the way lord stanley meant it to be. the boston bruins beating the vancouver canucks last night 5-2, forcing a seventh and deciding game in the stanley cup final series which will be tomorrow night, by the way, in vancouver. you're caught up on the day's headlines. "american morning" back after a short break.

testing the waters and getting into trouble. check this out. a brand new america's cup boat going end over end. in san francisco bay. it happened during a practice run for america's cup which will be held in these choppy waters. look at that. >> whoa! >> look at that thing. >> sort of an experimental cat ta ma ran. that's why they have practice runs. >> part of oracle racing, described as hot rods on the water. the team said one crewman suffered minor injuries. >> rob marciano in the extreme weather center. i have to imagine that costs a pretty penny, anything like that probably full of expensive equipment, flips over, it's made for the water but still, that's a pretty -- that's pretty high-tech machine. >> it is. in the end the sailors dangling on the nets like rats holding on to a sinking ship.

my goodness. we have breezy conditions across the west coast yesterday and we'll have breezy conditions across the central part of the country. that does not include the fire areas across arizona and new mexico. they'll have a day where the storms, the winds will lay down and that will help the situation there certainly. as far as how cool and how hot it's going to be, down to the south is where most of the heat will be and thunderstorms will be present they could become severe across that red area. parts of texas and new mexico saw record-breaking high temperatures yesterday. savannah, georgia, 102. in atlanta yesterday, dew points dropped a little bit. made it a little more comfortable. here's where double plays are high, rain falling from st. louis to springfield. some will sneak into chicago. should be pleasant. 74 degrees in chicago, 65 still unsettled, little cloudy, showers around the northeast today, but you'll take that over the 90s which will be prevalent across the deep south. dallas may hit 100 degrees again. stay cool up there guys. it's a little chillier than last week, that's for sure. >> all right, rob.

we'll take it. >> when you dress in a three-piece suit every day, 65 is perfect. >> you don't need the 90s. seems like size really matters when it comes to how much you make. according to a study in the "journal of applied psychology" women who are 25 pounds below the average female weight take home more than $15,000 more than other women a year. >> you know what we have to do before we do this again, find out what these average weights are. >> skinny women make more money. >> but men 25 pounds below the average male weight, take home $8500 a year less than the average man. >> bigger men make more money. >> that's right. >> all right. that brings us to our question of the day. weight a minute. get it? do size and success go hand in hand. brett nelson said interesting smaller men make less money on average. wonder if that's a physical hierarchy, runts of the liter sort of thing. >> so much of hogwash, i'm 5'4", 130 pounds and do better than most of my male counterparts. it all depends on one's

individual drive to succeed and to be the best that he or she can be. al less san dro, you're right. >> word hogwash such a good word. >> not an italian word, really. kristen cramer on facebook writes this does not surprise me but it's very sad and shows how sexist society is as a whole and how people want women to be eye candy. >> i'm not sure i read this as a cause and effect thing. in other words, you can make a poll that says anything, right? just statistically is. i don't know it means you will make more money. >> a lot interpreting it to mean if you're more attractive you make more money. >> and bigger guys are more attractive? >> what do we view as attractive, women being thin and men muscular or slightly overweight. >> keep your comments coming, e-mail, tweet, facebook. we'll read more of your responses throughout the morning. really, really good responses coming in from you guys. >> top stories after the break. i'm good about washing my face.

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seven candidates, one target, republicans playing nice with each other, blasting president obama and his policies in their introduction to the nation. plus, the white house on weiner-gate. even the president saying the sexting scandal is too big of a distraction on this "american morning."

and good morning to you. it is tuesday, june 14th. glad you're with us on this "american morning." >> a lot going on, the debate last night. >> yeah. >> there wasn't as many fireworks as i think many were hoping for. it was a pretty calm, civil debate. >> it's early. this was an introduction but also die-hards in the republican party who are already naming other names that weren't up there. >> we heard a bunch of people talking about a bunch of other people but they did talk about jobs, health care and blast president obama. seven gop presidential contenders facing off last night in the first major debate of the presidential race. >> they went easy on the frontrunner mitt romney but focused on their fire on the man they're hoping to beat in 2012. jessica yellen has the highlights for us. >> reporter: at the first major debate of the primary season. >> say hello to your seven candidates. >> reporter: there were seven different voices but one common message. >> this president has failed and he's failed at a time when the

american people counted on him to create jobs and get the economy going. this. >> this president is a declinist. he views america as one of equals around the world. >> reporter: no surprise, the candidates drew a bull's eye on the president's economic stewardship. >> has he done one thing right when it comes to the economy in this country? >> boy, that's a tough question. no, no, i can't think of anything. >> reporter: but what did surprise some? minnesota governor tim pawlenty passed up an opportunity to confront mitt romney on health care. even though just the day before, he had ridiculed the president's health care plan as obamaney care. >> i called it obamaney care. >> we took a different approach in minnesota. we didn't use top down government mandates and individual requirements from government. >> reporter: given a second chance, pawlenty ducked again. >> why is not obamaney care standing with the governor right there?

>> president obama is the person who i quoted in saying he looked to massachusetts for desingh his program. >> reporter: representative michele bachmann made some news. >> i filed today my paperwork to seek the office of the presidency of the united states today. >> reporter: former speaker newt gingrich avoided his news, never mentioning his massive campaign team defections, focusing instead on the issues. >> the congress this year, this next week, ought to repeal the dodd frank bill, they ought to repeal the sarbanes-oxley bill, start creating jobs right now. >> reporter: for former godfather's pizza ceo herman cain this debut was something of a national debut. >> i am not a politician. i am a problem solver. this economy is stalled. like a train on the track with no engines. >> for rick santorum, an opportunity to underscore his dedication to social conservative issues. >> not only have i been consistently pro life but i've

not just taken the pledge, i've taken the bullets to go out and fight for this and lead on those issues. >> reporter: all the candidates pledge to stand against abortion rights, same-sex marriage and reinstate the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military, but the main focus of the night. >> we're going to win. just make no mistake about it. i want to announce tonight, be president obama is a one-term president. >> reporter: this is the spin room where operatives from each campaign tell us why they think their candidate won. one of the big questions, why was this such a tame debate? the big reason, it's still early days and none of the candidates wants to be seen as too negative attacking their fellow republicans especially when they're only just introducing themselves to their key voters. jessica yellen, cnn, new hampshire. >> who won? a poll of gop insiders says mitt romney didn't do anything to hurt his frontrunner status last night, and that's what his goal was, obviously to do no harm.

51% saying he was the biggest winner. congresswoman michele bachmann also scored some big points as well, coming in second when people were asked, who won, 21%. she was the only other candidate in double digits. and joining us now from new hampshire, from manchester, cnn's political analyst gloria bornlger. what's your take away from all this last night? >> well, what i think about having had a few hours to reflect on it, this is a completely different feeling i get from this republican field than from the republican field four years ago. it's much more conservative, it's much more noninterventionist. i remember john mccain, of course, the leading candidate and a nominee last time, you don't have that sort of mccain intervention weighing of the party. you have social conservatives, fiscal conservatives. if i'm an independent voter looking at this panel, that's

what i'm curious about is just how did they receive this debate last night because not only were they not giving barack obama any quarter, but you have michele bachmann talking about not voting to raise the debt ceiling, you have ron paul talking about no intervention anywhere, so it's a very different republican party. >> what's interesting, gloria, because we did talk to an independent-minded republican voter just a few minutes ago and he said he really liked michele bachmann but he thinks that whoever wins the new hampshire primary, he's a new hampshire resident, wasn't on that stage. talked about jon huntsman and these other names that come up. >> giuliani, rick perry. >> and chris chris it ti and the like. the fact that we keep talking org hearing about the other names, does it show that maybe maybe that this is kind of a lackluster collection? >> well, what it shows you is how divided the republican party really is. >> yeah. >> i mean the names that you

mentioned, giuliani and huntsman, for example, are moderates, okay. rick perry, very, very conservative, would appeal to the tea party candidates. so you have a party that is effectively split. i mean we had a poll yesterday in which we asked republicans which of these candidates really represents you and your values and what you believe and the two top ones were palin and giuliani whom you know don't share much of anything in terms of their political beliefs. so it's a party kind of in search of itself and it's divided all over the lot about what it thinks its priorities ought to be. they're all fiscal conservatives but they want to go about it in very different ways. mitt romney it seems to me is a lot more conservative candidate this time around than he was four years ago. >> the other interesting thing that seems to happen, gloria, we know this, you have that remorse factor with oh it could have, should have, would have been this person. it always seems like the people

with the most intensity in the primary don't stack up as being viable contenders in a general election. we saw it on the democratic side with howard dean 2008, ron paul setting fund-raising records. who actually gives president obama a fight in the general election in your opinion? >> well, i mean that's what every republican is trying to figure out. i don't know. they -- our poll we asked republicans, seven out of ten said the most important thing is electability. i think at this point, you have to take a look at the fellow who's run before, mitt romney, who understands what it's like to go through this entire race, which after all, is an endurance test. the interesting thing, though, to me that i thought was kind of missing from last night, was sort of an optimism, a hopefulness, about the future, which ronald reagan always had, which people really liked to see in their presidential candidates. i think that's one of the

reasons that michele bachmann did so well. which is, you saw that coming out of her. you can't just be a mirror of people's resentments. you have to also represent their hopes and their aspirations. as a presidential candidate. and i didn't see a lot of that last night. so, i think we'll see it in the future as we get down the campaign trail and these people have the ability to kind of hone their message. >> all right. gloria borger. thank you so much. >> sure. >> you spoke to one of the voters you spoke to, said, you know, they can't just blame democrats. i wanted to hear real answers on how we're going to do that. maybe we're still early? >> a couple minutes we'll speak to governor tim pawlenty and he actually was almost derided yesterday for saying we could have 5% growth each year if china and brazil can, we can. and people are saying that's unrealistic. >> we'll get a chance to ask him that directly at 7:30 eastern. also, we're going to hear from

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here's what's new today. severe storms in eastern colorado brought heavy rain and hail the size of golf balls. we got video in. >> listen. >> i know. the sounds and sights of this, shot by storm chasers on highway 36 near anten, colorado. in a second you will be able to see the rainbow that formed during that intense hail storm. >> and the rising missouri river punching two holes in two separate levees along the iowa/missouri border. the first breach was 300 feet wide. it could flood the town of hamburg, iowa. the second levee failed in holing county, missouri, sending flood waters into farmland. a mea culpa from comedian and "30 rock" star tracy morgan for a homophobic rant in nashville. morgan's going back to music city next week with a member of glaad to apologize face to face to people who were in that audience. before last night's presidential debate it was widely predicted the candidates might gang up on frontrunner mitt romney.

former minnesota governor tim pawlenty was a big critic on the sunday talk shows calling romney's massachusetts health care law obamaney care. last night in new hampshire, pawlenty wasn't picking any fights. here's a listen. >> why would you choose those words in the comfort of the sunday studio, your rival is standing right there. if it was obamaney care on fox news sunday, why is not obamaney care standing with the governor there? >> president obama is the person i quoted in saying he looked to massachusetts for designing his program. he's the one who said it's a blueprint and he merged the two programs and so using the term obamaney care was a reflection of the president's comments that he designed obama care on the massachusetts health care plan. joining us live from new hampshire this morning is republican presidential candidate tim pawlenty. thanks for being with us this morning. >> good morning. happy to be with you. >> i watched the debate last night and reading a lot of the articles and reaction this morning. a lot of people are wondering why you didn't take the chance to give some hard-hitting cri

sism of mitt romney's health care reform last night when you were with limb on stage. >> there was a question asked by the audience from sill ya i was trying to respond to. when john asked about the obamaney care reference, i repeated what i did say on the sunday morning show, which is president obama was the one who indicated he used the massachusetts health care plan as the blue pints for obama care. it was restated the same way as i said it on sunday morning. >> did you miss an opportunity, though, to more strongly differentiate how you feel about not only the health care bill, but the massachusetts bill -- the massachusetts law as well? >> well, again, the debate was focused primarily on barack obama and his failure as a president. we have high levels of unemployment, $4 a gallon gas, a federal government out of control, some differences between the republican candidates, but the focus last night was on barack obama. and i did, again, highlight that president obama himself is the one who said that the obama care

was designed after the massachusetts health care plan. >> all right. so bottom line is you and mitt romney are going to be competitors at least if either one of you will get a shot at challenging the president, why is your -- why are your ideas about what to do with our health care crisis which we have, better than mitt romney's? >> i think obama care is a top down command and control system that has individual mandates, it has limited choices that government's going to regulate, it's going to tax more. we took a very different approach in minnesota. we want health care reform and we're really leading the nation in it. but it's more based on consumers and freedom and market choices and letting people decide what's best for them and their families rather than government. >> is it unrealistic to think what works at the state level can work nationwide? >> well what we know works for sure not just at states but nationwide is markets. when people are given the freedom to choose what's best for them and their families and having accountability not just for volumes of procedures performed but pain providers for values and results those are the

kinds of reforms we did in minneso minnesota, they work and deliver results. it's different from obama care, different than having mandates and government takeovers. we did it the other way. >> a national journal political insider poll and they chose romney as the winner of the debate and chose you as, quote, the biggest loser. why do you think that some of these republicans are panning your performance. 26% say you were the biggest loser in the debate. >> well, i think i saw a poll on your station last night that had me in the top three or four of some national journal experts or the like. nonetheless i think people may have been expecting an attack on mitt romney and i repeated what i said on the sunday show and tried to focus on president obama. >> i also want to ask you a question, you put out an interesting article about what your economic plan would be for getting us out of our high unemployment, getting us out of the economic troubles we've been in and a bloomberg op-ed called your tax plan at least, quote, magical thinking, saying that your plan to cut taxes on business and investment and high

earners would then lead to 5% growth for a decade is something neither the reagan or clinton boom could achieve. could you give me more detail on how that would actually happen? >> sure. and respected economists like john taylor at stanford, by the way, steve forbes wrote yesterday that my plan actually would work and 5% growth is achievable but it starts with this premise -- what we're doing now isn't working. president obama's got the country on the wrong track. millions of americans are hurting and are under employed or unemployed and we need to try something positive and optimistic about job growth in this country. that plan -- my plan lays it out. i'm the only one in the race with a plan and presented that last night. but it includes massive tax cuts to try to stimulate the economy, it includes reducing spending, but also regulatory reform, permitting reform, energy reform, health care reform, and if you do those things and shrink government we'll grow the private economy and jobs in this country. >> the question was asked but i will ask you again, i know there were six other people on the stage with you last night, why didn't that work in the bush era then with the massive, massive tax cuts that, obviously, didn't

lead to job growth or we wouldn't be at 9.1% unemployment right now? >> if you look back at the history of tax cuts under john kennedy, under reagan, president bush the second, isolate on the effects of those tax cuts they do grow government revenues and stimulate the economy. you have to look at what else happened during those eras. we're not proposing to raise government spending. we want to reduce government spending and reform government in a more pro jobs, pro growth direction and if you do that, you'll have a better result and the folks who have looked at my plan, john taylor, steve forbes, these are credible seasoned people, said not only is it going to work, but it's necessary to get the country out of the doldrums that president obama has us in. >> great to talk to you, tim pawlenty, presidential candidate, 2012, as well as former minnesota governor, thanks so much. >> thank you. coming up next on "american morning," hold on to your wallet while your electricity bill could spike by up to 60%. >> and this has you riled up

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good morning. welcome back to "american morning." the house has now granted anthony weiner's request for a two-week leave of ab ceps. read on the house floor last night. the new york democrat says he plans to seek professional treatment after admitting he sent suggestive messages and pictures to several women over

twitter and facebook. he's not said he plans to leave for good. president obama is joining the list of people who are suggesting that congressman weiner should resign and ed henry live at the white house with that. good morning, ed. >> good morning, christine. you're right. the bottom line is the president's message can be boiled down to two words, enough already. he's out on the road, in north carolina yesterday, then to miami, raise something money, but also trying to talk about creating jobs, trying to beat up on the republicans a little bit for the changes they want to make to medicare and instead, weiner-gate drags on for yet more days. what's interesting is that in this interview with ann curry for nbc's "today" show the president stopped short of directly calling on weiner to resign. instead saying he's a distraction and enough already, let's move on. but he did stop short of calling on resignation directly. not necessarily a shove but at least a push. take a listen. >> ultimately there's going to

be a decision for him and his constituents. i can tell you if it was me, i would resign. >> he basically said he would resign if he was in the same position. why would he stop short? number one if weiner does not resign the president doesn't want to look like he's got no juice here and can't force a decision. but secondly, you know, he doesn't want to add even more distraction directly calling for a resignation having everyone jump on that when nobody knows what weiner will do. he may gut this out for a bit longer and give the president, democratic leaders a bit more heartburn, guys. >> ed henry, you and i are both big twitter users, you remember the day, don't worry, i'm not going anywhere bad with this, robert gibbs when press secretary launched his twitter account, got 30,000, 40,000 people within a day. >> immediately, gibbs jumped ahead of both of us. it was embarrassing. >> he's coming up in a few minutes to talk about last night's debate and i'm trying to tweet it as i want to and his

people have said he hasn't decided on a twitter handle. >> jay carney took th the @presscri. i bet it will be something related to auburn. that's his home. >> does it have to be something related to obama since he's heading up the -- >> especially since he's a surrogate for the campaign. i think it will have to be obama 12. >> when you find it out tweet it out. good to see you. >> we're crossing the half hour. time for a check of the top stories. they didn't lay a glove on each other, did go after the president but seven candidates pummelled president obama during their debate in new hampshire. the attacks focusing mainly on the president's handling of the economy. michele bachmann announced her official candidacy for president. progress on the fire lines in arizona, slow progress, though. a massive wildfire that's burned more than 700 square miles is now 10% contained. it's been burning since memorial day and spread across the border to new mexico which forced the

famous carlsbad cavern's national park to close. >> a race to save hamburg, iowa, from the rising missouri river. the river ruptured two levees. the first breach was about 300 feet wide. officials fear it could flood hum burg. a second levy failed in holt county flooding waters in farmland. seven republican candidates for the white house took turns teeing off on president obama slamming everything from his health care reforms to economic policies, all while as kiran said playing nicely with each other. joining us this morning for the response to that obama bashing, is former president obama secretary, press secretary, robert gibbs, in new hampshire, to give the president perspective on the debate. robert, good to see you. you heard ed and i talking -- i couldn't tweet out we were talking this morning because you don't have a twitter handle. what's up with that? >> well look, it doesn't seem like an altogether bad time to be off twitter from what i can gather from the news. >> hear ya.

>> but i'm sure i'll be up doing it soon. it is -- it's a fabulous medium to communicate not in this country but we've seen the impact it can have all over this world. >> take a look at a cnn/opinion research poll taken june 3rd to 7th of republicans asking who can beat president obama and as we know, we think republicans are saying right now winnability is their concern. mitt romney on that list, 65% saying he can beat the president and the next couple are giuliani and palin and gingrich and ron paul. what are your thoughts on that? >> well look, i think last night, up here in new hampshire, is just the beginning of -- i think what's going to be a very long process. it certainly was four years ago, in trying to introduce yourself to the american people, talk about what you've done, and they'll be many, many more things like this before a nominee gets picked. i think you saw last night that republicans wanted to spend more time trying to bash the

president than talking about their own records, you know. if you're mitt romney and ranked 47th out of 50 in terms of state job creation when you were governor or tim pawlenty who left minnesota with a $6.2 billion deficit it's no wonder why you would want to talk about somebody else. >> what about those who aren't in there? we talked to some voters this morning who said they think the person who's going to get the nomination and take a swipe at the president isn't -- wasn't on that stage. whether it's a chris christie or rudy giuliani or rick perry or names like that. are you more worried about one of those people who aren't in the field getting in? >> you know, it's hard at this point to be worried about one specific person. i will say that judging by everything that we see, you can tell that this republican nomination is at its most unsettled that we've seen it in quite some time. i think many people are still looking at this and as you mentioned, many republicans seem to be dissatisfied with the

choices that they have currently. and would like to see more. i think back again, four years ago in the democratic primary, democratic voters were quite pleased with who they had to select from. this time republicans are not pleased at who they get to pick. >> you talked about tim pawlenty and mitt romney's records and job creation in their states as governors. right now, let me give you the same cnn/opinion research poll, economic conditions today are good, only 19% of americans think so, bad/poor 81%. we saw this may jobs report, 54,000 jobs added. at some point, back when you were press secretary, you could lay a lot of that blame on the previous administration but now we're well more than two years in and that doesn't sort of hold as much water anymore. >> well look, i don't think the american people want to figure out who to blame five or six years ago. i will say this though, ali, i

think what you saw last night were candidates espousing the very same ideas that got us into a financial, a fiscal, and an economic mess a few years ago. tax cuts, more tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. the removal of responsibility from our financial system by repealing financial reform. privatizing medicare. i'm sorry, privatizing social security, slashing medicare. a lot of these ideas again, they've been proposed and many of these ideas got us into this mess and i don't think the american people think that's how we're going to get out of this mess. the president was in north carolina meeting with ceos about job training, about strengthening the economy, investing in reforming in our education a.m. system. i think all of those will create the foundation for stronger economic growth and job creation. >> less than a minute, let me ask you a question, put on somebody else's hat, you're good at doing that, we are talking about job creation and solutions, the federal reserve

in dallas says that texas accounted for 37% of the new jobs since recovery. when looking at solutions a lot of people will be looking to rick perry. if you're rick perry from the defections from newt gingrich's team, with these numbers, the dissatisfaction that republicans have, rick perrys a adviser would you tell him to get in this race. >> i probably would. as you mentioned there's a vacuum for somebody with even a half decent economic record on the republican side. if you're mitt romney or tim pawlenty, you're not going to walk out there and talk about what massachusetts or minnesota has done economically under your stewardship because quite frankly, it's not that impressive. so i can see how this dangled out would be something that a rick perry or somebody else would want to jump into. >> robert gibbs, good to see you. thanks very much for joining us. get yourself a twitter handle and i'll tweet we had this conversation. >> thank you, sir. last night's debate was michele bachmann's coming out party i guess you could say.

she is a favorite of the tea party movement and announced her candidacy yesterday. the road to the republican nomination winds through tea party nomination, the chairman of the tea party express says in a statement, quote, the important thing to remember is we are going to give the gop a candidate. we're not sgrjust going to acce what the gop has handed us all of these years. that's from amy kremer. >> watched the debate with a tea party group in iowa. did the candidates make a connection there? hi, casey. >> good morning. i'm outside the elks lodge in council bluff, iowa, where 75 members of the tea party watched last night's debate. this is a place where it was the beginning of their month-long bus tour of the state of iowa. they'll be going through several cities and some of those republican candidates will be addressing the tea party in this state. the mood here among the folks of the tea party who were watching this debate was somewhat

skeptical, somewhat reserved. here's what they had to say about last night's debate. >> a lot of them have said less government. okay. that's one of the concepts of the tea party. the other concept that the tea party believes in is getting back to the constitution. that's one thing i haven't heard them say. but the idea of getting less government and less taxes that's what i've heard and like so far. >> a couple people surprised me, one is newt gingrich. i think he's going to have some campaign staff that may be wanting their job back. we'll wait and see. he's a little bit of an impressive fella this evening. another one that's impressive is michele bachmann. i think she's got a connection to people that's just evident and i really like her style. >> now, when organizers of the event asked those in attendance to applaud when they read off the names of the different candidates, michele bachmann was one of the folks who received the loudest round of applause from the tea partiers.

perhaps the loudest was ron paul. he's a big favorite here among the tea party crowd. what was, perhaps, most striking, though, was not one person in attendance here thought that mitt romney actually won the debate. perhaps that's because he has basically decided to skip the straw poll here later this summer in iowa. a lot of folks around here not very happy about that. back to you. >> he spent some money in iowa last time around and this time just decided he's going to skip iowa. i don't know which comes first, the people saying he didn't rate for them or -- >> him being there. >> not going there because the people this time around are saying they don't rate for him. >> he spent some money here last time and did very well in iowa but it didn't get him the nomination. he has a different strategy this time. >> thanks so much, casey wian, my grandma was born in council bluff. >> you have family from everywhere in iowa. nowhere in iowa your family hasn't touched. >> no. there's probably 70 counties we haven't touched. >> pet allergies, either of you have them?

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welcome back to "american morning." health headlines. american krs are reaching for their prescription pads way too often according to a new report by patient safety researchers at the brigham and women's hospital in boston. they say in 2007 alone, there were more than 11,000 deaths in this country related to prescription owe pe yodss. they conclude doctors are too quick to describe drugs without considering alternatives.

>> they are narcotic painkillers. >> and you can't really stay on those more than six weeks without developing an addiction. >> for many people. some who unfortunately because of their illness or chronic pain they have to be on it. but i mean it's also highly abused as we know. >> yeah. >> very unfortunate. the food and drug administration plans to make some you changes to the labels on sunscreen products. the idea is to try to get consumers better information about avoiding skin cancer. spf claims only refer to protection against certain radiation. they plan to implement a four-star system to clarify what type of protection sun screens offer. the uva versus uvb rays, one can prevent burns but the other one actually prevents skin cancers. you have to read the fine print. >> when i take my kids to the beach, i'm looking at this video, they are covered. >> i know, head to toe. >> tribal dancers. >> knees to their ankles. >> they have the lawrence of arabia hats on. >> that's a smart thing to do. a study says kids who grow

up with cats and dogs are less likely to develop allergies to those animals when they get older. as long as they were infants when those pets were introduced to their homes. researchers found kids who xwroo up with cats or dogs are about 60% less likely to develop allergies to those animals than the teenagers. >> we'll tweet out this study. >> every kid here. >> print it out for your parents. >> nothing cuter than sleeping dogs. >> i know. >> more information on the stories about your health, visit cnn.com/health. 46 minutes past the hour. we're talking about midwest storms continuing. rob marciano is in the weather center right now with a look for us. >> good morning, guys. thunderstorms rolling across parts of iowa, specifically, in through illinois. some of these have heavy rain exacerbating some of the flooding that's been ongoing across the mississippi and missouri also. trying to drain its way out of the mountains into the mississippi as well. so not so much rain across parts of omaha and points northward across the missouri river, but to the east it certainly is

still range raining there. to the south, 108 degrees in texas, amarillo seeing 106, parts of georgia and north carolina getting close to those numbers as well. although there are some spots across the mid-south specifically where temperatures have moderated somewhat or at least the humidity levels have come down just a little bit. but, there's going to start to be pumped up again across parts of texas through arkansas. temperatures will get into the 90s, some cases over 100 and with the humidity will feel worse than that. meanwhile, comfortably cool i guess and you might argue it's chilly across parts of the northeast compared to what it was last week. 65 degrees for the high temperature in new york, 73 in san francisco. speaking of san francisco, check out this video coming to us from san francisco bay where they were testing the 45 catamaran, the oracle boat there, look at it capsize. double hul boat. look at the sailors holding on for dear life. they wear helmets in these.

they cruise over 30 knots. and that's a -- that's about half the size of the boat they're actually going to sail in the america's cup come 2013. so, testing continues, obviously, in those strong winds yesterday, it's easy to get that thing upside down. 2013, let's make a road trip to the bay. >> count me in. i've seen the stuff you do on racetracks and climbing things, i don't know you and i should be in the same -- i'll go the week after you go. >> we'll just watch. >> just watch. >> he'll be in a speed boat off the side. >> good to see you, buddy. >> lebron james still has no rings and ohio couldn't be happier about it. one day after the dallas mavericks beat lebron and the heat in the nba finals, governor john kasich declared the mavs honorary ohioans. lebron bolt for miami last offseason to play with the super stars dwyane wade and chris bosh. didn't get any further than he did in cleveland, at least this year. do we think all of ohio is as mad as some people in ohio are? >> pretty much everybody i know

in ohio. >> jim -- >> ohio is -- >> we sent carol costello there for the first game he had to face the crowd. >> that's right. >> there was a lot of anger but what to do about it is a different story. i think it would have been really just would have been so bad for them if the miami heat won. >> i'm not sure what the dallas mavericks will do about being honorary ohioans. >> they have keys to the city. they can do whatever they want. >> keys it the state. >> the buzz is building, facebook, ready to go public? we'll have details an this new chatter. >> there's a new study out saying thinner women and bigger men, this could be heavier or more muscular take home larger paychecks. it leads us to our question of the day. do size and success go hand in hand? we want to know what you think. >> great answers we're getting. >> a tweet or tell us on facebook. we are getting good responses and read your thoughts coming up in a couple minutes.

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see if size does matter when it comes to your paycheck. according to a study in the journal of applied psychology, women who are 5 pounds below the average female weight take home $15,000 more than other women a year. and it's the opposite for men. >> that's right. they say men who are 25 pounds below the average weight of a male take home about $8,400 a year less than other men.

in other words, heavier men. this could be muscular or chubbier take home better paychecks. >> wait a minute. husky. it's husky, not chubby. do size and success go hand in hand? >> here are some of our responses. autumn on facebook says the following. >> i don't know. i would think if you're talking about superficial maybe blonds would be paid less than brunettes if you believe her. isn't there a stereotype that is smarter? >> i am living proof that -- >> brunettes are smarter? >> success is not based on physical beauty. maria says on facebook.

>> ouch. debra on the blog says. >> it is interesting. they asked this question. they ask people to give these quotes about how they viewed people. for these guys that were more muscular they said bet friend, lots of friends, baf, healthy, smart. nervous sneaky afraid sad weak and sick for other men. these are just comments people were asked. >> your comments are excellent, by the way. we are getting good ones so keep them coming. >> send us a e-mail or tweet us. ahead next hour incredible pictures of a blimp that went

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a government building in iraq seizes by gunman. i'm christine romans. dozens of people have been taken hostage outside of baghdad. i'm christine romans. hear how a pilot saved the lives of his passengers, took his own life, though, just seconds before that blimp exploded. the president now weighing in on the anthony weiner sexting scandal. i'm ali velshi. president obama has advice the new york congressman may not be able to ignore on this "american morning." ♪ >> good morning, everybody! it is tuesday, june 14th. the morning after the big showdown that wasn't really a showdown. it was more of a show up against the president last night. >> that's right. at least seven of the gop candidates that are running for president. you had to see them and know more on them. breaking news out of the iraq.

gunmen have taken dozens of hostages inside a government building northeast of baghdad. iraqi officials say the attacker stormed the council building in baqubah after a suicide bomber blew himself at a main entrance and car bomb exploded nearby. eight people killed and two dozen injured in the two attacks. investigators are trying to figure out what caused a goodyear blimp to burst into flames and crash over the weekend in germany. the blimp caught fire while it was trying to land. the pilot killed in the accident but managed to save his passengers telling them to jump to safety before the blimp exploded and may take weeks before they know what went wrong. this happened yesterday shortly after the plane took off. the pilot apparently made the emergency landing after an engine caught fire. >> wow. seven candidates and one target. gop presidential contenders faced off last night. it was the first major debate of

the presidential race. they went easy on the front-runner mitt romney choosing not to pick a fight amongst each other but all focusing their attention on the man they hope to beat in 2012. >> clearly, president obama has failed in leadership. >> he has failed. >> he has a big failing grade on his report card. >> any of the people on this stage would be a better president. >> earlier on "american morning," obama campaign spokesman robert gibbs was here to fire back a bit on the criticism. listen to what he said. >> i think you saw last night, that republicans wanted to spend more time trying to bash the president than talking about their own records. you know, if you're mitt romney and you've ranked 47th out of 50 in state job creation when you were governor or tim pawlenty left minnesota with 6.2 billion dollar deficit, no wonder you'd want to talk about somebody else. >> gibbs suggested that

republican voters aren't satisfied with anyone right now. and that the field is still unsettled. >> who won? a poll of gop insiders say mitt romney didn't do anything to hurt his front-runner status last night. 51% saying he was the biggest winner but congresswoman michelle bachmann scored big points, too at 21%. in a few minutes we will talk about who came out on top and whether any of the candidates made a connection with viewers and voters potentially. cnn senior political analyst david gergen and ron brownstein will join us. the president is nudging him out the door. president obama, for the first time, weighing in on congressman weiner sex dog ting scandal. >> saying it's taking away from real problems and discussions. a distraction, live at the white house, ed henry. when the president of the united states suggesting, not saying outright, but suggesting this, and it is also the moral authority of your own party, it's a difficult position to be in. >> a pretty clear signal this

president, christine, saying enough, already, congressman weiner. it's time to go. he did this in an interview with ann curry on nbc's too"today" s. you saw taking aim at the president on jobs and health care. the president wants to fire back and focus on the economy. he wants to focus on some of the republican proposed medicare cuts but hard for him to do that. it's drowned out, in part, by all of the stories about weiner so this is what the president had to say to nbc. take a listen. >> ultimately, there is going to be a decision for him and his constituents. i can tell you that if it was me, i would resign. >> reporter: so the president did not directly say he should resign. but by saying i would resign in this position, it's a not so subtle signal. maybe not a shove, but a strong push. guys? >> it's interesting, though. he did stop short of actually calling for congressman weiner to resign.

i mean, he is walking a tight rope here as well. even wading into it. >> reporter: right. the bottom line is why would he not directly call for the resignation? that would pour more gasoline on the fire, number one. number two, what if weiner decides not to resign. you say he is the moral authority in the party but if he says resign directly and he doesn't, it makes him, the president, look weak right now. frankly, as much as the president and democratic leaders want him to go, they frankly don't know what is going on inside anthony weiner's head right now. guys? >> how long has this been going on, three weeks? i never thought this would last three weeks with the president weighing in on it. it's silly town. >> reporter: right. it's dragged on and on and that is why they, frankly, want him to go. i remember this breaking right at the end of the trip we were on with the president in europe. and that happened when the president wanted to come home and talk about jobs. he wanted to talk about the special election in upstate new york three weeks ago where the

democrat won by hitting the republicans on the medicare issue. but come back to the weiner issue. it's overshadowed a lot of issues and they want it over. >> ed henry, thanks. >> reporter: good seeing you. following severe weather, especially in colorado. take a look at these pictures. heavy rain and hail the size of gobbl golf balls. this is in eastern colorado on highway 36. as dark as the sky is, you can actually see a rainbow through that storm. >> really? you can see a rainbow there? >> i see a lot of hail. >> they keep saying you can see a rainbow. >> i don't see any rainbow. >> maybe it's in the video yet to come. we will find it and keep looking for the rainbow and perhaps a pot of bowl. >> kiran's special rainbow. kiran always sees that rainbow. the rising mississippi river punching two holes in separate levees along the iowa/missouri border. the second levee failed in holt

county, missouri, sending floodwaters into nearby farmland. >> the missouri river just swollen there coming between that. >> look at that break. yeah. fire crews making progress in the so-called fire in arizona that has burned more than 700 square miles. they are building fire lines in new mexico now. officials have closed the famous carlsbad taverns. >> they are bringing the firefighters in from all over the country to help out but only 10% containment, rob. i can't imagine. i know you've been out on the fire lines like that. it's dangerous work and back-breaking work and they are trying to get a handle on this thing. >> the size of this is extraordinary. almost 500,000 acres of it and they have to surround it and i think they have 10% now and today, i think a better chance laying down more fire lanes and get more containment. smoke a huge issue as it continues to press off into parts of new mexico. very bad air quality there. we will call it elevated fire

conditions in parts of texas and southern new mexico but we don't have any critical fire danger today which is a nice reprieve from what we have seen. flood warnings across missouri. dumping into the mississippi so we have got issues there. on top of that we have heavy rains falling across parts of iowa, missouri again today, and in through parts of illinois. these aren't severe thunderstorms at the moment but they could become severe later on today in this part of the world. we do have heat as well. up and over a hundred in parts of texas and georgia. south carolina and arkansas also getting to that mark and it's going to be steamy, again, across parts of the south. dallas could very easily get to a hundred degrees. 101 expected in houston. as far as what it feels like. that's with the humidity. atlanta 91 and drier air moving into nashville and columbia and atlanta so it won't be as bad there but points south and west, yeah, it's going to be sizzling. meanwhile, 74 in chicago and not too shabby.

65 and unsettled and cloudy in new york city. you'll certainly take that. by the way, kiran, there was a rainbow at the end of that. >> we have isolated the rainbow! can we please cue it! oh, that is beautiful. we threw that on real quick and it totally worked! >> 45 seconds into the video. editors don't quite get we don't have time for 45 seconds. >> kiran kept talking about the rainbow. i thought is she seeing something we haven't seen? >> we all talk so fast! technically it should come up by the time we are done talking. >> there it is. >> thanks, rob. >> i feel bad. do i have to sit in the time-out corner? >> no, but you owe me five bucks. >> i do. i said certainly there is no rainbow there. broadway, spider-man is swinging from the rafters. you heard about this. bad reviews, injuries. the estimated 80 million dollar production opens today and plagued with delays and show

stopping technical glitches and most expensive show to ever hit broadway. apparently it's supposed to be fantastic. >> they are quoted as saying they had no idea what they were getting into. >> yes. the tonys at sunday night saying that. >> they were at the tonys and the launch of this and it's going to be good. hockey the way lord stanley meant it to be. boston bruins beat vancouver canucks last night. >> that is what not what lord stanley meant. >> he wanted it to be a good competition and it has been. game seven is tomorrow night. >> deciding game in the stanley cup final series is tomorrow night in vancouver. >> home enel has onteam has onl four times in this series. >> not a good game for us to get involved in with kiran on sports. but this is hockey so more my turf. >> you watched the nba finals? >> of course. >> that was -- >> two teams.

>> one beat the other one? no, i was at the tonys. in fact, chris rock was there. he said a year ago, if someone had told me he would be missing the most exciting basketball game ever to get an award at the tonys, he would not believe it. >> there he was. still ahead, can air canada agents go on strike? >> a lot of international flights, particularly asia, go in through toronto and vancouver. it's going to affect a lot of travelers here in the u.s. how strong is the economic recovery? what happens next? a hipt nt a double dip? could we get another stimulus? coming up, harvard economist will join us. this home has sold. who is buying that? we will tell you after the break. the jaguar xj has been named s and with its virtualinstrument,

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14 minutes past the hour right now. a look at washington, d.c. the white house this morning. partly cloudy, 66. later going up to a high of 78. pretty nice weather actually in washington. meanwhile, last night it was about new hampshire. seven republicans hoping to, one day, call the white house home. faced off last night in the first major debate of the 2012 race. the poll shows the fronted runner mitt romney held firm. he came out on top in the debate. 51% saying they believe he won while congressman michelle ba bachmann. 20% said she won that debate. joining us is david gergen and ron brownstein. good to have both of you with us this morning frommer. ron, who do you think stood out the most last night to you, david? >> well, it was -- it was like a spring training feel to it. it was a warm-up game, very important. because, suddenly, barack obama

looked much more vulnerable than he did only a few months ago. this is a nomination worth taking. i think governor romney came in, he was much more relaxed as a candidate than he was four years ago. i think, generally speaking, he seemed the experience is working well for him. and very importantly, i think, ron, a lot of people who saw this, tim pawlenty was expected to go out and take a couple hard swipes at him when he ducked and romney was able to pivot off of that and turn health care into a positive story for himself, i think all of us thought, wow, he walked away from this unscathed. the surprise for those who haven't followed her because she is doing very well out in iowa, was michelle bachmann. she was interesting and self-revealing and she wound in owner biography twice she told the audience she had 23 foster children, along with five natural born children. so i think a lot of people looked at her and said, wow!

>> ron, people didn't expect as much from her or because she did well in owner own right? >> no. i think she did well in owner own right. she was dynamic and used her biography to deepen that identification with evangelical voters above all which i think is the core of her constituency. overall i think in the immediate terms the best night for mitt romney for two reasons. one, as a front-runner, he came out unscarred and any time you do that it's a good debate. i think he was confident and calm and dynamic. the other reason it was a good night for him it was a good night for michelle bachmann and i think he prefer as michelle bachman as his deservive than pawlenty. bachmann is a good performer and has to face the issue whether she was a ceiling in this race with a lot of republicans who are yet to be convinced she is a plausible actual nominee. >> david, when you take a look at the field, it seems an ideological sameness. at least conservatives, less

moderate republicans. david, looking ahead to a general election with the exception of mitt romney, who did run in 2008 and did not become the nominee, do you see a place for more moderate or independents to come on board with a gop candidate? >> well, we will have to see whether someone like jon huntsman gets into the race and how he performs under this. it was interesting on "ac 360" last night ron paul who had been in the field four or three years ago, that he found it much more c congenual group. both on domestic and foreign policy. i think, overall, this debate would play well with a republican base and certainly excite a lot of conservatives, but i must tell you, i request -- they were so hard right and so uniformly against almost anything that government has touched that i'm not sure how well that played with the general electorate.

this was like -- there are an awful a lot of people looking for an alternative to president obama. whether this is the alternative they are looking for, i think is an interesting question. >> for me, that was the big take-away of the debate. i think it gave you a signal this race is more about authenticity and electable and ideolo ideology. you saw very live ideology between the candidates and felt a consensus in the party that has developed from the tea party to the active conservative governors and paul ryan and the candidates are conditioning to see who can make the best case in delivering an agenda is being delivered on to them by the party rather than vice versa and that is unusual in presidential politics. >> unusual to hear the quote from amy kramer of the tea party saying we are going to hand the gop candidate. we are not going to have to go along with the one who has handed to us over the years. we will see if they have the pull as what we saw last night and what we are hearing from the

tea party. great to talk to both of you this morning. thanks. >> thank you. he is the noncandidate that everyone is talking about as well. this is new jersey governor chris christie. he joins piers morgan tonight at 9:00. he has gotten a lot of calls to jump into the race. a lot of people said they will support him but is he considering it? we will hear more about that conversation tonight on piers morgan. how does body size affect your salary? we will discuss a new study that suggests men who are bigger than average do better while women who are substantially smaller than the average earn more. >> 25-pound difference with mean a lot of money. could facebook be going public? we have heard the rumors before. could it be worth more than $100 billion? we will tell you more about that after the break.

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24 minutes after the hour. "minding your business" this morning. air canada customer service and sales employees walked off the job at midnight last night after they couldn't reach an agreement with the airline on pension plans. air canada says the airline is fully operational but warns of long lines of check-ins. americans paid almost 5.7 billion dollars in airline fees last year, according to the department of transportation. most of the money came from baggage fees and fees to change reservations. state of illinois considering selling advertising space on its license plates to make some extra money without raising taxes. texas already allows corporate ads on plates in that state. the lowest rating sovereign nation in the world. the downgrade points to a

greatest default in the future. right now, negotiations for a second bailout are under way for greece. right now stock futures are up ahead of the opening bell. investigators looking to fresh economic data out this morning. retail sales and the purchase price index in may come out at eighths eastern. this afternoon, ben bernanke speaks about the federal budget in washington. big buzz on wall street facebook going public as early as next year. how much? maybe a hundred billion dollars. the fresh chatter kicked off yesterday after a report on, thisnbc. aaron spelling has found a fi byer for her mngs in los angeles. list price of $150 million the most expensive home in america. the reported buyer, 2 it 2-year-old formula one heiress who will be spending her time from los angeles and london. according to a study in the

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the united states. senators feinstein and chuck schumer are calling for reinstatement of assault weapons ban and better enforcement of a ban on military weapons. drugs, money and guns going -- >> right, back and forth. 30 mips after the hour. a dozen gunmen taken hostages inside a building northeast of baghdad. iraqi officials say they stormed a building in baqubah after a suits bomber blew himself up at the main entrance. at least eight people were killed. more than two dozen wounded in those two attacks. president obama adding to the pressure on congressman and the knee weiner. the president saying weiner has embarrassed himself and if it was me, he said, i would resign. attacking president obama rather than attacking one another. seven republicans faced off in new hampshire last night in the first major debate of the 2012 election. the front-runner, mitt romney,

joining in on the hit parade against the president. >> any one of the people on this stage would be a better president than president obama. he has -- he has -- he has failed in job one which was to get this economy going again. he failed in job two, which was to restrain the growth of development and in job three which have a coherent job resistance program. >> martin savidge is live in greenville, south carolina. how did it go? >> reporter: it went pretty well. i mean, nobody fell in love last night. it was kind of a first date. it was a getting to know you kind of a session, but there was some interest. here is what we found. ♪ >> reporter: meet the cards. brad, former military, turned executive, business wife wendy, a realtor, two daughters, margaret and rebecca. politically? >> i would say they probably tends more to the left and i'm

always right. >> reporter: last presidential election, the wars in iraq and afghanistan mattered most to them. this time, it's the failing economy, which, in a reality job, wendy has seen and felt. >> it's been hard. more hours as i did five or six years ago and making a third of the money. >> reporter: and that is just how the debate started, with the economy. >> what would you do as president of the united states to create jobs? >> the thing we need to do is to get this economy boosted. >> what we need is an economy that is un -- >> what this president has done is slowed the economy. >> reporter: all of the candidates blasted the obama administration. but 35 minutes in, brett still wasn't hearing what he wanted to hear. >> that is the stupidest answer i've ever heard. to me, it's just been politically posturing, getting their big talking points out, you know? they got to check those blocks. i haven't heard anything about

me. >> reporter: even after two hours, the couple still hadn't heard enough when it came to making the economy better. frustrated by a format that stressed short answers. >> it's taken several years for us to get into the situation. you won't solve it in a 30-second answer. >> reporter: did you see a candidate up there on that stage you think can beat president obama? >> yeah. i saw seven. how many did you see? >> i think it would be interesting to watch one of them debate him. >> reporter: so i do see a little bit of a divide here? >> just a little. >> reporter: as for the qualities that this couple is looking for in their candidate, they don't want to see long-term politicians. they prefer to see ceos. they want people who have business experience because they say that is the experience needed now to get this country out of its academic doledrums.

>> were they both independents or republicans or was she a democrat? >> reporter: well, pretty much wendy is the independent here and brett is pretty much the conservative of the group here. and one of the things i should point out here, what they did like, they liked what john king was doing there with that or this. they thought those were inciteful moments. you get the candidate, you ask them a question. even though it's a simple sort of thing, blackberry, iphone, those responses gave you kind of a candidate insight into the personality that many times it seemed the candidates were on the guard. you weren't getting the real person. so they liked that. >> if mitt romney said he liked his wings mild, see, he is boring and you needs to spice it up! >> blackberry or iphone, martin? put you on the spot. >> i have got the blackberry. >> he says that with remorse! >> throw an ipad in for good measure and my answer is both. >> martin, good to see you. >> good to see you both.

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reach 90% of your gdp, your economy, the debt equaling that, then you lose 1% of economic growth. >> joining me now is kenneth rogoff professor of economics at harvard university. a book cited wide ly by both sides quite frankly. welcome. >> thank you for having me here. >> do we need to get our debt under control or hurt our economy in the near term? >> we need to think about the trajectory of our debt. it is at a high level. unfortunately, the economy is very weak and not easy to have quick fixes on that side. not getting a lot of tax revenues. that is the biggest problem. >> what about cutting spending? cutting is aggressively you're hearing cutting deeply. could that hurt the economy more in the near term? >> yeah. working how weak the numbers are

recently, jobs weren't as good as people had hoped, i think it's a little hard to rush things and you have to get the trajectory right. it's hard to move a big ship like this quickly. we're going in the wrong direction, no doubt about that. we do have to do something. greece got the lowest credit rating in the world recently. we're not there yet. but in 15 years. if we don't do something, we will be. >> in the meantime, we rely on the thoughtful economic analysis of our elected leaders to make sure they get it just right for all of the right reasons? >> no comment. >> i didn't think i could get you to go there. let me ask you about that debt we talk about, the federal deficits and the big national debt. also consumer debt. that is the big debt burden in america thought they dodged that bullet. we have a lot of consumer debt in this country as well. >> that's right. the mortgages are still out there that caused the problem in the first place. i think one of the things we need to address is find a way for a lot of people to bring their payments down or we're

going to keep having housing prices fall and keep having foreclosures and unemployment will still be a problem. i think the consumer debt is a big piece of the problem. >> how do we fix it? i know it's a recovery but it doesn't feel good. still feels like a recession for so many people. i think politically you will hear that more on the campaign trail as well. how do we fix it? >> unfortunately, there just isn't a quick fix and what you have to do when you have a deep financial crisis like we have had and we haven't had one since world war ii, since the great depression, you just have to work on the fundamentals and it's boring. education, infrastructure and prove our tax system. it's boring. finding quick jobs is not easy but we could do something about the mortgages because that's at the core of one of our big problems. >> what can we do? >> wii they need to have a program that allows people to perhaps, say, reduce debt in return for maybe giving up some of the upside of their houses prize, if there is any. >> i see. we have had federal programs for the mortgage problem but it

hasn't worked very well. >> we have, but it's been sort of hard to get something that everyone agrees on and it hasn't been all in yet and i think we need to pursue that more aggressively. >> larry summers, the first sort of nationally economic adviser for the president, he just wrote an op-ed saying we need to have a public works style stimulus. another big spending plan and maybe focusing on infrastructure. 20% of unemployment in the construction industry. maybe to get a way to get people working. >> infrastructure is something we need to fix. it's not all a money problem. part of it is we can't get the right-of-way. you want to build a road and you have to get everyone along the way you can build the road. there could be private money in there. it doesn't all have to be public money. at the same time, budget deficit is very big and i think basically, bringing it down gradually. i don't think a big stimulus is necessarily what is called for but, on the other hand, you can't pull out really quickly either. >> what is the best case

scenario for the economic growth at this point? tim pawlenty on the campaign trail talking about what we could do to have 5% economic growth. i mean, that seems very optimistic considering what we are seeing right now in the economy. >> it's possible. i mean, it's very hard to predict a couple years out. it really is. what you don't want to do is panic and do crazy things that shoot yourself in the foot. for example, reducing trade, doing something to put up trade barriers, regulations that reduce growth. we're the greatest country in the world. we are the richest economy in the world. our fundamentals are pretty good. you don't to get off that program completely. it's not exciting to say let's spend money, here is the quick fix. there isn't a quick fix. >> i like it it's not impossible. >> no, it's not, it's not. so much uncertainty. it's easy to think what could go wrong but i've been around long enough. things just often go great and you go, of course! the technology revolution was going to come, of course, it was going to be fantastic! it's very hard to predict.

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several other injures. a blimp caught fire and crashed over the weekend in germany. the pilot is called a hero for ordering three passengers to jump from the blimp just before it went down. unfortunately, the pilot was killed in that crash. the second largest wildfire in arizona's history has spread to new mexico now threatening the carlsbad tavern. the fire is about 10% contained. and fire crews say the extremely dry conditions are a big concern. president obama is leaving for historic visit for puerto rico this morning. the first presidential visit to the island in 50 years. a poll of gop insiders saying mitt romney won last night's republican presidential debate. but the congresswoman michelle bachmann came in second place scoring big points, too. three pieces of duct tape at the center of the anthony trial

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we angled the cameras that way. 72 degrees. thunderstorms and e9. i thought thunderstorms was supposed to kind of cool it down a bit? but not in memphis. right, rob? rob marciano? >> he is looking for the rainbow. >> we are looking for the rainbow as well. >> winds at 70 miles an hour yesterday. >> wow! >> that will cool you down. >> that will. >> also cooling you down. i know you guys have seen this but the third time we have shown it. if you're just waking up with us on the west coast. here is the bay area, baby. this is the oracle racing boat. topsy-turvy. the sailors hanging on for dear life there. this is an experimental type of catamaran. 45-footer. the real one that they are going to race in 2013 in america's cup is 72 feet, so almost twice the size of that. they have got more testing to go with that, obviously. not a bad day across san

francisco. across the east coast, cool weather across the northeast and steamy across parts of the south. although little pockets of drier air as this front has broken its way across the part of the mid south to alleviate some of the humidity at the very least. but this time of the year, it comes back fairly quickly. the thunderstorms are rolling across parts of iowa and illinois. some of these have a lot of heavy rain with them and they are drifting down towards the south and east towards the tennessee river valley. might not get all the way down to memphis, at least right now. but later on today, as the heat builds, you may see thunderstorms pop. north texas, temperatures up above a hundred. record-breakers there. savannah 102 degrees and north little rock, arkansas, 97. on the steamy side for sure. here what we we expect to see today when you take temperatures and combine it with the humidity. 102 what it feels like today in little rock and 102 expected for a heat index in jackson. notice, atlanta, columbia,

nashville where the sliver of drier air and that makes all of the difference in the world when you got dry heat versus a moist heat. that's when it gets to be miserable. actual air temperature in dallas specked to be a hundred and 98 expected in memphis and 74 in chicago. 65! my goodness! a cold snap of gigantic proportions what you were seeing last week with record-breaking temperatures to near a hundred. a cooloff for the big apple. three-piece suit is the way to go when it's 65. you're dressed perfectly, ali. >> i was in new hampshire yesterday and it was football weather. >> i saw you! poor christine, every time she wasn't on camera, she had a little stadium blanket around her. >> it was 8:00 and one of the photo journalists said, wow, we just broke 52 degrees. it was cold up there! >> were you kiss fans? i was. >> my husband was such a huge kiss fan. he is a member of the kiss army.

>> there is a whole new generation of kiss fans. >> they have managed to stay relevant for deck paeds. one thing you might not know about them is actually paul stanley was born deaf in one ear and he helped make a band that, of course, became bigger in rock 'n' roll. dr. sanjay gupta has more on this morning's human factor. ♪ >> everybody clap your hands! >> i want want to rock 'n' roll. >> reporter: to rock 'n' roll all night and party every day! that is always been paul stanley's dream. >> if somebody had told me at 58, 59 i'd be running around on stage without a shirt, you know, and in tights and high heels, i would have said, what drug are you taking? come on and love me! >> reporter: but the road to rock stardom as the front man for kiss was difficult. few people know it but stanley was born with a condition that should of steered him away from music. >> i had a physical deformity

called micoocia. >> reporter: one of his inner ears never developed. figuring out the direction of sound was particularly challenging. and he was also born with an underdeveloped outer ear. did you get teased a lot? >> it was horrible. you know, i have to say that childhood was not fun. >> reporter: you decided to grow your hair out. that has become such a signature look of you and the band. was that, in part, wanting to hide your ears? >> absolutely. >> reporter: you grew your hair out to do that? >> absolutely. >> reporter: strength and a bit of defiance got stanley through the taunting. >> something told me inside that i could do music and, interestingly, being deaf in one ear was not something that i saw as a hardship or something that was a hindrance at all. >> reporter: eventually, off-stage, hearing loss did become a hindrance so stanley had surgery. >> basically, you take a power

drill and aim into the head. >> reporter: surgery was successful but it does not equal self-acceptance. that, stanley, learned over time. and by working with kids. when you talk to kids who have microsaas. i'm getting teased on the playground and i'm not a rock star. >> how cool is it to say to somebody i was there and i was there and you will get through this and you will find out how much something means to you by how hard you're willing to work to overcome in. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, los angeles. these sweet honey clustery things have fiber? fiber one. almost tastes like one of jack's cereals. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? uh, try the number one! i've never heard of that. [ wife ] it's great. it's a sweet honey cereal, you'll love it. yeah, this is pretty good. are you guys alright?

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and shorts. the folks who visit the bar say a nice depart tour from the little black dress but others say the -- >> what hotels check people in in little black dresses? >> i don't know. >> i got to tell you. >> are they cocktail waitresses? >> it says servers. >> they might be making much to do about not that much. it's not for me. nobody was suggesting it was. >> they just need the rest of your outfit. >> all of those women are thin, which leads us to believe they could make more money. >> a new survey out that size matters when it comes to how much money you take home. i was smooth. i moved from that to that. >> smooth until you stopped. >> women who are 25 pounds below the average female weight take home 15,000 dollars more a year than other women. men who are 25 pounds below the average male weight take