and there's a state of emergency in maryland, ohio, west virginia and virginia. athena jones is live this mother. what's the situation, it sounds dire. >> reporter: it is, we're standing at an intersection where a traffic signal just got the power back not too long ago. there are several i can see down the road that don't have power. that's a big issue as people head back to work on this monday morning. we did get an update. the utility companies say the workers are out in full force working around the clock. they've got teams from 12 states and as far away as quebec, helping to get the pow are restored. the latest from pepco, a few miles north of d.c., they have 229,000 people without power and dominion in virginia, which at one point, a main provider there, 1 million customers without power are down to 247,000. so progress is being made but

that's little consolation to people who still don't have power when they are dealing with high temperatures, it's supposed to be 95 and up today here. not counting the heat index. the companies say if the weather cooperates, that is to say there aren't more storms that come through and create more problems, they should be able to get everyone's power back on by the end of the week. of course, it's only monday. >> make sure you and your crew stays hydrated as well, athena jones in maryland. colorado, whole other story there, battling extreme heat and deadly wildfires. this morning it looks like firefighters, they are finally gaining the upper hand with the waldo canyon fire, now 55% contained. the focus now is on the evacueeses. evacuation orders have been lifted for all but 3,000 people. sadly, many of them will return to absolute devastation. one fire victim posted this

heart-wrenching video of the place she called for 18 years. >> my house. probably on the -- oh, my god. smoke in the air, so bad. let me see if i can pull up through here. this hill was on fire a second ago. there's flames. this is my [ bleep ] oh, my god. >> that is tough to listen to. rob marciano, i know you're talking a lot of people in colorado springs who are thankful they have their lives but lost everything else. that containment number is much higher than last time we talked last week. >> reporter: yeah, and you know, we had record breaking high temperatures again here in colorado and yesterday red flag warnings with gusty winds, firefighters were worried but 55% containment on this thing but the damage is done. almost 18,000 acres as you know,

over 340 homes completely destroyed. the most destructive wildfire in colorado history. now the victims are allowed to go back and look. they are doing it in kara vans of personal vehicles. at one point they were going to put them on buses but probably a more humane way to do it in privacy of your own vehicle. this is what folks had to come back to. and sun up now coming on colorado front range, revealing the charred landscape here, brook. it's been an emotional week as you can imagine from shock to sadness, to frustration of not being able to go back to their homes to sadness once again of seeing what's left of their homes. down from 32,000 evacueeses to 3,000 and a lot of those -- a lot of those won't go back at home because they'll have to rebuild or move somewhere else, sadly. >> can't imagine all of them being on one big bus, as least

they can, the more humane way of seeing what they lost individually, rob marciano, awful stuff you have to cover. we appreciate you in colorado springs, colorado. in maryland, more than 200,000 people are without electricity and there's a major cleanup operation under way right now. want to bring in the mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings-blake. her city has extended a code red heat alert through tomorrow. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> tell me what you're doing for folks in the baltimore area to keep them from suffering heat exhaustion, heat stroke. it's supposed to be triple digits for the next couple of days. >> we're dealing with two weather emergencies, certainly the derecho, weird storm that no one knows what it is, but the heat is the majorening and that's where we anticipate being vulnerable with heat deaths. we've been giving out ice an

asking city residents to check on vulnerable neighbors, those without power and they know don't have air conditioning. check on them, living in isolation, to check and really come together neighbor to neighbor. >> i read you spent your sunday, correct me if i'm wrong, handing out ice blocks to people who i know don't have the ac and in terms of major intersections, have lived in the d.c., baltimore area. i know morning commutes aren't fun, especially adding insult to injury with the fact that the lights aren't working. talk to me about what you're doing, are you bringing in police officers to make sure they get through the intersections a-okay? >> we have generators out at many intersections and where we aren't able to have rate generators, we have police officers. we don't want to contribute to that by having the intersections being blocked. obey the traffic signals, please

be mindful of the officers at the crosswalks and we're going to get through this. it is rough, it is rough especially with the heat on top of not having power but i believe we're going to get through it. >> i read a quote from your governor saying, you got this hurricane punch without the two, three, four days of heads up and you could be seeing more thunderstorms. are you getting, mayor, getting more federal help or federal help period? >> we have been in touch with fema to make sure we are all on the same page. we're tracking our spending. if we do qualify for federal assistance, we have all of the receipts to make sure we are tallying up the cost -- >> if you do, so you haven't yet? >> right. >> okay, what is your biggest worry going forward? >> the biggest worry is the heat-related deaths. that is where we are vulnerable. so many people, about a quarter of the citizens are still

without power. and when we have citizens that we know are 65 and older and living in isolation, those are vulnerable population, we're really trying to get the word out. we're going to go back out with ice and opening additional cooling centers with air conditioning so people have options, we need to make sure we're checking on each other. >> we appreciate it. good luck to you. >> thank you. >> let's see what else is going on in the news. zoraida, good morning. >> mexico's old guard returning to power after a 12-year absence. an official preliminary vote count of the institutional revolutionary party winning the election but leftist candidate is refusing to concede defeat. nieto's party controlled mexico for more than -- years, until the election in 2000. new york state supreme court

will intervene in the congressional race between charlie rangel and his challenger. there will be a hearing this afternoon. rangel has already declared victory and his opponent conceded but now it seems votes in dozens of districts vanished. the latest count shows rangel's lead has dwindled to 802 votes, with more than 3,000 still uncounted. new evidence shows three former penn state officials may have covered up a 2001 incident involving former coach jerry sandusky and a young boy in a shower. this is according to e-mail, cnn hag going through between former university president, graham spanier and gary schultz and tim curley, after graduate assistant mike mcqueary reported the incident to them, spanier decided to not tell authorities and instead told curley, the onlydownside for us is if the message isn't heard and acted upon and we become vulnerable for not having reported it. but that can be assessed down

the road. curley and schultz face perjury and also accused of failing to properly reporting suspected child abuse. the only abortion clinic still operating in mississippi can stay open for now. a new law in the state took effect yesterday requiring a abortion providers to be certified ob-gyn practitioners with privileges at local hospitals. a federal judge issued a restraining order that keeps the clinic's doors openal least until a hearing on july 11th. that graduate student from georgia who lost her hands, left leg and her right foot to flesh eating bacteria is leaving the hospital today and she is headed to a rehab center. amy copeland's father says his daughter will get inpatient treatment and work on her graduate these sis in psychologist at the same time, i'm not kidding. she hopes to graduate from the university of west virginia in

december. good luck to her. our runaway victory, defending champion spain trounced italy, 4-nil. that was sunday in kiev, spain got out to an early lead and never looked back. spain becomes the first country to win three major tournaments in a row, consecutive victories and 2008 european champion son and 2010 world cup and now the championship. >> michael phelps could be headed for another eight gold medals at the summer games. 100 meter fly last night with a world leading time of 51.14 seconds, that means he is qualified for five individual races and likely to be selected for three relay teams. he says this is going to be his last olympic games. get ready to see and hear a lot about this gal, missy franklin, she blue away the field in the

200, swimming the fastest time, 2:6.12 seconds, four individual and three expected relay. she will be the first woman to do that in a single games and missy, just 17 years old, high school senior in the fall. >> amazing. i was in london recently for the diamond jubilee, that place is one big party, between the diamond jubilee and the london olympic games. >> now we've told you who to watch. >> thank you very much. i love the olympics, so exciting. still ahead, republicans are fighting for the upper hand in the health care debate. will voters and not the u.s. supreme court have the final word come november. doctor and republican congressman tom price will join me live with the gop's new line of attack. our get real, listen to this, are facebook and twitter making young girls more aggressive these days.

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kosik with your headlines, the lawsuit centered on whether apple or pro view, a chinese computer monitor company, owned the rights to the ipad name in china. the settlement means apple can move forward in sales in its second biggest market. a leap second added to the clock has been causing technical glitches for popular websites like four square and yelp and gawker. the leap second if you didn't notice was added saturday to keep the coordinated universal time clock in alignment with the earth's rotation. we're watching stocks set for a mixed open today. dow futures are up. unemployment in the eurozone hit 11.1% in may. in china, manufacturing is slowing down, the concern for wall street is how all of that will affect the u.s. you know what, brook, one day it's a good day, another day it's -- we have 200-point gain on friday and who knows what

today will bring. >> that's what we were talking about 4:00 on friday, changes on a dime, doesn't it alison kosik. >> it does. >> blan keting the sunday shows insisting that the supreme court's decision thursday will not stop their efforts to bring down a law, but when pressed on what the party would replace it with, they were kind of vague and instead answering the question by turning the focus back on the law itself. >> let me say the single best thing we can do for the american health care system is to get rid of obama care. >> preserve any of these programs or does everything go? >> we will vote to repeal the entire law i believe on july 11th. what's frustrating about this, when obama care was being deliberated, we were offering patient center solutions -- we can have a health care system in america where america has affordable access to health insurance, including people with

preexisting conditions without a government takeover. >> tom price is a republican from georgia, also a doctor and also the chairman of the republican policy committee, congressman price, good morning to you. >> good to be with you, thank you. >> let's talk about the public. do you think the public is ready to move on? i'm sure you've gotten many letters and e-mails from your constituents since thursday. what are they telling you? >> just what they are saying on wednesday, they think this law is the wrong direction. regardless of his constitutionality, it's the wrong policy for the country. as a physician i know they believe that because they are concerned about the relationship that they have with their physician, this doesn't work for patients or doctors or employers, already small businesses are saying they are not going to be able to hire because of this law. doesn't work for states. you've got a lot of states opting out. it clearly doesn't work for the federal government from a financial standpoint. we need to repeal the law and move in a positive direction that gets folks covered and sofltz the insurance challenges

and we can save hundreds of billions of dollars all without putting washington in charge. >> let me jump back to what you're saying, americans are saying we're going in wrong direction. it appears the approval numbers are up. according to this gallup poll, 46% agree with the supreme court's decision, 46% don't. more interestingly, among independents, 45% now agree, 42% disagree. as i mentioned, those approval numbers are up since thursday. do those numbers, sir, do they suggest that the public is ready to move on from this? >> i think what the american people will say, if the supreme court rules its constitutional, then it's constitutional. the fact it's constitutional, doesn't mean it's the right policy for the country. i had a conference call last night with doctors from around the country who are so terribly concerned about this law because they know it will limit their ability to care for their patients. that's the bottom line. if doctors aren't able to

provide the kind of care they've been trained and through their experience give to their patients, then this is the wrong law and that's exactly what we believe will occur and what the doctors of the land understand. >> the r word we've been hearing from republicans, repeal, july 11th, it really is strictly symbolic, you don't have a majority in the senate and don't have a republican sitting in the walk. here's what's phil gringry told us this friday. >> one issue over the next four months, repeal obama. once we do that, then indeed if we have a majority? the senate, we maintain that majority in the house of representatives and we have the 45th president of the united states, mitt romney, then we can indeed repeal this bill and do it by reconciliation since it's a tax issue now as justice roberts has redefined the law.

>> so, let's say you and your republican colleagues get your way and repeal this law. you know as a doctor there are multiple parts to this law that people really like, including preexisting conditions, coverage for that, allowing kids to stay on their parents insurance and reducing medicare, the doughnut hole for prescription drugs. how do you then congressman, you repeal the law, yet you keep the parts that people like. how do you do that? >> again, they are wonderful solutions, first you've got to repeal it because the premise for the president's law of the land is that washington knows best about your health care. again, that's harming the ability for physicians to treat patients, it's also harming the ability for small businesses to hire out there. not just bad for health care, it's bad for the economy. now the proposals that we put on the table will get virtually every single american covered but covered with the kind of health coverage and insurance they want for themselves and for their family, not that the government wants for them.

affordable and preexisting are relatively easy to solve. you allow individuals to take -- to own their coverage regardless of who's paying for it so it goes with them if they change their job. >> how do you maintain that with regard to the preexisting conditions. you have to have healthy folks paying the premiums so the people with the preexisting conditions are covered. >> if you look at whose troubled by the problem of preexisting illnesses and industries, it's smokes in the individual and small group market. the easiest way is with robust pooling mechanisms for millions of americans so they can pull together and get the purchasing power of millions. you make it so every single american can have the kind of health coverage they want not what the government wants for them. it's a critical distinction. >> i want to get to this question because it's really -- we're all fascinated and some people surprised the role of chief justice john roberts and the whole decision. i want to read two op-eds from

the "washington post." chief justice john roberts last week did something that inpolarized washington, may turn out to be more important than saving obamacare, compromise can be consistent with principle. the chief justice is a genius, all of a sudden he's a chess master, battle loser but war winner, daniel webster for our times, now that we've had more time to take in chief justice roberts reasoning, we have a better summary politician. congressman price, which is it, politician or symbol of bipartisanship? >> i think historians will be able to answer that better than i. what i will tell you -- >> no, if i may, which is it to you in your opinion? >> i think the chief justice was wrong on this but that's not for me to say. the court has ruled and i respect that ruling but i think

what the chief justice says, he said it himself, not the role of the court to protect the citizens from their political decisions. he threw it right back in the american people's lap and appropriately so. this is a policy decision. whether or not it's constitutional and it's been now ruled constitutional, doesn't mean it's the right policy and now we've got to go to the people and say, do you want washington involved in your lives in this manner, or do you believe -- >> i understand so you won't give me whether he's a politician or man of bipartis bipartisansh bipartisanship? you won't give it to me. >> i don't think that's the role of the court. it remains the wrong policy for the country, which through political processes, the american people will select a congress and president that will put in place patient centered solutions, not washington centered solutions. >> we will see what the history books write about chief justice

roberts. thanks for being on. still ahead, sugar and spice and everything nice, except when they tweet. parents, can you relate? why social networks could be making girls more aggressive. this is our get real this morning. our "starting point" panel walking in to talk about that and more, margaret hoover and the play list, by marc lamont.

a couple of quick headlines, the youngest son of michael jordan in trouble with the law. 21-year-old marcus jordan was intoxicated and involved in an

altercation with two women in omaha, nebraska. jordan is charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing justice. tiger woods fighting off dangerous heat in a strong field to win the at&t national by two strokes in bethesda, maryland, it is his third win of the season and also the 74th victory of his career. an unprecedented olympic tie breaker may not even make it to the start line. printer jeneba tarmoh is backing out of a race with allyson felix to settle a tie in the 100 meters. everybody really wanted to watch that, brook. >> she actually got to do the victory lap. if you're a real athlete or competitor, they'll run it off, right? they'll run it out tonight? >> i hope so. >> let me give me give a quick good morning shout out to or

lovely panel this important. margaret hoover, marc lamont hill and host of our world black enterprise and abby huntsman. good to see you. >> good morning. >> bright and cheery on a holiday week. this is time to get real. the story is about how young people are coming across as a little bit more aggressive based upon, you know, because so many gals these days are having to tweet, 140 characters or lesson facebook, now speaking as though they are tweeting and curt and it's offensive. >> it's offensive to old people. if you're a young person and communicate through twitter and talk in 140 character expressions and when someone speaks outside of that, you're comfortable with it. >> it's totally a generational thing, mill lennial speak, they speak more rapidly. >> rapid fire, spit it out.

>> they communicate by texting and it comes off as more aggressive but it's unintentional. >> i think people read into it. 140 characters is very short. i usually put a smiley face at the end of everything i write. >> but marc, does that fall upon the older generation to speak twitter or the reverse? >> to just understand. we need understanding, you don't need to speak twitter. >> let's all get along. >> don't take it personally. >> but there really is another language that young people are using when they are texting and on facebook. i've had grandparents say, they've finally learned how to speak to their grand kids when they learn to text and there's a whole vocabulary to texting that they learned how to bridge. >> i have to encourage my students not to use that in their papers. >> we need elconsequence. >> or the spelling. >> i'm going to take your class.

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not succeed coming from secretary of state hillary clinton. >> there's no guarantee that we're going to be successful. i just hate to say that. >> clinton tells cnn she is optimistic the deal will at least ease president bashar al assad out of power. saturday world powers agreed to a transitional government in syria, but syrian opposition fighters fear the deal leaves open the possible that assad himself could remain in power. secretary clinton insists that will not happen. opposition forces say more than 14,000 people have been killed over the past 16 months, more than half of that number were killed in the past four months alone. dan rather, his special report, which is why you're sitting here talking to us this morning called "inside syria" airs tomorrow night. a pleasure for having you.

>> thanks for having me on. >> let's talk david inders inside syria for three weeks, correct? >> that's correct. >> what did he see? >> well, among the things he saw was one, the opposition forces are getting stronger, they are better armed and better organized and able to control more territory. i don't want to overstate they are on the edge of forcing assad out but compared with even a half year ago, maybe three or four months ago, they are making real progress. now, that's not to say that the day after tomorrow that assad will be out. as you just reported there's an international effort. but inside syria, this is one of the things we found, that the anti-assad forces have no confidence, zero confidence in the united nations effort. >> i'm curious if his reporting could corroborate the "new york times" reporting that the cia is in turkey, next door to syria and they are helping sort of choose which members of the

opposition can be armed. did inders see any of that or any role the u.s. is taking on? >> no, our report doesn't -- it's reasonable to believe that but in journalist you trust your mother but cut the cards, another way of saying that they are all kinds of indications not contrary to the times report. if the cia were not involved, you would be saying why aren't they involved? have they gone so far as to begin to pick people to succeed in a interim government -- i don't know. somebody has to supply the money. >> how are they getting the money? it's hard to trace this kind of money, but clearly turkey is a major player on the outside of syria. that's important to understand that the united states government in some ways is helping turkey take the lead. but turkey takes the lead and as

you know, they have a democratic elected government, one we may or may not like but it's democratically elected. their economy is strong and they have a strong military. turkey is the place to watch, you can bet president obama is consulting often on a back channel basis with the turks. >> what did you learn -- first, what did you learn about the freedom fighters? this is one of the concerns the international community has, who is the opposition? and secondly, you were one of the first folks in afghanistan in the '80s, very strong views on iraq. what do you think the united states should do about syria? >> good question. >> i'm a reporter, not a diplomat. since you asked, i think there does need to be a concentrated international effort to at least alleviate the humanitarian crisis, you talk about people killed and wounded and suffering. it is by and large, not fighting troops that do suffer, it's the women, the children and the aged and the elderly. they are caught in the middle.

they are suffering tremendously. the turks are doing some of the refugee camp work on their border, this is where the international community needs to focus. that doesn't mean putting boots on the ground but such things as a no fly zone. assad forces have advantages with helicopters. maybe a no fly zone would relief the humanitarian situation which is desperate, the syrians, inside syria, this became clear in our report, they are disgusted with the international community and yes, the united states saying, how can they look and let this happen and not do something? >> speaking of the disgust, i read something where you were quoted as saying, this could be president obama's rwanda. >> yes. the frame of reference being president clinton, one of the

biggest mistakes he made not doing something about rwanda what we knew what was happening there. that understates this if it's his rwanda, it's our rwanda. >> i was wondering, i want to talk about russia, isn't that the most important relationship for the u.s. in terms of working with everything that's going on in syria? >> that's true and a very strong point, russia has a long relationship with syria. and if the united states and other powers who are interested in doing something could get russia to go along, that would help a lot. up until now they haven't. the big nonplayers -- turkey is a big players, the two big nonplayers are russia and china. until they come aboard, as much as i respect kofi annan and the united nations effort, it's got to go forward without china.

>> every step they have been difficult allies and difficult playmakes, do you and that change sng. >> i don't. our relationships with russia, up and down over the years, not in a good place despite president obama's talk of rebooting with russia. i don't see that changing in short. >> we'll be looking forward to it tomorrow night, "inside syria." let's go to zoraida for the rest of today's stories. another day of hellish heat facing millions of americans from the northeast to the midwest. 20 states are under heat advisory warnings with a state of emergency declared in maryland, ohio, west virginia and virginia. 16 people have died since thursday, including two little boys out camping, 2 and 7 years old when triple digit temperatures spawned killer storms and left millions without

pow ir. the nation's capital still reeling from the heat. trees and power lines are down everywhere, tens of thousands don't have power and the heat index is expected to hit triple digits again today. for first time since may, a nuclear power plant is up and running in japan. despite protests outside, startup operations began at the ohi number three reactor. japan gradually shut down all 50 power plants for safety checks following the meltdown at the fukushima plant hit by a tsunami in 2011. and the four middle school students who verbally harassed their school bus monitor have been suspended from school and the bus for one year. all four students will take classes at ab alternative education center and they must complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens. the bus monitor says she will spend the nearly $700,000 raised

on her behalf to pay her bills and help her children and then she plans on donating some money to charity as well. news corporation ceo rupert murdoch says he is being attacked over his tweets, criticizing after tom cruise and the church of scientology. he tweeted about the pending divorce and said scientology back in news, very weird cult, bg money involved with tom cruise. he also called the religion and its followers creepy and maybe even evil. since then murdoch says he has been hit with hundreds of attacks. be careful what you tweet, right, brook? >> true true. 140 characters or less can get you in trouble. still ahead on "starting point," a developing story, this report that al qaeda operatives are planning to take down a u.s. plane in a runup to the olympic games in london.

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welcome back, al qaeda opera tifs may be planning to take down a u.s. plane in the days leading up to the london games. al qaeda's yemen based terror cell is believed to be behind the planning of this attack. s suzanne kelly joins me live from washington. what are your sources telling you? >> i'm glad we're talking about this. there's a lot of hype and concern about these when the british papers came out with the reporting over the weekend. cnn has gone back and spoke with both officials in the u.k and u.s. who are all saying there's absolutely no specific credible threat about bringing down a u.s. bound airliner any time around the olympics. keep the mind the president did meet with his national security

team last week and did talk about efforts to prepare for keeping the fourth of july festivities secure, of course, working with british counterparts on the olympics, but no specific threats. it sounds like there may be more hype here than fact. one thing to tell you though, the department of homeland security has said their security pos tour, includes a number of measures both seen and unseen. we'll continue to respond appropriately to protect the american people. what they are really asking for people to be vigilant and pay attention. the director general of mi 5 just recently came out and publicly said al qaeda does remain a very serious threat. they are still plotting. they are still trying to find ways to attack. according to u.s. government officials and officials in the uk, there's no specific threat tied to the olympics right now, brook. >> sounds like a bit of a headline. thank you. did you ever experience a life changing event that seems too

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we've had a phone call just out of the blue when you least expect it and really needed it the most. a series of books calls these moments god winks or communication from god that gives us guidance in life. the newest book called "divine alignment" comes out tomorrow. squire rushnell is the author and creator of school house rock. squire, it is a pleasure to meet you. >> nice to meet you. read the whole thing last night. what does that mean? >> it takes the idea of god winks, those little things that you don't know what to call so you call them god winks. they're not really coincidence. but it pulls back on the lens and it shows that we are all interconnected. god wink by god wink, person to

person, i think you have probably god winks and divine alignment in your own life. everybody here because you -- there was somebody who called you out of the blue or you bumped into somebody and that person led you to the job, the girl, the guy, the place in life and you say, wow, what a coincidence. >> you say not so. >> we're really on a gps, god's positioning system. >> you mentioned your own personal story and you say, yep, this is the first time i've told this about being a big, bad executive and, yep, i was fired and times were tough and you get money from some friends, you end up paying them back. tell us about your story and your own divine alignment. >> well, i actually it was the first time i ever admitted that i was fired from abc. they used that word downsized. but i also realized that it was kind of a kick in the pants that i was getting because i'd been there for 20 years, and i needed

to get out of the nest and fly on my own. so i became a entrepreneur. and i found 0 out why that rhymes with manure. at some point i decided to become what i always wanted to be, which was an author/speaker. and i had to go out and find my topic. and one day when i was giving a talk about coincidences, i realized that i was connecting with my audience in a way that i had never connected before. and so that was my pursuit. >> we are all pretty lucky people here. we're employed and stuff. but what about people who are really having a hard time, people who are homeless, people who are struggling in they may not see their god winks. what do you say to them? >> i believe god winks happen to everybody. and god winks happen when you allow them to happen or once you see god winks, you see them more and more and more. i believe that there is, indeed,

a destiny that is kind of built into each of us and we have a built-in gps. we just have to figure out how to tune in to it. >> what do you say to the 11%, i think it is today, that don't believe in it god? when they read this book, there's a lot of spirituality you talk about in terms of how people meet, how they come together. >> when i would say to those 11%, and you're right, it's about 11%, i would say that those 11% just keep an open mind and listen to the stories of these incredible things that happen to a lot of other people who didn't believe that they could rise up from the terrible situations they were in probably much more difficult situations than those individuals are in at this particular moment. >> i want to get to your final point. the book has seven different steps. unshackling your baggage. we talked about the balloons because we all have anger in us. we have to let it go and forgive. but this final step, be content with what you have, here is what you write, too many of us are never at peace.

we maintain our struggles to be bigger and better and have more, bigger house, better car, more stuff. this is accompanied by a prevailing fear it we don't maintain enough control of the people around us the bubble will burst and we'll be left with nothing. i'm curious after the horrendous financial crisis of 2008 when a lot of people are walking around with a heck of a lot less than they had, i'm curious if you've gotten feedback from them. are they more content with the little, the less they have? >> i don't know. i haven't talked to necessarily those folks, but i do know that there is a well within that we're always trying to fill with stuff. we fill it with something trying to give us contentment. and until we fill it with the love of god, we won't be able to fill it. i tell the story of darryl strawberry who is a guy who had a $22 million contract and he fell the longest distance of anybody i know to be flat on his back and to have nothing. and until he filled that well with the love of god, he was not

a content person. he is now a very content guy. >> squire rushnell, we appreciate it. the book is "divine alignment." >> thank you. good to be here. still ahead on "starting point" an unprecedented rematch with an olympic spot on 0 the line, but will these two sprinters even get to the starting line tonight? some developing news on that story to tell but. plus new jersey governor chris christie is known for his blunt style. wait until you hear what he had to say to a reporter who apparently asked the wrong question at the wrong time. rs ad talking about the ford summer sales event. "oh, wow." "now this would definitely be the car i would want to get." like the fusion? "we love the fusion." mileage matters? "absolutely." up to 33 miles per gallon. the sync system. you can take all the mus and put it into the hard-drive. he just got a glimpse of some 21st century technology and he's flipping out. don't miss the ford summer sales event. get a fusion with 0% financing for 60 months plus $1750 cash back. now at your local ford dealer.

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and a good monday morning to you. i'm brooke baldwin sitting in for soledad. temperatures hitting triple digits today across several states. major storms knocking out power to millions of people and relief, sorry to say, could still be days away. we are live in one of the hardest hit areas. and what did they know? cnn is accessing these disturbing new e-mails that raise new questions about whether penn state officials were covering up information about jerry sandusky. plus, it may be constitutional but republicans vowing to repeal the health care law. >> this has to be ripped out by its roots. >> the stakes are growing even bigger for november elections. and our troops don't just face danger overseas, they face it

right here at home. the enemy, predatory scammers, financial scams. delaware attorney general joe biden is lead that go fight to protect our troops from financial disaster. a jam packed show ahead. along with bo biden, marcia bla blackburn and it is monday, july 2nd. "starting point" begins right now. ♪ i feel you have nothing to say don't duturn your back on me ♪ >> you can always tell whose song it is by the first person doing this. this was abbey huntsman, keen "sovereign light cafe." hello to all of you. you like that? thumbs up on that? >> they just performed live two weeks ago. >> awesome. so this is abbey huptsmantsman host of huffpost live. you are the host of -- and

welcome to all of you. i know we're feeling the heat here in new york this morning but some folks in other parts of the country are feeling worse here. millions of americans absolutely desperate for relief. 16 people have already died since thursday when triple digit temperatures spawned deadly storms leaving millions without power. i want you to just take a look at the states here. these are the states that are really feeling it, really suffering. ohio, 425,000 customers without power. that was as of 10:00 last night. the same story in virginia. the same story in maryland where hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for electricity to come back on. and i'm sad to say there's not a lot of letup in sight. this morning 20 states are facing heat advisories and it could be up to a week before everyone gets their power back. athena jones is live in maryland this morning where i know a lot of traffic signals are out. i know morning commute in your

neck of the woods is not easy on a normal day let alone when you're lacking lights because of lack of power. >> reporter: exactly. good morning, brooke. we're in montgomery county, maryland, a few miles north 0 of washington, d.c. an area known as the place where there's always lots of traffic. we're at a traffic signal. the electricity came on here just a couple of hours ago but there are several down the road where the lights are still out and we know there are still several hundred in this county alone, several hundred traffic signals that don't have electricity as well as hundreds of thousands of people across this region that are still without power. the latest figures we've gotten from dominion which is the main provider in virginia says just under 260,000 people are without power. that's down from a million at the height of it. so some progress being made. and then pepco says that they have just over 230,000 people without power. now they say they're going to be able to get the power back to everyone they hope by the end of the week. so by saturday or sunday if the weather permits, but we may see

these numbers going up and down because workers sometimes have to cut off the main lines to do some work and there are still tree limbs, frankly, falling on some of these lines. one interesting thing i should mention we've seen on twitter is people complaining that they're not seeing enough work crews out. one woman tweeted she hasn't seen any out in her area. pepco responded and said they're out there. crews are working on circuits and substations. they may not be visible from your home but the point is that utility companies say they have people out, crews for more than a dozen states and as far away from canada trying to get the power back on and, of course, this is very important as we're approaching 95 degrees today. i can tell you right now, brooke, it's only 8:00 and it's officially hot. >> athena jones, i appreciate you. you drew the short straw covering the heat. a lot of people feeling empathetic with you. athena, thank you. are colorado battling extreme heat, deadly wildfires. rob marciano is live. before we get the latest on the

fires, just talk to me about the extreme heat multiple states are facing this morning. >> reporter: yeah, well, the heat had a they're getting back east was out here a week ago and was one of of the reasons that the fire accelerated so horribly through this neighborhood. check out the record highs. this is just a handful. by the way, we had 1,800 record high temperatures in the last seven days. macon, 108. are you kidding me? 107, columbia 106. laguardia hit a record as well again today. heat advisory, heat warning a little bit smaller map today. most of it to the south and east and back to the west. but from d.c. up through boston you'll be a little bit -- a little bit cooler. and when i say that, i mean temperatures will still be well into the 90s. your daytime highs expected be to be 95 in d.c. well into the 90s in atlanta and nashville and back through chicago as well. record breaking high temperatures again here this weekend. here is the forecast -- the fire map for the western u.s.

fires burning in multiple states. large ones. and the fire here in colorado springs, i'm happy to tell you, 55% containment even with the record breaking high temperatures we had once again this past weekend. firefighters were able to get a handle on this thing and red flag warnings yesterday. so just under 18,000 acres burned. as you know the damage done here. the residents, many of whom were allowed to finally go back to their homes yesterday and look at the charred remains, an emotional day for sure. they were going to do it in buses but they decided no more humane way to do it, caravan in personal vengs and give folks more privacy that way. sun up now coming. we are closer than we have been in the past days. you can see the charred landscape and part of the mountain shadows neighborhood where the bulk of the destroyed homes exists and we're getting a better view this morning of some of the charred landscape. it's quite remarkable and

heartbreaking as you would imagine. 3,000 people still remain evacuated and many of those will not get back to their homes for some time to come. >> that is the first picture we have in the daylight finally seeing these sort of home after home, rows of charred remains. rob marciano, it's tough to see and realize it's all gone. thank you so much from colorado springs, colorado. a look at the day's top stories. we start with a cnn exclusive. three former penn state officials may have covered up a 2001 incident involving former coach jerry sandusky. and a young boy in the shower. e-mails between the vice president gary schultz and athletic director tim curley after mike mcqueary reported the incident to them. spanier said the only down side

for us is if the message isn't is heard and acted upon and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it. but that can be assessed down the road. curley and schultz face charges of not reporting the incident. a new law in the state took effect yesterday requiring abortion providers to be certified ob/gyn practitioners with privileges at area hospitals. that puts the jackson women's clinic at risk. they will keep the clinic open until a hearing scheduled on july 11th. mexico's old guard back in power after a 12-year high atus. pena nieto of the institutional revolutionary party winning the presidential election. but leftist candidate is refuse

to go concede defeat. pena nieto's party controlled mexico for more than 70 years million the election of the national action party's fox in 2000. new york state supreme court will intervene in the congressional race between incumbent charlie rangel and his challenger. there will be a hearing this afternoon. rangel has declared victory and his opponent conceded. rangel's lead has dwindled with more than 3,000 still unaccounted. brooke, back to you. >> zoraida, thank you. republicans are gearing up for a fight to take down the health care law planning to vote to repeal that law next week, july 11th. really keep in mind this is a symbolic vote because the repeal will likely never pass this in. democrats are in the majority. >> they will bring it up and when they bring it up, they will

ask for a repeal. repeal of all the things i said that help children, help young adults, help seniors, help men or women who may have prostate cancer, breast cancer, whatever it is, any precondition. >> we will not flinch from our resolve to make sure this law is repealed in its entirety. >> marsha blackburn is a member of the health care subcommittee. congresswoman, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let me just begin with the point we just left off with. this is a large ly symbolic vot. you don't have republican controlled senate, you don't have a republican sitting in the white house. i know a lot of americans are thinking they're just wasting their time up there on the hill voting on july 11th. why bother? >> well, i think the reason that you bother is specifically this. the american people want congress to say obama care was a mistake and what they would like to see us do is start over with a clean slate and do this right.

and, brooke, what you're going to hear is us focus on five things. increasing access and choices, decreasing cost and mandates. simplifying the system for both patients and providers restoring that half trillion dollars worth of cuts that were made to medicare, and making certain that we make health care tax free because right now one thing we know for sure it is not. so we're going to just put our nose to the grind stone, if you will, our shoulder to the grind stone. we're going to push forward. we are going to make certain that we get this job done. >> now, as your put your nose to the grind stone and have your five tenets here, it appears american approval is up. so take a look at this. this is the latest gallup poll after thursday's ruling from the supreme court. 40% agree with the supreme court's decision. 46% don't. interestingly, though, 45% now agree, 42% disagree.

do those numbers suggest to you. that they repeal and there will be backlash. >> no, they don't. quite the opposite actually. because what the american people have said, you know what, we said all along it was a tax and as i was out over the weekend at farmers markets and at church and at the grocery store and visiting with constituents that so many people said back in august '09 we were saying this seemed to be a tax and this was going to be the largest increase in history. indeed it was and is. and now the supreme court has said, yes, indeed, it was a tax. so what people are saying, why in the world did the president, did the secretary of hhs did all of these officials spend so much time trying to say, oh, no, no, no, no, this isn't a tax. it's a penalty. >> mark, go ahead and jump in.

>> congresswoman, it seems to me the only way that this could be repealed is through a reconciliation tactic. >> correct. >> two years ago or three years ago republicans opposed democrats when they said they may use reconciliation to get health care through, that it violated the spirit of congress and i hear republicans using the very same language. how do you explain that? >> mark, i think that what we know is that most americans, two-thirds, this is tremendously unpopular. we know and we think there's a majority in the senate that would work with us on 0 getting this off the books. and making certain that the implementation of obama care is going to be forestalled and is not going to be started. that money is not going to be put in place. so if the best way to accomplish

this goal is reconciliation so that the states aren't having to expend that money, that's how we're going to do 0 it. >> congressman -- >> in the 1974 budget reconciliation act said that you can act on legislation if it has to do with the budget. now that the supreme court has said that this is a tax, if you acted this in using the process you would be directly work iingo curtail the budget so it makes more sense to use budget reconciliation as the bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 did rather than the fancy is footwork that harry reid maneuvered us through. >> here is the problem. >> that's one of the things people say. now this is a tax so, therefore, it changes the way we can approach eliminating it from law. >> go ahead. you disagree. >> i can accept that argument if two or three years ago they pose reconciliation as such. they didn't say within this particular context.

they said period. and also, yes, even if i bought the argument that two-thirds of americans oppose, which i don't accept. they also don't oppose reconciliation. any poll given to the american people say they don't like reconciliation because it seems like it's sidestepping congress. >> republicans and democrats have used budget reconciliation in the budget for years and years and years to get things through the other side didn't want and maybe it's unpopular at the time but as you look back on the bush tax cuts in 2001, 2002, 2003, people aren't saying they dislike them. both parties say you may not like it when it's not going against your party. >> we agree to disagree here. i love it. and we appreciate you coming on congresswoman blackburn. still ahead, we'll have to leave it there. we'll revisit later. >> off camera. >> in the commercial break. still ahead on "starting point" two u.s. sprinters are fight i fighting for the same slot on the 2012 olympics team here in london. so there's only one way to settle this whole thing.

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♪ it is winner take all race and tonight two u.s. olympic hopefuls square off in a rematch. jeneba tarmoh and allyson felix tied for third place in the u.s. olympic trials 100 meter race last weekend. both runners are already going to the london summer games on the u.s. team but tonight will decide who gets that final spot on the 100-meter squad and there's this whole twist, there is a chance both runners might be pulling out of the race altogether. from mike&mike in the morning, good morning to you.

>> blame either of these ladies for not wanting to risk injury running tonight. they're both thinking i'm going to london as it is. what are the odds we may not even have a run-off? >> the odds could be there but i hope the odds are against that because i want to see a run-off. these are athletes that have worked for four years for this moment and to decide who is going to be in the individual event or the 100 meter, i know they're both in, we're talking relays for some that i don't know how you don't have a run-off, how you would wait for a coin flip. these two have to run this off unless there's an injury involved. >> i totally agree with you. you talk about the worst case scenario for the united states olympic committee is having a tie for third place. a tie for first place is not an issue. you can't go to a coin flip which was one of the options pre posed. you have to go out, tie up the spikes and run another 100.

you're going to have to do that in london. you might as well get it done here to make sure you make the team in an individual race. >> how does this work? not only are they competitors, they're friends, they have the same coach. are you a couple lanes apart from one another? what does this do for your psyche having to do with with your friend? >> it doesn't matter. it can be a friend all you want. marcellus a friend of mine. for 60 minutes we try to take each other out, not literally, but that's what you do. when you compete, you compete. they've been doing it long enough to know that. you lace up the cleats, you get next to each other, you have a lane in between you, however they want to do it and you run because that's what you do. >> we see this happen all the time whether you talk about individual sports and training, ufc, boxing, even track and field. those competitors out there imagine there are ten girls on a team now trying to make that relay team. you have to go out there and compete and you always know as much as this team sport when

you're talking about relays is base d on the individuals. >> i get it. you step in the lane and are ready to roll. it was jeneba who was declared the victor. remember, she actually got to do the victory lap before they said, hang on a second, ladies. we've got to do a run-off. i think she even said that she was robbed of this victory. how does it affect her when she is lacing up her sneaks tonight if and when they run it off? >> i completely understand her train of thought and her emotion on that. feeling like she got ripped off. >> she is frustrated. >> that's all well and good. >> yeah, she is frustrated but when all of that is put aside, they said it was a tie and you have to have a run-off. so have a run-off. i mean, i feel bad but you're athletic enough and have been in an athletic competition enough to put things aside and get ready for the next event. >> i understand the emotional reaction. >> go ahead. final thought. >> it's difficult. as mike knows, i played in one of the most controversial endings in football history in

the music city miracle, was it a forward lateral, a backward pass and it upset our super bowl chances to making it. we lost in the playoff because of that controversial call. sometimes you just have to deal with it and put your emotions to the side and move on. >> yep, you've got it. that's part of the deal being an athlete. thank you guys. >> you've got it. >> thank you. coming up next, governor chris christie isn't one to mince words. did he cross the line when he called a reporter, and i'm quoting him, stupid. that's our tough call. small s can make a big difference. like how a little oil from here can be such a big thing in an old friend's life. purina one discovered that by blending enhanced botanical oils into our food, we can help brighten an old dog's mind so he's up to his old tricks. with this kind of thinking going into our food, imagine all the goodness that can come out of it. just one way we're making the world a better place... one pet at a time. vibrant maturity. from purina one smartblend.

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here is the deal. new jersey governor chris christie brash, tough talking style this past saturday during this q&a with reporters that the context of the story is here he was at this water treatment plant and he basically said to the reporters, hey, i only want to take questions about the water issues we're having. the report eers are inquisty, ty wanted to caulk to christie calling back the legislature on the middle class tax cuts. here is the exchange. >> governor, on monday are you going to be addressing legislature? >> did i say on topic? are you stupid? on topic. on topic. next question. xwood. thank you. thank you. thank you all very much and i'm sorry for the idiot over there. take care. >> so he says, stupid and idiot. is that acceptable for a governor of new jersey to be using that language? >> we disagree. >> i feel the first -- i feel like every couple of weeks we're

saying did he go to far? the first time he went off topic and called someone stupid he went too far. we hold him to a different standard. if we had heard president obama say that to somebody, i think that would be a huge story. >> him saying it, it's fine. it's chris christie. >> people talk about him being a vice presidential choice, no way. you can't say these things. >> let me see your face. >> no, no, no, it's okay. >> we can disagree. this is exactly what people love about chris christie. they love that he's authentic, that he's real and, look, we have the rules, we had the ground game. you broke them. you're out. >> he could have said, i said to stay on topic. but to call somebody stupid, an idiot -- >> did it hurt his feelings? >> it's abusive. it's mean and abusive. that's what he is. >> any official you have reporters out there and we want to ask the tough questions, even though you're at a water treatment plant, you shout questions that are off topic because you want the answer and

if you get an answer, awesome. >> when you're a public official you should expect any question to come your way. i think about my siblings just watching this and i just don't think that's right, that he should be speaking with that la language. just say that's out of line, i'm not going to talk about that right now. don't call him stupid. >> the truth is the governor has sty style. people like it a lot. this is why he got 1.1 million views on youtube for one of his town halls. >> yes, because many americans are also mean and rude and disrespectful. they are main tweeters. he's a mean guy. >> authentic voice in politics. he says it with a wink and a smile, stupid. thanks, guys. still ahead, a shocking attack. an american graduate student mauled by chimpanzees. details on what happened there and how he's doing now. also, delaware attorney general beau biden is here. he says our service members are facing a new enemy at home being preyed upon by these financial

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for making your financial life a little bit easier. welcome back to "starting point." happy monday to you. we want to let you know beau buy deb will join us with this new mission to help our troops. he is the delaware attorney general, the son of vice president joe biden. do not miss that. quickly here to 0 zoraida with the headlines. xwr good morning to you, brooke. heat from the northeast to the midwest. 20 states are under heat

warnings. ohio, west virginia and virginia. 16 people have also died since thursday when triple digit temperatures sparked wild storms and left millions without power. and this morning firefighters are gaping ground against the deadly wildfires in colorado. 55% of the waldo canyon fire is now contained and officials are lifting evacuation orders for all but 3,000 people in that area. 32,000 residents have been forced to leave their homes but now many of them are returning to it devastation. officials say nearly 350 homes have been destroyed there. a nuclear power plant is up and running in japan for the first time since may. despite protests outside, startup operations began sunday night at the number three reactor. japan gradually shut down all 50 of its nuclear power plants for safety checks following a shutdown at the fukushima plant which was hit by the tsunami in 2011. an american graduate student

who was attacked by two chimpanzees at a south african animal sanctuary is listed in critical but stable condition after undergoing, get this, six hours of surgery. his sister says her brother lost his ears, a leg, and toes in the attack. oberle was mauled by two large, male chimpanzees while leading a tour. the four middle school students who viciously harassed their school bus monitor have been suspended from the school and the bus for one year. a youtube video of their verbal attack went viral. all four students will take classes at an alternative education center. they must also complete 50 hours of community service. that with senior citizens. the bus monitor karen kleim says she is satisfied with their punishment. >> each and every day u.s. troops put their lives in danger

to protect our many free tomorrows. many i know making the ultimate sacrifice. when they come home, their challenges aren't over. service members, their families, they're oftentimes the target to these predatory financial practices, these scammers. they face all kinds of problems ranging from debt to foreclosure d beau biden is leading the fight to protect our troops from monetary scams. in fact, just last week he testified before a senate committee on banking, housing, and urban affairs the financial pressures our troops are facing overseas and here at home. so, beau biden, welcome to you. you are an iraq war veteran and the son of vice president joe biden. good morning, beau. >> good morning. thanks for having me on. >> i want to just begin on a personal note with you. you completed your tour of duty in iraq in 2009 and you wrote about how you really witnessed some of the pressures these men and women experience firsthand. tell me about that. what did they say? >> me and my colleague, the major that i worked with, i saw

on a fairly regular basis that people overseas are experiencing the same things we experience here state side. and that is the financial pressures of the economy, specifically foreclosures. what we saw over there is people being foreclosed upon while they were literally on a daily basis going outside of the wire, as we say over there, which i didn't do, and having to contend with phone calls from home about being foreclosed upon from the sate side. look, we have the relief act which has been in place since the civil war to protect soldiers and air men and service members who are deployed to make sure that they're going to focus on the mission, deal with what the commander in chief asks them to do and come home safe. too many are worrying about what's happening state side by way of foreclosures. >> but, beau, what is it about these families, the members of the military and the families here at home that seems to put them at even greater risk to be preyed upon.

why? >> well, there's a number of reasons why. one reason why is there's just been the not systemic but too many people, too many financial institutions in certain cases aren't following the service men relief act which prevents them foreclosing upon or filing civil actions against certificaservic. there's a major national bank that was foreclosing on marines and other certificaservice memb they shouldn't have. a brave marine challenged them and got a multimillion dollar sett settlement on behalf of himself and others for violations of that act. this has been a systemic problem throughout a number of the banks. holder has been holding them responsible. they're not following the basic law. >> you were testifying and there was a story about how one woman, a widow, had to pay off the it debt from what little money she

got after her husband passed away in battle. it's horrendous when you hear these stories. the reality of the situation is a lot of members of the military have to move around a lot. you have 180,000 military members who own homes a oftentimes they're relocated. they have to up and sell quickly. a lot deal with mortgages under water. you, beau biden, you led this push back in february to make sure the multistate mortgage settlement included some protections and we mentioned you testified in front of congress last week. what more needs to be done to protect these people? >> really we changed the law. look, one-third of the american people including service members, are under water. right now when you move from dover to andrew's air force base by order of the president, you have to sell your house in dover, delaware, to be able to move to andrews. this settlement led by tom miller is to say the banks actually will consider those

orders, those permanent change of station pcs orders which military families will know, considered as a hardship when the bank considers whether or not there's something short of a fror closure they can do by way of a short sell or some mod modification in terms of the note. it's been a broad expansion led by all 49, 50 attorneys general, quite frankly led by the president and the secretary of housing and urban development and the attorney general. it's been a fundamental expansion of an important rate. >> mr. biden, it seems to me there's bipartisan support for this. it seems like sound public policy, capping interest rates, avoiding predatory lending practices. why don't we do this for everybo everybody? all the problems you say are there for military members who experience this are there for poor people everywhere. why not public policy for everybody? >> well, look, a number of attorneys general led by coakley of new york are still focusing

on these things every day. the $25 billion settlement was just the beginning first step. there will be continued enforcement action to hold folks accountable for doing just the things you talk about. if i may add, senator jack reed of rhode island has a great bill, a practical solution as it relates to military families. right now when soldiers are sent overseas, they need to send their orders to the bank to be able to take advantage of the benefits under the service men relief act. oftentimes we don't have orders until we're on a plane or after we've gotten on the plane. a very important piece of legislation to look at that tonight require orders to be sent to the bank but allows a letter to be sent to the bank to take advantage of the law on the books for decades. >> before we let you go, i have to ask, your dad is the vice president of our country, i have to ask you about the health care ruling and before you do that i want to toss some sound. this is a famous moment, your

pear during the bill signing. this is march of 2010. here it is. i mean, we laugh but it was a big deal. i'm sure you've had a conversation with your dad since the ruling came down on thursday. what has he said to you about this? >> it's an important moment for the american people. he did what ep said he was going to do as a candidate, make sure he watches out for the interests of middle class americans, all americans, quite frankly, to make sure they have access to affordable health care. this is going to be a very, very important thing for all americans and i'm incredibly proud of both of president and the vice president pour understanding that this is an essential thing we need to fix to make sure people have access to health care and that those who choose not to get it aren't able to ride freely off the backs of us who 85% of americans who will have health care insurance. >> did he repeat those words to president obama on an open mike.

>> my dad was very, very proud of the president for pursuing this. i'm proud of both the president and the vice president and the congress for doing what's right for the american people. >> beau biden, we appreciate you. thank you so much. and now, still ahead on "starting point" the controversial graduation speech of an english teacher who told the class of 201 2 that none of them were special. we'll see if steve perry agrees with the cold, harsh reality of being ordinary. and one of the world's greatest mysteries, what happened to amelia earhart. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote.

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♪ a little white house courtesy of margaret hoover and her play list. welcome back to "starting point." one of the biggest mysteries in american history could soon be laid to rest. what happened to amelia air heart. she vanished 75 years ago today on her quest to fly around the world. and tomorrow the expedition is set to leave hawaii en route to search the area researchers believe air heart's wreckage is located. now much of this stems from the single photograph -- this comes from 1937. it was taken about three months after her disappearance. >> we found some really

compelling evidence, skilled photo analysts from the state department said we think this might be the landing here, where the airplane went into the drink. we're going to try our best to find her. >> since uncovering that fphoto researchers say they have found old radio transmissions they think could have been from amelia air heaearhart herself. it will cost $2.2 million to do this. it's privately funded. still, this is not cheap. >> i think it's worth it. she's amazing. captured the minds of millions of young women across the country. 1937 at a time when america really needed inspiration and there was this idea the first woman to go across the atlantic by herself was somewhere surviving on a lone island in the pacific, it's incredible. it was like the mystery of the "titanic." we needed to find it to

commemorate and have the finalizati finalization. >> we have to have the closure. >> have to finish the story. >> close the chapter. >> i can't wait to see. >> i know. 75 years later. we'll find out. still ahead on "starting point" is it okay to just be ordinary? certainly amelia earhart was not. remember that graduation speech this teacher gave to kids saying, hey, you're not special. you need to work on being exceptional. we want to know which is the right message. we're asking education contributor steve perry coming up. do i hear some kanye? >> this is my shout out to soledad. [ male announcer ] we believe small things can make a big difference. like how a little oil from here can be such a big thing in an old friend's life. purina one discovered that by blending enhanced botanical oils into our food, we can help brighten an old dog's mind so he's up to his old tricks. with this kind of thinking going into our food, imagine all the goodness that can come out of it. just one way we're making the world a better place... one pet at a time.

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welcome back to "starting point." are we expecting too much of the next generation or perhaps not enough? this is the premise of this "new york times" columnist and author who says being unremarkable is not necessarily a bad thing. here is what she writes. all year my son's school newsletters were filled with stories about students winning prizes for university level scientific research, stellar musical accomplishments and statewide athletic laurels. i wonder if there is any room

for the child or teenager who enjoys a pickup basketball game but won't set the world on fire. i'm sure you remember that high school graduation speech that went viral who told students, quote, you're not special. >> contrary to what your soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a purple dinosaur, that mice mr. rodgers and your baty aunt sylvia, no matter how often your crusader has swooped in to save you, you are nothing special. >> so is it okay to be ordinary or should students push harder? steve perry is our cnn education contribut contributor. steve perry, i'm confused. what's the message here? >> reporter: well, the message from us at capital prep is, no, it's not okay to be ordinary. the expectation is you woke up to do something amazing today. so find out what that is and do it. it doesn't mean that you have to

be the greatest basketball player, make the most amount of money. it doesn't mean you have to sing the best or look the best but you have to do something that is in you, something powerful that can transform not just your life but the lives of others. >> and i understand at your school, striving for success is the priority. but, you know, then you have all these parents who are giving out the awards who say everyone is amazing and everyone is successful and you're fabulous and you can be anything you want. is that taking it a little too far? >> that's about them, though. that's about them. >> the parents. >> they're giving those awards out so they can feel good about themselves. they are dealing with their own insecurities and as a result of their own insecurities they want to set the bar as low as possible. well, folks, america is in the middle to the bottom of the pack academically. if you think that's okay, then keep doing what you're doing. i think that we can do better. i think we have a country full of people who are smart and capable and the harder we push, the more we're going to get. >> steve, though, is this a problem you see in the education

system? i'm not saying your school but more broadly? don't you have this trophy participation generation that thinks that they can get a trophy just for showing up? you have books now published about the generation showing up in the work place and they are being asked to do things they don't like to do because they think they are more special than they are. >> absolutely. absolutely. it is us. the schools, we do a really bad job of telling students what they really are and are not good at. and we tend to lower the bar too much. we have professional development here and one of the things at standard based grading to show this is what the standard is for the country. this is your real skill level. regardless of what your mother says about you, this is what you really know how to do. so we need to work to get you up. >> how do we at the same time, and for once i agree with you, but -- >> i know. i know you set your mind but sometimes some things make sense. >> i just use common sense. but the question is for me, how

do you keep the middle of the pack motivated who aren't at the high level because the problem is if we only teach to the top, if we only praise the top, we only praise high achievement and those kids who are average -- >> they get lost. >> the presumption is that we're only looking at one skill set. the presumption is whether or not you do well in science. when you are a great educator, you have the capacity to look at what the children can be beyond the traditional. there are so many things, for instance, that you can do to show a child they have the capacity to make an impact. you can reward kindness. you can reward integrity. you can reward desire to be succe successful. there's more than just -- >> isn't part of the job to find that sliver of remarkability in a quote/unquote average kid, right? there is always that sliver. >> that's exactly it. the best educators on earth find a way to engage children where they are. that's the core of education. every single one of us can think

back to an adult who is sitting in an educational capacity who made us feel like we could walk on water. in fact, the very essence of education is not seeing you for where you are today but where you can be. we are a dream factory and when you're a great dream factory, you'll find ways to cull the dreams of every single child and make them feel like today is really that special of a day. >> goosebumps. we're all feeling remarkable today. >> it's a really good point. you have to find that. >> and mark, too. all right, guys, on that remarkable note, thanks, steve perry. great shot. how did the nba become the hottest league on the planet?

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all right, time for the end point. you've been checking your iphone. >> i read a tweet from donald trump. isn't he wonderful and entertaining as always? he said something that bothered me. we found out this weekend that chief justice roberts changed his mind about the health care mandate and donald trump just said that he wanted to be loved

by the washington establishment and i saw this weekend that glenn beck -- >> this is not cnn confirmed. >> not confirmed. but there's been talk about it. and glenn beck also is making sure chief justice is called a coward. there's a certain amount of respect we should have for our supreme court. it's frustrate to go see things like this. i don't think it's political at all. the fact he changed his mind shows, whether he did or not, he took time to research and find out more about it. >> love you, 20 seconds. >> really quick, we're talking about the colorado wildfires. they're prevalent, they're rampant. they've affected hundreds of thousands of people. if you know somebody who has been affected by the fire, you wonder what you can do, here is what you can do. get them a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant or really nice restaurant because they're eating at shelters right now. to be able to go out and dine on really nice steak, send them a fift certificate for their

favorite restaurant. that's the best thing you can do. >> thank you so much. thank you. and thank you for watching. let's go to carol costello, "cnn newsroom" begins right now. happening right now in the newsroom, sweltering heat. nearly 2 million people still don't have power and 16 states are under heat advisories or warnings. when will things start to cool down and when will the power come back on? plus, cover-up. cnn has seen e-mails from top brass to suggest a cover-up on jerry sandusky's child rape accusations. one from the university's president says dealing with the sex abuse within the school was, quote, humane. it's a cnn exclusive. plus -- return to power. the political party that ruled mexico for 70 years is back. you're looking at mexico's projected new president, pena nieto. on his agenda reduce the violence from drug cartels that seem to rule the country, but can he do it? >>re