sweltering summer. the heat wave that refuses to die. record-breaking temperatures are expected to last into the weekend. looking for work, the government releases unemployment figures for june later this morning. and boom and bust. what caused the san diego fourth of july fireworks extravaganza to turn into an all and then of july fireworks extravaganza to turn into an all and then nothing affair. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, july 6th, 2012. and good morning everybody. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. there will be no relief today for the millions of americans who have been sweating it out after a record-breaking heat wave this week. the national weather service has issued excessive heat warnings and watches throughout the u.s.

temperatures will reach triple digits an the extreme heat is making its way to the east coast. 100 degree weather from new jersey to the carolinas expected to the weekend. >> heat, extreme heat, so hot part of a roadway near downtown chicago buckled and cracked. people working outside in the windy city were dreaming of a cool breeze as temperatures soared past 100 degrees. the city's been swamped with hundreds of heat-related emergencies and officials are asking the public to check in on elderly or frail neighbors. >> nothing prevents any one of us from doing a well-being check on a neighbor or someone who may need assistance. >> it's not just the elderly who are at risk during this hot weather. >> obviously people on chronic medications, heart medications, but it can happen to just about anybody. >> as the heat pushes as the race pushes on to restore electricity to the customers who lost power in the storm, cooling centers are providing a break from the high temperatures.

>> we've had to throw all of our food out and we've had to rely on mcdonald's and walmart, which can get pretty expensive. >> the temperatures are taking a toll on agriculture. severe to exceptional drought conditions stretch across the country. it's hampering corn growers and it means higher food costs for everyone. >> 70% of the country is experiencing some kind of drought from modest to severe. if this weather were to break and we were to get some rain, then maybe things would -- i don't think we would see such a big effect. >> forecasters expect things to start cooling off in the midwest by the weekend and in the east early next week. but at the same time, the west coast could see a spike in temperatures. this morning in east tennessee, search crews are moving through the great smoky mountain near national park after violent thunderstorms hit the area. the storm packing 70 mile per hour winds knocked down trees and power lines trapping people in cars and homes. so many trees are down, park

rangers are having a hard time getting into the park. park officials say at least a dozen people were injured, tens of thousands are without power. fire crews expect to have colorado's waldo canyon fire fully contained by sometime day. the state's most destructive fire is now 95% contained. it's burned 28 square miles near colorado springs, killed at least two people and destroyed nearly 350 homes. president obama begins the second day of a two-day campaign bus tour this morning. the economy remains the top issue in the election and he'll be paying close attention to the release of unemployment numbers. yesterday the labor department announced that weekly applications for unemployment benefits dropped by 14,000 to 374,000. that's the fewest since may 19th. most economists estimate about 90,000 jobs were added in june. the adp expects nearly twice that. susan mcginnis has more. >> good morning, terrell. after that weekly number came out showing fewer people applied for unemployment, it brightened

the whole outlook for today's job numbers coming out at 8:30 eastern time and certainly both sides in this election are hoping there's something in there to use to their advantage. the government will release the june unemployment report this morning. economists predict last month's jobless numbers could be an improvement over may when 69,000 people found jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. >> people just aren't hiring. >> shawn jones has been out of work since last november. the tv news photographer has more than 30 years of experience, but he's been unable to find full-time work. >> we want to encompass call these things. >> to help make ends meet, he's taken a part-time teaching job. >> i may have to reinvent myself. no longer a videographer but maybe a teacher. whatever it takes to get back in the job market and to be able to earn a living. >> shawn jones is like millions of americans who are either unemployed or underemployed. many are closely watching the presidential election to see which candidate has the better plan to get them back to work.

>> we although we've got so much more work to do. >> speaking in ohio where unemployment remains below the national average, the president said the job market is slowly recovering. >> we've seen manufacturing start to come back to ohio. we've seen the unemployment rate drop. >> mitt romney says job growth isn't coming back fast enough. >> the president predicted that we'd be at 5.6% unemployment now. >> a new poll of leading economists suggests it might not matter who wins the election. 56% of the economists surveyed say we won't see unemployment drop to 6% for at least four more years. that's the level typical of a healthy economy. now, even if the economy does add that 90,000 jobs that was predicted that is still far below the 125,000 needed to just to keep up with population growth. terrell? >> susan mcginnis in washington this morning. thank you so much. secretary of state hillary clinton is in paris this morning. the first stop on an eight-country overseas trip.

in paris, shears attending a conference on syria. the friends of syria group wants to impose sanctions against the syrian government. it's expected to call for an interim unity government. clinton will immediate with mahmoud abbas. scott peterson filed an appeal of his 2004 death sentence. peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife lace i in 2002 and dumping her bod any the san francisco bay. he's always maintained his innocence. peterson's lawyer says the intense publicly tess -- a judge set bail at $1 million for george zimmerman. but the man who killed florida teen trayvon martin remains behind bars. his original bond was revoked when prosecutors said zimmerman lied about how much money he had. the judge questioned zimmerman's honesty and suggested he plotted to flee the country when he was released the first time. you may remember countrywide financial group. the subprime loans that started the nation's foreclosure crisis.

reports say countrywide had a vip loan program that used discount loans to win influence with congress and other government wyatt andrews reports. >> according to the report, countrywide's vip unit quietly made hundreds of no-fee, cut-rate loans. not just to key members of congress but also to top congressional staffers and top officials at government backed fannie mae. the agency buying up most of countrywide's subprime mortgages. the vip mortgage discounts were worth hundreds to several thousands of dollars each. utah congressman jason chaf its is a member of the house committee that wrote the report. >> what do you think the impact of all this influence buying was? >> when you're making their loan, costs less, no points, no fees, you're probably getting a level of favoritism that nobody else in the country was getting. >> the report says countrywide

used that favoritism to keep the money flowing from fannie mae and to fend off calls from congress against the rising exposure to toxic loans. >> unfortunately, i wonder if it really did work. because we didn't get the legislation that we really need today do to clamp down on these tiechs of loans. >> congressional leaders who got the discounted mortgages all denied knowing they were getting favors. senator kent conrad and chris dodd appeared on this broadcast in 2009. >> i did absolutely nothing unethical. >> no special deals. no one offered one. >> both senators were cleared by the senate ethics committee. but the report displays cover letters and fax copies clearly showing references to the vip team or the vip unit. suggesting that even if officials did not know of the discounts, it was obvious this was special treatment. >> countrywide was highly skilled at expanding the use of the subprime loan. but as this report makes clear,

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come on! >> the scheduled 20-minute show went off early and lasd only about 15 seconds. the producer garden state fireworks, says a computer glitch sent the entire show's fireworks from four barges into the air at the same time. >> it's just something that obviously was beyond our control. we're not making any excuses. we did everything we could possibly humanly do. >> the company says this was one of hundreds of fireworks shows it produced across the country this fourth of july. but none went off like the one over the san diego bay. >> all the effort we went to be down here, we got the hotel, we walked all the way out here and no show. >> the sight initially left revelers in awe. but then confusion. >> beginning and grand finale all at the same time. >> the port of san diego and dozens of area companies paid about $250,000 for the show. but it was a disappointment for the close to half a million people who showed up expecting a lot more. >> this could be the best fourth of july ever, but it was the

worst. >> videos of the fireworks show going bust have gone viral online. the show's producers say they'll take the ridicule and add they're fortunate no one was hurt. bigad shaban, cbs news, los angeles. along with apologizing. the fireworks company owner is offering to put on a show next fourth of july for free. that is if they invite them to come back. coming up on this friday morning, we'll have your weather forecast and in sports, jeremy lin look new york by storm last season but is lin-sanity leaving the big apple to head out west? by what's getting done. the twenty billion dollars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to support scientists studying the environment. and the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last year, many areas even reported record tourism seasons. the progress continues... but that doesn't mean our job is done.

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here's a look at the weather. in new york, sunny, 92. thunderstorms in miami, 91. partly sunny, 100 in chicago. sunny, 99 in dallas. partly cloudy skies in los angeles, 75 degrees. let's check your national forecast. fierce heat will rule again in the midwest from eastern nebraska to central ohio and from wisconsin to kentucky. scattered storms will pop up in the northern plains. ice latd thunderstorms will range across much of the southeast while texas and the southern plains will have triple digit highs. the northeast and the west coast will be sunny. in sports this morning, you could say that lin-sanity is back. jeremy lin, an overnight sensation is reported to have agreed to a four-year, $19.5 million contract offer from the houston rockets. this could get kpli katd. the free agent point guard can

sign the offer sheet with houston next wednesday after which the knicks have three days to match it. if they do, lin has to stay in new york. serena williams heading to the women's finalswimbledon. she made short work -- she overpowered the number two seed with 24 -- 24 aces. to win 6 opinion 3, 7-6. on saturday, she will face poland for the championship. to baseball. orioles at the angels. baltimore took a lead on the second inning on back-to-back homers by reynolds and flaherty. a two-run shot made it 7-3 orioles. they took the lead when morales smacked a single to left. the final angels 9, orioles 7. philadelphia led the mets. two out in the ninth. bases loaded. daniel murphy come backer hit.

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here's a look at the forecast in the country. in d.c., mostly sunny, 104.

thunderstorms in atlanta, 96. sunny in st. louis, 104. thunderstorms, 86 in denver. sunny, 79 in seattle. july fourth celebration ended in tragedy off new york's long island. three children died when a yacht capsized in the long island sound. 24 other people went into the water but were rescued. investigators will raise the poet from 60 feet of water this week to determine what caused it to tip over. on monday, hundreds of thousands of people around the world could be knocked off the internet because of a malicious computer virus. the fbi is advising consumers to check their computers before it's too late. teresa garcia has more on that. >> jake lewis works as a personal assistant in hollywood, which means he's on the internet more than 15 hours a day. he was alarmed to hear about the computer virus that could knock thousands of people off line. >> i have all my documents, my

databases all start online. that's contact, that's scheduling, that's references. >> the fbi has been on the case since last year when agents busted a ring of computer hackers in a stone i can't. the scam infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world and controlled them through rogue servers. the hackers would redirect people to different websites and rack up millions of dollars in illegal fees. the challenge for the fbi was if they shut down the hackers' servers, they'd wipe out the internet connection for all the victims. instead, they set up alternate -- which took control of the computers. that temporary system is shutting down on monday which means about 64,000 computers in the u.s. will be cut off. the fbi is directing users to a special website to see if they're infected. www.dcwg.org. the site will check for the virus and tell you thousand fix it. many others are still at risk

and the fbi thinks about 50 major u.s. corporations are infected as well. teresa garcia, cbs news, los angeles. follow-up on that south florida lifeguard fired after leaving his post to hef save a drowning man. tomas lopez lost his job to rescue a tourist in trouble. the company he worked for now admits it made a mistake and offered to rehire lopez. he has said no hard feelings toward his bosses, but he doesn't want that job back. a temporary disney exhibit opens today at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. nancy reagan was on hand for a ceremony for the exhibit. it features never before seen artifacts from nearly 90 years of history. minnie and mickey mouse sang happy birthday to aig an who celebrates her birthday today. coming up after your local news, the five travel websites you should know about before you plan your next vacation. i'm terrell brown, this is the "cbs morning news." this is the

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mr. bernstein, one of the lottest days of the year -- hottest days of the year. >> reporter: we are making it, yesterday was i put 104 on the map, and we could even potentially exceed that. just for your information, 106 is the record in dc. >> are we going to match the record hot july we had last year? >> reporter: we have a big break coming by monday. another scorcher out there today. look how mild we are already. 97 with a high around 101. a heat advisory 11:00 a.m. until 58:00 p.m. it does get into the southern part of baltimore county.

everybody else is temperatures this morning, toasty, warm, 83 at this hour anational and annapolis. fredericksburg is 84. still 81 in west virginia. you have seen this before, high temperatures upper 90s. 101 a little bit cooler right on the bay. let's go to monika samtani. how is it looking? >> reporter: in college park route 1 at lakeland, watch out for overnight police activity, it is still blocked in that area. you have to follow police direction to get around that. we'll first of alltell you about construction yes, it is back on the west side of town. northbound 495 between 66 and route 7 only one lane was getting by overnight. south side of the beltway between the toll road and route 123, only one lane was getting by. you have about 30 minutes left on that construction. if you are planning to head here on the northbound side of i-95,

springfield parkway, looks great all lanes are open as you head to 35 and the 14th street bridge. andrea and mike? this is part of our traffic update. a police involved the shooting in college park, maryland is under investigation. we have been following this all night. police received a call last night about a land with -- a man with a gun. >> the suspect and an officer exchanged gunfire. the suspect took off, a second shooting took place, that is when the suspect was injured. he was taken to the hospital. we don't know his condition at this point. no officers were hurt in this. the media will be updated at 11:30 this morning. the beating death of a two-year-old girl is being investigated. the suspect in her case is her 12-year-old foster brother. it happened yesterday on taylor

avenue. the father arrived home to find her unresponsive. she was taken to the hospital where she was later pronounced dead. the 12-year-old was taken into custody. >> through the course of the investigation, detectives learned a 12-year-old had beaten the child repeatedly. detectives developed probable cause to charge the boy, based on interviews conducted with the family. i can't the 112 -- >> the 12-year-old is charged with murder. police are still trying to figure out what was the motive. 100 people need a new place to live now of a afire ripped through an apartment complex in woodbridge, virginia. this was last night in the 1400 block of eisenhower circle. it destroyed the fourth floor of one building, damaged an adjacent building. two firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion. no one of the residents was