so hhs turned to the citizens of boulder county, with a controversial proposal.x hike. >> we asked the community for five years of support. so it's a five-year tax. and it equals about $21 per year on a $300,000 home. >> ballot initiative 1-a came to a vote in november 2010. surprisingly, it passed. in its first year, 1-a raised $5 million. >> want to help set the table? >> one of its beneficiaries, the windemuller family, with diane still unemployed, their rental assistance is extended until march 2012. >> come on, honey. >> but in return, hhs demands proof that the family is now living on a strict budget. >> they wanted accountability for sure. and they asked us to cut back and cut back and cut as much as possible. >> god we thank you for this day. amen. >> so the family eliminates vacations, dinners out, and after-school activities for the kids. they canceled their cable, downgrade their internet service, stop using credit cards, and start shopping for clothes in thrift stores. but they decide to keep the big suv. was the suv a symbol of better days? >> yes. d

doug, if you're looking for a job, we need your kind in boulder. and third, we're going to hear from dan ferber who is an independent award-winning journalist with several biology degrees who seems to have a knack for taking scientific issues and making them understandable to the reading public. in other words, a science geek that can communicate. that's a rare breed and we're happy to have him with us. he also just published a book called "changing climate, changing health." hopefully we'll hear some of the insights from that book. and levcoff. she's president of an ngo in santa fe that deals with all things complex. she applies complex, adaptive systems thinking to complex conflicts in complicated parts of the globe. why not climate change, huh? this woman likes a challenge. that's our line ulineup, and we start off with larry. we'll hear from each speaker for about 10 to 12 minutes and then open it up to all of you. >> thank you, susan. and it's great to be here this morning to share this urgent issue with you. for the last 11,000 years, humans

the two-story high boulder transported in march over 11 long nights at 5 miles an hour from a granite yourly 100 miles away. today the exhibit's open. >> l.a. rocks. >> it humbles you. it makes you feel quite small. >> the concrete work is spectacular. >> reporter: the los angeles county museum of art helped the artist realize a vision he had for 40 long years. now, visitors will find themselves looking up at the improbable, the monster 340 ton rock, moved from its desert birthplace to an inner city home across the street from a 99 cent store. heiser, who almost never does interviews, did one for us. >> it's the happiest day of my life. >> reporter: it's a happy day for a museum which has commissioned other ambitiously avant garde works, like this light made of lamp posts. blackman's michael govin says he knows what visitors will say about this one. >> wow! that should be the reaction of most people. >> reporter: it's not all oohs and aahs. an artist friend of mine from new york told me it's horrible, people showing up just bought the act. it's all about the money. it did cost $10 mil

i am suzanne jones and i'm a member of your boulder city council. and, one of the prerogatives of being a local elected official, i get to ask the first question. let me just remind you because we are filming this for c-span, whoever asks a question needs to get to the man with the microphone -- the man with the microphone will get to you when we get to questions. so, i guess, what i mostly wanted to do just to start things off is meryl just flew out provocative ideas. and i wanted to give you guys an opportunity to respond if you would like since we started out with some heavy duty kind of depressing science. and ended on a hopeful we can all solve this together and i want to allow a little inner play here. >> absolutely. and i think that was tremendously encouraging. because i sort of -- i've paid attention to what's been happening. i've been doing this for a while. and the fact this is now emerging with the movement toward sustainability is tremendous. tremendous development. and incredibly encouraging because my personal belief is that people ac

have been told to evacuate near boulder. 3,000 others on alert as this huge blaze in the flag staff area begins to spread. the other wildfire is near colorado springs and prompted evacuations at the u.s. air force academy this evening. 12,000 people have left the far west side of colorado springs and they could be out of their homes for the rest of the week. the fires in colorado are just a fraction of the blazes burning across the west fuelled by dry conditions and triple digit temperatures. >> now the record heat and everything it's all adding up to the perfect tomorrow for us. >> reporter: and things could be getting worse. there is fear lightning in the forecast could spark even more fires overnight. tropical storm debby is now a tropical depression but the storm is leaving devastation in its path. debby made land fall on the gulf coast and moving across the state to the atlantic oceans. debby has dropped more than two feet of rain in some areas. the town of live oak is 80% underwater. >> i have never seen it this high. even with a hurricane. a real hurricane. >> we're doing all

scratching his butt on a big boulder. >> don't you feel kind of like a warrior? i mean, this bear probably thinks he's alone in the woods. >> i'm going out in the woods and say this bear is like a dude bear. all need someone to scratch your back. >> you realize, if you have an itch, hey, scratch it? and somebody will come up and scratch it for you. >> just like that. you don't have to tell it where to go. >> you would skip a beautiful woman scratching your back so you wouldn't have to tell her where you're at? >> i couldn't do that. >> ah. >> what about me, steven? >> anybody. equal opportunity. >> dude's about to drill sbool a hole. >> into a hole. >> oh, glimpse's what this guy is trying to tackle. his mission to become the world's strongest patient. >>> and thdrill bit, putting it 4 1/2 inching, in a place you wouldn't believe. >> any boogers? >> oh, no, no. once he got it in, a little jimmy back and forth to make sure he got it big. >> do you think this is real? >> no. it's real. i guarantee it's real. >> this doesn't make any sense. where is it going? >> who

>> the sport of bouldering is essentially the purest form of climbing.d and there is no harness involved. basically you're being spotted as you would in gymnastics. you have crash pads that stop your fall. i would describe ushima as ninja warrior princess. she is known as the best female climber for her age division for the last three years. the reason why she's a prodigy is because her climbing iq is just so high. >> you have to think about how you're going to do it. >> she climbs like she's been climbing for 20 years. she keeps winning these climbing competitions. >> i enter the american bouldering series. it's a series of competitions that i enter to go to nationals. >> you have a large amount of pressure, and you're learning how to deal with emotions and trying to execute and perform. >> come on, go get it. >> i definitely love climbing outside a lot more than climbing indoors at gyms. in texas there's a climb called right martini. that was definitely one of the hardest ones i've ever tried. >> the right martini is a huge accomplishment. and the fact

scratching his butt on a big boulder. >> don't you feel kind of like a warrior? mean, this bear probably thinks he's alone in the woods. >> i'm going out in the woods and say this bear is like a dude bear. all need someone to scratch your back. >> you realize, if you have an itch, hey, scratch it? and somebody will come up and scratch it for you. >> just like that. you don't have to tell it where to go. >> you would skip a beautiful woman scratching your back so you wouldn't have to tell her where you're at? >> i couldn't do that. >> ah. >> what about me, steven? >> anybody. equal opportunity. >> dude's about to drill sbool a hole. >> into a hole. >> oh, no, >>> if skip the gym today, this next video will make you feel even more guilty. check this out. a guy dead lifting 125 pounds. not a big guy. looks like he weighs 165 pounds. not just that. this guy suffers from cystic fibrosis and is on a mission to become the world's strongest haitian. >> oh. >> here we see this guy in the video -- that is a lot of weight. to be dead lifting. >> didit without shoes, too. >>

the person or people who pushed that boulder have never been caught. >>> route 355 back open after big problems this morning near cedar lane. a subcontractor working for pepco was trying to remove ole lines that had been replace -- old lines that had been replayed when one of those old lines fell into a new line. that sent the traffic lights crashing to the ground. repairs took a couple of hours. it should be back to normal now. >>> pepco tested out its energy wise rewards program in maryland. customers had their air conditioning turned off in peak hours of electrical use and as a reward they get a reduction on their bill. >>> a survey conducted by the insurance institute for business ranks virginia and florida first in building codes out of the 18 most hurricane vulnerable states. maryland tied for ninth with louisiana. mississippi came in last because it does not have building codes. >>> nothing tropical on the horizon tonight. nonetheless it is a yellow alert today, top. so what are you seeing out there? >> some thunderstorms kind of few and far between. the ones that develop are pr

it features a granite boulder at more than 300 tons. the 21-foot high rock sits afoot a concrete slot. as you see lots of folks wanted to stroll under and inside the trench. look at the crowd. >> they say it rolled onto that so like it was an accident. >> came out of nowhere. >> the sky is certainly falling. >> let's check it out with mike. i'm sure there are no big boulders to worry about. >> but we also don't have that indiana jones stunt show so that could come rolling through. exactly. dreams realized. we're looking north of hollywood, in oakland and we have the construction going on for the seminary on ramp to westbound 580, celebrations, it's open again. 580 and 880 no problems. as far as speeds toward the bay bridge. away from the bay bridge it's early slowing, we see it on the maps north of that accident symbol i added. eastbound 80. there is an accident reported. sounds like it's moved out of the lanes, no injuries reported but activity enough to cause slowing over the last few minutes. we talked about in san francisco over the

want to note that she was -- she is an unreasonable fellow at the unreasonable institute here in boulder, colorado. we may be hearing more about that. di is passionate about inspiring leadership. she is working on inclusive workplaces and the success of women. this led her to both to found explore for and to be on the founding board of dress for success. she is the managing director of apple australia. she has been the managing director for apple australia from 1997 to 2001. . our third speaker will be joe muse, and joe is a director of multikuehl chur intelligence. he's produced works for clients such as american honda motor operation, nike, mgm, mirage, the u.s. army and the white house. he also runs an organization where 70% of the employees are women, including the executive director and the ceo, i believe. and then we have finally marie wilson, and marie is the founder and president of the white house project, she founded this white house project in order to build a richly diverse, generally representative democracy, and the white house project, it's important to note that it spans

i am suzanne jones and i am a member of your boulder colorado, city council. one of the prerogative of being a local elected official is that i get to ask the first question. let me just remind you whoever asks a question needs to get to the man with the microphone -- the man with a microphone will get to you when we get to the questions. i guess what we want to do as we start things off meryl just throughout some very provocative ideas. i just wanted to give you guys an opportunity to respond, if you would like come since we started off with some heavy-duty depressing science. and ended on a hopeful note that we cannot solve this together. i want to allow little interplay here. >> absolutely. i think that was tremendously encouraging because i have paid attention to what has been happening in the yukon. i have been doing this for a wild. the fact that this is now merging with the movement towards sustainability is a tremendous development and incredibly encouraging. my personal belief is that people actually come despite all the depressing news i just gave yo

people can walk underneath the boulder. it sits right outside the los angeles county museum of art. kind of an odd thing, just like this guy with the camera, i think people, you get in there and it's like, okay, i'm under this boulder. i'm hoping it doesn't fall. there's a little bit of an adrenaline thing. >> adrenaline? >> maybe. >> i'm not empressed by the walk. you can walk under an overpass and get the same effect. >> it's art. >> it's art. >>> coming up after the 6:00 hour on a sunny monday morning. just a few thin clouds out there this morning. >> as tom mentioned, a little bit of the mugs out there to start us off this workweek. hi, tom. >> love that tangerine sunshine. live view, glitter path over the potomac river this morning. the air is calm and rather muggy. later in the day, here's the hometown forecast for leesburg. by about 10:00, might get a passing shower there in the upper 70s. by nontime, lingering shower. drying out and cooling down. a peak in the low 80s there. lower humidity ends overnight and by this time tomorrow morning, clear and in the 50s. and then a big

colorado's knows problem is near boulder crews are working hard to keep the flagstaff fire from moving into the city. shifting winds make it difficult. 200 homes have burned people and 2400 homes have been told the ready to leave. >>> no sign of the yolo county man who was believed to have fallen walked into the water near the bed and his roommate and friend says they're part on pier 32 after monday night's giants fan david cox says his friend left the car and did not return. >>> lettuce pray for him and bring him home his family is from down south and i love that guy let's bring him home to his family. >>> rescuers call about the search yesterday the man could not swim and cut segments they consumed alcohol. time now 612, >>> a dead iran's misery in florida at live report. >>> @ rager at the tsa confrontation discover britvisit:lumbia. dance class, shopping, and more. so do something nice for it. chevron with techron. >>> in florida debbie packs a good punch list go to traffic. >>> you always forget about me! i have all this information. a ton of accidents come in this morning most in

yet another blaze-- the flagstaff fire-- crept closer to boulder, colorado after lightning ignited brush yesterday. >> the clouds rolled through and a couple of lightning bolts hit the ground and we saw one come hit the flatirons and smoke billowed out right afterwards. >> reporter: the fire prompted mandatory evacuations in boulder county, and warnings in the city of boulder. >> we packed things that we thought were mementos, photographs. >> reporter: military c-130's dropped fire retardant on the flames and residents even hired private outfits to protect their homes. >> we're pretreating the vegetation behind both homes very significantly which will hold up for several hours. >> reporter: there was a spot of good news farther north: the 136 square-mile high park fire near fort collins is now 65% contained. >> we use the engines to wet down the fuels and then we have to have firefighters turn that soil over and make sure all the live material is out, extinguished. a lot of folks don't realize the work that has to go into-- if a gust of wind comes up there's nothing hot on the edge to bl

coors center at cu boulder -- any -- no? okay. [laughter] i have to say that most of you are much more dressed up than usually when i see you in your own natural habitats. [laughter] but our message today is serious. right now, the unemployment rate for americans with a college degree or more is about half the national average. they earn twice as much as those who don't have a high school diploma. so whether it's at a four-year college, or a community college, or a technical program, some form of higher education, something beyond high school has never been more important. it's the surest path to finding a good job, earning a good salary, making it into the middle class. and at the same time, over the last two decades, the cost of college has doubled -- it's actually more than doubled. and that means -- and i don't have to tell you, because you're probably tallying it up right now -- the cost for you to take out loans has increased, and you are more likely to rack up more debt. the average student who borrows to pay for college no

we know there's a boulder, colorado. the attention. this morning, we'll look at l.a.'s newest and biggest rock star. first, it's time for this morning's "healthwatch" with dr. holly phillips. >> good morning. in "healthwatch," doggone asthma. dogs shouldn't be considered man's best friend. it turns out they may be even better friends to your lungs. previous studies have shown that kids with dogs are less likely to develop asthma. now, new data help to explain why. researchers collected dust from homes that had a dog and exposed lab mice to the dust. the ones with the dust were protected from the virus linked to asthma called rsv. it seemed to promote more healthy bacteria in the body helping the immune system to fight off infections. this study is considered part of a growing body of research that backs up the hygiene hypothesis. that's the idea that extreme cleanliness may promote disease later on. being exposed to doggie dirt may -- so don't overreact when it's not necessary. this may prevent asthma. the next time the

and, listen, don't ever ask me to pose for that shot when we are on the shot with the boulder fresherour. >> won't worry about it miller, when you do in the tub stays in vegas. all right? >> remember when you are having nude comedian always use a white wand. >> new york city desperate for money as everybody is. they are going to tax yoga now. >> yeah. pretty soon bloomberg is going to come in with a rural and measure the plumber's crack of the front guy in front of me in the joe go class and hit him with a stippenned exposed to the rest of the class. you need a pet license now to do your downward dog in man hadn't. these folks are relentless with the taxes. >> bill: they are. >> they are like aliens. remember looking at that scanner. >> stop your grinning and drop your linen. >> found them. >> they want everything. they are going to keep taxing and keep taxing. they best watch it because eventually they're going to croak the host organism and there is going to be nothing to suck off. >> it's crazy. if you go by a yoga class you have got to pay a city a tax. anything do you there they

people can walk underneath the boulder. inside the concrete, it sits outside the los angeles county museum of art. >> it is just not buying this story. as art. >> it's a rock. >> but you know -- >> you can go to a cavern and see something very similar. >> if you build it, they will come. whatever it is. >> look at how ridiculous that looks. >> all of the people. probably the risk involved with if walking under this woulder. >> underneath it? i don't know. >> maybe that's a draw. >> call it art. >> nice work if you can get it, right? >>> all right. 11 minutes after 5:00 on a monday morning. want to get a check on your full forecast. tom kierein, what do you say? >> good morning. there is capitol hill and there's an orange glow there on the eastern horizon beyond capitol hill. we get into this monday starting off with a pleasant feel in the area. it's rather humid. and that scene is showing a settled tranquil pattern here on this morn morning. right now around the region, we have cleared out after we did get some overnight th

fire investigators say a lightening strike caused this latest blaze near boulder. her home was specially designed for her respiratory problems. she moved in just a week ago. >> every day i'm like i should pack a bag and have it ready because i have medicine and oxygen and stuff i need. >> colorado has had super hot and dry weather this summer, helping the fires spread quickly. >> wind gusts up to 65 miles per hour have increased the danger and difficulty of fighting that fire wild. >> emergency personnel in our area are also on the alert for a chance of wild fires here. it may seem nice outside. the conditions are a concern. a lot of forms of the conditions are concerns. wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. tim williams and bernadette woods have a closer look at this threat. >> good afternoon. it is actually spectacular when you walk outside and enjoy the weather. as far as temperatures go, 83 is where we sit. the air is dry very. you add to that some gusty winds. they feel great but they could spark the fanning of a fire quickly if something were to be

it's a 340-ton boulder positioned to appear as if it's floating in mid-air. about 1,000 people turned out to see it open. >> i'm sort of trying to figure out what the big deal is, big rock. >> it was a rock in the desert here at the l.a. museum of art it's a sculpture. >> it would have been better if we could actually see it. it took the artist 40 years and millions of dollars in private funds to move the boulder from its quarry in riverside county the 105 miles to get to its new home. >> wonder if it was worth it. >> there's a piece of art, i guess. >>> still to come tonight, parents with kids with food allergies try to keep a close eye, but we're not always successful, a look at some of the reasons why. >> reporter: i'm mike hydek at congressional country club in bethesda where this week's at&t national golf tournament will mean a lot to some local high school students who want to get into college. the head of the tournament is joining us next live to tell you how. >>> it's here. the at&t national gets into full swing this week and we're gearing up for all

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he said he had a dry place to sleep in boulder creek.o all we needed to do was find somebody with a car. and we found two people who had a car. it was a woman and her boyfriend. and her boyfriend was a chronic heroin user, and he had a gun on him. he was trying to sell it for heroin or for money. they needed a place to stay as well. as soon as we got there, there were people already in the house by the name of eddie munster and brush. somebody got the idea in their head to borrow the gun from this man [ bleep ] who was in the car who provided us the ride up there. and take the gun and rob a mountain store. he said no and that was that. i was fine with it. and when i walked through the door, i was pushed. somebody was behind the door. i think it was eddie. he had a baseball bat. he started beating him upside the head with the bat. and i was just in shock. i didn't know what to do, so i backed up, and i sat on the bed, and they kept beating this guy and beating this guy. his blood was going everywhere. just bits of skull and brain just goi

. >> reporter: the weather is hampering efforts in boulder, colorado. in all a half dozen major fires are burning throughout the state. this year is being called the worst fire season in colorado history and it's only just begun. >> the fbi is brought in to start investigating the cause of the fire and whether it could be criminal. jinah kim, nbc news. >>> bernie madoff's brother expected to plead guilty in the biggest ponzi scheme in american history. peter madoff will admit to be a co-conspirator in the scheme. he would forfeit money and assets worth $140 billion. bernie madoff is serving 150 years in prison. >>> in just a few hours we will learn in the supreme court thinks that president obama's health care law is constitutional. people are lined up outside the court to hear the ruling tomorrow. the justices have to decide whether the individual mandate that requires every person to have health insurance is legal. if is it not, the question is whether the rest of the law can survive. >> if the mandate goes away that is a revenue stream for insurance

. >> reporter: the weather is also hampering evidences near boulder colorado. in all, a half dozen major fires are burning throughout the state. this year is being called the worst fire season in colorado history and it's only just begun. in colorado springs, jinah kim, nbc news. >>> to washington now where it is decision day for the nation's health care reform law. the supreme court is expected to hand down its historic decision today. with one of three options to uphold the law in its entirety, keep parts of it or strike it down all together. tracie potts joins us outside the supreme court with all those details. tra trac tracy, good morning to you. >> good morning. the court is looking at three big questions. one is the big mandate, in other words can the federal government require everyone to buy insurance and can the law survive without it. the more popular parts of the law, protection for people who do have insurance. also they'll be looking at the medicaid expansion. can the federal government require the states to bring in more poor people into the syst

authorities believe lightning started the flagstaff fire near boulder. thousands of are on standby to evacuate. the largest of the fires is the hyde park wild fire. one woman was killed and more than to under 50 homes have been destroyed >> things have got really bad. i don't remember ever seeing vegetation this dry >> thunderstorms are expected in the colorado springs area today but crews are concerned it could bring unpredictable winds. >> president obama will be in colorado on friday touring the damage from the walled canyon fire >> a trio of small fires came uncomfortably close to homes in contra costa county today. pg&e thinks that a bird on a power line started the first one. those fires started just before noon about 1 mi. apart. one crept within about 700 ft. of homes. fire crews had both of them out within an hour. 82 alarm fire erupted in a moment creek. it burned right up to several backyards but no property damage was reported. this is a frightening reminder of just how quickly a fire can get going. pallet fire crews are on high alert but wit

fire investigators say a lightning strike cost this latest blaze near boulder, her home was specially designed for respiratory problems and she moved in just one week ago. >> every day i think of packing a bag and having it ready because i have medicine and oxygen and things that i need. but i did not. >> they have had hot and dry weather this summer helping the fire spread quickly. >> about 800 firefighters are battling that fire. additional crews and agents from all across colorado are headed to colorado springs. >> breaking news, we are following a fire over what appears to be this grass fire, this is the regional park and you can see some smoke there and definitely some hot spots. we're not sure how much has burned but you can see a small area there, definitely flames going. we are going to get more on this situation and we want to tell you that contra costa county fire and cal fire peer are responding to this. there are reports that both fires could have been ignited by power lines. two fires going right now and fire crews have made several water drops. we will stay on top of thi

the boulder is at the los angeles county museum of art. he first had the idea decades ago.but it took $10 million to make it a reality. not everyone was impressed. >> i am trying to figure out what the big deal is. >> big rock. >> i think it is really interesting from a number of perspectives. >> the rock came from a quarry in i haveside county and the 1,000 mile trip took 11 night and designed to transport the rock. rarely traveled at night and rarely faster than 5 miles an hour. >>> why the dow jones is down more than 100 points right now. also, some fascinating have you had yo from the lake tahoe area. >> and whether the mother bear didn't like what happened to the baby bear. . >>> they asked for help to rescue the ailing banks and left many questions unanswered and how much it needs. this uncertainty unsettled markets on both sides of the atlantic. and the dow down 136 and the nasdaq down 53 and s&p down 20. >> voters in petaluma might be asked to increase taxes. an uncrease in the city sale assist tax and raise extra $5 million and 2% increase in the hotel occupancy ta

the massive boulder that took weeks to move is now in its final resting place. and a new phenomenonnan called outlet outrage tonight at 11:00. >> a new disney princess is on the box office throne. >> i will be on my own hand. >> pixar's animated movie "brave" took over the top spot in the box office, taking in nearly $67 million domestically. mad gas scar jumped to number two, and abraham lincoln, vampire hunter, was lest in the dust, earning only 16 million dr., prometheus is number four. lab lan that's it for us. >> ama: our next newscast is at captioned by closed captioning services inc.

thousands of residents near boulder are on stand by to leave their homes in case that wild fire gets worse. >>> a falls church man who held police at bay for 28 hours is being charged with firing a handgun inside a building. police say he fired it three times and made threats as well. peggy fox explains from the home on hillwood avenue. >> here at the house, this are a few signs of the long police standoff. the barricades lying here on the grass and the contractors who are here replacing the shattered windows. police say the man who caused the 28 hour standoff is 57-year- old, james, to get him to surrender, police played recorded messages from his family members and launched pepper spray into the house. >> essentially, it was tased. he surrendered to the s.w.a.t. team. >> the standoff began monday afternoon with police barricading the busy hillwood avenue. traffic was a mess and residents couldn't get home. >> the response is overblown. especially from what i have seen from the fire units. full resources are definitely, they need support from the other counties. it's over blown for

. >> reporter: the weather is also hampering efforts near boulder, colorado. in all, a half dozen major fires are burning throughout the state. this year is already being called the worst fire season in colorado history, and it's only just begun. in colorado springs, jinah kim, nbc news. >>> well, to washington now where it is decision day for the nation's health care reform law. the supreme court is expected to hand down its historic decision today with one of three options. to uphold the law in its entirety, keep parts of it, or strike it down all together. tracie potts joins us outside the supreme court with all those details. tracie, good morning to you. reporter: good morning. look for answers to these key questions. is the individual mandate constitutional, what about the great expansion of medicaid, account federal government do that, or is it too soon to decide this case. >> if the supreme court decides to strike down the individual mandate, that would be a doningly actity advice decision by the court. >> reporter: the government decides parts of the p

fire investigators say a lightning strike caused this latest blaze near boulder. this person owns one of the two dozen homes that have been evacuated here. her home was especially designed for her respiratory problems and she moved in just a week ago. >> i have medicine and oxygen and stuff i need. >> reporter: colorado has had super hot and dry weather this summer helping the fires spread quickly. rick salinger, cbs news, colorado springs. >>> few people have heard of the montford point marines, but they are a proud part of this nation's history. and today the unit is going to receive the congressional gold medal. they are the first blacks to serve in the united states marine corps. when they reported to camp lejeune for basic training, they were segregated from whites to a spot named montford point. former new york city mayor david denkins served in the marines and he told our this week in defense news host why he enlisted. >> my rationale was that i recognized from going to the movies, the news reals, that people were dying and people i knew were dying. and the

the national park service announced today because of the danger of falling boulders it will close some cabi and camping areas at the park's curry village out in yosemite, the same area where a big rock fall destroyed some cabins and injured several campers back in '08. new york city officials are reporting an outbreak just about 200 yards from our studio here in new york tonight. it's an outbreak of fever. oh, that would be bieber fever. the biebs will perform live on the plaza tomorrow morning on "today" and already tonight it looks like a tiny woodstock. the true believers have been waiting already for days. >>> up next here tonight a woman in a league of her own. ca >>> finally tonight a woman who is making new history on a field that has seen a lot of that already. she is in a league of her own and nbc's kristen dahlgren has her story tonight. >> swings on a fly ball! unbelievable! >> reporter: on this hallowed ground that's seen so many greats -- >> click, click, click. >> reporter: there is another dodger making history. >> five more. >> reporter: sue falsone is in a league of he

. >> why some art -- why some say a massive boulder has no place in the museum today.nd look out the window. the summer season getting to a chilly start. steve's coming back and he will have the forecast for us. >>> good morning. the traffic is a little bit better for us. we'll tell you more -- straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] go from being on the road to being on vacation. hilton honors. the guest loyalty program with over thirty-eight hundred hotels worldwide. >>> this next story rocks. take a look at this. michael heiser's levitated mass, a 340-ton boulder is at the los angeles county museum of art. now he had the idea of this four decades ago but it took about $10 million to make it a reality. not everybody's impressed. >> i'm sorter of trying to figure out what the big deal is. >> yeah, the rock came from a quarry in riverside county. the trip took 11 nights because the special trailer needed to move it, only traveled at night and rarely moved faster than 5 miles an hour. >> see levels are rising. west coast sea levels are expected to rise up to 1 foot in

there were boulders as big as this room. the stream itself was a tiny stream. it turns out that when the last glarier melted, it melted so abrupt abruptly, the change at 11,000 years ago was so abrupt, it tossed big bolders and flooded this value. i think the in evidence our history is in the evidence of how these systems have shifted. we should anticipate the notion of an abrupt change. it happened before and it's t certainly can happen again. >> we have students in the back. >> if greenland was to melt and water levels rose, would that create another ice age? >> repeat the question. >> would that create another ice age if greenland were to melt and the water would freeze? they would be separated by quite a long period because the water is generally conserved. it's either in ice or in liquid water or vapor. my sense is that we are most low concerned about the future that we can imagine. it's the warming and the melting followed by increased water levels. later, ice ages can be driven. historically they were not driven by human behavior. now we have to think ho