we manufacture the boxes right in cedar rapids, iowa. we are building 1000 of these to be deployed at the station right now. we plan on keeping everything here. >> are you showing this to legislators? >> with respect to broadcast television, it is about how you enable it to play on the internet. it is business as much as policy. when anyone asks about what we cannot move broadcast over the internet, we respond to that person by saying yes, you can, and here is how. we have responded by saying that everyone knows. >> given the view of your product, are you using a lot of spectrum when you do this? >> those are two great questions. the consumer electronics association and mab are a soap -- investors in our company. getting their endorsement, they both wound up becoming investors in the company. the spectrum we are using is 0 because we are combating the focus for leftover data that is not filling up at each station. it is very spectrum sufficient to do this. we can move 100% of the households over the web. >> jack parry, founder and ceo of

. >> reporter: nationwide, headlines say, hot, hot, hot, and cedar rapids gazette says, burning rubber. so hot in minneapolis the pavement buckled in places. in kansas city they are being told to preserve water and tempteds in the mid-90s at wrigley field had fans hoping to beat the heat and the phillies. they lost on both accounts. . searing temperatures is taking its toll across the country. >> i'm janet. texas in its third week of triple digit temperatures along with oak la home ma and other southern states made worse in a once in a generation doubt that extends from florida to texas. >> where all of the concrete is baking and temperatures soaring, most of the northeast hit the 90s but a lot of places expect to shatter 100 degrees by friday, making sight seeing pretty sweltering for the folks that come here to have a good time. >> reporter: a good time, too, for the animals at chicago's brooklyn zoo, feeding them special popsicles specially made for the lions, tigers, and bears. oh, my. health officials are urging people to stay hydrated, stay indoors if it's cooler and check on you

she loaded the bus in cedar rapids to begin the tour in the state where she was born. her strong religious views are expected to play well in iowa and we're told one of the nation's first caucuses of the presidential. >>> another member of congress has thrown his hat into the ring for the republican nomination. michigan representative thaddeus mccotter made the announcement today at a music festival sponsored by conservative talk radio station. they say republicans aren't satisfy with the current field of candidates and hopes voters are receptive to his message of small government. >> president obama again today pushed to end tax breaks for the wealthiest americans in in his weekly radio address. >> if we choose too keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires or for hedge fund managers and couldn't jet owners or for oil and gas companies pulling in huge profits without our help, then we'll have to make even deeper cuts somewhere else. >> republicans insist they won't approve any plan that raises taxes, but the president said today, "nothing should be off-li

one nba program south of cedar rapids asking applicants to send tweets on the social network twitter instead. >> you are in an elevator with a ceo, you would want to say something really creative very quickly and that's what a tweet allows our candidates to do. the winner could also get a $37,000 scholarship. and that's a fox watch across america. a severe hailstorm taking aim on colorado's capital city and grounding dozens of flights at denver international airport. the falling ice chunks damaging at least 40 planes and stranding nearly 1,000 passengers overnight including wisconsin governor scott walker. he tweeted about the delay, quote: i have been in the same suit for the past 28 hours. but we are about to depart for salt lake city so i'm happy. the staff here was wonderful. end tweet. betty ford has come home to michigan. at the former first lady's funeral, tears and. [ laughter laughter as family members share some of their favorite memories of her. what was once a pile of rubble in lower manhattan has become a source of inspiration across this nation and around the world. fox

newly declared candidate michelle bachman visiting a cedar rapids farmers market where she spoke and shook hands. this is the first trip the minnesota congresswoman has made to that state, which kicks off the presidential campaign season. bachman will take her bus tour to several other cities over the next few days. >>> well, we've got a spare-the-air day today because it's really going to be hot. >> yeah. we will see numbers over 100 degrees around concord and livermore and antioch and brentwood. emeryville looking nice. bagged in sunshine. many areas already in the mid-and upper 60s. 49 half moon bay. i will tell you where you can escape the heat and a looka head to the first week of july coming up. >> and big changes coming to the oakland zoo to make it more of a wild animal park. i'm a dancer. and until now, my feet showed it. [ female announcer ] gold bond ultimate healing foot cream. 7 penetrating moisturizers and vitami, 'cause foot skin's 20 times thicker. this stuff really works. >> carolyn: welcome back. 6:16 on this sunday morning, july 3rd. this is a live look from our ro

michelle bachman visited a cedar rapids farmer's market where she shook hands.his is the first trip she made to the state, which kicks off the presidential campaign season. bachman will take her bus tour to several other cities over the next few days. >>> lisa is here now with a look what we can expect in the spare the air alert for today. >> that's right, poor air quality, and santa clara, in the eastern part of the bay area where temperatures could hit over 100 degrees today. as much as five to seven degrees warmer today than yesterday, even at the coast. prepare for that. the holiday, well, we have the forecast for that and a little fog to talk about. >> also coming up, big changes are coming to the oakland zoo to make it more of a wild animal park. ú$ú$ú$ú$ú$pxpxpxpxpñ >> carolyn: welcome back. ." it's 5:16. welcome to your holiday weekend and thank you for joining us. this is a live picture from our roof cam showing you the bay bridge there. lovely weather on tap for this weekend. enjoy it. lisa will be along shortly with the full accuweather forecast. the

cedar rapids, the levees broke because they weren't maintained. $1.2 billion worth of damage. new orleans, $17 billion worth of damage because the army corps didn't get the money to fix those levees in time. for katrina. so we are playing with fire. and each year we wait, the cost goes up. the american society of civil engineers in '04 said it will cost us $1.6 trillion to put what we have in decent shape. five years later, they issued a report in 2009 saying $2.2 trillion to keep what we have to put it in decent shape. and they rated the american infrastructure as a d. we used to have the best infrastructure in the world. we built the trans-atlantic railroads. an incredible highway system. now we rank 15th in the world in the level of effectiveness of our infrastructure. >> in a certain way, we have already experienced a downgrade. the kind of downgrade that we are now facing financially, we have seen that happening in our infrastructure. listen, if infrastructure is something that costs all of us, and that all of us pay into, and that benefits all of us, shouldn't this be a

it's 10:00 in the morning here. 90 in fargo, north dakota. 93 in cedar rapids. 97 in chicago.advisories that we've been talking about in the nation's midsection, but now we're going to see changes. all this heat starts to the shift eastward. we'll watch for relief in the upper midwest by tomorrow. the northeastern corridor feels the brunt for the latter part of the week. 141 million people under advisories, a million square miles across the country. that's so many people impacts by the heat. all anybody's talking about. >> drink a lot of water and stay cool as you can. i'm trying, i'm trying. thanks so much. i know you're not counting calories but a whole lot of people are. don't count those numbers on the restaurants' websites apparently. you may be getting more than you bargained for. more calories that is. [ male announcer ] millions of men 45 and older just don't feel like they used to. are you one of them? remember when you had more energy for 18 holes with your buddies. more passion for the one ya love. more fun with your family and friends. it could be a treatable condi

victoria writes in cedar rapids, iowa, yes, she's definite will you out there.ast majority of people i know here in iowa, my mother-in-law notwithstanding, are for gay rights and support gay marriage. we're not as backwoods as some politicians might think. as far as those who are conservative enough to agree with michele bachmann, i doubt there are enough of them here to care the vote. sean writes i saw that episode of "the twilight zone" and it ends with michele bachmann getting pushed aside by her own party because she lacks a brain. ned california writes michele bachmann is in the brain dead zone. she's popular because she spreads and keeps hate alive. and what a hypocrite. her family accepts farm subsidies, and she and her dear hub both take socialized monetary help from our pockets just to keep his psychotherapy business afloat. she is no good. dan, says, if the twilight zone is a hate-filled place of appalling ignorance then, yes, she and her husband have the nicest house there. how can someone who thinks they are qualified to lead our nation and purports

minneapolis it feels like 88 degrees to wake you up this morning. 76 in cedar rapids.k at chicago being feels like nearly 80 trees. so this heat still fwripg the nation's mid-section with advisories here. great weather up in new york and along the east coast but the excess jeff heat watches have been posted tomorrow it heads into the northeast and mid-atlantic and will stick around into the weekend. back to you. >>> so this motor cross rider hitting the eject button. he went air borne. during a race in minnesota. totally separating from his bike and falling over 30 feet to the ground. apparently he was okay. they are daredevils. they seem to cho how to land. >> he got back on his bike and finished the race. he went from 35th to 14th after that. i don't under that. >> still to come this morning, prime minister david cameron moments away from testifying in the uk phone hacking scandal. he'll have to explain this alleged cozy relationship between members of the government including himself and rupert murdoch's media empire. >> plus the space shuttle "atlantis" on its way