. >> kaepernick like you have never seen him before, a revealing photo shoot that >> covering dallas city, dublin, los gatos and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> take a look at what popped up in florida. a huge waterspout came ashore in a tampa area neighborhood and turned into a tornado. amazingly no injuries were reported but it caused a mess including some damage. officials say it blew shingles off the radio of a home and knock over a few trees. >> want your kids to do better in school? keep a close are eye on the clock when it comes to bedtime. british researchers studying 11,000 children under the age of seven found kid would went to bed after 9:00 or when they wanted scored lower on reading and math tests. they think the lack of sleep may compare how well the brain absorbs information. the study is published in the the journal of community health. >> that is a problem with adults, too. >> that is my excuse. good morning, ladies and now what is going on in the forecast. a lot to talk about. we have dry live doppler 7 hd. the clouds have fadeed except for the coast. it is hazy outs

and if dallas is a market center, dallas is a can-do city. dallas is a business-first city. and this reflects bac on the cowboys. the cowboys got dallas through integration and segregation. they're the model in dallas, texas of integration and races working together cooperatively. >> yeah. >> and there is -- they -- this franchise got dallas over the kennedy assassination. when they got good they got the rest of the country over the kennedy assassination. they sold dallas to the world. the theory of dallas created by david jacobs. he had never been to dallas. all he knew were two things, the dallas cowboys and the dallas cowboy cheerleaders. from that -- >> biggest franchise. >> in a globally popular, it all goes back to the cowboys. i'm here to give them respect. >> well ---3 c1 >> and grudging admiration from a guy from fort worth. then again, all the great sports writers that covered the cowboys, all the greats that began with came from fort worth too. >> i appreciate the hand for my idols. we have three minutes left. i have to move you to music. you wrote books about stev

ultimately after the dallas city council led by the mayor frows demolition permits dallas county led by public works director and arranged to purchase the depository as part of a 1977 bond package. after several years of renovations the building was renamed the dallas county administration building housing the commissioners court, public works, and the civil division of the dallas district where his office. upon its reopening in 1981 it received a texas historical marker publicly an analogy for the first time in its place in history. the question remained what do we do with the sixth floor? that is where our story begins. you were chair of the dallas county historical commission and the county bought the building. take us back to your first visit to that empty floor. your first reaction when you found out that there might be an exhibition on the sixth floor this building. >> and going even further back than that. >> it's your program. >> 1975 appointed to be the historical commission chairman. that would be nice and fun. so it's down here a lot. and i would not look at this building.

i was just meeting with somebody today over the dallas city council's recent redistricting plan.ts my hope that the department of justice doesn't simply support our effort to get continuing coverage in texas statewide, but also that they come in and help us address these discrimination issues that are popping up on the local level. >> woodruff: is what the justice department doing healthy? you said a minute ago it's better for them to do under this provision than the one the court knocked down. but is this-- is this healthy for american democracy? is it-- is it healthy for the federal government to be involved in poverbal voter discrimination? >> of course. look, if there's actual discrimination going on, the justice department should be there to try to stop it and remedy it. the problem is this law has been atbiewdz in many instances in the past. parts of the voting rights act, a good example is the fact that that they objected to south carolina's voter i.d. law and it was really a frivolous objection. south carolina had to spend $3.5 million in court to fight them, and they wer

into the 90d. 10 degrees above average in sections of the planes like kansas city 96 degrees for high temperature 96 dallas and also in the city of denver. when you factor in the humidity it feels even hotter. keep that in mind adds you head outdoors parts of kansas have a heat advisory. we are talking heat index values 85 this will strengthen over the next couple days heading toward the caribbean. we have a number of tropical storm watches and warnings in the caribbean and the storm system could be in haiti because of the mountainous range it could be the weekend several days to go out here. time to go a lot can change. >> a week away. >> keep us posted through out the week. >> 12 minutes after the top of the hour. still to come you could call it the honor system. why the government says thwhy t government can figure out who is eligible for obama care in 20015. >> we are learning it was the pilot's first time flying into the airport on that boeing 777. how did that play a factor in that crash? a former pilot and aviation expert weighing in next. [ female announcer ] nature valley protein bars, with simple

will be hot widespread kansas city, dallas 96 over the city of denver even as far north as minneapolis temperatures into the 90s. showers and storms expected yet again today especially across sections of the eastern u.s. take a look at the area highlighted in yellow. this is where we could be seeing isolated tornadoes damaging winds in big cities like chicago, kansas city and the city of minneapolis. >> great information this morning. thanks maria. >> thank you. now it is time to entertain this. he was once dubbed baseball's hottest housewife. police arrested the wife of chris vincent after she burst into his apartment and threat continued him with a gun and metal bet ton. anna was wearing a bulletproof vest at the time and demanded money. chris told her he would get the cash but he left and called the cops. mariah carey landing in the hospital after falling during the latest music video. she fell while dancing in high heels. she dislocated her shoulder and had to get the shoulder reset. she is recovering at home. we hope she will be okay. >> they are moms to hollywood's most famous st

what does it say to a city like dallas? x your taxpayers in order to help the people of detroit. >> we have to leave it there. there are at least 5 other american cities that may be on the brink of the same thing as detroit. we have to think about the bailouts, and cashing cashing in tomorrow morning will hit the topic. meantime, businesses are balking over a trend called backdoor unionization. >> they're known for helping fast food works and cab drivers and so forth. they'ring the labor secretary if they controlsed the line. they wrote... in the last decade the difference between worker centers and labor organizations has blurred. today maybe of the worker centers are dealing with employers directory on behalf of employees, since the centers are not a regulated but unions are, congress mane phil rowe is asking if they may be acting like unions. >> to behave like something else and not have the same reporting, requirements and transparency a labor union is, and that's all we are asking the secretary to do is clarify that. >>

triple dig gets in texas and dallas and new york city. 83 chicago looking at a high of 73.y pleasant out there. >> thanks maria. >> thank you. >> through out the week we have been highlighting people like you who work hard a lot of the country is sound asleep. >> one of the key parts of getting up early in the morning is making sure you get a good pr breakfast. >> i was able to visit a new york city bagel shop where hundreds of new yorkers start their mornings every day. americans consume 175 million bagels. that happened last year at least. >> you jump into a bagel shop grab breakfast and you are on your way. little do you know... what goes on before you arrive. >> 2:00 a.m. here in new york city. we are standing in front of the bagel shop. they arrived at 11:00 p.m. yesterday. i am going to be their helper today. let's go inside. very scary. i need the proper work attire. make some bagels. >> they sell three racks of these every single day. look how good that is. those racks hold hundreds of bagels and baking all of them is no piece of cake. to get the perfect crust the b

dallas. it was 20 degrees hotter in new york city than it was in dallas, texas in the middle of july. i don't know if i've ever seen that happen. it was cloudy an rainy in texas all day yesterday. this morning it feels like 88 in washington, d.c. that's the problem with the cities and heat wave. they don't cool off at night. anyone without air conditioning that's who we worry about especially the elderly. for today, as advertised, just as hot if not hotter many areas in the big cities mid-90s. heat index 100 to 105. we're starting to heat up detroit and chicago and all through the ohio valley. everyone is joining in on this heat wave. as far as when will it end, the great lakes say it will end thursday night and friday with thunderstorms. those thunderstorms arrive in new england on saturday and that's the end of the heat wave. this long duration heat wave. it's not exceptionally hot. only mid-90s but day after day that's unusual and rain from texas is moving through northwest texas and head to new mexico during the day today. brian, as advertised it's very hot, middle of july, nothin

dallas. friends in oklahoma city had their first 100-degree today. >> good news about chantal. >> the big storms are coming. it's early. we didn't need to deal with this one. >> thanks so much, bill. >>> major updates in the george zimmerman murder trial. what are the top five states to do business in? we'll tell you. >>> and a bizarre scene in florida. six buses side by side all up in flames. details in two minutes. >>> welcome back. stories in the news this morning, canadian authorities have officially opened a criminal investigation into the explosive train derailment in queb quebec. while investigators have ruled out terrorism, they say criminal negligence is a real possibility. >>> curse words filled the courtroom on tuesday during the whitey bulger racketeering trial. one of his former associates called him a rat from the stand causing the two to start yelling and cursing at each other until the judge calmed them down. >>> it was a tearful day in prescott, arizona, as thousands attended a memorial service for the 19 firefighters who died in the line of duty last week. the victim's families

possible thunderstorms in oklahoma city as well as dallas. >>> if you're flying, airport delays are possibleas city and denver. >>> back to the news and a tragic end to a boat ride on the hudson river for members of a wedding party just two weeks before the big day. >> this morning the bride and her fiance's best man are believed to be dead and another is charged in their deaths. aditi roy have the story. >> reporter: rescue crews pulled out the body of a man they believe to be mark lennon. >> there was a jet skier who was out and thought what he saw was a body. he telephoned a 911 call into our communications center. >> reporter: the victim was supposed to be the best man at a wedding in two weeks and one of six passengers on a moonlit boat cruise involving members of that wedding party. authorities discovered the body of a woman they believe was the bride-to-be. 30-year-old lindsey stewart. >> nothing will heal this. >> reporter: investigators say the man piloting the 21-foot stingray on friday night, 35-year-old jojo john was drunk when he slammed into a barge near a major bridge. he's be

it said biography of the city of dallas and it shows how in many ways what was going on in dallas at he time made the assassination inevitable the city. you had the head of the nazi party living in dallas and the head of the kkk in dallas. you had -- trying to run for president. you also had a very conservative right-wing faction there. the hero of the book is stanley marcus of neiman marcus fame whose clientele was a lot of the women and men. he had to quietly support the democratic party because he was a client but as things got more and more out of hand in dallas he had to step up. the book really takes you up until the day. >> this is coming out november 2013? >> is coming out at the end of october 2 lead into the 50th anniversary of the assassination. >> endure the author's? speak to major texas guys. they both worked, they are both at universities now by bill in particular has worked in almost every university across texas and writing the first biography george w. bush back in 1998 after he was governor of texas. everybody in texas, they interviewed anyone who was still alive at

and as the afternoon wore on, flights were canceled to cities including paris, dallas, chicago, miami, and orange county. but check-in and security lines were mostly operated normally at both terminals two and three with united and american have operations. miller is trying to get home to dallas and so far her flight has had two separate delays, but she'll take that as good news. >> i think the fact that it is two hours, an hour, a little over two hours again. almost five hours. >> reporter: are you optimistic? >> i'm nothing right now. [ laughter ] >> reporter: other delayed passengers say they are doing the best that they can under the circumstances. >> we got here around 7ish. they told us that our flights were changing and we need to go to oakland, which we just came from. we woke up early to be here on time. >> repo: e sfo manager says there is no way to predict when the cancellations will delay as long as one runway remains closed. reporting live, kpix 5. >> now, in case you weren't here at the time, there was a similar crash at sfo on november 22, 1968. this japan airline dc8 l

city. our friends in dallas, 102 for them. >> all right, the throes of summer. >>> coming up at the top ofhe hour -- eliot spitzer's return to politics. the new polls reveal how they feel about the disgraced governor running for comptroller in new york city. >>> also, we want to know about your craziest animal encounters. tweet us with the hashtag way too wild. we'll put your best stories on the air attend of the show. [ female announcer ] made just a little sweeter... because all these whole grains aren't healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet. get in the way of what i want to wear! tampax radiant helps stop more leaks before they start and comes with a one-of-a-kind resealable wrapper for more discreet disposal. mix and match your protection with the whole radiant collection. >>> welcome back. at the top of the show, we discussed that the senate didn't pass a rate cut on student loans. you can tell your friends that the congressional budget office projects that the government could profit $184 b

of 100 cities at least from new york to los angeles, san francisco, detroit, dallas, you name the city march or a rally or a vigil. most of those are going to take place, michaela at u.s. courthouses or police stations. the reason that is is, because the organizers, the emphasis of this protests are to see if they can pressure the justice department to look into whether george zimmerman actually violated trayvon martin ace civil rights. they really want to pressure them to get a real investigation going action that's the impetus behind those rallies this weekend i want any update on the status of that ongoing investigation? >> reporter: well, what we know is at least yesterday, the justice department did ask the sanford police department to hang on to all the evidence from the trial, every bit of evidence. that's standard procedure if justice is looking into something, investigating it, they're going to want the police department where the trial was held, the jurisdiction was held, to hang on to the evidence while the federal investigation is moving forward. >> you can count on cnn fol

the three cities, dallas, l.a., new york could be affected. showtime which cbs also owns. and according to our recent study by the career website class store media and technology companies are some of the worst companies to work for. that list of the worst companies in america is tonight's top five. number five, radio shack. probably hard to work for a company that has been struggling as much as radio shack has and even as a word radio and its name much less shack. workers complain of low play and ms. -- low pay and misplaced priorities. number four, dollar general. competition from big box retailers like walmart. sales associates complain about limited hours which might be because of obamacare. number three, dillard's. in addition to griping about hours and pay the ceo is the second, at 23 percent approval rating. number two, express scripts, one of the country's biggest managers a prescription drug services. workers complain of being overworked in light of recent layoffs. the number one worst company to work for is dish network. for the seco

to tear down but business executives called at dallas on word pledge of rwanda to thousand dollars to purchase the building and demolish it. after the city council closed the demolition permits dallas county public works director arranged by purchase as part of the 1977 bond package. after several years of renovation it was renamed it dallas county administration building housing the commissioners court and the civil division of the dallas district attorney's office with reopening 1981 it received a historical marker public the acknowledging for the first time its place in history. the question remains what do we do? and that is where the story begins today. your chair when the county bought the building. and your thought there was an exhibition? >> i will go further back than that. >> okay. it is your program. [laughter] has the historical commission chairman so i was down here a lot. so i gave the bus tours to the doctors and i remember going down elm street to turn the corner i remember the core house in to that is all they wanted to see in dallas. because i wanted to put it out of my mind. but to be here to see the visitation with al

showers in parts of the dakotas, oklahoma city, dallas.reat in flagstaff and santa fe. >> and it feels like late september for parts of the upper midwest. omaha is only 70 degrees. pleasant along the west coast with 70s from l.a., seattle. boise cools down to the low 90s. >>> there is a mysterious stomach bug spreading across the country now sickened 300 people in 15 states. health officials know it has been caused by a tropical cyclospora parasite. but the source of the outbreak is still unknown. linked to produce. causes diarrhea and flu-like symptoms. >>> fast food workers in seven states are walking off the job today in protest of wages they say are too low to live on. the one-day strike taking place at mcdonald's, burger king, wendy's and popular chains in new york an parts of the midwest. aimed at mobilizing workers and drawing attention to what they claim are poverty wages and unfair labor practices. >>> villages in china have a good reason to declare that there is a fungus among us. not just any fungus. we're talking about. >> get

steamy in dallas. 95 salt lake city. showers in that area.state wide mixed weather picture, mainly sunny and dry up north. warm with highs into 90s. lots of high clouds south and eastward. here in the bay area calm conditions tomorrow. breezy and cool at the coast. highs there into upper 50s to 606789 60s to 70s around the bay. mid to upper 80s inland east bay. and no dramatic changes here or there. >> if you're an skpechlant parent there is a reason why you should kick the habit. >> plus a bay area father reveals criticism when fellow parents during his four-month >>> san francisco giants pitcher has been charged with open and gross lewdness after police say he groped a woman in a hospital six months ago. police arrested him in las vegas back in january. they say' approached a woman on a hospital gurney, told her she was gorgeous ask touched her face and breast. an employee told him to leave the woman alone but the employee said he refused. stick had to wrestle him to the ground. prosecutors charged them month. he's married with one son. the

two american cities, denver and dallas, are posting all time highs. abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis has all the details. >> reporter: enrique jauregui, like so many other americans, has been watching the housing market heat up and he wants in. >> i'm sure there is going to be deals that can be had. it's tough to find them. >> reporter: nowhere is that more true than the south and the southwest. the cities hardest hit by the housing collapse today showing the biggest rebound in prices. in places like miami where jauregui lives, prices up 14%. phoenix and las vegas up more than 20%. san francisco up a whopping 24.5% since last year. >> i do think housing is going to kick into a higher gear. we're going to build more homes and see a stronger house price growth. >> reporter: a challenge for first-time home buyers. >> it's difficult for people of my generation to purchase a home because they are competing against people that are offering with all cash offers. >> reporter: it used to be first-time buyers made up half of home sales. this ye

the church is a ghost town, and you can almost popate the city of dallas with those 1 million peoplet detroit. detroit has a very strict gun control law, but its citizens need guns desperately because the average wait time for our response to a police call in the city of detroit is now almost an hour. fifty-eight minutes comparedo the national average of 11 minutes, and as you would suspect, given those response times violent crime and the tour is out of control. more than five times the national average. the murder rate is 11 times higher than new york city. imagine that. financially a little problem. about 10,000 active workers for the city of detroit. about 10,000. that i just about half of the 18,000 workers are now retired after receiving a pension which brings us to the heart of detroit's problem. unfunded pension liabilities in detroit are estimated to be three and a half billion dollars. don't just hold your nose over detroit's mess. according to up new research study released earlier this year , public pension plans across the country are underfunded by zero whopping one a h

texas, you're used to it. 99 will be the high in san antonio and also the city of dallas. >> and 103n phoenix. >> yeah. that's the dry heat, though. remember? it's good for the hair. >> thanks, maria. >> thank you. >>> the time now is 12 minutes after the top of the hour. >>> coming up, a woman's car plunges 40 feet into the chesapeake bay with her still inside. >> i saw the sky, the land, the water, and that's when i closed my eyes and hit the water really hard. i started to feel like i was drowning. >> how she saved her own life as water filled the car. >>> and are you about to leave the house without eating breakfast? a major health warning this morning that will have you rethinking that decision. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. to experience the precision handling of the lexus performance vehicles, including the gs and all-new is. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. ♪ i gotta go

hey temperatures across the plains another hot one 100 in dallas 91 in kansas city.ere storms possible in parts of new england into sections of the plains. >> ainsley and heather. >> a major shake up coming from baseball. are a rod and other players about to be benched? >> drivers beware. the most stolen car in america has just been named. are you naming it? >> test. >> thank you for beginning your day on "knocfox & friends first. >> a major league shake-up to tell you about. the mlb will suspend all star players alex rodriguez and ryan brawn along with 20 others with their connection to an anti-aging clinic in florida. >> good morning to you. we are speaking to you outside of the yankee team store. this has been a dispinting year for yankee's fans and it could be even more frustrating. a rod has not been played at all. he has been rehabbing in the minors after off season hip surgery. he has struggled mightily. a rod will meet with major league baseball officials on friday and a suspension could come. he could be suspended for as many as 100 games. his career numbers

a peak of 1.8 million people from 700,000 detroit is a ghost town you the most populate this city of dallason the 1.1 million ople who left. they have a very strict gun control law but this is is is steve gunn is desperately because the average wait time is almost one hour-long 58 minutes compared to the national average of 11 and it's a given those response times you can't imagine the vvolent crime is out of control, more than five timeshe national average. the murder rate is 11 times higher than new york city. imagine that. financially, about 10,000 active workers in the city of detroit. that is half of the 80,000 that are now real'' -- retired and receiving a pension that brings us to the heart of the problem unfunded liabilities are estimated to be 3.$5 billion but don't just hold your nose. according to reseah study released earlier this year public pension plans across the couny are underfunded a underfunded by 1. $4 trillion. why is to try not likely to bailed out? because once that starts, there will be the unendi line of mars with there hands out. chicagos credit rating was downgra

temperatures in the plain states, still on the hot side. 98 degrees in the city of dallas. and storms expected all along the eastern half of the country. the heavier stuff right now moving through parts of indiana, illinois and western parts of tennessee and kentucky and anywhere from the u.p. of michigan down to sections of missouri and kansas where we could see severe weather and damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour. isolated tornadoes and hail possible out here. keep an eye out for that. showers and storms along the eastern half of the country will continue not just today but even into your tuesday. you need the umbrella for a couple days here. anywhere from the northeast down to the gulf coast and those areas shaded in yellow, orange and even some spots of red are locally heavier amounts. locally up to four inches of rain. otherwise we saw temperatures not so hot over the weekend, much cooler but not too bad. looking much more pleasant across the northeast. >> thanks. >>> and the time right now, 47 after the hour. still to come, more on our fox news alert,

all i can do is apologize to the owner, the driver, the city of dallas.'t did what i did, i would have sight, so that's part of the penalty that i'm paying for doing what i did. >> i don't think he was planning on stealing the 18 wheeler that day. i think it was just opportunity knocking at the door, and he answered. >>> coming up, can police stop this stolen school bus before it runs straight into rush hour traffic? when caught on camera -- they fought the law, continues. ♪ [ male announcer ] some things are designed to draw crowds. ♪ ♪ others are designed to leave them behind. ♪ the all-new 2014 lexus is. it's your move. i get out a lot... except when it's too cold. like the last three weekends. asthma doesn't affect my job... you missed the meeting again last week! it doesn't affect my family. your coughing woke me up again. i wish you'd take me to the park. i don't use my rescue inhaler a lot... depends on what you mean by a lot. coping with asthma isn't controlling it. test your level of control at asthma.com, then talk to your doctor. there may be m

. >> triple digit highs in phoenix, sacramento, boise. 80s, twin cities to dallas.rk to new orleans. 70s for chicago and detroit. >> if you were with us at this time yesterday morning you saw the measures they were taking at the las vegas zoo to keep the animals cool in this extreme heat wave. >> wild animals are doing whatever they can to stay as cool as they can. take this for example, a bear in northern california. it was oh, so hot over the weekend it sought relief -- ha-ha-ha -- in what was supposed to be used as a cow's drink. >> cow's trough right there. >> yeah. >> check him out. i don't know if the cows want to drink out of it now. thanks, buddy. >> i don't think so either. >> looked like he enjoyed it. climbed back out. gave himself a shake. walked off into the woods. >> if i was a cow you, can have that, mr. bear. >> yeah, a smart bear. >> coming up -- it is swimsuit season. ladies, we all know that finding one that is flattering can be a challenge. we have some tips for you. >> but first, a strange exercise in summer camp. the children who were forced to

he apparently lived in the united states city of dallas, he's thought to have lived in.2005 he was running nuevo laredo and basically trafficking millions of dollars of drugs into the united states. and apparently according to u.s. prosecutors he was also organizing hit squads to carry out attacks within the united states. so he was finally indicted in 2009 and had a $5 million reward on his head. >> and this is a guy it wasn't fussy who he killed, he killed innocent civilians, opponents to climb and get more territory. now, the question is, what is the order of succession? this is a group that has ex-military people in it. one would imagine there is an order of succession, if you have a vacuum in this drug war in mexico, that generally leads to bad things. is there a fear that this could lead to more violence as people compete, a, for the leadership of the group, and, b, for the territory it controls? >> reporter: there's absolutely a fear of that, michael, yes. you have to look at the presidency of felipe who launched an extremely bloody drug war beginning in 2006. alt

city. that is a hot day in south dakota. 103 in dallas. 88 in kansas city. day in america? >> yeah. >> brian: i think 7-11 has the answer. am i correct? >> it's their 86th birthday. they're going to be handing out -- >> brian: they're handing out slurpees. one by one, we'll be serving them right here! take their order over there. >> he's from san antonio. >> brian: sir, this is free slurpee day. >> thank you. >> brian: what color can i get you? >> any color you want. >> brian: have you ever met maria molina? >> i sure have. >> you know what, brian? i didn't know that there was a dr. pepper flavor. >> brian: there is a dr. pepper flavor. here you go, sir where. are you from? >> san antonio, texas. >> it's going to be a hot day there? >> brian: what are i get you? >> strawberry lemonade. >> brian: it's true you can show up at a 7-11 and you get a free one. give me that starbucks. we can't have that here. what can i get you? >> strawberry lemonade. >> brian: i'd rather make a coke one. >> you're going to have coke. >> brian: have your picture taken with maria m

border patrol checkpoint on the highway is the last barrier for migrants en route to the cities of houston, dallas, and beyond. human smugglers have found a way to evade it. >> 10 kilometers before reach this checkpoint, they get off the highway and leave the mike -- and lead the migrants on a march through the brush. a move fast for many kilometers at a time. anyone who cannot keep up or gets sick and injured gets left behind. many of those people never leave these woods alive. >> these photos are of corpses found on the sprawling ranches. they died from heat exhaustion and thirst. >> you can find them sometimes so deteriorated that it is almost like a horror movie. you are missing skin, limbs, eyeballs. that is a sad situation. >> local rancher mike vickers lives near the checkpoint andand every day. among them, he believes, are gang members and criminals. >> that gun has plenty of bullets in it. >> he and his wife keep funds and several large dogs on hand for self protection. >> as time goes on, i feel less secure. i am going tor if be assaulted, it is when. >> the u.s. has tightened border sec

there were rallies saturday in 100 cities. 100 cities including atlanta, dallas and miami where trayvon martin's father spoke. >> overwhelming. it just goes to show the love and support that our families and friends have for us here in miami and across the country. it sends a message to the nation that we are not going to sit back and let our children be killed and don't say anything about it. >> another deadly weekend on the streets of chicago, police investigating now several shootings since friday that left at least six people dead and more that you know a dozen wounded. more than 200 people killed in the city of chicago this year already. >>> coming up on "early start," so many unanswered questions. a woman plunges to her death at a texas amusement park. >>> the world awaits. duchess kate is in early labor with the next prince or princess. we are live. >> what do you think? girl or boy? >> a girl. i think farmers care more about the land than probably anyone else. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make o

we have prices up across the board, some cities with strong numbers, and two cities, dallas and denverense the financial crisis, but actually gone all the way back to the year 2000 or before including some numbers before the crisis. >> numbers up, but slightly below expectations so does that bother you at all? >> no, i don't think is does, you know, there's nature and uncertain game so missing it slightly makes a difference. we wouldn't share if they were ahead of expectations. >> very true. new york, though, a big lagger, slowest year over year game, and is that because new york was late to the party to begin with? >> it may have been a little of that. i think not just late to the party, but, you know, still has issues. new york is heavily dependent on financial services, and that has been not the strongest industry in the last couple years, and so it's dampening things down. plus, the index is single family homes, not including condos and co-ops and the $10 million sales you read about in the sunday paper every week. >> that's a really interesting point to make. you know, since the s

>> well, san antonio like other texas cities, austin, dallas, houston, has been growing tremendously.t for san antonio, part of the story is also that its economy is very well diversified and the local economy is anchored in sectors that have been growing compared to other sectors even during this recession, like health care and education. we have a very young city. we have a city that has more than 110,000 students enrolled in college and graduate school. and like the military, we have fort sam houston that has grown tremendously and a couple other military bases. so san antonio in the private sector and in the public sector has been doing well all things considered and it's also been well managed and that's why we've been able to achieve that kind of bond rating. >> indeed. you guys also have the benefit of being a wonderful tourist destination with that charming city and the riverwalk. >> that's true. >> beautiful. >> we had a river walk and the alamo. sure. >> steven rattner who oversaw the government bailout of the auto industry, he's got a new column in the "new york times" in w

take a look at kansas city and dallas. triple digit heat expected today. 86 in new york city.howers and storms in thet,t across parts of the midwest, the great lakes, and also parts of the central plains, you could be looking at severe weather as that area shaded in yellow, damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes will be a concern, especially as we head into the afternoon and during the evening hours. i want to take you to the tropics because we're tracking tropical storm chantal. this system seems pretty far away now. it's just across the atlantic heading into the caribbean. but take a look at saturday into sunday. the storm just offshore of the southeast coast. we could be looking at potential impacts coming up next week in the southeastern u.s. we'll keep you updated. stay alert if you're in the area. head back inside. >> gretchen: all right. thank you very much. justin bieber stirring up controversy lately from his scuffles with the paparrazzi. fans say he shows up late and the criticism is sharp. >> steve: the teen's superstar was forced to defend himself after

we're talking a high temperature at 102 degrees in the city of dallas, 92 in kansas city, 91 in rapidmmer across parts of the plains. here's a look at advisories across sections of the mid-atlantic including sections like virginia, maryland. throughout the weekend you're going to see heavy rain out here. expect the heavy rain to continue. you'll need upl pwrepl -- umbrellas. farther west, severe weather in sections of minnesota, could be seeing damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes. especially throughout the afternoon and evening hours. let's head back inside. >>gretchen: coming up next on the rundown. mayor bloomberg, it turns out everything you've been telling us about the danger of too much salt could be wrong. there is a new report that debunks all that. >>steve: anna kooiman is beating the heat by hanging out in the freezing cold. right, anna? >> good morning to you, steve. good morning to everybody at home. we're feeding a few of the 250 penguins here at sea world's newest attraction. ain't -- in antarctica. more coming up. here to take your lettuce from drab to fab

a new survey finds home prices last month in 20 big cities jumped more than 12%. in dallas and denver, prices reached all-time highs. the reason? the law of supply and demand. more buyers than sellers. scientists who work for the hugral government have mexiovered a huge dead zone in the gulf of mexico where fish cannot survive. it is about the size of connecticut covering nearly 6,000 miles. hat hat has caused this? here's chip reid. >> reporter: on the pristine beaches of mississippi, thousands of dead fish, sting rays, crabs and shrimp have washed ashore this month. aey died from a lack of oxygen in the coastal waters of the gulf of mexico. it's called the dead zone. it veryppears every summer. yis year's dead zone though is larger than average and more than twice the size of last year's. ye marine biologist nancy rabalais has measured the dead zone since 1985. >> the alarming news is that it >> t continues to be large year after year after year. r: teporter: the primary cause i the dead zone is nitrogen- based fertilizers in midwest fields that are washed down the rssiss

a police officer in the city east of dallas stopped him for speeding on saturday.e zimmerman told the officer he had a gun in his glove box. but the officer didn't recognize him at first and asked him where he was headed. george zimmerman responded nowhere in particular. >> nowhere in particular? why do you say is that? >> [inaudible] >> nu-huh. >> what a coincidence. >> shepard: what a coincidence. the officer let him off with warning. the jury acquitted george zimmerman of murdering trayvon martin earlier this month. o.j. simpson not a murderer but he won parole and not his freedom. a nevada board granted him parole on some of the most serious charges of the kidnapping and robbery case. the former football star and hertz pitch man will not likely be leaving the correctional center. o.j. faces four more years on other charges. including two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. jury convicted him in 2008 armed robbery sports two sports memorabilia dealers. o.j. claimed he was trying to get his stuff back. of course, that all came more than a decade after a jury

louis 91. 97, boy hot and humid in dallas tomorrow. 103 in salt lake city. and in southern california right up to about santa barbara there is that threat of the isolated showers as this monsoonal flow continues to move toward the north. fresno 98 and yosemite 95 degrees. highs for the bay area60s near the coast and low 90s inland and the next few days, the best chance of seeing meab a shower or two from some of the monsoonal moisture is tuesday morning. and then after that get ready for sunshine on thursday and friday and then back up to the 90s. mike nicco will be here on the abc morning news with an update. >> thank you, leigh. >>> shu is off and quan is in. a major surprise you said jie. british open -- not as big as kate having her baby. >> i know, going into labor. >> this may be the second biggest story in britain. coming up in sports, phil mickelson playses the round of his life to capture his first british open. and this cologne smells like a winner. >>> the giants wasted another strong start by madison bumgarner. he allowed one run over seven innin

>> i would not make too much of the dallas, denver records. the city'spple a lot in the past are bubbling again. phoenix, vegas, these are the cities that are booming. dagen: it you are saying if they are booming and they both bubbly, these price increases will ease. >> well, i think, it is hard to say. the market is changing. they changed the whole land scape. i think it may be less predictable than it was in the past. with this amount of upward momentum, it will probably keep going up for the next year or so at least. there will be a downturn eventually, but we probably have a while to go. dagen: to that point with a number of investors that are in the market and hedge funds out there buying, are those investors are likely to hold on? will they continue to step up even as interest rates go up? >> i think hedge funds are more reliable. i think that what has happened is people have learned that there is a lot of momentum in home prices. hedge funds are kind of trouble. this is like a no-brainer to them. they learn about momentum in the stock market. the

temperature-wise, 96 tp-r your high in kansas city, 98 in dallas. uch cooler. high temperature of 80 in new york city. actually below average. that is welcome relief especially after hot temperatures we had to deal with over the weekend. otherwise showers and storms possible across the eastern half of the country. that aerowere a shaded in yellow is where you could be looking at a chance for severe storms. i want to take you across the pond because we're talking about london. i want to show you the weather forecast. going to be a hot day today. 89 degrees, very unusual for that area. typically they see temperatures this time of year in the low 70's. tuesday showers and storms in the forecast. back inside. >>steve: thank you very much. 89 doesn't sound that hot to us after we've had the high temperatures, but unfortunately they don't have a lot of air conditioning over there. so it's really warm.efore the tp of the hour. more major cutbacks on the horizon on benefits for our american troops. why is the government going after our heroes? pete hegseth h

louis 91. 97, boy hot and humid in dallas tomorrow. 103 in salt lake city. and in southern california right up to about santa barbara there is that threat of the isolated showers as this monsoonal flow continues to move toward the north. fresno 98 and yosemite 95 degrees. highs for the bay area60s near the coast and low 90s inland and the next few days, the best chance of seeing meab a shower or two from some of the monsoonal moisture is tuesday morning. and then after that get ready for sunshine on thursday and friday and then back up to the 90s. mike nicco will be here on the abc morning news with an update. >> thank you, leigh. >>> shu is off and quan is in. a major surprise you said jie. british open -- not as big as kate having her baby. >> i know, going into labor. >> this may be the second biggest story in britain. coming up in sports, phil mickelson playses the round of his life to capture his first british open. and this cologne smells like a winner. >>> the giants wasted another strong start by madison bumgarner. he allowed one run over seven innin

take a look at the high temperature in the city of dallas. only 78. only 76 in albuquerque.rd. bill: we have been waiting for summer for a month and a half. thank you, maria. there will be concerns for health out there for the pets and the seniors. the body normally cools itself by sweating but in some cases and some conditions sweating is not enough. high body temperatures can damage the brain or other vital organs and those most at risk include the young, children up to 4 years old and the elderly. and those who are overweight or ill or on certain medications. be careful during the heat. martha: here we have not escaped the heat either. the united kingdom has temperatures hovering in the mid to upper 80s. drivers faced major delays after part of the m25 melted and had to be closed off. that stretch reopened after emergency surfacing. the current heat wave could continue for at least another week. sad news, they lost two soldiers in a military training exercise here due to the heat. that was one of the big headlines this morning out there. of course on the royal baby front,