. >> we're from duluth, skateboarding news. he's talking about the roadways that were flooded and destroyed, and they decided to come from arizona to duluth to skateboard and what was left behind. >> it is a wild day and a great go skateboarding day. go back to you, john. are we good? ♪ >>> this is really dangerous, actually. >> the boys are fine, nobody fell in, they just shot some cool video. notice noti ♪ . they went from phoenix to duluth for broken roads. >> i can't even stan on a sca skateboard and their going over this broken stuff. >> we would have less videos on the show if we didn't have russian videos. here is one, and those specificy manhole covers get in the way almost daily. >> better the suv and the motorcyclist. >> i know, but he almost got hit. close call, the silver suv got sent off, the motorcycle dodged it all, but he looks back thinking that could have been me. how about this guy, brakes fail, traffic starts to slow down. if you look to the left side you see somebody up ahead get really out of control. ♪ >>

>> kimberly: common now. >> greg: why are we dumping on duluth? people live where it's cold? >> bob: norwegians. finns. people used to that. >> kimberly: is this from the beckel almanac. >> bob: have you ever been to finland? >> kimberly: no. >> bob: good. >> greg: i have. i love finland. >> bob: because they have vodka there. >> kimberly: you have just destroyed this segment. [ laughter ] >> bob: trying to make a couple of points. >> greg: you have. >> kimberly: recycle this, baby. one more thing is up next. >> eric: all right. one more thing. greg is up first? >> greg: you know, on friday, i like to do my horoscope. virgo, by the way. your may wonder why you're singled out for great fortune. but nothing happens without a reason. enjoy what you get today. the police know what you did in brazil in 1994. they found the hand. >> kimberly: that is so disturbing. what is my horoscope. read for pisces. >> eric: all right. >> dana: i thought you were in germany in 1994. >> greg: i move around a lot. the best questions you ask, the better for your family

>> kimberly: common now. >> greg: why are we dumping on duluth?>> bob: norwegians. finns. people used to that. >> kimberly: is this from the beckel almanac. >> bob: have you ever been to finland? >> kimberly: no. >> bob: good. >> greg: i have. i love finland. >> bob: because they have vodka there. >> kimberly: you have just destroyed this segment. [ laughter ] >> bob: trying to make a couple of points. >> greg: you have. >> kimberly: recycle this, baby. one more thing is up next. building pass, corporate card, verizon 4g lte phone. the global ready one ? yeah, but you won't need... ♪ hajimemashite. hajimemashite. hajimemashite. you guys like football ? thank you so much. i'm stoked. you stoked ? totally. ... and he says, "under the mattress." souse le matelas. ( laughter ) why's the new guy sending me emails from paris ? paris, france ? verizon's 4g lte devices are global-ready. plus, global data for just $25. only from verizon. so what i'm saying is, people like options. when you take geico, you can call them anytime you feel like saving money. i

we're going to get drenched in duluth. minneapolis, this main batch looks to stay to your north.here's another batch rolling northward sought of bismarck. there's going to be numerous complexes. the first will roll through northern michigan and also northern wisconsin eventually and possibly down into michigan. there'll be numerous other storms late today that will move through areas of iowa and later this evening probably after dark toward chicago, detroit, and areas like cleveland. now, we're also dealing with incredible heat in some of those same spots. we have heat advisories for chicago, indianapolis, and how hot will it get today? pretty incredibly warm out there. we're going to see temperatures near 100 to 106 from oklahoma city all the way up here through the ohio valley. ouch. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. today, call it 102 in indianapolis. the good news is that is probably the worst of the heat for that region. the cold front coming down will even bring a chance for rain in areas that desperately need it.

dive through chicago, today the northern plain, rolling through the dakotas and now it looks like duluth is getting hit hard. and the drought conditions in the northern plains aren't quite as bad as the central plains. we'll take the rain up through areas like minnesota and it looks like it's going to sweep through the northern half of wisconsin into the upper peninsula. we have a narrow line of showers and thunderstorms that are now moving from madison, wisconsin through rockford, and it looks like these will ever so slowly be approaching areas to the south of chicago. may even get a downpour in chicago. later this afternoon we'll get strong thunderstorms forming on a cold front going through minneapolis, back through areas like omaha, des moines, ames and the quad cities. and later on tonight, through chicago, and then through areas like detroit, possibly buffalo. erie and cleveland. now the heat continues today. and it looks like it spreads a little bit. down through tennessee, alabama, mississippi, into portions of georgia under heat advisories. but the worst of it by far once again,

when someone out in duluth is spending $4 on gas and last year they were spending $3 on gas, it doesn't feel like things are getting better. he has to ask for this leap of faith and that's not easy to come by. >> the other thing is that we tend to look at this in terms of jobs figures and economic growth figures, but when you got out into the middle of the country, there is a phenomenon that has never existed before in human history, which is how is this being underwater? people are paying mortgages that are worth more than their homes and that tends to really upset them tremendously. >> how can obama turn this around? what is he going to do here? the numbers stay where they're at, job growth not up to par, what does he do? >> he makes the chief alternative, an unacceptable alternative in people's minds. he makes him radioactive that george w bush running with a weak economy made kerry unacceptable. chris: i heard this before, a rerun of 2004, go after the other guy. >> you make it a choice. it's no longer about barack obama, what they would like to make it. >> they make it not about th

country in the northern plains, heavy rain in northern minnesota and wisconsin, if you're up around duluth're getting drenched. south of there, chicago through st. louis, indianapolis, kansas city, the last hot day you'll see for a while, 100-degree heat from kansas city to st. louis to chicago. st. louis could be 106 today. the forecast for the northeast, one beautiful day today before a chance of storms returns tomorrow. in the southeast, 97 in atlanta with a lot of humidity and we talked about the heat wave in the middle of the country. dallas looks like 105 on saturday and sunday. >> and 106 today in st. louis? get those people some rain. all right, bill, let's keep working on that friday, we can't have rain at the opening ceremonies. >>> we accept most of you don't follow olympic sports when they're not actually being competed in the olympics themselves. yesterday we began our series to give you enough information about the london games to carry on a coherent conversation should the olympics come up. our continuing series, cocktail party knowledge of the 2012 olympic games. you could

tavis: yeah, so it can work even in duluth, minnesota, i guess. >> that's right. tavis: but to your point about your mother exposing you to the arts, what impact do you think that had on your i am trying to figure out beyond that piano and maybe being exposed to the arts, what allowed you to tap into this gift? what were the conditions? >> just the exposure to great music of all kinds, first classical, then broadway shows, then popular music, and then the music that alan freed brought into my teenage world, it kind of hit at the same time as me feeling the lower half of my body hit. it was a good mix, and then i just wanted to get into that world. so really, if you expose me to it musically, it comes out. tavis: yeah. when do you recall hearing words, lyrics, in your head? >> after gerry and i stopped writing gerry goffin was my first husband, my first co---- writer, wrote all those great hits that we wrote in the '60s, he is often not credited. it is very important to me that he be credited, because he not only wrote the lyrics, but he often drove the melody into

a lot of duluth looks like this. >> former tropical storm debby continues to dump rain at record levels. >> over the past five days, virtually every one of florida's 67 counties has gotten a dose of debby. >> 75 sinkholes have been reported just around the tampa area. >> okay, that's just flooding though. how about the wildfires? are they epic? are they out of control? are they exceptional? that's 2012. watch this now. >> wildfires of epic proportions near colorado springs. >> in new mexico, strong winds not only helped spread the flames quickly but grounded aircraft trying to battle the flames. >> overnight at least 40 homes burned. >> the wind, the fuels really giving us problems. >> maybe it is just 2012. that's only clips from this year right? let me give you a sense of history here and context that's really important. university of arizona did a study. they did numbers between 1970 and 2003. the fire season is now a whole two and a half months longer. you know there's only 12 months in a year. two and a half months longer so obviously something drastically has changed since 1970. n

there will be some scattered thunderstorms anywhere you see here in orange but the dark maroon area, duluthough the upper peninsula of michigan, that's where we'll see more intense severe thunderstorms today developing in the afternoon, of course, and looking for damaging wind and hail to be the primary threat. now, i want to start with the rain because a lot of folks need it but not the places that are going to get it. miami, south florida, just getting way too much rain in the last month or two and they'll have more. another inch, inch and a half. another place that hasn't had much summer. 80 degrees only for 50. that's 5-0 minutes this entire season, seattle, >> this weather report brought to youpurina. >> this weather report brought to you by purina. >> this weather report brought to you by purina. bianna and dan. >> thank you, ginger zee. see, i can say your name without a problem. >> hey. >>> coming up next on "good morning america," a life-or-death decision, what would you do? what should you do in a situation similar to the tragedy in colorado? the split-second decisions you need to

. >> but for crystal duluth, being mcnaughton's girlfriend was something more significant. >> i was really, really upset and i tried to take her name off my leg. >> she went crazy. she tried to dig my name out of her leg. she was trying to dig it out. >> i got a staple and i scraped it up and down on my skin to try to pull out the "e." it didn't hurt because i was so upset that my whole body just went numb and i just blocked out the pain. i was upset. because it's like a merry go round in here. once one girl breaks up with somebody, they end up with somebody else within two, three minutes. so i'm not going to let kelley bring me down. >> coming up -- >> i don't like girls at all. >> jessica styx has a change of heart. she joins the party in g dorm. >> i have a girl that's just helping me, you know what i mean? she's just being there for me. >>> even for the inmates inside the maricopa county jail, appearance matters. >> too bad we couldn't get some highlights, huh? >> a group of professional hairdressers volunteer their time to give haircuts to the inmates. >> there are three or four of us

also in the midwest seeing the heat, have to worry about the strong thunderstorms in minneapolis, duluthadison where once again, richard, we are talking about that record heat potential, on top of everything else going on on this fourth of july. >> the west also waking up 8:38 local time there. how do they look? >> well, the west is the place to be, especially the west coast. places like los angeles, san francisco. portland and seattle. beautiful weather, beautiful temperatures. once against, it's the intermountain west dealing with the heat and dry. the monsoon say concern where places in colorado could produce flash flooding over those current areas so that's a new concern out there. >> along with the wind. thank you so much, maria la rosa. have a great fourth. >>> meet mia love. a rising star in the republican party. she's hoping to become the first black republican woman in congress. ♪ >>> here's a republican star rising in utah, in a state where the african-american population is about 1%. mia love stands out. she is a young fiscally conservative mormon who happens to be black and r

precipitation much heavier and in much shorter periods of time, and we've seen what can happen in duluth recently where a seal was flushed right out of the zoo. there's ten to 12 animals that drowned at the zoo because of a ten inch rain event that happened over two days. short term rain events can be as powerful as hurricanes so well be looking at our infrastructure to design our infrastructure to withstand those things. >> sreenivasan: micah, speaking of a little bit about that adaptation, how are coastal communities along washington or the west coast in the united states preparing or adapting. how are they trying to synchronize some of what they've already known for hundreds of years with modern day science? >> well, i think one of the biggest challenges is just realizing what's happening because our tribal communities and our natural resource divisions do co-management with the state and the feds. as wisconsin is working to adapt its like we have to come up for air and look around and how were going to start strategizing our adaptation. but my concern is looking forward to the future

according to the university of minnesota-duluth study, 2.5 jobs are produced for every mining job. these are good-paying jobs that we cannot afford to lose. my amendment will also allow mining projects that have already applied for a permit and are currently in the probating process access to do expedited procedures. my amendment falls along the same commonsense thinking that the underlying bill comes from. that 30 months is plenty of time to complete the total review process for permitting a mine. currently there are numerous projects in the permitting pipeline that have taken way too long and still have no definitive end in sight. one such probably is in my district. the parliament mining initiated environmental review of its proposed copper and nickel mine back in 2005. since then the company has invested over $40 million for e.i. simple inquiries. that is seven years and counting for just environmental reviews. another project that is just getting under way in the eighth district is the twin metals project which has also produced thousands of minnesota jobs for both constructio

. >> is a motorcycle accident on the northbound direction of slow duluth lupe parkway pin >> it is tying >> m >>erica: a lot of the fog has cleared out. that will be the case until the afternoon. some places will get into the triple digits. the temperatures as of right now so 71 degrees and antioch. san francisco is 58. oakland is 56. but the afternoon we will see a hundred and one common for fairfield livermore pleasanton buoyancy one of five in antioch. >>darya: we are still on the scene of a house fire and san jose. it happened about 5:00 a.m. in the morning. you can see what is left of his home. they say the fire started in the kitchen. >> i smoke and i -- i broke up this >> i will cut to smoke. at that which is led by the cooking. we got out of the house. >>darya: while there are still officially a vested in the cause. they think it was from greece on the stove. >>mark: san francisco police are investigating a taxicab bribery. they say that the man a salted the taxicab driver this morning. it cab driver was taken to the hospital. there aren't are no arrests as of this point. >>darya

you'll notice the storms around duluth. 75-mile-per-hour winds are possible. in the northwest, which is the only place in the country that's been cooler and a little more damp than normal through the month of june. 63, 67. by the fourth of july, you pull into some sunshine. and you'll go into the 80s by the weekend. >> 76 in arlington. mostly sunny, a few lingering clouds. for the most part a sunny day. it will be hot like yesterday, .ighs in the mid 90s increase in humidity. to reduce typical fourth of july. 78 right now. cooler to the northwest. 95 this >> all of america's weather in the next half hour. oh, robin? josh? >> thank you, sam. >>> coming up, the stunning, new pictures of katie holmes without her wedding ring, flanked by security. new details. >>> also ahead, a 5-year-old girl swimming with sharks. did her parents put her in danger? or send her on a big adventure or both? >>> and we'll show you the omg diet. immersing yourself in ice. providing resources designed to help teach healthy habits. so make sure you add lysol no touch hand soap and lysol

we opened one of the first shelters in the country in 1974 and the city of duluth was the first is he to require its police officers to make arrests in domestic violence cases. i've learned about a unique domestic violence court that sterns county -- that's the area around saint cloud -- has implementing flown vawa grants. the partnership, which involves trained people from all levels of the criminal justice system, has allowed 58% of the victim participants to separate from their abusers. washington county relies on cutting-edge research to provide direction for officers to take appropriate action when responding to domestic violence calls. it's the only program of its kind in the entire country. these are the kind of innovative initiatives from law enforcement that's especially critical to combating violence and are directly a result of that domestic violence against women act that we have worked so hard to pass in past years in this congress. i want to stress just how crucial it is that we get this bill signed into law. we've made a lot of progress over the years and we've been abl