ek: no. i was scared to death to do anything like getting into show business because i was brought up rather strictly, in a cotton . field in south carolina. and as a result, you do what you are told to do, not what you want to do. and i think that i was afraid always to exercise my feelings about anything because i thought i would be pow! get my face slapped or something like that or a little slap on my derriere because i wasn't obedient. but when the time came for me to really say, "i think i'm in your way," to my aunt when she brought me to new york . "i think i'm in your way. " because she was a very beautiful woman and she didn't know anything about taking care of children. my mother had died, or whomever was . that was saying that she was my mother who had given me away to so many people at the time down south. so she brought me up north, my aunt, and she told me she was my mother. i'm very confused about the whole thing. but at any rate, i thought that i was in the way. and when the ti

the hang seng eking out a close. until we get progression in the discussions in washington that give us a more final outcome for august 2nd. apart from that, the currency markets very much in the spotlight as the dollar weakens. we've seen yen strength, that putting pressure on the exporters in one of the key markets. >>> investors are getting nervous about washington's ongoing standoff. the dow jones industrial average fell by more than 1.5% on wednesday and on the fourth day of a losing streak that does seem to be getting longer and longer, people, of course, understandably going more and more worried about this. the nasdaq sunk more than 2.5% for its part. the s&p dropped by about 2%. >> so where are we in terms of the latest on the debt situation in the u.s. congress seems impossibly divided over how to raise the country's debt ceiling. on thursday, the house votes on republican speaker john boehner's plan. even if he can muster enough republican support in the house, the bill will die in the senate where harry r

. >> they could have eked it up slowly.and it wouldn't have angered so many people. >> is it going to change your habits? >> absolutely. >> i think it was handled very badly. people are seeing it as a 16% price increase. anything over 10% people freak out over. i think this is something they should have rethought. this is like the new coke idea. they presented this in the wrong way. they're going to bleed an awful lot of customers. >> reporter: it costs the company 75-cents to mail the dvds instead of 10-cents to stream. >> i think it's appropriate if you want a business to survive they have to do what they have to do. >> reporter: netflix today makes less from a subscriber. the company is banking on subscriber such as this woman. >> the more i use netflix the more i use the streaming. we've been talking about not doing the dvds because the dvds just sit there and just doing the movies. >> reporter: reporting live in los gatos, maureen naylor. >>> some changes may be coming in who delivers your mail and when. these new high

. >>> the top vote getter for baseball's all-star contest, the mets, eke out a win against their cross-townivals. and who is dancing at wimbledon? plus an extra participant invades the pitch in a contest between brazil and venezuela. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> your fourth of july forecast looks fantastic in many areas of the country. a few showers and storms are possible in areas that don't usually see them. >>> well, good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, sunday saw a match-up between one of baseball's hottest hitters, and one of the game's toughest pitchers. here's nbc's bill stewart with an early look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning. and a happy fourth of july. it may be america's pastime, but a guy on a canadian team is the leading vote getter for baseball's all-star game. the toronto blue jays jose bautista received a record 7.4 million votes. then he helped break up cliff lee's scoreless streak. the second of back to back jacks puts toronto on top. lee's streak ends at 34 innings. but don't feel too sorr

both planes were on the tarmac get eke ready getting ready to take off. 1 person complained of neck pain but no one else was injured, they are focusing on audiotape and interviewing the crew to find out what went wrong. >>> they will provide sizzling entertainment this weekend for its show in oakland. these are images from a final rehearsal of inferno a fire circus. this year it is collaboration between the cruisible and a lose angeles based performance company. >>> ahead we will tell you which well-known billionaire is interested in buying a oakland company and the final chapter may be written for a book store chain. Ñw? >>> taking a live look at the big board on wall street, numbers are still in positive territory as there is still the ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling debate right now in washington, d.c. right now the dow is currently up 15, nasdaq is up 19, s&p is up 3.5. >>> the oakland based clorox company is considering a $10.2 billion buy out offer from carl iconn who owns a percentage of the company already. >>> this weekend could be the last chapter for border stores i

trading put an end to wall street's recent winning streak tuesday except for the nasdaq, which barely eked out a sixth day of gains. the nasdaq was lifted by netflix which soared 8% and hit a new high after announces it was expanding its online video service to 43 countries. >>> just when wall street had put greece in its rearview mirror, moody's investors service slashed portugal's credit rating into junk territory on risks the country will need another bailout before it can return to capital markets. on the data front, new factory orders bounced back in may, boosted by demand for transportation equipment. >>> oil futures surged 2% to settle at just under $97 a barrel after barclays capital raised its forecast for the commodity for 2012. chevron rose 1% t most of any stock on the dow and marathon oil jumped more than 3% on the news. >>> deal news, blood transfusion instrument company immucor rose 30% after agreeing to be taken private by tpg capital for nearly $2 billion. energy transfer increased its bid to buy pipeline company southern union, agreeing to pay over $5 billion in cash or u

temperatures in the 70s and 80s and we'll talk morebo ek denek cooling and how low those numbers will go coming up. >>> kidnapped and kept as a sex slave for 18 years. we've read what she had to say and we've seen still photos. tonight, jaycee dugard speaks in person for the first time. dugard was kidnapped by phillip and nancy garrido at age 11 and forced to live in off secret backyard shed. her daughterses were fathered by phillip garrido. tonight, in an interview with abc news, dugard talks about giving birth at age 14 in her backyard prison. >> they were painful. and then i saw her. she was beautiful. i felt like i wasn't alone. >> wow! garrido is serving consecutive life sentences while his wife is serving ten years for her part in the kidnapping and enslavement of dugard. >>> authorities at yellowstone national park have finally released the name of the hiker killed by a mother bear. 47-year-old brian matoshi from southern california mauled to debt by a grisly with her two cubs. park officials say they won't try to capture the grisly bear. according to the victim's wife they slo

by the numbers that means an economy that eked out 2% growth so far this year, could bounce back to 3% to 3.5% growth over the next six months. and don't worry too much about inflation. barclays capital expects the underlying inflation rate or core inflation to rise to just 2%. but barclays' dean maki says food and energy cost will bump overall price increases higher. >> we believe that overall inflation is going to stay above 3% this year. food and energy prices are rising at much faster pace than core prices and we think that will be a continuing trend. >> reporter: but will consumers unlock their wallets? that's a key question for the rest of the year. through may, real consumer spending grew just 1%. the hope here is that a firming in home prices, lower debt burdens and cheaper gas will encourage all of us to spend more over the summer and fall. but no one is expecting a dramatic change. >> we're in a moderate recovery and what that means is that we are not going to have the booming recovery we have seen in the past. >> reporter: the risks to this outlook have been front page news

the accused gunman, 32-year-old anders bearing brev ek spoke through his attorney saying the killings were necessary to reverse the spread of islam. his violent political philosophy detailed in what he called a european declaration of independence. norway's prime minister denounced the killings. >> we're standing together and the message is very clear that this violence is not going to reduce our ability to be an open democratic associate. >> reporter: on the web the accused gunman calls himself a child of privilege growing up in this neighborhood of as low. they supported the labor party, the same party that was the target of friday's attack. an expert on terrorism says norway conference a very different situation than america did after 9/11. >> the american people were enraged at the international jihaddists who committed this. where are we going to put our rage? on ourselves? on our associate? who has produced this? >> reporter: adding to the anger and disbelief doctors who are treating wounded people say he used hollow point bullets designed to disintea great on impact. >> the acc

qualify for the quarterfinals along with europe while he finished second with one of the feet that makes ek pled out with the goal to set up a quarter final clash with argentina. meanwhile the pre-season is underway at the year's big clubs of barcelona rionda do it and manchester united in america for the world football challenge for united it is the start of a new era in their midfield after paul scholes retired manager sir alex ferguson has described him as one of the world's top four plays and even though he has admitted he's missed out on signing arsenal simeon as a now three says there's always a chance i younger player could help fill his boots for me nine hundred francs. as i was. i want karma. the next few weeks movie help was great someone was often do says no to me or someone to. do you or more of your own proof america is. well rounded third procures in your area has said they are closer to signing and then you add a bio permanently they need a name or savior where they were speaking ahead of his team game against the l.a. galaxy on saturday something pretty and i was looking for

for example, the price of prodon ek to treat heart burn would go from $170 a month to $16. >> hi mr. tepper. nice to see you again. >> i ra tepper spends hundreds of dollars a year on lipitor, but says it is worth it to keep his cholesterol in check. >> if you take a look at my charts or all the blood work i've done everything is straight down the middle. >> and there will soon be a cheaper option for him and the 4 million other americans who take lipitor. it is one of the drugs that go generic when the patents expire in a couple months. >> a generic drug is essentially the same as the preexisting drug so we expect it would have the same chemical form you laying and the seam effect. >> reporter: generic drugs can cost 20 to 80% less. doctors hope lower prices mean more people can get the treatment they need. >> because they might have been on a fixed income or simply could not afford the monthly payments. >> reporter: the drugs going off patent include cholesterol fighter lip tore, the blood thinner play vicks, antidepress it alex eye employee, singular, la vase a for high triglyceri

with saigon to get them to sabotage the peace talks in paris that they had heard the way for nixon to eke out a victory but also continued the war for four more years and from twenty from an american soldiers died now this is essentially repeated in one thousand eighty it now appears with the with some of the same characters working for the republicans who felt well we got away with in sixty eight we can do something similar in one nine hundred eighty we can sabotage that sitting democratic president and that seems to have worked and reagan's treason just like nixon's treason worked perfectly the iran hostage crisis continued and torpedoed jimmy carter's reelection hopes and the same day reagan took the oath of office almost to the minute the american hostages in iran were released and for that reagan began selling the iranians weapons and spare parts in one thousand nine hundred one and continued until he was busted for it in one thousand nine hundred six or the iran contra scandal after reagan bush sr was elected but like jerry ford bush was really only president because he served as vi

to you this trophy i did ek to serbia. andrei kirilenko meanwhile says russia's men could repay the women success of the upcoming basketball european championships the utah jazz forward will join the national squad for the tempest tournament in lithuania is going to be a birdie good chance of playing about ten teams in the house and called the likely twenty authority slovenia spain greece drawn many frames i mean i think you go in those most teams you know they're really good teams and they can win the championship in any given you know day so so it's tough it has to be a lot of effort you have to be pretty good preparation which started in the middle of july and i think we have a pretty full just. as everybody. white and say not rugby sevens by the vi promotes going team have lifted the european champions cup for the fourth time in a row the moscow region side is still the only club to ever win the trophy since it began for both the daniel story. the rugby sevens european champions cup was four years old the same two team

because you made this day the most beautiful day of my life i will never forget is this trophy i did ek to you this trophy i did it get to sir be continued. well if much of the chaos goes to djokovic for his heroics in london another star also shown on the grass courts of the all england club eighteen year old ben i was told make reached his maiden grandson quarterfinal and the top ranked australian is next aiming to help his national team edged closer to the full mike davis glory former world number one lleyton hewitt is also part of the team the aussies are in beijing ahead of their tie against underdogs china this weekend where the winner will move into september's playoffs for a slot in the world group australia have trained the trophy twenty eight times before would have been on a low after being relegated four years ago. but it's definitely a big call i'm sure all of us here would eventually. until hopefully we can just get through this. we have a tough day. with that in the future when it comes to those situations where. you need a good match as well on the. back from injury and

and with that attack this s ek on an afghanistan hotel, police are boosting patrols in hotels, too. >> we placed police officers, uniformed police officers, at hotel locations throughout the city. >> reporter: if it all sounds scary, it is. the boat we are on is one of two in the world designed for the nypd to detect radiation from a nuclear bomb or smaller radiological or dirty bomb. its detection equipment sweeps along the waterway. any radiation spikes returned to the boat are instantly sent to the brookhaven laboratory for analysis by scientists. hunting for the unthinkable, as we approach america's birthday. pierre thomas, abc news, new york. >>> and there is late word from or langless tonight that maria shriver has filed for divorce from arnold schwarzenegger. they separated this spring when the former governor admitted fathering a child with a long-time member of their household staff. >>> and there is still much more ahead on "world news" this friday night. the new royals, william and kate, and the woman so determined to give william's great-grandmother flowers. 72 years later

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anything for us whereas a number of war hogs and i want to bomb iran or his people have a need for the ek so they can pretend it's important to ronnie and people's movement while really just looking for some kind of it in to help them once again convince pundits and analysts and journalists that iran poses an immediate threat and we need to start bombing tomorrow you know it's something that john bolton has been trying to do for years but have any case becomes one of these designated friends and he's probably going to fight a lot easier and this is a true testament to how our diplomacy can be bought and so you may take it off he became our friend we wanted his resources and then we decided to bomb him and we try to keep the oil from us it's the same way that we did nothing to stop it from killing his people in yemen because we need him in power for now to take the blame for our drone strikes with all that hypocrisy all of those double standards and hold back everything can be bought these days and that's something that your corporate media also bought chooses to miss. disappointing dismal

remind everybody that later today, pretending that this is actually thursday i am going to be on luis ek. be sure to watch that and call our direct line, 212-462-5050. leave a direct line. leave a message. what am i doing? let's just go to break. let's go back to the post game wrap up. to see clips of recent shows go to fox news .com. >>> see you back here at 5:00 p.m. eastern time for "the five." return appearances from imus in the morning. anne coultre, what a show. >> back to andy levy for our post game wrap up. where can people catch luis? >> it is actually on the fx network, our sister network. it is on at 10:30 eastern time. i play myself, andy. >> and i do a fairly convincing job. >> and luis plays himself on "red eye" and i interview him. it is delightful. >> i am going to talk to the guests now. >> sure, but i know what you will ask them. >> will you be watching luis tomorrow night with greg gutfeld? >> i am very much looking forward to it. and this saturday i will be watching the mma fights, strike force, henderson versus evalianko. tweet me. >> that's kind of hot. >> moynihan,

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strong storms rolled through starting around 6:30 in the eke. they kept coming for a few hours. pouring rain and whipping winds brought down trees and power lines all around. right now, about 13,000 customers in virginia, maryland and d.c. are still without power on this independence day. good morning. i'm tony perkins. >> i'm wisdom martin. steve chenevey is off today. welcome to fox 5 morning news. >> we do know of one storm- related death, a 56-year-old man would was killed as a tree fell on him as he was riding his bike on the c & o towpath. this happened near poolesville. >>> let's talk about what is going on right now with the weather. tucker? >> yes, i'm ready to talk. it is getting quieter and quieter. that is the good news. can't rule out the possibility later today. we might get an isolated thunderstorm. just be ready for. it i don't think they'll be as widespread as they were yesterday when we had a lot of problems. later today, one or two thunderstorms in this rather summery air mass. let's get right to the radar. see the shower activity kind of fading out during the

and 60s on the coast and in san francisco could eke out a 70 toward the financial district.ot much changed tuesday and wednesday. then it does look like high pressure kind of works its way back to the west. inland temperatures will warm up. >>> borders bookstores is moving toward liquidation. in the last few hour there is has been talks that they are in talks of a bookstore chain called books a million. if a deal is reached it's probably not enough to save the remaining 405 stores from being shut down. as it stands if there is no deal by tomorrow, borders would be lick question dated and 11,000 workers would lose their job. >>> dow is down 94 points. youthy is expected. you can blame debt worries. >>> harry potter's magic is more powerful than bat man and a band of pirates. the deathly hallows part two brought in more than $168 million. that does top weekend sales for the dark knight and the young wizard sold more tickets than the most recent pirates of the caribbean series. it has taken in $175 million. it guarantees it will surpass $1 billion globally. >> i bet. >>> 6:53.

this is a dire circumstance because there is so much hope about the cooperation between the speaker,er ek cantor and the president, and geithner. a serious impasse. the president will be able to tell us more when he comes to the microphone. i was told the president received a phone call within the last half hour or so and hill leaders just hearing about it today as well. and a lengthy letter going out to house colleagues saying there was never a deal, it was never close and they are breaking this off. >> this could also be speaker boehner feeling the pressure of the tea party. >> certainly. >> -- caucus in the house. and clearly if he is saying that gang of six proposal, we certainly haven't confirmed it, this could be him having to bow to pressure in his own caucus from some of tea party freshmen and the like. >> everybody move could be looked at through a political lens. this could be new pressure to get something done. it is described by republican aides that the gang of six confused things when they thought they were on track in a way it get a deal. again, no deal ever close they say.

had to remain vigilant, yet i did break down after i left the cntry and i think excellent for about a ekme i ever thought about writing and book. they asked me why haven't you written a book. >> charlie: maybe that's a good question. >> it was an unfed missile. the that's what was on the trial. >> that's what it was about, because the corporation o did this to me fired me for blowing the whistle, for saying what i did and for sending an e-mail while i was there. >> charlie: what did you say. >> it was a rather lengthy, what some people would describe as a rather preachy e-mail at the time but it was really an educational e-mail that i directed to un officials to state dent officials to monitors in the field. really educated them on what was happening to these women. it was kind of instigated after 37 women were quote, unquote rescued by the u.n. at a brothel. women has been abused and raped and psychologically traumatized. it's so clear to me that the people working the mission had no idea really what these women were in store for. and they also really were looking at these women as just

i care about tax rate of the small businesses that if they eke out a profit in the business, it goeshrough that personal income. if they invest it and get gain on the capital, they will be double taxed. that is the group that is primarily affected. this thing about the warren buffett tax rate is just playing the class warfare card. this thing about people flying around in corporate jets is class warfare. i am concerned about the $15 million people who do not have a job and they are not going to get jobs with more government spending. they are only going to get jobs when the business sector, the engine starts to grow again. you've got to add certainty to what is going to happen in the future before businessmen and business women start to grow the economy. >> chris: you said this week that you oppose construction of a new mosque in murphy's borough, tennessee, close to nashville. >> yes. >> chris: they have operated, muslim worshipers and another site there for more than 20 years. what is your objection for them building a new mossk? >> one of my guiding principles is if you want to kn

eric can tor, house majority leader says a vote will take place this eke. there is only one reason to most pone vets be, when they don't have the votes to pass their preferred legislation. speaker boehner is hunting tore 217 votes. here is the math of what speaker boehner is trying to do, he already knows he is not likely to get a single democratic vote. so you are deal in a republican only universe. you have 240 republicans. he can only lose 23 of them as no votes in order to pass this bill. right now i think he might have a couple more that he needs to do some good old-fashioned arm twisting with and we foe at this hour those meetings are taking place off the house floor one-on-one with the speaker trying to make sure he gets them. >> brown: in the last couple of days this has become a real test for him personally. >> there is no doubt. this is his single biggest test since becoming speaker of the house. we talked all year long, jeff, about his challenge, right, in terms of being able to, without with the president, a democratic president and the democrat

we're waiting to see if house speaker john boehner has somehow eked out a deal. he walked by our cameras just moments ago and said i'm smiling when asked on the fly about what's taking place. but look at the markets. we've been watching what's taking place today and we're seeing a mixed bag across the board. the nasdaq is the only one really in green. but we want to find out exactly what this is doing. the conversation that's taking place in d.c. is doing to our markets. so, we're going to have much more from capitol hill in just a few moments, but right now we'll also give you other headlines that we're following in the news now. >>> starting with it's the worst storm to hit south korea in a century, a landslide near seoul with severe flooding leaving at least 50 people dead. crews are searching for north korean land mines that washed down a swollen river into south korea. >>> and take a look at this, a teen driver rammed his car right into a 7-eleven convenience store, he said his brakes failed on him. police think it was just youthful inexperience. maybe he th

that will be one of the warmest. 60 half-moon bay down to santa cruz which usually ekes out about a 70 in this kind of a pattern. low clouds will keep us going through thursday. then slight warming inland as we head into the weekend. >>> all right. thank you, steve. a new report shows las vegas and two california cities are among the best places to buy a house if you're an investor. bakersfield, stockton and las vegas are among the top ten places to buy a rental house. home prices there are among the lowest in the country mostly because of foreclosures. >>> let's check in on the stock market here in the u.s. big board. live dow jones down about 7 points to 12,495. stocks down in europe this morning and pretty big overnight in asia. mostly on concerns about european debt. the global economy certainly in focus. one stock we are watching cisco systems out of the bay area announcing it could cut as many as 10,000 jobs, 14% of its work force. but cisco -- but investors seem to like the news because cisco executives say they need to cut some fat. >>> keep an eye on netflix stock today. the o

th rationed power at 3 days a ek. you could not keep food in your refrigerator to last. is my understanding it would take $1 billion to correct this problem. think of the job creation it would create. gues great point. there are probably a lot of projects like that to be addressed. the first thing is we have to get a pathway to balance. if we do not do that, we do not have money to do anything. your point is to have congress did into the issues, determine priorities. then let them determine the spending that needs to take place for long-term sustainability of our economy, services, and country. host: bruce cook, the tea party has increased your ideas. guest: we are bipartisan. tosuppaccept anyone who wants support this. i was at a big meeting in atlanta. a national group was coming in town to present the problem of our deficit a debt. there were 500 business leaders in the room. they have a greatresentation and finished with questions and answers. a businessman raised his hand and asked what we should do. the group did not have anything to offer. we're providing any one

where you book matters, ek expedia. >> that's your latest weather.arines may not conjure up the image of a woman, but my how times are changing. last month the first female began commanding the training grounds in south carolina. cbs news correspondent russ mitchell has her story. >> reporter: this is parris island, south carolina. and the sign makes clear on the way in here is where they make marines. and now this marine factory has a new foreman. >> what i'm asking you to do -- >> reporter: or correct me, forewoman. i have to ask you when you found out you were getting this post, what was your first reaction? >> you know, i mean, there are times now that i wake up in the morning and say, am i really here? am i really here at parris island? >> reporter: on june 17th she's already made history as the first woman to leave the marine recruiting folk here. as a distinction she acknowledges but won't dwell on. >> am i a trailblazer here at the depot? yes, i'm the first female. i'm the first woman in the history books and now will move on. for the women b

the heat wave is forecast to continue through the end of the ek as it heads east. and guess what?is coming your way. so make sure you stock up on water and stay hydrated. rob and peggy? >> that is the best advice. >> it really has been hot here. we have the humidity that we're fighting with here in new york. it does make it tough. like the rest of the country. don't do that. >> sorry. >>> let's take a look at what's going on here across the country. even more humidity from philadelphia to raleigh. just got hot in here.ç severe storms in the upper midwest. afternoon thunderstorms around indianapolis, nashville, atlanta, jacksonville, and houston. more downpours in the four corners region. they can probably use some of that moisture. >> 90s on most places on the map. dallas, colorado springs, omaha, kansas city, baltimore, and detroit will bake today, again in the 90s. not so here in new york. just a mild, lovely 88. but very humid. be careful out there. >> balmy. >>> pretty hot in the uk as this continues, this story here. britain's prime minister will feel the heat as he answers q

when an appliance acts up, do you maybe eke out a few more years with a repair?ecomes a money pit and just replace it? so, we did just that. we turned that question into a game show. ♪ around the house there are jackpots to be won and lost when you're deciding the fate of faulty appliances. do you keep it and hope for the best from a $100 repair? or do you buy a new one to stop the service visits? so, to help you decide, we'll play a simple game called, "repair or replace?" first up, a 12-year-old refrigerate that won't make ice. and it has a hard time keeping the fridge cold during the summer months. >> repair or replace? >> it's going totoe pretty expensive to repair. and you can probably get a new one for similar costs or less. >> reporter: so, for the 12-year-old model with multiple problems, replace. one upside to shelling out $800 or more for a new one. >> newer more efficient rereigerators, we'll say over the one you currently have that's ten or years older, could save you as much as $100 a year on your electrical costs. ♪ >> reporter: this is especially t

that is why we were upset to hear the president earlier this ek tnser tt, notwithstanding the fact that americans support it, notwithstanding the fact that he himself has said we need to raise the debt ceiling level, and there will be dire consequences if we don't. that being something he believes in firmly, would would think he would be willing to consider it at least as an option for raising the debt limit. but no. he goes out and decides to throw social security beneficiaries under the bus and say they are apparently the first ones we are going to cut. why did he send out that letter? why are social security beneficiaries the first people for the president to warn about the consequences of not raising the debt limit? now, each month we bring in somewhere in the neighborhood of about $200 billion in revenue. we borrow something in the neighborhood of $150 billion. we pay out about $50 billion a month in social security benefits. there are lots and lots of other federal programs we could look to. let's suppose that if we were facing an imminent and unavoidable debt-limit induced shortf