elaine, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, russ.e in new york city, the high in central park reached 100 degrees, and across much of the country, millions of americans are wilting under intense heat. saturday brought no relief from the relentless heat. >> you can hardly breathe out there. it's very tough. >> this is the hottest day of my life. believe me. it is. >> reporter: some new york city residents took advantage of city cooling centers. as sidewalks outside sizzled like this one at 147 degrees. >> we're getting heated from above and below and all around. >> reporter: columbia university climate researcher stuart gaffin said cities tend to hold on to heat making people more vulnerable and miserable. even in the shade, the sidewalk was still 107 degrees. >> it takes a long time for concrete and granite and buildings to cool off. >> reporter: it basically means cities like this don't get any relief at night or much relief at night. across the country, heat advisories have been posted in 27 states. but not everyone's complaining.

elaine quijano in boston tonight. what you don't hear much about in the congressional debate is that if there is no agreement on the debt limit and that forces up interest rates on u.s. financial securities, that will also force up the interest rates on your adjustable rate credit card. chip reid has that part of the story. >> reporter: at tyson's corner mall in northern virginia, cristina salamone says she tries to avoid using credit cards. >> i try not to even use a credit card because of the outrageous rates. >> reporter: especially now with new baby daniel, and the last thing she needs is higher interest rates. but that is exactly what will happen if congress fails to reach a deal to raise the debt limit, according to john ulzheimer of smartcredit.com. >> if the u.s. defaults on this debt, it's highly likely the consumer who has a credit card with a variable rate is going to see their interest rate go up between 1% and 5%. >> reporter: what does that mean in dollars? on a 10,000 dollar balance, it would cost more

obama took action one week after elaine quijano first reported this story on our broadcast. elaine? >> reporter: well, scott, the president says he made the change to the condolence letter policy to remove the stigma associated with one of the unseen wounds of war, suicide. in a written statement, the president said, "this issue is emotional, painful and complicated. but these americans served our nation bravely, they didn't die because they were weak, and the fact that they didn't get the help they needed must change." the group iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, which has been advocating for more mental health programs for veterans, called the president's action long overdue. >> while we think this is a positive first step, i think a lot more needs to be done, that the white house really needs to redouble its resolve to addressing this suicide epidemic head on. >> would not try to seek honor, nor was he being a coward. >> reporter: if anyone can be credited with changing the policy it's greg and janet keesling, they have been fighting for the change since 2009. that's the y

elaine reyes is down on the mall with us. elaine, looks like the rain has stopped and they're getting ready for a party. >> it's getting a little steamy out here, aaron. but what do you think of names like josh groban, steve martin, matthew morris so from glee or mark from "dancing with the stars". they are all headlining a concert tomorrow night before the fireworks show on the west lawn of the capitol. if you want to miss the crowds tomorrow, you can come out today. they're going to be rehearsing starting later on this afternoon and this evening. so you can get a sneak peek of what's to come without the crowds. now, the finishes touches for tomorrow's capitol fourth are well under way. whether you're looking for a spot on the west lawn for that concert or on the national mall, you can expect checkpoints all over the place. and all bags to get checked and searched. these are just some of the security measures that you will see. but there are plenty of others that you won't. >> the greatest amount of security is that which yo

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elaine quijano reports on the father who led the campaign to change rules. >> i have doubts, many, manyery pleased. >> reporter: last week greg keasling got the call from the white house he waited two years to receive. he learned his family's long wait for acknowledgment from the commander in chief was almost over. >> it was a very good moment that this has been worth it. >> reporter: since the suicide of keasling's son, 25-year-old army specialist chance keasling in iraq, greg and his wife janet have fought to receive a condolence letter. >> i miss you, chance, i do. >> reporter: writing to the president and asking their congressman for help. >> he was a good soldier, and so i think that's the part that i want to know that the country appreciates. >> reporter: keasling has been told he'll receive some kind of recognition from the white house, though not an official presidential condolence letter in memory of his son, chance. >> today we'll be reading "the cat in the hat." chance keasling shot himself on his second tour in iraq. military families received letters from the president only

elaine quijano brings us up to date with the father who led the fight to change the rules. >> i had many doubts. many, many doubts but we're very pleased. >> reporter: last week, greg keesling got the call from the white house he'd waited nearly two years to receive. he learned his family's long wait for acknowledgment from the commander-in-chief was almost over. >> o'neil, my oldest son, came down, and we had a hug and it was very emotional, and "dad, it's going to happen." and that was very good moment that this has been worth it. >> reporter: since the suicide of keesling's son, 25-year-old army specialist chance keesling in iraq, greg and his wife janet have fought to receive a condolence letter. >> i miss you, chance. i do. >> reporter: writing to the president and asking their congressman for help. >> he was a good soldier and so i think that's the part that i want to know, that the country appreciates that he fought, he did everything he was asked to do and it didn't turn out well for him. but at least the country could write a simple letter and the president represents our countr

elaine quijano joins us now the late-breaking developments. >> reporter: scott, people wondered if the scandal overseas would head here. well, today it finally did. les hinton was one of rupert murdoch's most loyal lieutenants, but in the end, his more than 50 years of service to murdoch was not enough to save him. hinton resigned friday as head of dow jones and company, which publishes the "wall street journal" and is part of news corporation's media empire. but it is not his tenure at dow jones that has drawn attention. no one has questioned the reporting of the "wall street journal." instead, it's his 12 years-- from 1995 to 2007-- as chairman of murdoch's news international that's under scrutiny, amid scandalous and possibly criminal reporting tactics, including voice mail hacking by company employees, one of them, andy coleson, who went on to become an aide to the british prime minister. >> i believe absolutely that andy did not have knowledge of what was going on. >> reporter: this may be why hinton is in trouble. in 2007, he told members of a british parliamentary committee he b

elaine quijana talks about some of those in the line of fire. >> i don't know where my next pay check is going to come from. >> mitchell: america mourns the death of betty ford. scott pelley remembers the life of a first lady who shattered boundaries with her character and honesty. derek jeter gets his 3,000th hit, and then some. tony guida has the post-game wrap up. polo, anyone? in california, ben tracy is there as prince william and his wife raise money for british charities. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> mitchell: good evening. we begin tonight with news about how a once stable section of the american workforces now taking a big hit. as we told you yesterday, the unemployment rate for june rose to 9.2%. that's the highest this year. there is also news that among the ranks of government employees of all levels 39,000 jobs were lost in june. elaine quijano on the status of public workers and what that could mean for everyone. >> reporter: when emergency calls come in, it's hard for matthew bennett to sit still. >> i've got got to sit on the sidelines,

. >> charlie: elaine sciolino is here.rrespondent and a former paris bureau chief for the "new york times." she's come to know france. her new book is called la seduction. i'm pleased to have her back at this tain. iake two notes first of all she was a very distinguished national corspondent that's when i first got to know her. we both have an interest and continue to the way t world works. and i congratulate her on her work. >> thank you. i congratulate you too. >> charlie: thank you. tell me about what you're doing. you have made a decision to stay inaris because of a love affair with paris or what? >> because of a love affair with paris but because of a love affairith my husband. when the "new york times" offered me the job of paris bureau chef in 2002, andy, my husband and i decided we really wanted this french experience for us and our children. >> charlie: had you had a french experience before that. >> never. >> charlie: just to visit and cover a story. >> to visit and vacation but he had pretty good french from pub

news4's elaine reyes is live at sandy point with a warning for, of course, all parents. elaine?> reporter: that little boy is only 5 or 6 years old, and authorities are reminding people to never swim alone. now, there are lifeguards here at the beach, but this happened in a section that wasn't guarded. and we're also being told that this young boy was only found in four feet of water. at sandy point state park, the sights and sounds of summer are everywhere. on this july 4th holiday, there's also tragedy. >> there was some people with some earphones, headphones, like scanning the water and everything. they had mentioned that someone had drowned this morning, the paramedics. so i made sure that we were all out here watching the kids. >> reporter: a young boy went missing in the water as the day began. park workers sprang into action. >> they formed a human chain in the water, which allows a large number of people to search a very large area very rapidly. and that's how the child was located. >> reporter: when the incident happened around 8:00 this morning, authorities estimate th

elaine brown i heard say a little while ago that she lived in atlanta, and we always talk about how great atlantic is doing, but we do not own nothing in atlanta. they look like they are doing good, they have the cosmetic liberation, right? cosmetic change, cosmetic liberation, but when you look at who owns most of the city, right? who is in control of the power in the city? it may be marginally better for black votes in some other places, but there are still fundamental issues with the school system. look at the endowment of emory compared to some of the black universities and colleges in atlanta. entrepreneurship is a big part of it. i did not understand and nobody told me what is involved with buying your own home until i was in my second law school, where is the my counterparts, the white students i was in class with, they had had that information coming up. it was just second nature. i asked the guy across the hall from me what his folks did. but told him my mom was a nurse and my dad was a teacher, a soldier before. he said his father was the deputy prime minister of jordan. i was l

good morning, elaine. >> reporter: good morning to you, armen. if true, these new developments represent a stunning reversal of fortune for the man whose political and financial career all but distinintegrated when h was arrested weeks ago. two law enforcement officials told "the times" the case against dominique strauss-kahn could collapse they have discovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who filed the charles. >> this defendant is charged with criminal sexual act in the first degree. >> reporter: the woman charged that strauss-kahn assaulted her and forced her to commit a sex act when he came upon her while she was cleaning his 3,000 dollar a night suite at new york's softatel hotel. evidence confirms a sexual encounter between the two took place, but now prosecutors do not believe much of what the accuser has told them and they say she has repeatedly lied. investigators also reportedly have evidence that could link the unidentified 32-year-old guinen woman to drug dealing and money laundering. in a phone call placed after

her name was elaine. everybody but frank and sara seemed to realize that she was a knockout and that she stopped traffic, but she caught the attention of their next door neighbor, a man named dr. thomas ballard mcdowell, who was married and had a child but who started stalking her and immediately saying i want to marry you. i'll divorce my wife and marry you which was patently absurd because south carolina at that time did not even allow divorce. so he stalks elaine, and, um, in the meantime he has tried to hire his brother as a hitman to kill her or wealthy father-in-law -- her wealthy father-in-law and then kill her. actually, he's going to poison his wife. there's all this sort of farcical drama going on, and dawson gets wind of the fact that she is seeing somebody unsuitable. >> and so he goes over to the doctor's office, he knocks on the door, introduces himself because they've never met before. he says, i understand that you are making improper advancements on someone in my household, and i insist t

ties between russia and germany power up made by elaine's growing hunger for energy and moscow's readiness to do business. president medvedev says he's cautiously optimistic about the future of the euro as he meets angular merkel in germany. looming debt problems in the u.s. and the e.u. and the potential new wave of quantitative easing is creating a lot of confusion on the markets doing business r.t. in twenty minutes time to find out what you can do in these conditions. welcome this is say it's ten pm now moscow time my name is kevin zero in and first a former c.e.o. of rupert murdoch's british media operation rebecca bro. is facing an angry lawmakers right now the phone hacking and police bribery claims of the now defunct news of the world before the other was grilling rupert murdoch and his son james events took a dramatic twist to win two protesters broke into the westminster committee chamber although water was quickly restored moves following it all for us from london turns out that it's police are saying that it's somebody who's actually a comedian who tweeted earlier on that he wa

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reporting from sandy point park, elaine reyes, news4. >>> authorities say the boy was found in waterbout four feet deep. they have not released his name. >>> montgomery county fire officials have released the name of a bicyclist who was killed in that storm yesterday. the biker has been identified as 56-year-old neil rich. he was riding along the towpath last night when high winds and heavy rains knocked down several trees. one of them fell on top of rich he was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> following the storms last night, dominion power working to restore electricity to more than 3,000 customers in northern virginia. strong winds and rain brought down trees and power lines all over that area. run one of the areas hardest hit was arlington. residents today are starting the effort to clean up. >> we have some damage on the roof, a hole in the roof in the back of the house. we got leakage in the master bedroom. >> we had a branch probably, several of them, this big come out of our trees. it just was whooshing around last night. >> reporter: dominion power said it expects to have a

her name was elaine.body but frank and sara seemed to realize that she was a knockout and that she stopped traffic. but she caught the attention of their next door neighbor, a man named dr. thomas ballard mcdowell, who was married and had a child but who started stalking her and immediately saying, i want to marry you. i'll divorce my wife and marry you. which was patently absurd because south carolina at that time did not even allow divorce. so he stalked elaine, and in the meantime, he has tried to hire his brother as a hitman to kill his wealthy father-in-law and kill her, actually, he's going to

locked up the bay span i want to bring west on highway 4 we have metal debris and blocking most of elaine's cars are sitting on the right hand at shoulder damage to their tires. >> more than a thousand people that did to pay their final respects to a share of that baby mather some they'd services start at 11:00 a.m. the 49 year-old was unarmed when he was asked by a friend to counter are wrong on liberty drive last tuesday her daughter was 3 deceiving dangerous and threatening a text message during all ran showed up he was asked to leave he turned around and shot the deputy twice welch ran is live and giving you more on the memorial service >> as you conceive markers are already in place officers from all over the bay area and family and friends will flock to this place and it will cause traffic problems belongs to the setting drive we will be here live and show you the traffic as it picks up later on in the morning. >> a gun used by man and issued out in the bayview district has been recovered a of bay view resident led them to location of the gun this is the gun can a party used to shoot

elaine and i have worked on one project. from my experience, she seems to be a nice person. with regards to the comments of the previous speaker, those allegations should be checked out. if they are true, they are true. if they are false, they are false. they should be checked out as a matter of principle. i think supervisor kim would be the proper person to discuss them with the other parties involved. with regards to the recommendations for this district, i would like to put in a suggestion that maybe the district should consider hiring andrew cohen, also known as the big deal gate cup. i think this would be an excellent opportunity to show that andrew cohen has been unfairly, in my opinion, state voted for what happened in video date. when the truth comes out, andrew cohen is not the main person who is to be blamed. why don't we give him a chance to show what a nice guy he really is? hire him and get him to improve the tenderloin. he used to be a street cop there. thank you. chairperson campos: next speaker. if there is any member of the public who has not spoken but woul

says a no fly zone there is not mean and you are but actually instead of a no fly zone what you see elaine is an active phase of civil war i didn't like and some forces are actually supporting one of the parties to the conflict and that's not a good in fact which will really be very bad will come of those and so i think we should please kenya looking for opportunity to find a peaceful solution to this situation we should use all sorts of mediators and all sorts of opportunities for me because the libyan problem does not have a military solution with russia has made its contribution my special envoy visits with different countries i live and i think you should do it is our the effect it will continue to look for a compromise i think that it can be achieved i mean a compromise between benghazi and tripoli between the rebels. and. asked for it could just be himself you know our position is consolidated and it's presented in the field declaration adopted by the g. country you know if you words about syria of syria we would hate to see the situation in syria develop according to the libyan scen

elaine's new book is called le seduction. how the french play the game of life. with the latest news, that long overdue debate on the status of women, she says, suffered a major blow. >> this is an incredible moment for france, because women are starting to say, enough. i really think the fact that she is a less credible witness is going to harm the debate. >> reporter: if the charges against strauss-kahn are dropped, his social supporters say he could play a major role in their party. but the president of france? one bar patron seemed to sum it all up. there will always be a doubt, she said, and i don't think anyone wants a sex-crazed president. strauss-kahn withdrew from the presidential race, so anyway, he can't run. but political analysts here are saying if the charges of sexual assault are dropped, he could still play a major role in french politics. kate? >> martin fletcher, thank you. >>> still overseas, to libya, where protesters were rallying in support of the ruling regime. after months of fighting between rebels and pro-gadhafi forces, just where do th

elaine quijano has more on tomorrow's dramatic game. >> saved the usa's life in the world cup!posed to get this far but the united states women's soccer team, which last won the world cup in 1999, stunned the soccer world this week with a win against a power house opponent, brazil. host mark malousas of wfam radio sports in new york says in the end the american women's perseverance overcame the brazilian team's skills and americans are identifying with that fight. >> we're americans. we love people who don't give up. >> that's the american spearity. >> tenacity helped carry the american team three lays later in their win against france. >> britain played very well today. however, we found a way to win. >> perhaps most responsible is striker abby wambach, the leading scorer for the u.s. team. she isn't satisfied with just making the finals. >> i love my job and i love the fact that we're in a world cup and now we've achieved part of our goal. we're in the final. we want to complete it. >> reporter: now as the women's team takes on japan, history appears to be on their side, sinc

. >>> now to cbs news correspondent elaine quijano for the rest of this morning's headlines. good morning. >> good morning to you at home. it's not going to be much of a holiday weekend in minnesota. state parks and museums are closed, the result of a budget standoff between the democratic governor and republican legislative leaders. all highway rest areas are closed and you can't get a fishing license. social services are cut. 22,000 state workers are temporarily out of work. talks to end the deadlock are not expected to resume until tuesday at the earliest. >>> some 12,000 residents who live near the nation's top nuclear weapons lab in los alamos, new mexico, could soon be heading back home. the wildfire is no longer a threat. the lab has been closed for almost a week as a safety precaution. the fire burned more than 162 square miles in the past six days. there were no reported injuries. >>> the new york attorney general reportedly is promising to continue a civil fraud investigation of the bank of america. the investigation centers on whether the bank deliberately misled s