the real rain is in kentucky and tennessee and all the way down to the gulf of mexico. there's a lot of energy from the gulf all the way up the mississippi valley. the all that pushing our way. that energy will push our way carrying a bunch of moisture from the gulf of mexico. you will notice the humidity rising tomorrow and with the moist air moving into town. you have the moisture and the energy and a little instability and a lot of wind shear. that will help twistings up a little as well give us a pretty good chance of severe storms throughout a good part of the day tomorrow, not just the afternoon. even in the morning. a cold front off to the west will squeeze the moisture overp -- over washington. pretty nice and by wednesday and there's a, but tomorrow will be rather active -- pretty nice on wednesday and thursday. the highest likelihood of the most widespread severe storms will be tomorrow probably around and after 2:00 p.m. in terms of rainfall, we will likely see heavy rainfall around here. here's our latest computer model. in rappahannock county it indicates th

it's actually warm tropical air moving in from the gulf of mexico. that will allow for some heavier downpours. we're looking at potential of some very strong storms especially later this afternoon into this evening. we could end up with wind gusts up to 40 to 50 miles per hour in most cities across the u.s. improvements in the afternoon. well, if you're watching us on news channel 36 in charlotte, north carolina, checks out an exhibit showing women's fashions. and the bead goes on. i'm not going to sing this early in the morning at the mint museum. that is your "early today" event for the day. >> good college try. >>> and now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. today a french court will announce whether it will announce an injunction against a french magazine. lawyers for prince william and kate are arguing they're an invasion of privacy. yesterday an italian gossip magazine released a special edition dedicated to the pictures. >>> meanwhile, donald trump is getting into the story. he says that kate middleton has, quote,

in the gulf of mexico, it is a little piece of what is left of isaac. one part of it went up into new england and another part headed down to the gulf of mexico. forecasters are watching that to see if it develops into an additional tropical feature. a lot of thunderstorms and activities south of louisiana. we also have leslie. eventually, leslie will turn north. now it is to the east of bermuda. then we have michael. 150 miles an hour winds. it does not look like it will affect anybody. the eyewall on michael is spectacular. the winds around that are running 150 miles per hour. we are feeling tropical out there. no-80's 4 highs. it depends on how sunshine we -- highs.s for the >> now your insta-weather forecast with meteorologist john collins. -- the insta-weather future cast. rain chances go up saturday. by sunday, the humidity drops antipater's will only be in the 70's. -- and temperatures will only be in the 70's. >> dr. tim hammond is here to answer your pet questions with a cute kitty. >> we are on our 13th season. i do not have my name on any prod

juice from the gulf of mexico. it will run through the tennessee valley into this upcoming work week. here's the low bringing in the gulf of mexico moisture. warm front bumps up temperatures tuesday and wednesday. comes at the cost of a shower or thunderstorm tuesday and wednesday. this is a closer look to show you things. through the course of tomorrow morning clear skies. here comes the clouds during the course of your day tomorrow. 48 in town. early showers before 11:00. things will look better afterwards. 73 under sunshine. tomorrow seasonable afternoon. 60 tomorrow night. 48 tonight. things are warming up. seven-day forecast. while we go to 73 on monday. 77 on tuesday. 80 wednesday and thursday. watching a storm for tuesday. back up in the 80s by the end of the week. >> we had a good weekend. >>> tell us how the night unfolds. >> we'll start on the wet note then things will look better. clouds in place for the evening. 60 degrees. nighttime hours down in the 50s. clear start with about the 80s that's coming up

. >>> more oil and gas workers are returning to drilling rigs and platforms in the gulf of mexico. crews fled the safety ahead of hurricane isaac cutting oil and gas production by 50 to 75%. one quarter of the platforms and rigs remained unstaffed. full production is not expected for a few days. >>> gasoline prices are up. the national average is $3.82 now. industry analysts expect prices to come down later this month as summer demand drops. and gulf of mexico resumes. >>> thousands of visitors to the forests in california are ordered to evacuate as a fast-moving wildfire continues to grow. the fire spread to at least 5.5 square miles. it apparently started near a campground sunday afternoon. hundreds of firefighters, four helicopters and four tanker planes are trying to stop it from spreading. wildfires in northwest nebraska and southwest south dakota tripled in size and fewer than 24 hours, they're burning more than 285 square miles. the fires damaged at least ten homes and 50 other buildings in the two states. >>> coming up next on this labor day, caught on tape. trouble at a mon

i had a major spill on exxon, the gulf of new mexico, gulf of mexico i should say with bp. dy goes out to see about it in nigeria which dwarfs the gulf of mexico and they'll does. liz: we show a span of a very short time all the continuous oil spills in nigeria. we make so much about the one still in decades, but what is the main issue that you found helping to put this film together? >> the illustrated the poison of the universal color line that has been established worldwide and because they are black, that is when nobody was concerned because it is worthless. the supremacist and those opposed to freedom. therefore you find yourself in a very precarious predicament and that is why this is a must see, you have to be able to deal with it as it is just as hitler did with germany. convincing the masses for his master propaganda which said you get four or five lives instinctively until you convince them he ha. liz: they are held not thanks to the nigerian government for my mental production. are they in part to blame? >> corruption, bribery, that is what this movie brings out i

stormy weather along the gulf of mexico means the shuttle won't depart until tomorrow heading for itsrmanent home at the california science center. >>> now here's time for your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. >> as the romney campaign scrambles to deal with that controversial video from a fundraiser. intel report the grandson of former president jimmy carter found the video and brought it to mother jones which broke the story. >>> congress is briefly back in session this week before lawmakers head home to campaign for reelection. roll call reports their calendars are jam-packed this week with meals, visits and receptions with lobbyists. but all qualify as fundraisers. >>> pundits believe libertarian candidate jonathan dooin may be a key factor. news reports that dine was convicted of marijuana possession but served less than a year in prison. ted olson, a former u.s. solicitor general under president george w. bush will serve as the debate practice partner for paul ryan. massachusetts senator john kerry has been practicing with president obama for three debate

also slow development is possible in the gulf of mexico.his isn't what you want to hear, especially after just what happened. it doesn't look like this should be anything too major. if anything does develop, it would drift to north florida three days from now. also showers this morning in northern virginia all the way through delaware. still very humid through the mid-atlantic. chance of thunderstorms today through north carolina and kansas and missouri and brutally hot still in texas. 103 there in dallas. sti a chance of storms for you guys. as you mentioned, the forecast doesn't matter quite as much anymore. >> that's what they anticipated, moving the speech inside. bill, thanks so much. time for sports. the nfl season underway. many of you were watching president clinton last night, there was a football game over on nbc. the cowboys and the defending super bowl champion giants getting the season started at the meadowlands in new jersey. cowboys driving in the second quarter. tony romo picked off by michael boley. makes a couple guys miss

now into the gulf of mexico something that we will watch closely is quite ironic and in the anniversary of that is bl coming up. some being that you now know -- oneas more. being that you now know theiso weather channel i was able toe o get ame video from the tapend yn library, and this is from thomo edison who used his camera tocts capture some of the images fromt galveston ailnd you can see whac theo category four looks like. although they were not as to dates they are not strong structure even on this monitor. >> from the east the main part of the storm surge. we see it rising quickly and the waves became extremely large.it into the night saturday is when the storm surge began. >> in the pitch black darkness of the storm it was down the water level rise 20 feet trying desperately to stay above the surface. >> of the shore buildings were thrown under the force of the one-hundredth 30-mile per hourr winds with the twisting andight. shattering of the waves.trees. >> hurricane webster of course it was the middle of the night and it would have been dark. it was a disaster look up to thn d

against the oil rig the charges are related to the twenty ten deepwater horizon disaster in the gulf of mexicoitself a top news oh and and today as you can see the tax managing to gain a tenth of the head of the e.c.b. meeting got coming up on thursday let's check out the common currency and see what it's up to right now because we'll be able to see if the client as investors really hold on to their positions not quite sure what mario jar gay is going to lay on the table as we're going to one twenty five forty two just that let's see what the actual markets are doing because the ruble as you can see is declining as all the bourses we've got but we are just down the my sex posting declines at this hour really taking their cues from the general to wait and see attitude across the global forces they also got to remember that is in the world's biggest economic zones that the u.s. china the eurozone and japan all the contraction right now let's have a look at you might have made we'll be able to see they are declining also supply disruptions going on at the moment with hurricane isaac stopping prod

speaking of stormy weather, at the pacific ocean -- listen to me -- in the gulf of mexico, a piece ofhat was isaac is in the central gulf. forecasters are watching to see if it will redevelop into a tropical depression or storm, but nothing is happening now. we also have lesley, still stalled in the atlantic. eventually supposed to drift north where bermuda is threatened. and michael, still a hurricane, out in the middle of the atlantic as well. here is our forecast locally. on the unit side, 87-92, the high. lots of sunshine, and maybe an isolated stormed could crop up. south wind from 5 to 10 miles per hour. the futurecast -- we see by saturday afternoon, 2:00, there is that front back in wisconsin. it is coming in, so we will pick up clouds saturday afternoon, saturday evening. by sunday, we start to dry out and take the temperatures down. highs today up around 90 degrees, a little on the him inside. tomorrow, before the front comes in, temperatures up into the 80's. into the west, western maryland, the front comes through about 7:00, 8:00 in the evening, humidity drops dramaticall

it means turning the gulf of mexico back on so we get oil out of the gulf, and by the way, over the last four years the president has cut the number of permits and licenses on federal land and in federal waters in half. i will double the number of licenses and permits so that we get more oil and energy. and natural gas is our big ace in the hole. we have a lot of natural gas. that natural gas being brought to our transportation hubs, and that natural gas brought to places where now they don't have it, and particularly in the manufacturing sector is going to bring the jobs back to america. so, number one for me is taking advantage of the energy resources, and that will put millions of americans back to work, and number two -- [ applause ] i'm looking here at steve king, because this man needs to to be your congressman again, because i want him as my partner in washington, d.c. number two, i want to make sure that the workers have the skills for the jobs of today and that you young people have the skills that you need for the jobs of tomorrow, and that laddtter request and demand says that

a frontal boundary and area of low pressure moves out of the gulf of mexico toward our region. that will bring us a lot of rain. potentially heavy rain on both monday and tuesday. overnight monday night into tuesday. one to three inches of rain. you can see we could be dealing with flood concerns. winds to 30 miles an hour. we're not talking about severe weather here. what we are talking about is a rather lengthy rain event we'll have to deal with over the next couple of details. you want to make sure you're ready for that. 79 tomorrow. 79 on your sunday. monday and tuesday, talking about that rain chance. as we move through next week, getting cooler. high of only 73 on wednesday. once again, plenty of sunshine. >>> facebook kills off a popular actor and david gregory dancing machine. here's what's trending today. morgan freeman is not dead, but someone on facebook keeps trying to kill off the 75-year-old "shawshank redemption" star. the rat.com reports another hoax announcing his death this week drew more than 800,000 condolences. this is the second time recently that the actor

of isaac over the gulf and starting to develop. about a 50% chance of a increased development of becoming a named storm. down there in the gulf of mexico. isaac could rebirth as a new storm. leslie getting more intense and threatening bermuda. as intense as leslie will probably get it'll stay to sea and only threaten bermuda but it goes close to that area. overnight 69, we stay stick yes. patchy dense fog the main concern tomorrow. 90 tomorrow afternoon. a hot and mostly dry day. chance for a stray shower in but the big statue dedication we should be in good shape rain wise. chance for a early morning shower friday and then dry start saturday. chances for rain will be here through the weekend but fairly minimal. i think the best chance for rain in the next four days will be saturday afternoon. some drying by late sunday and right now looks like the game damon will be a dry one for the ravens opener. >> looks like football weather. >> cooling down early next week right on time for football. >> yeah. >> guess who else is happening? >> kat. >>announcer: atie is coming to town. for a sneak peek you can go to the website and find out what t

and, deep-water drilling in the gulf of mexico is bringing even more oil to market. dvances, america - the world's biggest consumer of crudd oil - still needs more than it produces. twenty- nine percent of america's imported oil comes from right next door. much of it from the &prich oil sands of canada. another nineteen percent comes from, mexico, and venezuela. only fourteen percent of america's imports actually come from saudi rabia. both president obama and mitt romney want to wean america off its dependency on fooeign oil, and they agree that expanding domestic oill production is crucial, but there are key differences in tteir approaches meeting the goal of cutting our oil dependence depends on largely two things: first, finding and producing more oil at home; second, reducing our cleaner alternative fuels and - greater efficiency. president obama wants to try to curb consumption. in auguss, his administration proposed fuel- economy standards for cars that would verage 54 and and a half miles per gallon by 2025. and, he favors replace oil. at the same time, he has

you may remember the markey cam with the gulf of mexico during the bt spills. a pleasure to have you, sir. >> thank you eliot. >> eliot: look at this chasm of where energy policies should go, we haven't made as much progress as we wish we had with the democratic president. where should we be going and how do we get there? >> well, honestly, president obama has done quite a job. since he was sworn in, since bush walked out of the white house in 2009 we have gone from 57% dependence on imported oil down to 45% dependence on imported oil. now we have a record number of rigs drilling in the gulf of mexico 50% more than before the bp spill. record high natural gas. 35,000 new megawatts of wind. 3200 megawatts of solar this year alone and an increase of 54.5-miles per gallon. >> eliot: all of these are great statistics. having said that look, the dependence-- >> it's all in the arithmetic. >> eliot: arithmetic is good. bill clinton taught us that, and i think mine is still good. the dependence transference from imported oil to domestic oil you were the author of the

fracking can now extract oil and gas trapped deep in shale rock and deepwater drilling in the gulf of mexicoging even more oil to the market. even with those advances, america, the world's biggest consumer of crude oil, still needs more than it produces. 29% of america's imported oil comes from right next door, much of it from the rich oil sands of canada. another 19% comes from mexico and venezuela. only 14% of america's imports actually come from saudi arabia. both president obama and mitt romney want to wean america off its dependency to foreign oil, and they agree that expanding domestic oil production is crucial, but there are key differences in their approaches. >> meeting the goal of cutting our old dependence depends largely on two things. first, finding and producing more oil at home, second, reducing our overall dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. >> president obama wants to curb consumption. in august they proposed fuel economy standards for cars that would average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. and he favors alternative forms of energy to repl

endeavour now scheduled to fly over the bay area friday morning after stormy weather near the gulf of mexicoom florida to los angeles. the endeavour is set to be permanently displayed at california science center in los angeles. it will be bolted to the top of a modified jumbo jet when it leaves kennedy space center it will stop in houston and edwards air force base in southern california. friday morning it will fly over move fit field in mountain -- in moffett field in mountain view. >> i love to see that. >> we should be able to, right mike? >> going to be close in the south bay, a better chance than up near san francisco, probably going to be cloudy friday morning, hopefully that will change they are coming in 9:00 -- >> right now it looks okay. >> right now, exactly. right now it is sunny outside. san francisco friday morning, who knows, san jose, excuse me, friday morning going to be a tough one. you may want to if go to the south bay to make sure. vollmer peak towards the west all the clouds racing back to the coast even then pockets of sun develops this afternoon. live doppler 7 hd no

oil spilling into the gulf of mexico, wildfires across the west and as everyone complained that it was taking way longer than it should have to plug a hole because they decided for some reason to shoot garbage into it, nobody mentioned the nearly 60% of the country that wasn't burning or covered in oil. that's a solid d minus. but the critics could not be satisfied. >> the president has promised to close guantanamo, that didn't happen. >> okay, he didn't close guantanamo, but it didn't get any bigger. so it's in remission. >> he also promised to change the tone in washington. >> how important is tone. when did you ever hear february say this place has great tone. >> when i see the president claiming credit with the killing of o bin laden and said he wasn't going to be gloating and now he wants this victory lap. >> okay, i'm sorry. i have to stop you right there. now you are going to complain about the way he killed bin laden. come on, you got a better way to shoot an evil terrorist in the face. because to me, seems like he kind of nailed it. look who he is working with. >> our top poli

we've got a gulf of mexico fact sheet we have on our ipad supplied to us by the u.s. energy information administration. and shows the oil and gas active platforms in the gulf of mexico. most of them located on the coast of texas, louisiana, mississippi, and a few over in alabama. so it's these platforms that start making the preparations during the tropical storm season. >> yes, what many listeners like to know is many of the platforms are unmanned. they're operated on shore with automated equipment. the rates for demand and the rigs that are actively drilling, they all have to be activated and shut down. you have to do it in a way as i said earlier that you want to be able to start it back up. so you go through a controlled shutdown. the process is pretty mechanical at this stage. >> many countries of the world as mr. hoff meister realizes consider that the oil, the natural gas, or the minerals belong to the people of that nation. would the united states be better off if they considered oil, natural gas, other minerals to be owned by the american people and their gove

it is down in the gulf of mexico, and once things get cranked up early next week, it could produce somesture. until that happens, we are in great shape. it is chilly right now, reasonably cool today. the typical high this time of year is 77, we only made it to 75. the morning low was 54, the temperatures falling into the 50's. the record today, 98, 35 at the low. we could still get near 100 this time of year, and we are beginning to see some of these lows near freezing. that will not be the case this time around. easton 57, same on the boardwalk, an oakton 62, 54 frederick. still in the 50's western maryland, but they will be in the forties tonight. some of the suburbs northwest of town. thin clouds overhead, related to this storm that wants to develop to the south. at the moment, the high pressure is keeping us high and dry. tomorrow, we may have some thin clouds, but the wet weather will remain to the south and this will continue to develop. this will combine eventually with a front from the north, and will both come through, converge, coming through early next week. we are dry, we co

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endeavour now scheduled to fly over the bay area friday morning after stormy weather near the gulf of mexicoom florida to los angeles. the endeavour is set to be permanently displayed at california science center in los angeles. it will be bolted to the top of a modified jumbo jet when it leaves kennedy space center it will stop in houston and edwards air force base in southern california. friday morning it will fly over move fit field in mountain -- in moffett field in mountain view. >> i love to see that. >> we should be able to, right mike? >> going to be close in the south bay, a better chance than up near san francisco, probably going to be cloudy friday morning, hopefully that will change they are coming in 9:00 -- >> right now it looks okay. >> right now, exactly. right now it is sunny outside. san francisco friday morning, who knows, san jose, excuse me, friday morning going to be a tough one. you may want to if go to the south bay to make sure. vollmer peak towards the west all the clouds racing back to the coast even then pockets of sun develops this afternoon. live doppler 7 hd no

gulf states just yet. the national hurricane center says there's a 40% chance it could redevelop into another tropical storm. forecasters say remnant of the massive storm are sitting in the gulf of mexico. if isaac reforms, he will become a she and become tropical storm nadine. bermuda is getting ready for hurricane leslie. it's about 430 miles south of the island with sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. forecasters say it's expected to get stronger today and pass east of bermuda possibly as a category 2 hurricane with winds of 125 miles per hour. a missouri bishop has been found guilty of failing to report suspected child abuse to authorities. robert finn is the first american bishop to be charged in the clergy sex abuse scandal. he received two years of probation thursday but acquitted on a second point. the priest he covered for pled guilty last month to child pornography charges. prosecutors are asking he spend the rest of his life behind bars. >>> attorneys for drew peterson say they're going to appeal his conviction. the former police officer was found guilty thursday of killing his third wife. but his lawyers say the deck was stacked against their client because of a new law d

. >> energy companies reoccupied nearly 400 of the production platforms in the gulf of mexico. in advance of hurricane isaac. though offshore, all oil production still remains almost entirely shut down. again, getting back to here it was hot today after we had a reprieve from the stuff. >> the unofficial high today bruce 95 degrees, we're talking about hurricane isaac and we will be dealing with the remnants of isaac, it's the moisture tomorrow and into monday and that could impact some of your holiday plans for labor day. especially if you're going to be outside. right now, live doppler 9000 hd we had a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings up in frederick county. those have all expired and we have flash flood warnings for washington county, maryland, morgan county west virginia until 9:15 with some pretty good storms coming flu and really coming down and we are looking at some flash flooding happening right now. these are flash flood warnings as we speak for again washington county, maryland, until 9:15. a look at the radar, watching storms coming in from the north and west o

[cheers and applause] it means turning the gulf of mexico back on so we get oil out of the gulf.years, the president has cut the number of permits and licenses in federal lands in half. i will double the number of licenses and permits so we get more oil and energy. natural gas is our big ace in the hole. than natural gas being brought to places where they do not have it, particularly in the manufacturing sector, will bring jobs back to america. number 1 for me is taking advantage of our energy resources. that will put millions back to work. [cheers and applause] number 2 -- i am looking at steve cain. this man needs to be your congressman again -- steve king. this man needs to be your congressman again. i need him as a partner. number 2 is making sure you young people have the skills you need for the jobs of tomorrow. he demands we have to make sure our schools are run for the benefit of the students, we put the students and their parents and the teachers first. the teachers' union -- they will have to go behind. [cheers and applause] let me mention a third, that is trade. the th

stormy weather along the gulf of mexico means the trip from florida can begin until tomorrow. pushes back a scheduled fly-over above mountain view and san francisco to friday. the final voyage ends in los angeles where it will be permanently displayed at the california science center. >>> let's check in with mike talk about flying yesterday morning we had delays at sfo. what do you predict today >> i think the same thing, a lot of cloud cover looks like we'll have those delays. we'll let you know how long they are when they let us know. good morning. clouds over the bay area as we look from vollmer peak towards downtown san francisco, live doll ver from the satellite on -- live from vollmer peak from the satellite. low to mid 50s, -- sunshine this afternoon, better part of the morning to get back to the coast. cooler than normal highs the entire seven day forecast autumn arrives saturday morning 7:49. san francisco 62, santa rosa 73. temperatures are going to ebb and flow one to two degrees the next seven days. we don't have wild swings. air mass isn't going to change much as

as you widen out here, look at this moisture feed right out of the gulf of mexico. we have a storm system in the up every levels. you have a cold front back to the upper west and this is all going to come together to give us that potential for some strong winds and some damaging winds. the storm, down to the south. any time you see a storm this far south that moves our way, it's going to have a lot of moisture with it out of the gulf, out of the atlantic. tomorrow, that's exactly what will happen as this area of low pressure moouchs overhead. what we can expect is heavy rain. maybe 1-2 inches. we could be talking about a flash flood threat here. they could happen pretty easily. best chance would most likely be after about 3:00 to 10:00 tomorrow night. an even bigger threat just up to the northeast. tomorrow morning, this is what you'll wake up to. showers across the area. light to moderate rain. the heavy rain will wait until the afternoon to start up. and then pi late tomorrow night, as the cold front moves through, this is when we could see some of the strongest w

in gulf coast are reopening as isaac leaves the region but there's still little oil being pumped out of the area. the bureau of safety around environmental enforcement says 71% of the gulf of mexico's daily oil production is still offline. as of yesterday around 20% of production platforms are still empty because of the storm. companies in the gulf say it usually takes a few days to fully restore production. >>> the shutdown of oil means you're paying more at the pump. in fact, prices hit a record high for labor day averaging around $3.85 a gallon. news4 oath seth lemon joins us now from bethesda. >> reporter: if you're filling the pinch at the pump this morning that's because these are the highest gas prices ever for a labor day weekend. here in bethesda, maryland, prices are well above $4 a gallon due in part to hurricane isaac. drivers hit the road in large numbers. aaa say $23 million traveled by car. nationally they're paying on average just above $3.80 per gallon. the previous record was set in 2008. drivers were paying $3.68 a gallon. some good news, the prices are expected to go down by the end of september when the holiday travel season dies down and summer dies down as we

there were more focused on how quickly we could give production back from the gulf of mexico. big story, again today to mixed signals out of the gulf refineries are now. some that were supposed to be restarted yesterday were only restarted today. the bell phillips '66 refinery, that was supposed to be started. they have lost power again. that means futures have actually been higher today. gas problems still done in the gulf of mexico. back to you. cheryl: thank you very much. appreciated. dennis: get ready to dust off your old jersey and your bid. nfl football officially kicks off tonight. our next guest is cashing in on the endless supply of chicken wings that are devour during the football season. joining us now from minneapolis, sally smith, ceo and president of buffalo wild wings. thank you for being with us. happy couple season. wang said. you so the billion last year. what percentage of all of your wings were sold during the football season? >> i would say that during football season typically a larger revenue, i would say probably close to 30%. dennis: you so over 7 mil

applause] >> one of the greatest environmental tragedies of recent times is the bp oil spill in the gulf of mexicodelete into the pristine crystal clear waters of the golf at an incredible rate of over to me in gallons a day and the result was an environmental wasteland, of lifeless and desolate sledge of muck that extended the entire length from louisiana to florida. bp killed nearly all the seed beads in the region and destroyed the fisheries, and took the ones i burned region in the south and turned it almost overnight into an m.d. ghost town. wait a minute. that's not what happened at all is that? that is what the environmental liberal said was going to happen, what they imagine could occur and thanks to the hysterical drama types in the media that is what we all thought is the oil cascading into the gulf. that is with cnn's anderson cooper staked his entire show on week upon endless week from the gulf coast. not because anderson cooper cares one bit about the people in that region. he only visits the region when there something in it for anderson cooper. the people who make their living on th

it's coming from underneath the gulf of mexico where you're not interfering with anybody's drinking water and so forth. and the bottom line is that the amount of gas that's been discovered over a huge expanse of territory is enough that if our government adopted an energy policy that favored natural gas for vehicles and power plants and so forth, we could move quite a way from shipping money out in return for oil in from countries that it seems this week don't like us very much. >> great to have you on the show. thanks so much for coming in. joan lapinn. >>> a popular tech stock taking a hit today. >> this story absolutely fascinates me. look at share of amazon. amzn. reuters reported walmart is going to stop selling kindle products. right? the stock dropped sharply. it has recovered most of the losses though it is down .75%. i went on the site myself to try to find it. the only thing you could do is find a few accessories. kindle is is off the website. they're going to sell out their inventory and be done. target did the same thing a few months ago. when you think about who's competing w

national average of more than 3.80 a gallon, partly because more than 90% of oil production in the gulf of mexicohut down because of hurricane isaac. and, of course, we are in the peak driving season. so what is more important than the economic summit in jackson hole? who is there, or who is not? joining us, david wessel, author of the new book "red ink" inside the high stakes politics of the federal budget. david, thank you for joining us. >> a pleasure. >> let's start with the annual conference at jackson, that is highly anticipated. the speech by ben bernanke, markets looking for any clues about possible quantitative easing. during his speech, he said nontraditional policy tools have been and continue to be effective in providing financial accommodation. what does that mean to you? do you think the fed steps in during their next meeting in september? what do you think? >> i think it means the fed does step in, basically i summarize his speech this way, quantitative easing, all the bond buying we've been doing, it works. the economy is still sick, the medicine can help them, i'm going to give t

the games in the old markets they do continue not solve the supply disruptions in the gulf of mexico because of hurricane isaac really we've got fifty eight percent of production carrying on out there says still a lot of disruptions as i say let's get on to some more could not get to showers check out the gold prices all day to have had a little bit of change of momentum in the last twenty minutes or so because as you can see they are losing ground but as far as gold is concerned it's still loitering around the highest level in five months not because of all the economic data that i've been chassis of without particularly in the euro zone it is getting investors to buy gold quite quite seriously there's talk about easy jet flight from london to moscow also in pieces could soon become cheaper as persons easyjet its wings to russia b.c. daily newspapers as a low cost carrier. a regular fights between the cities as soon as next year however still these two went attend up. voted atlantic british airways among all the bit is well know the result in a month check up on current my time so i

of tropical development in the northern gulf. as of now, very unorganized. a little area of low pressure with thunderstorms. any time you get anything that could develop in the gulf of mexico, it's worth watching. for today's forecast, pretty quiet day. a few thunderstorms in the southeast, also kansas city. very hot in texas. and a little bit better in new england with that humidity, lynn. as far as d.c. and the carolinas, no relief. very hot and humid. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> coming up, euro stimulus fever. >>> a new phone gets no buzz. >>> and shoes with sole make legal history. the early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> coming up, a hit parade in our nation's capital, the end of the line for andy roddick and the cowboys knock out the champs. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪ ♪ i can do anything ♪ i can do anything today ♪ i can go anywhere ♪ i can go anywhere today ♪ la la la la la la la [ male announcer ] dow solutions help millions of people by helping to make gluten free bread that doesn't taste gluten free. together, the elements of science and the human element can solve anything. solutionism. the new optimism. >>> welcome back to "fi

we have a low sitting here towards the eastern gulf of mexico coast, and this one looks like it could develop. we're seeing some showers here towards florida, but this one certainly looks like it could intensify. just keeping a close on eye on it into thursday today. meanwhile heavy rain from the mid-atlantic up through eastern canada. we'll see a few thunderstorms in that, too, and pretty intense thunderstorms through the great lakes region into the lower mississippi valley. illinois and indiana looks like they get the worst of it today. we talk about damaging winds and the potential of hail as well. it's looking clear and calm and much cooler as well for example in vancouver. 24 degrees is not too bad, 20 in winnipeg but we have persistent heat in oklahoma city at 37. as for europe, things are fairly quiet through much of central europe and in towards the east, but there's a very persistent low over italy and sending storms through into the eastern/western balance kakans d say. thursday is still fairly stormy. to the north we have just a series of systems, lots of moisture coming in

stormy weather along the gulf of mexico means the shuttle won't depart until tomorrow heading for its permanent home at the california science center. >>> and now here's an early look at how wall street's going to kick off the day. the dow closed at 13,553 after losing 40 points yesterday. the s&p was down 4 and the nasdaq fell 5. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo, the nikkei dipped 35 points while in hong kong the hang seng lost 56. >>> wall street gave up ground for the fifth monday in a row thanks to fresh signs of an economic slowdown. news that northeast manufacturing hit a 3 1/2 year low set off investors' jitters monday. this just days after friday's news that august industrial production fell the most in more than three years. >>> after the bell apple shares cruised past $700 for the first time after announcing orders for the iphone 5 topped 2 million in the first 24 hours, more than double the amount of its predecessor. >>> office depot was one of the day's biggest movers rising 5% after an activist investment firm became the retailer's largest sharehol