that cedar rapids alone has nearly $5.6 billion in recovery knees, one city of 120,000 in iowa, $5.6 billion in recovery means. with this in mind and consider that about 3 billion has been allocated to the entire state of disaster recovery which includes a large amount of states funds even though damage statewide was estimated at about $10 billion. when considering what constitutes a catastrophic disaster one indicator was maybe useful to consider it would be the damage relative to income is your state budgets in this city by what had receipts for f509 of $6.9 billion. compared to the estimated 10 billion is a wide damage. in the city of cedar rapids have a budget for at y09 of nearly 380 million in keep that in mind and think about the high price $6 billion in needs. that further bring the magnitude of this disaster in perspective and calculating as with a damaged cruise be that public assistance program at the i was a range as the fifth largest disaster in u.s. history. and if you take away nothing from my testimony, will be size of a large to lob significance of a widespread attit

if they cannot to get me, i have to drive to iowa city, and i cannot afford to do that. >> what are youere? >> anything that you want fried. >> this is completely unprepared, by the way. who is watching health care? do you know what they're talking about? >> not really. >> when we do these types of interviews, we are not going to pre-interview them. when they say they do not care, that is part of what is happening. all of this yelling is happening in the town hall meetings, but people out here are not really paying attention. megyn: that was very insightful. thank you. back to the deep fried fast. you just need to put it out of your mind. bill: we are only midway through august, and that means that we are only midway through these town halls. opposition spilling into north dakota. here we have byron dorgan tried to reassure constituents about where he stands. >> i do not intend to support legislation in the senate that has a government-run health care system. i would not vote for a piece of legislation that has public funding for abortion. i would not ever vote for something that promot

some of the hardest hits in my district were cedar rapids, iowa city, coralville. it's estimated that cedar rapids alone has nearly $5.6 billion in recoifer needs -- recovery needs. with this in mind then, consider that about 3 billion has been allocated to the entire state of iowa for disaster recovery which includes a large amount of state funds even though damage statewide early on was estimated at about $10 billion. when considering what constitutes a catastrophic disaster, one indicator would be the damages relative to community or state budgets and resources. the state of iowa had receipts for ny-'09 of around 6.9 billion compared to the estimated 10 billion in statewide technology, and the city of cedar rapids had a become of year hi -- budget of nearly 380 million. and then to further bring the magnitude of this disaster in perspective, when calculating estimated damage through fema's public assistance program, the iowa floods alone rank as the fifth largest disaster in u.s. history. and if you take away nothing from my testimony besides the largesse, the s

host: the next call comes from iowa city, a republican.aller: great presentation, a lot of intelligence. lot of intelligence. i don't see us ever g we are injecting more and more troops in. i see as their as long as we have been in korea and germany and some of these other places. what would happen in some of these different tribes, and it all look different, i do not know, but what would happen to some of the young girl's? there has been overdue tool arora host: built -- there have been over 200 schools built. i do not see the united states completely pulling out. i think a situation along the lines of pulling out in germany is more likely. if we get to the point where a situation in afghanistan looks like south korea, i am going to be pretty happy. the second issue, with respect to the tremendous gains that we have made in education and afghanistan, they have seen an explosion in the number of children that are being educated in children that are in school. more people have moved into the school house and afghanistan than anywhere else o

host: the next call comes from iowa city, a republican.ler: great presentation, a lot of intelligence. i don't see us ever getting out of afghanistan. president obama says we will be pulling out, but i think will be there as long as we have in korea or germany. what would happen and some of these different tribes -- they all look different, but what would happen with some of these young girls if we pulled out tomorrow? so many schools have been built by the u.s. guest: i am in complete agreement with you. i do not see complete pulling out. the situation along the lines of continued involvement in either korea or germany is more likely. but in 30 years if the situation looks like south korea i would be pretty happy. with respect to the tremendous gains we have made in education, the country has seen an explosion in the number of children educated. more people have moved into the school house in afghanistan than anywhere else on earth and the last five years. many have been women. when women get educated, entire families do. daughters teach

. >> reporter: even crashes like this one in sioux city, iowa, in 1989, marshal says are survivable. 2/of 3 the people on this plane got out alive. these days one key reason you can make it out equipment enhancements, passenger airbags now on some smaller planes could soon be recommended for wider use. >> has this proven to prevent injury? >> a lot of testing done that showed that these really do provide protection. >> reporter: marshal says they will likely only be in seats that don't have cushions in front of them like at bulk head. we asked former ntsb official peter golds about other idea. flight attendant seats have shoulder straps. why not passenger seats? >> there is a neck know logical challenge to put in three point belts on all the seats. >> reporter: the ntsb once looked at equipping planes with smoke hoods for passengers. but mixed that. >> once you had a plane on the ground. if there was the threat of fire. we wanted everyone to be focussed on getting off the plane in 90 seconds or less. we did not want people fumbling around in their seats looking for a smoke hood to pu

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iowa. this narrowly missed the city. one farm was heavily damaged. >> scary stuff. you don't mess with mother nature. lot of thunderstorms around yesterday afternoon. not a lot in the way of true, severe weather. not a lot of trees down. some folks lost a lot of power. we dodged the bullet for big, severe weather yesterday. we have potential for perhaps severe weaer coming our way. as you make your weekend plans, keep a weather eye to the sky. good saturday morning, everybody. sun is out in a few spots. temperatures are going to climb to the mid-80s. it will destabilize things and we'll have a chance for showers and thunderstorms. saturday morning is off to a nice and quiet start as we look live from the vantage point to the airport. there's the washington monument out there in the early morning sky. plenty of clouds out there. a few breaks of sunshine from time to time in the mid to late morning hours. now, sunshine nationallid. national airport is in the low 70s now. due points in the low to mid-70s now. be ready for humid weather. tomorrow, the humidity levels wi

cities in america. beautiful views of the mountains which gives you hiking, biking, utah state university can senior there. that gives you all the great things that come with a college town. >> and iowa. >> amess. >> wow. >> all the perks of the big city with rural charm. people say i can be five minutes out of town. maintain trails, three farmers marks a week, rural, green and very nice. >> it is in the september, october edition of aarp, the magazine. if you want the simple life, meet new friends and do fun things think about it, consider it. >> thanks for joining us. come back and visit us at 5:00. have great day. bye-bye.

in ma son city, iowa, pyrotechics guild international has their annual convention.hey detonate 1,000 fireworks. in chicago 80th annual bud billiken parade and picnic. he's the founder and manager of the chicago defender, that was african-american newspaper. they created the parade to give underprivileged children a chance to be in the limelight. great music. a lot of smiles. >> people came out to see it. >> ever thought it would be a good idea to combine all the events, throw in foorks, bring in elvis. >> overload. >> not necessarily a bad thing. always a good time. >> trying to recoup. >> awfully toasty in chicago. >> it has been in parts of chicago. today they will get a chance to cool down. as we go into tropics look at the other big storm. let's go to the source. there's felicia. the storm has weakened. just over the last 48 hours or so, category 1, expected to weaken considerably becoming a weak tropical storm or depression as it makes landfall in hawaii. in atlanta a very muggy, warm day. temperatures going back to 20e9s. looks good for the time being. throw i

citi, and chase. gretchen: instead of dialing 911 you could text your emergency. iowa messages to 911. new service will help people deaf and hard of hearing it could help kind victims. imagine if you could still get to your phone, peter and be able to text that in. peter: canadian father who posted this youtube video of his 7-year-old son driving the family car now says he regrets letting his little boy get behind the wheel. steve: do you think? peter: as you can see the dad rides in passenger seat with his camera and proudly delivers play by play as his son cruises down a country road. here is his so-called apology. peter: police in quebec are still proceeding with investigation of unsafe at any speed event. gretchen: maybe the driving age is different. peter: it's down now. gretchen: 7? steve: i should point out, i have three children and my youngest daughter sally last night i took her over to the church parking lot near her -- our house and i let her drive for the first time. do you see any gray hairs right there? because it was scary. [screams] steve: can i put my

trace: people in the city of waterloo, iowa have a new way to call for help. texting 911. o the very same. chief thomas jennings joins us. how do you try and differentiate between the bolgus 911 texting and something that might be legitimate? >> we takes them all seriously and then we work from there. trace: it could be a long back- and-forth process. >> it is. with texting, there is a language. we instructed our dispatchers on a text messaging. trace: this is not meant for the masses. you are targeting a specific audience. >> our goal is to provide communication to the hearing impaired, the speech impaired, and those few in situations where they do not want to talk on the phone. trace: if you were a kidnapping victim, the silent 911 call becomes your best friend. how does that work? if you get one shot at it, how do you know if it is legit, if i cannot answer a follow up question? >> i think the best in is that our dispatchers are trained to say what is your location, what is your emergency, and are you in a safe place. the message is to treat it just like any other 911 ca

whether it's co-op housing in major cities or co-op, grain elevators in central iowa or whether it's rural electric cooperatives, farmers wouldn't have electricity today if there weren't rural electric cooperatives. and so if it's in that spirit, yes, i can. >> reporter: mandates. let me ask you about that. one issue is whether or not you have to mandate employers to provide health insurance coverage so that more americans get coverage. how broad would that mandate have to be? >> i'm not for employer mandates because you are going to have a situation where you're going to force a lot of small businesses to have insurance and if they don't have it, you're going to -- like house of representatives and the pell lows see bill is going -- going to put tax on. and it's going to kill small business. >> reporter: how does this bipartisan group that you're a member of get to more health insurance coverage if you don't mandate an employers provide coverage? >> through an individual mandate. and that's individual responsibility and even republicans believe in individual responsibility. and what

iowa. mr. grassley: thank you very much, madam president. this morning a funeral service will be held in sioux city, iowa, for a 44-year-old woman who began working for the people of iowa in my office, january 1988. mary joe hoffman was a loyal and trusted advisor to me and a beloved friend to my wife, barbara, our family and many of my senate staff who served with her more than a decade ago and still in a sense serving with her today. always filled with purpose, mary joe spent the last two years and four months fighting cancer with the tenacity, strength, and determination that we all knew and loved about her. when mary jo set her mind to something, she didn't let much get in her way. she was that way when i met her when she was a bright young college student at the university of northern iowa -- my alma mater -- and she was that way when she worked effectively to serve constituents first as legislative correspondent and as scheduler and as a top aide in my senate office. and later on when she worked for my political campaigns. i valued her judgment and appreciated her hard work and commitment to

as you drive across iowa, it's a long place from city to city, this issue is very hot on talk radio.hink at the end of the day, it would be mistaken that everyone is still boiling about this that they're at each other's throats. talking to some other senators in other districts in other places in the midwest, that's not the sense they were getting either. but no question people are very concerned about this. >> thanks for that. >>> the white house right now is fighting to be heard above all the noise from opponents of president obama's goals for health care. birthd besides the president's town hall, the white house will be talking to senior citizens who are concerned about what might happen to medicare. the director of the office of health care reform joins us now. nancy, let me get your impression at the moment of how the first two weeks of the august recess is going. are you gaining or losing altitude? >> i think we're gaining because every time the president gets out there and talks to the people about what they're experien experiencing, the kinds of people he'll be talking to tod

tax everyone to death or eliminate the benefits of certain parts of sew sigh city and take from medicare to pay for what iowa call the baby boomer care. it is not going to work. you have medicaid for the poor that is fine too. don't try and convince us that making medicare, medicaid, what you do for indians, the military and congress, which you botched, something you can do for the whole population. >> cost containment has not been one of the premier reasons for this but now the democrats are saying hey, we will help cut the deficit. does that make sense to you? >> i think that is actually sort of the fatal flaw in the healthcare reform. there is no one package and a whole bunch are floating around. they focus too much on additional cover and and not enough on the cost. none of the big central issues are fee for service as opposed to fee for results. getting closer link between the person considering the service. toes are the big nasty complex issues that must get addressed if we going to slow the rate of healthcare expense growth which is in the long run but really will kill the deficit. >> is that the reas

if i remember right, you are from iowa, of near sioux city. you or the chairman of the iowa autism council, the father of a nine year-old boy, no, with autism. i understand your wife, tina, is with you. >> you have two other children, and you were here at our last hearing a couple of years ago. >> i was in the audience at the last hearing. >> i am interested in what has happened in the last couple of years, so welcome to the committee, and please proceed. >> thank you for having me. good morning, mr. chairman, and members of this distinguished committee. high and the chairperson of the iowa autism council. i am the parent of a child with autism. i spent over seven years trying to better the lives of individuals and families affected by autism through insurance and education reforms. when i was last in front of this distinguished committee, spoke of the successful and cost- efficient service is my son received. these services were provided in my home in iowa from professionals in florida through the celeste foundations federally sponsored nation

lawmakers are in des moines, iowa -- lawmakers in des moines, iowa, are trying to repeal a 1942 cityrdinance that bans public dancing after 2:00 a.m. i have something to say to everyby in des moines. everybody cut, everybody cut. ♪ ♪ everybody cut, every, everybody cut♪ ♪ footloose ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show tonight. ♪ welcome to the show, everybody. welcome, welcome, welcome. hey, over the weekend, i got the honor of going to my first nascar event. it was in chicagoland speedway. i have never been to one. and it was phenomenal. anyone been to a nascar event? [ scattered applause ] four people? fantastic. [ laughter ] it's soething like you've never seen it before. they asked me to say, "gentlemen, start your engines." that was my line. i was like all right. "gentlemen, start your engines." and i was nervous about it. i get there and god, they just were so nice with their fans, nascar, they give them -- they really soup it up. they give you headphones and cool things, you can hear the drivers like talking as they're driving, all this stuff. so anyways, before the matc

iowa and minnesota. >> 91 in the twin city, 93 in fargo, sunny in the 80s for chicago, indianapolis an detroit, below normalnortheast with 71 in boston, 78 in new york city. that's welcome news. out west just 67 in seattle, 85 in boise and 90 for sacramento. >> well, they are whipping up a fresh batch of creativity to go with an old west tradition. >> they're churning it even. >> i should say midwest. >> the butter cow going on display at the iowa state fair, all 600 pounds of her. the chief butter sculptor. >> there's something about these that make me want some popcorn. >> the pieces take two weeks to build and the butter cow, in case you were wondering, that alone could butter 19,000 slices of toast. >> that sounds good. >> we'll be right back. ♪ cuts like a knife, yeah, but it feels so right ♪ >> the public will have a chance to pay respects to eunice kennedy shriver today at a public memorial in centerville, massachusetts. shriver was president john f. kennedy's sister and founded the special olympics. shy died this week on cape cod after a series of strokes. she was 88 years old. shriver's private fun

if i remember right, you are from iowa, of near sioux city. you or the chairman of the iowa autism council, the father of a nine year-old boy, no, with autism. i understand your wife, tina, is with you. >> you have two other children, and you were here at our last hearing a couple of years ago. >> i was in the audience at the last hearing. >> i am interested in what has happened in the last couple of years, so welcome to the committee, and please proceed. >> thank you for having me. good morning, mr. chairman, and members of this distinguished committee. high and the chairperson of the iowa autism council. i am the parent of a child with autism. i spent over seven years trying to better the lives of individuals and families affected by autism through insurance and education reforms. when i was last in front of this distinguished committee, spoke of the successful and cost- efficient service is my son received. these services were provided in my home in iowa from professionals in florida through the celeste foundations federally sponsored nation

i imagine you're a congress person from, oh, iowa, anywhere in the country, anywhere besides the big citieshere people tend to be automatically democrat. are you better off with a bill that you have to defend or better off with a bill that's going down? >> if you're a democrat in a rural area? i think if you're a democrat you're better off with a bill that says we promise to tackle this issue. i don't see where any democrat gets an advantage if they don't succeed. we've got 60 votes in the senate and a big majority in the house and the white house and they didn't get a bill through on their top priority? that is not a great selling point. >> if that's true then i'll vote for it. we know how they say. here's the president today. let's listen. >> one thing that reform won't change is veterans health care. no one is going to take away your benefits. that is the plain and simple truth. we're expanding access to your health care, not reducing it. >> clarence, susan and i crafted the question. if you're better off having voted for a bill and the bill having passed, why wouldn't most democrats, in

if i remember right, you are from iowa, of near sioux city. you or the chairman of the iowa autism council, the father of a nine year-old boy, no, with autism. i understand your wife, tina, is with you. >> you have two other children, and you were here at our last hearing a couple of years ago. >> i was in the audience at the last hearing. >> i am interested in what has happened in the last couple of years, so welcome to the committee, and please proceed. >> thank you for having me. good morning, mr. chairman, and members of this distinguished committee. high and the chairperson of the iowa autism council. i am the parent of a child with autism. i spent over seven years trying to better the lives of individuals and families affected by autism through insurance and education reforms. when i was last in front of this distinguished committee, spoke of the successful and cost- efficient service is my son received. these services were provided in my home in iowa from professionals in florida through the celeste foundations federally sponsored nation

city weather today. >> hopefully better than iowa. that state fair -- >> yes. >> -- and it's huge and the competitions there. >> there you go. >> the pie, the butter. >> and you've been in there with those butter sculptures. >> it's a huge deal. >> big controversy this year whether or not to have a butter sculpture. >> this is true. it's true. >> of michael jackson. >> i think they decided not to do it. >> i think they did. >> exactly. >>> still to come, what does the obama health care plan really mean for you and your family? we'll break it down and separate fact from fiction. >>> plus, a young mom loses her life to the h1n1 virus. we'll talk to her heartbroken husband. maybe this is one of the most important. new centrum ultra women's. a complete multivitamin for women. it has vitamin d which emerging science suggests... supports breast health... and more calcium for bone health. new centrum ultra women's. advil pm or tylenol pm? with advil pm she's spending less time... lying awake with aches and pains... and more time asleep. he s

iowa and stopping along the way. he is in an upper middle class suburb of kansas city talking about health care reform. >> do you think that the proposals that are put forward, and there are many and they are complicated, do you this i that will somehow affect the quality of care your daughter will get today? >> when this change occurs, i think it will affect it. my understanding is that medicare rates is what all physician are paid. i don't think that's a sustainable practice. when you start to talk about cost and reducing cost, the quality will go down with it. >> how about you, what do you think about what you are hearing and how things might change? >> my personal issue is that i think you are pushing too much change on us at once. i think they are trying to pass it too soon. quit making such a fast-paced decision and try to push it on us all as fast as your trying to do. >> does anybody share that view it is too fast or some think it is overdue? >> i think it is way too fast. >> we are talking about health care. we are talking about what you get when you are sick. i think to rush through this, it is the wrong thi

iowa senator chuck is asking the usda to call 8 areas as disaster area. those counties stretch from sioux city. the state has been hit by three different hail storms this summer. jeff toured some of the fields during the crop tour. >> and here is another thing that not happens in a hail storm. you get this bruising. that's how severe this hail storm was. that's where hail stones hit on this ear. just pounded it. just pounded it. and that's -- that's severe bruising. this is -- this was -- it was a nice corn crop up here. it wasn't a great corn crop because we were getting a little dry, but doggone, now they're just trying to get what they can. >> despite the hail damage, the scouts say iowa will still have a big corn crop, assuming they have a normal finish to the season. >>> for wheat growers, the story is different. harvest season for the winter wheat crop is virtually complete. as of last weekend, the ago department reported that 89% of the crop had been harvested. some fields in idaho, washington, oregon and montana still need to be harvested. >>> now we would like to take a moment to invi

iowa. >> i am from the sioux city area. >> you are the father of nine- year old boy with autism.our wife, tina is with you, and two children. you were here at our last hearing, a couple of years ago? >> i was. >> and you were involved with a project with a young boy. i am interested in with what has happened. welcome to the committee. >> fate you for having me. good morning. my name is joshua cobbs, a parent of a child with autism. i spent over seven years trying to better the lives of individuals with autism through insurance and regulation reforms. the last time here i spoke about the service is my son received using telehealth technology. these services were provided to my home in iowa st. in national research project. we are one of 15 families that participated in this demonstration across the nation. in the model, after a phase of on-site face-to-face training, crucial to build a 30 relationship, which were linked to professionals by a system that enabled life training, consultation, and support in our home when we needed it. to this model we received professional support in

iowa. last night, he had dinner at a home in kansas city.at are put forward and there are many and complicated, do you think that will somehow affect the quality of care your daughter will get today? >> when this change should occur i think it will affect it. my understanding is that medicare rates is what all physicians will be paid. i don't think that's a sustainable practice. when you talk about costs, the quality will go down with it. >> reporter: what do you think about what you have been hearing? >> my personal issue is that i think they are pushing too much change on us at once. i think they are trying to pass it too soon. quit making such a fast-paced decision. >> reporter: do any of you think it is too fast or overdue? >> way too fast. >> too fast. >> way too fast. >> reporter: we are talking about what you get when you are sick. i just think to rush through this this, it is the wrong thing. i know there is something that has to be done. >> reporter: would you say if i would have asked for a show of hands of those of you who think h

all the clouds wrapped up from kansas city to minneapolis and rain beginning to fill in nicely across central parts of iowaand lower parts of minnesota getting in, too. chicago, you'll see some airport delays out of o'hare and midway and that should start up later this morning. look at the rain around your region and not a lot of it reaching the ground and the clouds are there already and they will begin with low and more showers and some will be strong and develop around chicagoland later this afternoon. look at the rain shield overhead now with thunderstorms off towards your west and haven't seen anything severe yet. you see iowa and rain coming on in and lightning flashes out there, too. unsettled for you at the morning hours and then later the afternoon, the entire afternoon erupts and more activity as that warm front goes through. isolated tornados are possible and upper midwest for the afternoon. look at rain across florida and most of it off shore, which is great. later today, you know what happens, gulf breeze, sea breeze could come in and they could collide and nice thunderstorms popping up betwee

iowa, too. severe thunderstorms a possibili possibility, especially from oklahoma city to rochester, too. >>> susanvicz is riding the roller coaster at the new york stock exchange. hello, dear. >> good morning, robin. it's cold, the volatility is back, and you need to take tums if you're going to watch the stock market on a daily basis. the shanghai composite tumbled more than 4% because the chinese stimulus plan won't sustain quality. the company says it's too soon to say the situation is turning around, and hp shares are down 2.5%. deere, maybe you don't have any of those items around because they're farming products. farmers are spending less in equipment as they face weakening crop prices and tight credit. you got to feel for them. but you know who is having a field day, quite literally? brett favre. 10 to $12 million for this guy. could be a worthwhile investment for the minnesota vikings. the nfl says an initial batch of 1200 favre jerseys sold out within hours. robin, i think we talked about this last year. favre's number 4 jets jersey was the nfl's fastest selling jersey last year. we can o

city mayor was at the game. meanwhile we've got warner robins in iowa. justin>> joe. that's a solo shot. we're tied at 2.. bases empty, tray maddux. his second of the day. georgia goes d on to win 11-3. tiger woods entered the barclays next week. the number one golfer plans to play in all four fedexcup events for the first time. a new points system means players lose ground if they take a week off. woods will be the number one seat when the pga tour playoffs, he's got a pretty comfortable lead there. he moved up the most. winning a major helps. >> sergio out of the par 5, fifth. putting for eagle. he finished the day with a 6 under 64. chris riley, with the chip-in for birdie. riley finished the day with a 7 under 63. he is your co-leader, heading into moving day. 7 birdies. in round two for riley. >> world championships in berlin. allison felix, competing in the 200-meter dash. holding off the competition. and she takes the gold in the 20 meters. allison felix. the 200 meters. >> in the men's 40 meter relay, the u.s. team got disqualified. they passed the baton outside of the designated zone. can't do t

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iowa, missouri and illinois. heavy in from florida toro north carolina. windy with thunderstorms and lightning in parts of the ro nc. >> still hot out west, 92 in colorado springs, 98 in salt lake city and a hundred in boise. upper 80s in chicago and detroit. 93 in st. louis. 80s from boast to atlanta. 93 in new orleans and 100 in dallas. >> i think everybody loves a good implosion, an old building wired with explosives blown to smitherines in a matter of seconds. >> demolition of a factory in turkey didn't go quite as planned over the weekend. instead of imploding into a pile of rubble, it just keeled over. >> the top half of the factory landed on its roof missing the building next door by only a few yards. >> the factory was being demolished to make way for a i think the building was upset i think the building was upset. that was itsen sreilckt volt. we'll be right back with more "world news now." ♪ boom, boom, boom, got to get that boom, boom, boom ♪ imodium multi-symptom relief combines two powerful medicines for fast relief of your diarrhea symptoms, so you can get back out there. imodium. get back out there. >> methamphetamine destroys more than the lives of the people who use

iowa. it is recording chief tim davis' cam at 5:00 in the evening. the tornado was spotted on the ground near west union and traveled northeast. just missing the city heading towards eldorado. no one was hurt. a farm sustained heavy damage. the rip current warning signs are up along the beaches of bermuda this evening. the surf is kicking up and already keeping many tourists out of the water. residents are preparing for hurricane bill. they are packing up and moving anything that could be tosse around. inland and to protected areas. jay grey now has much more on the trouble that hurricane bill is stirring up. as one of the final weekends as the summer season begins, thousands along the atlantic coast from florida to new england have an eye on hurricane bill. these pictures shows just how massive the storm is. forecasters expect the hurricane to stay out in the atlantic. hundreds of miles from the.s. coast. bill could still cost some problems. >> if you have an inexperienced surfer or a person that doesn't know what they are doing on the water, don't even try to go out there. >> reporter: but lifeguards and the emergency officials know that high wav

action in northern kansas city in the suburbs, stretching into missouri and lower parts of iowa, too.s area is getting slammed right now in parts of ohio. cincinnati, a little further here, you can see the radar picking up thunderstorms in south indianapolis stretching in towards cincinnati. that's what it looks like right there. let's see what it looks like live on that tower cam. it should be dark and pretty ugly. thunderstorms right overhead in cincinnati. look at the lightning flashing right there. that's all live. you have some strong stuff overhead. it's not severe. severe stuff is still on the atlanta side. this one particular storm, over four inches of rain has fallen since last night. also severe thunderstorm watches for northern parts of missouri. coming out of nebraska, the heavy rain is falling to the east. severe thunderstorm warnings are all in the spots we have in orange. it's going to be hot and humid. take you live to new orleans. crescent city is going to be hot and humid today. it's going to feel like 105 with the heat index starting to look real lovely. that's new

iowa towards the chicagoland area. we have some severe weather over here across upstate new york. this complex is pushing down towards the south and east and will likely make its way into the bigger cities later on tonight. be aware of that threat. last but not least we have heat to talk about. the temperatures just soaring here across the plains. we're looking for heat indices well into the 90s today. that includes chicago down towards indianapolis and the heat spreads east for tomorrow. we have excessive heat warnings in place already for philadelphia. it's going to be feeling like 100 to 105 degrees on monday and tuesday. >> at least in chicago, 90 degrees will feel nice at the beach today, huh? >> 90 on the thermometer, maybe. if you like the heat. >> if it's lakeside, we call it surf, right? >> that's when you want to be outside in my book. >> sure. >> thanks a lot. appreciate that. >>> a popular tourist destination in spain rocked by several bombings. police knew what they were up against. we'll tell you how. it's the chevy open house. and now, with the cash for clunkers program, a great deal gets even better. let us recycle your older vehicle and you could qualify for an addition

cities. that is amateur video that captured the funnel cloud developing near the minneapolis skyline. it tore off part of a 90-year- old church steeple. other tornadoes were reported in with us wis, iowa and illinois. >>> along the east coast, new york's central park, there were wild winds which uprooted as many as 100 industries. branches littered the upper west side. ig the storms hit tuesday night and nobody was hurt. >>> in the prop ins, hurricat bill has ridiculousenned just a little bit now back to a category three hurricane. -- bill has weakened just a little bit now back to a category three hurricane. >> we are still watching that. tony is going to bring us up to date on what is going on. >> i will concentrate on what is happening here at home. we do have a muggy start to the day with with a lot of oucl ds around. no precipitation at this hour. uldn't be shocked in h orthing popped up e er there with th eclouds around. e wethink the precip will hole off until this afternoon. can you see the cloud cover as it pushes into the region this morning. i think it will be more clouds today than sun. currently at reagan national airport, we have a temperature of 74 degrees. relative hum

iowa also getting in on the heavy rainfall. chicago, you've had rainfall already roll through once. we have another batch of rainfall. and kansas citymissouri, that's rolling through, too. for now the heaviest rainfall moves across northern parts of indiana back into the southern parts of michigan. that will move over to detroit eventually. let's go ahead and take you out to san francisco, california where we are looking at this morning. kind of a foggy start to the day. we're going to see temperatures gradually rise up today. going into the 60s, but for the time being, we're dealing with morning fog and that will slow things down at the airport about a half hour. things improving as we go throughout the day, though. >>> looking at -- yeah, not a good monday. you look fabulous, susan. market numbers, no, i cannot say the same for that. >> the market numbers do not look fabulous. rob robin, let's put this in perspective. the market has been rising for five months. the s&p 500 which so many of our retirement savings are tied to, up 50% since the lows in march. there is an expression here that things are overdone, and when -- you know,

city, missouri, with the cnn express. i've been hearing a lot from people across the country. we've started in georgia, went through tennessee, kentucky, illinois, missouri, and now into kansas and then into iowa. we're finding out what people are feeling about health care. the debate, as we've seen, has been heated in town hall meetings all over the country. when we stopped in paducah, kentucky, i had a very civilized, very normal conversation with some folks about their fears and hopes for health care reform, christine. have a listen to this. >> reporter: we are hearing different things from people wherever we're going but i haven't found too many people around here who are opposed to reforming health care. >> i'm for the idea but i don't think that congress and the president have done a good job of disseminating information. i'm just hearing a lot of talk. >> reporter: what about you? >> i think right now we have a lack of choice. i mean, health care is expensive. the average cost of the coverage i found more often than not are more expensive than the actual care. i would think any viable choice would be better than what we've got now. >> reporter: what do you think? >> my understanding, th

city hall, but we're going to try. >> in the early 1990s dr. jim weinstein made a courageous decision. he decided to walk away from tenure and an endowed chair in the university of iowa to go to dartmouth, where he would participate in devising ways to help patients become involved in making decisions about their own care. as a surgeon, weinstein had long felt that patients just weren't getting a fair shake, as he put it. they weren't getting the information they needed about the risks of treatments. too often, informed consent was informed persuasion. ultimately, illness in his own family would drive that lesson home. >> my daughter's name is brienna. she had beautiful blue eyes, curly brown hair; your first child, the light of your life. 13 months later i get a call from our pediatrician saying, "could you come over to the hospital?" and i walk into the pediatrics hospital and i ask my wife what's wrong and she says, "they won't tell me. they won't tell me." the doctor walks in with about, it seems like, ten other people, other people. very intrusive. and said, "i think your daughter has leukemia and we need to treat her, immediately." the protocol for a treatment

iowa. and stopping along the way, last night he talked with a group of people in an upper middle-class suburb of kansas cityr: do you think that the proposals that are put forward, and there are many and they are complicated, but do you think that will somehow affect the quality of care that your daughter will get today? >> when this -- when this change should occur, i think it will affect it, because my understanding is that medicare rates are will be what will be paid. i don't think that's a sustainable practice. when you start talking about costs and reducing costs of health care, i think quality will go down with it. >> reporter: what do you think about the things you've been hearing about the health care proposal? >> my personal issue is i think they're pushing too much change on us at once, and i think they're trying to pass it too soon. quick making such a fast-paced decision and trying to push it on it as fast as they're trying to do that. >> reporter: do any of you share that view that it's too fast or do you think it's overdue? >> it's way too fast. >> reporter: do you think it's too fast? >> way

city, all the way up the coast to maine. also, in that story, the heavy rainfall that falls in the middle of the country today. there's been extensive flooding in iowaif there's good news, it's that the rain moves out of iowa during the day today. but it moves into illinois and also into michigan. there will be heavy rain in those areas. and on the west coast, we talk about the high fire danger. the palos verdes fires >> a very good morning. we're watching some showers through the area. we're shooting for the low 80's this afternoon. we're shooting for the low 80's this afternoon. all that weather was brought to you by mercedes-benz. we'll have more weather from yot from montauk.k. >>> ming up next, a way to cut your grocery story bill in half. and business is booming. when it comes to being more like the original, some 100-calorie snacks justfall flat., ( thud, ding, applause ) 100 calorie right bites. make the most of every bite. caused by a completely blocked artery, another heart attack could be lurking waiting to strike. a heart attack caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix taken with other heart medicine

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