i came over to check it out with jacqui. a lot going on. me get out of your way and get right to it. >> just got the 11:00 advisory and tropical storm claudette is just within a couple miles from landfall. winds still the same at 50 miles per hour. we'll show you the radar picture and watch the heavy bands as they continue to move on in. as we close in here, you will be able to see that center of circulation right about in here. destin is over here. we've got santa rosa beach over in this area. that storm is going to be coming in, we think, right in between there, and it could happen really in the next half an hour plus. those winds continue to stay very much on the strong side. we want to show you some of the reports we're getting across the area. these are just your sustained winds, so those are your average winds that are blowing constantly. but we're getting gusts of 45 miles per hour. we could see those reach as high as 60 miles per hour. the storm will be making landfall through the night tonight, and we'll watch this move into alabam

>> jacqui, thank you very much for that. we appreciate it.acqui also reporting on the tornadoes that she is following as well. we'll check back with her as she gets new information. >>> meantime, justin green is an aviation attorney. he's also a persian gulf war vet who served in the u.s. marine corps as an attack helicopter pilot and aviation officer. thank you, sir, for joining us tonight. here's my question. what is it going to take before stricter air traffic regulations are put into place where these crashes are happening? especially in a very busy area like the new york city area? >> i hope that this accident is going to be enough to make the faa take action. after the cory lidle accident, i, among others, suggested closing the vfr corridor, at least restricting access to it. but this is a double tragedy today. >> after cory lidle, they shut down that space over the east river for quite -- a bit of time. they didn't do that today. might they do that if their investigation turns up some sort of problem with this air space and safety ther

you see meteorologist jacqui jeras is in the cnn hurricane headquarters. she's tracking all the action for you. >>> also, from trafficking drugs to trafficking humans and worse than that. mexico's violent cartels are targeting a new market. taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. >>> we want to warn you, some of what you're about to see and hear is very disturbing. recently we introduced you to las zetas. michael ware uncovers the cartel's grisly side business in human trafficking. again, this is graphic. >> reporter: this is a tale of kidnap, imprison am and worse, much worse. it's the story of those who fall prey to exco's drug cartels because of their hope to come to america. i cannot tell you her name nor anyone else's in this story nor can i show you their faces or tell you where i met them because if i did, they say, they would almost certainly be killed. that's because the violent drug cartels have a new and lucrative business. think of it as a hostile takeover, the pe

meineke. >>> i'm joining jacqui jeras, cnn heat index.he has all of it covered, this us claudette, anna and bill. you said claudette is moving and doesn't look like it will stall. >> that is good news, you get a stalled out system, you get torrential flooding. we're getting heavy rain which isn't great news, we'll have some of that but won't be lingering forever. a tropical storm, maximum sustained winds 50 miles an hour. we're getting gusts stronger than that and gusts along the coast easily in the 35 plus miles an hour range. we'll show you the satellite and where the flooding is. we have shown you apalachicola, a record rainfall 2 or 3 inches. the storm itself is offshore, somewhere in this area here. we missed the lowest level in the point area and we're looking at that happening a couple hours from now maybe around destin or fort walton beach area. it is expected to make landfall late this evening and make its way through the panhandle is alabama tomorrow and much of the deep south will be feeling the impact of claudette with heavy s

jacqui, thank you. >> sure. >>

jacqui, take it away. >> very extreme conditions, don. environment in canada rules the thunderstorm outlooks and they did have what we call severe thunderstorm watches in this area at the time. you see edmonton camrose to the south and east. and there were strong thunderstorm that's blew on through. this was likely strong winds, maybe in excess of 60 miles per hour that pushed through the area. so very brutal conditions. we're trying to get some pictures and get those along to you. i have seen them on the internet. it looks like they will be straight line wind damage. just to put them in perspective for you. this is google earth. there you see the its and this is alberto. dozens of miles outside of edmonton. don? >> and severe weather came through here. there were tornadoes also here in the u.s., right, today? >> yeah. we had a lot of severe weather. not so much in the pacific northwest. we have all seen it across the south and the east today. >> jacqui, keep an eye on it. when we get the pictures, we will bring them to you in the newscas

jacqui joining us now.ne i'm really interesting in because claudette is history and bill looks like it's not going to happen. i'm really interested in ana. >> i don't want you to do this yet about bill. >> really? >> not yet. it's a week out. come on. >> i got to tell you, my buddies down there at the national hurricane, when they draw that clone and it's so far away from the u.s., 99% of the time, they're right. >> it's all about timing and, actually, i have a great graphic. like two winds, be patient, my friend. a great graphic to explain to you and why we don't think it will hit the u.s., at least not yet. things change and if timing doesn't sync up exactly right. timing is everything. it is a hurricane 1 100-mile-per-hour winds and that's a category two and not too far away from a category three. one thing to note here on the satellite pictures, look at that eye. really nice and tight before and now you can see how it has gotten much bigger. an eyewall replacement psychoal and probably bringing itself d

you can see, we talked to our jacqui jeras about this.y clear day in new york city, very sunny at the time of that crash, where there were thousands of people who were out and about both in new york city and in new jersey and they were watching, stunned, as all of this went down. it happened before their very eyes, a small plane and a tourist helicopter in a spiral, right into the hudson river, deep into the waters of that river. meantime, there is some other news here to report here tonight on cnn. we're going to get to a lot of it in just a moment, but first, wasn't to tell you about fighting murder with music. with the soaring homicide rate, new orleans is still struggling after hurricane katrina and the violence is sweeping up children as well. two murders this year involved kids who were just 14 years old. tonight's cnn hero is fighting hard to give children a way out and he's doing it with the power of music. >> music has always been with me. i love to play with two drum sticks in my hand. the legacy is really dying fast. life an ka

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let's go right to jacqui jeras who is tracking bill in the weather center. jacqui?about 350 miles away. those impacts are being felt here in the u.s. coastline. take a look what's happening now. you can see the outer bands approaching the u.s. coastline, will really watch these waves continue to kick up as we head through the afternoon and evening hours. the winds right now, you know, where the real strong ones are, close torte center of the storm. so we're not feeling much other than a breeze for today, but as we head into late this evening and overnight tonight, we'll watch that bill make that close approach to the cape, we think that's going to happen for the most part during the hours that a you're going to be sleeping. landsfaul possible here yet over nova scotia and that will happen mid to late morning tomorrow, this storm look weakening and will be a category 1 at that time but still plenty of problems especially with those high surfs and strong winds. we are going to feel those across parts of cape. there you can see a look over nags head, north carolina, wh

all right, jacqui, thank you very much. we'll get back to you if there are more developments on trorp a ana. i want to bring in bob goldberg who is on hands off my health. >> on twitter, absolutely. >> the reason i'm bringing him in, the social media, a lot of the story, the social media play really big roles in it. bob goldberg says the same thing with hands off my health care on twitter. you said so far 26,000 responses to the white house from this. >> we have a total of 60,000 that have basically sent in a message to the white house that they prefer personal choice than a public option to reform health care. and we have something called tweet the pledge, which is 26,000 basically sent to the white house with the same mess. >> a what are people basically saying as a tweet or send messages to the white house? >> there's two things. one is let's slow down, let's hear what the people have to say about how to use all the money in the system. let's try to use different technologies, the technology of the internet, actually, so

our jacqui jeras watching it all in the cnn weather center. how bad is ber mud d.a. i was going to go to ber mmuda on vacation next week. >> they had it worse than we did, but not so much damage that you'll have a problem when you go back. they didn't have a direct landfall, they had a glancing blow an that's what we are going to have here in the u.s., too. you can see the storm interacting with that front as it approach, that's part of the reason why we're getting some of these weakening, get egg closer to new england, about 3 hundred miles away from the coastline, that closest approach is going to happen tonight. we're expecting it be 150 miles away from nantucket and landfall. land fap s&p fall will be tomorrow observe nova scotia if we get landfall there. outer bands make their way into the coastal area, so watch for wind gusts increasing throughout tonight. >>> it is a story that should lead every newscast, nearly 3 hundred people have died by the gun in chicago just this year alone. many of them were teenagers, some were innocent bystanders caught in the crossf

listen to our jacqui jeras.rything related to hurricane bill. >>> let's head out to the coast light now, a tropical storm warning is in effect in chat ham, massachusetts. that's where we find susan candiotti and there's where she's keeping an eye on the waves and the approaching storm. is that water out in front of you? >> we're on light house beach. it's been a lovely day, really it has, light winds, broken clouds, although the beaches have been closed since yesterday afternoon. last year they had a hurricane out here they obviously escaped a direct hit with hurricane bob. joining us now is jordan berrian. as we take a look at the water over your shoulder. we're losing light fast, obviously. it looks so calm out there. what do we see beyond that sand bar? >> yes, generally in the harbor areas it's going to stay pretty shallow and it's pretty calm in the shallow waters. but out there it's about 8 to 10-foot swells out there. >> and it could get much higher than that after about 9:00 tonight? >> we're looking at

hey, jacqui?ast weekend of summer, people want to get out there and hit the beach and have the last hurrah and weather is not going to be too great for two reasons. cold front moving through bringing great weather across the east and, number two, a very high level of rip currents. the 11:00 eastern time advisory is in a little bit early. this is new information on the latest for bill. you can see those winds, 115 miles per hour and it's holding steady and has a very strong category 3 storm and you can see that direction moving northwest at 18 miles per hour. so, we are seeing more of that northerly pull continuing to take shape. here's the updated track and this looks very much the same. you can see it is staying very strong as a category 3 storm and then curving away, that closest approach up around the cape is going to be on sunday and it could even last into early monday morning. now, how is this going to be impacting you? well, we will see some very big surfs and these are the breaker waves we

okay, jacqui, best of luck to you. we're praying for you as well that you get some rain. >> we'll keep in touch with matt. >> >> what's happening in the rest the country? >> believe it or not, too much rain. it's feast or family, isn't it? you either ver too much or too little. that's been the story of too much across kind of the texarkana area. the rain has been coming down about one to three inches in the last 14 hours across mississippi. heavy stuff pushing into the naturalville area right now. flood watches in place across much of this area, now stretching into even into the virginias as we look at the big picture for the weekend. the story will continue to be torrential downpours in the lower mississippi valley and throughout the south east unseasonably cool conditionings across the upper midwest and across the west, hot and dry, we're not seeing extreme temperature, all-time record highs like we saw earlier their week in pacific northwest but still a lot of 90 degree temperatures will suppress a little bit into t

jacqui? >> hey, don. too much and too little really in terms of rainfall this weekend. of course, that's been going on for months really across the lone star state. there you can see that across texas. just south of dallas. we have been getting this rain along the i-20 corridor. if we can scootch further down to the south, that would make a lot more people happy. unfortunately, a real heavy rain has been here across the arklatex. it's been pushing across the tennessee valley and into the deep south as well. many of you got between one and three inches of rainfall. quite a bit of widespread flash flooding. look out for the heavy rain for our drive, don, going home into the atlanta area and flash flood watches have been posted all the way into the virginias. now, tomorrow we will see more of the same unfortunately. there you can see pretty much everybody east of the mississippi river has a chance of showers and thunderstorms, as some of these could be severe from the delmarva extending down to the carolinas here. a cooler-than-normal conditions across parts of the north a

cnn's jacqui jeras checking it for us, hi, jackie. >> wet weekend, eastern seaboard. havent had a lot in terms of severe weather, isolated severe thunderstorms but the biggest issue we have been dealing with, the storms have been 'causing big-time delays at the airport. so, my condolences to if you you're trying to travel today. believe it or not, these numbers have improved a little bit over the last couple of hours. to over an hour to get to atlanta, jfk, 1:45. 2 1/2 at la ga ward ya, philadelphia looking better. we are dealing with hot conditions through much of the south. >> not good, jacqui, when tough apologize for the forecast. >>> it is aviation-related. >> see you it he top of the hour, jacqui. much, much more on the fate of the remains found in the desert. i'm don lemon. fareed zakaria and "gps" continue in just a moment. and lasts for hours. all day or night. new tums dual action. bring it on. you hungry? yeah. me too. (door crashes in) (broadview alarm) (gasp and scream) go! go! go! go! go! go! (phone rings) hello? this is mark with broadview security. is

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kind of like the health care bill, isn't it, jacqui jeras? just somewhere out there strengthening. >> it's nice that it is in the middle of no where right now but that's not going to stay that way. of course, this is the latest on hurricane bill and this is the brand-new advisory so fresh information and the estimate now is that bill has grown a little bit stronger. 1 105-mile-per-hour winds. there you can see it gusts are stronger than that. we have gone through an eyewall replacement cycle. you look at the eye of this hurricane, see how tight it was and how small it was and how huge that thing was. about 45 miles across. now, in the coming hours what we're expecting, what eyewall replacement cycles do, the storm tends to tighten up and gets a little bit smaller and the storm tends to intensify. we do think that bill will likely become that category 3 storm. only 6 miles away from that as we speak. forecast track is just a smidge, slightly further off to the east, that's great news. we want it see that east, unless you live in bermuda, you'r

jacqui jeras, our meteorologist, keeping a close eye on the weather conditions there. you look at pictures. looks like a beautiful day. a lot of folks were out walking. we heard that from the eyewitnesses and a beautiful day to be flying. how about the wind conditions? >> wind were fine. overall relatively calm. anywhere between 3 and 6 miles per hour. variable too. they were coming from the east or coming from the south. when you are talking about wind that light it is very insignificant. i also checked the upper level winds. and they weren't all that strong either. this is a satellite loop of the area, just kind of showing you there were patchy cloud. cloud at different levels in the atmosphere. but overall sky conditions were just fine. at this point we have no reason to believe that weather would be a concern. just kind of wanted to give you a little tour. show you the area a little better if you are not familiar with hoboken, new york, manhattan island. zoom in for you a little bit. you can see upstate new york, long island area. and going to take a little minute.

jacqui jeras thank you. again, the mayor during the press conference moments ago said simply this was an accident that was just not survivable. much more straight ahead right after this. >>> welcome back. the accident simply not survivable. the words from new york mayor michael bloomberg. talking about a midair collision taking place three hours ago right there in the hudson river between hoboken, new jersey, and lower manhattan. it involved a helicopter with five italian tourists on board. and a pilot which took off from a midtown helicopter tourist agency and the collision with a small aircraft with thee people on board. including a child that took off from the teeterboro, new jersey airport. it collided just after noontime. all nine people are dead. two people, two body have actually been recovered which is now a recovery mission there in the hudson river. but throughout the day we have heard from various eyewitnesses and this is what they have been telling us since just after noontime. >> right now a see

jacqui jeras is tracking felicia in the pacific.on in the atlantic. >>> the mexican drug cartels are expanding their criminal enterprise smuggling not only drugs but humans. >>> americans are rolling up their sleeves as clinical trials for potential swine flu vaccine get under way. elizabeth cohen is following that for us today. kiran? >> with the developments of the investigation of michael jackson's death, the l.a. county coroner's office knows what killed michael jackson but not going public with the information just yet. ted rowlands is following that for us and the battle lines in the fight over michael jackson's estate. >>> john, kiran, six weeks after investigating the l.a. county coroner released a statement saying they've finished all of the work. finished the investigation in to the death of michael jackson. presumably a cause of death has been determined. however, they will not be releasing that information to the general public because the lapd has asked them to keep ahold on that information until the police investigati

the weather, i will have to ask jacqui. jim, i am going to give you the last point. can you hear me? >> yes. >> the reason these people are showing up is they are very concerned about what the future is going to hold for them. they've seen the obama administration since it took office on january 20th try and put government into your lives in almost everies a pebt. what they don't want is dr. pelosi, dr. reed and dr. obama making medical decisions on what tests they need and what types of insurance they should have. that's what they are concerned about. that is why americans akros this country want answers to president obama's health care plan. >> guys, i have to go. i want a one word answer, if you can. doctors say health care costs would go down a lot more if people would get preventive treatment. answer that jim, yes or no? >> yes. absolutely. thank you very much. >> jim. we'll get rid of jim. david, thank you so much. jim, we are sorry. you never looked better. you are very handsome like that. david sirota, we appreciate it. >> ruth simmons rose from poverty and w

our jacqui jeras is following all the weather across the nation. some nasty weather there.it's going to be some big travel delays in the morning. >> it was rough today, let me tell you, don. tomorrow is not looking any better. we had a real strong storm system that moved through the northeast throughout the day, and we had our fair share of wind damage, too. check out these pictures. this is from trenton, new jersey, where 60 plus-mile-per-hour winds blew through the area, cause something damage. it also knocked over some planes at the airport there. knocked over some trailers as well. no one was injured thankfully. now, not just winds, that wasn't the only problem. we also had torrential downpours. up to 5 inches of rainfall across the delaware valley. we'll show you the rising rivers in this area. we also had quite a bit of street flooding taking place as well. cars were stranded. there were a few water rescues which had to take place. much of this was a flash flooding event, so we'll watch this water continue to go down over the next couple of days. the schuylkill parkwa

little something for everybody out there. >> yeah. >> thank you, jacqui. appreciate that. >> sure. >> debating health care. what do you want to see? perhaps you are looking for a chance to ask your congressman or woman directly. we'll get you a status report from washington. ( car door closes ) ooooch! hot seat! hot! hot! hot! time to check your air conditioning? come to meineke now and get a free ac system check. at meineke, you're always the driver. >>> here is what is happening right now. three u.s. troops have been killed in afghanistan's province. roadside bombs hit their patrol. a french soldier was killed in a separate attack. july was the deadliest month for forces in afghanistan since the war began. trials began today for some 100 iranian election protestors. arrested following the disputed re-election of the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad. among the charges rioting and conspireing against the ruling system. >>> and la guardia airport's central terminal some what getting back to normal after that scene earlier today. some flights are delaye

. >> we do hear from our meteorologist jacqui jeras that it's a clear day.ether or not that is a factor here. of course, when jacqui is available we'll get perhaps kind of the wind speed. sometimes wind might be a factor in investigations of aviation accidents such as this. we are learning a little bit more about the aircraft. john, quickly, piper pa-32. what can you tell me about that? >> i imagine it's a small single-engineer craft. my buddies will hammer me if i get it wrong. a great day, no doubt if they came out of teterboro. they would have a great day looking out. the fortunate thing, if there is a fortunate thing about this, we do have one survivor who is going to be better than any cockpit voice recorder. >> which is extraordinary. we are looking at an image of a piper pa-32. i'm a novice on aircraft. i'm not sure what it would mean, this type of aircraft besides the fact that it is a very small one. your estimation how many people might abboard aoard a pa-32? >> i'm looking at it now. pa-32, possibly four people onboard. you have extra windows back

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straight to our jacqui jeras we very latest. jacqui? >> the waves have been incredible today, don.let me get you this right away from our i-reporter. this is from richard and this was taken on the beach in rhode island. the waves were crashing. we had reports anywhere from eight and ten-footers crasng

want to go to meteorologist jacqui jeras from the cnn severe weather center. >> things will improve a little bit, but not a whole heck of a lot. we're approaching the time of the day now where the winds calm down a little bit and the humidity increases just a touch. overall we've been looking at relative humidity down in the single digits for percentages. temperatures in the upper 90s to lower triple digits, and the winds steady, less than ten miles per hour, but we have had some gusts beyond that today, and the smoke is just really billowing and thick. this is a picture to show you from mt. wilson observatory. there from ucla on their towercam. you can see the thick smoke as the winds calm down. really bad for the air quality. so that gets worse tonight. don, dropping a few temperatures tomorrow, but it really won't make much of a difference. >> all right. jacqui, thank you. >>> police in antioch, california, say they will probably wrap up their search for phillip garrido's property tonight. this is what they've been sifting through for three days. take a look at this. ever since it

. >>> jacqui jeras is in the weather center to give us ideas when you go to big public settings like this outdoors what do you need to do to stay safe, especially, you know, if you were somewhat aware of bad weather that could be percolating? >> really one of the most dangerous places to be when you're outdoors. there's no shelter around, talking hundreds of people, large crowds you have to move. most venues have some type of emergency plans in place. a couple things you can do of course, make yourself aware of the weather. before you go check the forecast, get on the computer, cnn.com whether ever you like to go and find out if that threat is there. then as you are walk nothing that place, like maybe say an arena or a stadium, you know, you go up the stairwell, you notice a little sign where it says tornado shelter, places like the stairwell as well, if they are covered or the bathrooms some of the safest places to be. if you are out in the open, need to find the closest shelter and probably better off in your car than the open field, severe storms are trying to move through your ar

maybe thunderstorms coming in late tomorrow. >> jacqui jeras, appreciate that. we continue to watch the developments there over the hudson river, now a recovery mission, trying to find the wreckage and seven other bodies. in all, nine people tie dprooid this mid-air collision between a tourist helicopter, five italians and a pilot on board. as well as a small aircraft with three people on board including a child. we understand that the helicopter had taken off from a midtown area, the heliport of that business, liberty are tours and just shortly after takeoff, this small aircraft which had taken off from the teterboro airport in new jersey according to the mayor eyewitness accounts say that small aircraft careened into the rear of that helicopter and it simply spiralled down. this was an accident, according to the mayor, that was simply not survivable. we'll have much more straight ahead in the "newsroom" right after this. >>> a tragic mid-air collision over the hudson river taking place about four and a half hours ago. well, new york mayor michael bloomberg sai

y se encuentra nuestra querida jacquie. >>> gracias chicas tenemos de todo.la madre naturales fue provocado por el siste sistema frontal, en carolina del norte bastante fresco. tenemos este ante kwi clon que permite condición secas. y al mismo tiempo está permitiendo que toda esta masa de aire cálida. se está haciendo sentir hacia el medio oeste. hablamos que hasta el fin de semana las temperaturas de 90 grados en adelante se harán sentir de chicago a nueva inglaterra. por el momento siguen altas temperaturas condiciones secas sobre texas. y a el igual que el suroeste. y los vientos en ráfagas con justo del sureste de california hasta medio méxico, seguimos con avisos y alertas, descartas eléctricas en el noroeste y otro sistema que va a generar precipitación. scargas eléctricas nuevamente hacia el sureste de texas. el oeste de lousiana. y las precipitación se van a desplazar al mismo tiempo que la hola de calor será de medio oeste hasta el medio atlántico. y ironía de la madre naturales, hablamos de felicia, un huracán categoría 4. afortunadamente no represe

jacqui jeras tells us about her hot trip to texas. >>> it has been a deadly weekend of fighting in afghanistan. three american troops were killed today. in july, 75 troops were killed in afghanistan, the deadliest month for international troops since the u.s.-led invasion in 2001. >>> at afghans prepared for this month's presidential election it's worth $223 million to make sure the process runs smoothly. cnn's ivan watson is in kabul and shows us the new multimillion dollar kit. >> this is just a piece of the operation. it's a $223 million procedure. what is being put together? election kits. it shows you the complications are trying to put on an election. lanners in each kit, because much of afghanistan does not have electricity. how are you going to count ballots? security tape, batteries,ive, and then secure ties, locks to make sure that will diminish the amount of possible fraud, and then thinks bins going across afghanistan. because transcript is different in this country they're using also from trucks to helicopters, airports, even donkeys. more that 3,000 to distribute these ballots. c

as jacqui jeras reports, many farmers are hurting, and that may affect your menu. >> reporter: matt's family has been raising cattle and cotton on this texas land for four generations. >> the status of the ranch is sort of on hold. we got 44, 45 more days to try to figure out what we're going to do for the next year. if we don't have any rain, we're just kind of in a holding pattern until we give up and somewhere around the first of october. >> reporter: he's one of many texas cattlemen who may have to sell off the herd in order for his ranch to survive. he's already sold a fifth of his 500 cattle because he can't afford to feed them. in good years, his herd grazes on plentiful hay and corn from his own fields. he sells the surplus for profit. but this year, he's had to resort to protein pellets to keep them alive. he calls it cow candy. >> you can see some of them don't look too great. you can start counting ribs. >> reporter: the drought in south central texas is considered exceptional. there's been no significant rain for nearly a year, and searing temperatures are drying up the wa

our jacqui jeras watching it all for you. >>> hints to today from president barack obama's health anduman services secretary that the white house may be willing to give up the fight for a public health insurance option. on cnn's state of the union, kathleen sebelius said there will be competition with private insurance companies as part of health care reform, but she said, a public plan is "not the essential element in providing that competition." some senators are calling for nonprofit health care co-ops. i'm don lemon. i will see you right back here in the top of the hour in a few minutes where we are covering all the weather news for you. now back to fareed zakaria and "gps" after this. (pouring rain) i had a great time. me too. you know, i just got out of a bad relatio... it's okay. thanks. goodnight. goodnight. (door crashes in, alarm sounds) get out! (phone rings) hello? this is rick with broadview security. is everything all right? no, my ex-boyfriend just kicked in the front door. i'm sending help right now. thank you. (announcer) brink's home security is now broadview securit

thanks, jacqui. >>> and that. make or break health month. we're hearing a government alternative to private coverage might not be a make or break part of the white house's push. the head of the senate budget committee, democrat kent conrad says nonprofit insurance cooperatives might be a good alternative to compete with the insurance companies and the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is not pushing hard for the public option. here is what she had to say on our program, cnn's state of the union. >> i think the president is just continuing to say let's not have this be the only focus of the conversation. coverage for all americans, lowering the crushing cost for everyone, making sure that we have new rules for insurance companies. that they can't dump people out of the marketplace if they get sick, that they can't dump your coverage, that you can't be priced out because you're a woman instead of a man and gender discrimination won't be allowed to continue. those are essential parts of newt program arc long with choice and

jacqui, good to see you. i know you'll focus a bit on the tropics and is there some news on felicia, right? >> yeah. we got a couple changes, actually. felicia has been downgraded and now a tropical depression. great news to see those winds to continue to be reduced. 35 miles per hour maximum sustained. this isn't going to be a wind storm for hawaii, it is going to be a wave storm. we could see heavy rainfall in this area. that's what's going on in the pacific and we're also dealing with a new stystem in the atlantic. this is tropical depression number two. there you can see it, still way out in the middle of the ocean. cape verde islands there and it could strengthen a little bit and become our first tropical storm of the atlantic season and we're starting that game a little bit late. it's august, so, to start seeing storms like that, we expect things to get more active in the upcoming weeks. now, back here at home, let's talk about some of the extreme weather we have been having. this have video from louisv

let's check in with jacqui jeras in our severe weather center. >> we have a lot of extreme weather today, and we want to start out oversees because a very devastates situation is going on in taiwan and china both. let's check out these pictures that we have out of taiwan where a tropical system has been producing some torrential downpours. there you can see the pictures of this. believe it or not, they have had as much as 7 feet of rain. there you can see a hotel that was actually toppled over due to some unsettled ground from the waves and the saturated ground and the heavy rainfall in that area. this is the worst flooding that taiwan has seen in 50 years. thousands of people have been stranded in their villages as they've been cut off by the water. dozens are missing and feared dead. that typhoon today is pounding the coast of china forcing the million to flee to safety. it is moving up to the north and it's weakening packing winds now of 74 miles per hour. but it's expected to bring some very heavy rain to shanghai. back here at home, still in the pacific, we're dealing with a much ta

we turn now to our jacqui jeras. we're talking about a twister in minneapolis in a suburb there and what is going on in taiwan and overseas? >> yeah, the pictures have been incredible. right over here in our google earth, we have a satellite picture to show you where the storm is. here's taiwan right here. the storm made land fall here and the center is over land now. the maximum winds only about 40 miles per hour right now, which will be the equivalent of a tropical storm. and the storm wasn't even that strong when it was over taiwan, by the way. >> what gives? >> it stalled out. it sat there for about 24 hours over the island, and so they literally had nearly 7 feet of water. >> in a small amount of time. >> just from rainfall, not storm surge, really, really incredible. >> is that the hotel? >> yeah, this is the hotel and that was incredible pictures, as well. this is like a six-story hotel and there you can see it gave way because the ground underneath it all that soil everything got washed away. incredible video

jacqui bensen,news4. >>> dozens of new bus stops in the district have been vandalized in recent days. somebody is shattering the clear glass panels. the damage has been reported in several parts of the city, but most of the affected bus shelters are in northwest washington. >>> police in frederick county are trying to figure out who torched part of a football field. middleson high school someone burned part of the artificial turf. you can see the damage at the 50 yard line there. the artificial turf field is brand-new. repairs could cost up to $75,000. >>> a war of words is under way after a fire broke out at a fire station in prince georges county. it has to do with the response of the boulevard heights alleer oth stations forrefiters cdle other tations for backup, but the on havol nye on nonny duty. it took eiges mutin for the next closest station in district heights to respond. now there is a fight about whether staffing changes are to blame. >> the staffing and current redeployment used in the prince georges' county had no impact whatsoever, zero impact on this incident. >> we wer

jacqui jeras will be here watching this with eagle eyes, so you'll be up to speed. >> are you saying good-bye for the day? >> no, always watching. >> have a great day for the rest of your saturday. see you in the morning. thafrps, reynolds. >>> days after typhoon morakot, it is not getting easier for the survivors. more than 100 confirmed daeths now, hundreds missing, thousands of homes destroyed. bridges and the infrastructure washed out, making the rescue and recovery so much more difficult. john vause reports for the very latest. >> reporter: even more tie phone morakot hit, getting to the remote villages was tough. now it's nearly impossible. major roads are blocked by mudslides and debris. some have been washed away. then there's this bridge, simply gone, brought down during the storm, completely cutting off the village. the river below is still swole and not rapid. a few who tried to cross there were swept away, plucked to safety by rescue crews. the only way in and out is by this harness. so far more than 100 people. they say it's pretty safe. but it's still a long way down. p

thank you so much, jacqui. >> all right. play it safe. and don't close any more cash for clunkers deals. that's what the national automobile association is telling dealers this weekend. the warning comes though the house has voted to put $2 billion into the program after it ran out. the senate is expected to vote next week. cash for clunkers lets americans trade in their gas-guzzling vehicles for more fuel-efficient ones. the federal government kicks in a rebate of up to $4,500. now some dealers are concerned they're not going to get their cut because it has been so hugely popular. well the white house says, don't worry, go ahead, cut the deals. the money will be there. >>> family's dream of moving on up, into a florida condo complex, is fading fast. they're the only residents in a 32-story, high-rise, thanks to the real estate boom that went bust. christina bailey of wftx, in fort myers, florida, explains. >> reporter: victor vangelakis and wife kathy dreamed of retiring in southwest florida and leaving this riverfront condo to their chi

jacqui jeras joining us to tell us about that and what's going on here. a lot of water. >> it is. it's so devastating and such dramatic pictures. the storm just sat there for about two days over taiwan. on friday and saturday, that's why they had so much rain, as much as seven feet nearly in some areas. after that the storm took aim on china. these are pictures from sunday out of china where you can see there were torrential downpours, heavy rainfall as well. winds were gusting around 74 miles per hour. so this was the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane as it hit china's east shore. that was today in china. the storm continues to move up to the north and will bring heavy rain into parts of shanghai. here at home into the pacific, the central pacific, we're watching hawaii for a tropical storm. this is felicia. this was a category 4 storm on thursday. now it's a tropical storm packing winds around 50 miles per hour, and you can see it's very disorganized and the northern side of the storm is starting to flare up a little bit. some greating convectioer conve. it should continue to

>> thank you, jacqui. >>> now to the harsh facts about chicago. so far this year nearly 300 people have been murdered in that city. 258 were killed by guns. more than 5,000 handguns have been taken off the street. add to that, 232 assault weapons. you get the point. police say homicides are down slightly. but that's after a stunning murder rate in 2008. keep in mind, this year isn't over yet. let's go to "chicago's deadly streets." summer is hot in chicago. people are looking for relief. not just from stifling temperatures -- >> it's bad. it's real trouble. it's too much violence here. >> it's sad. i would rather be in the country. the city is not for us. >> reporter: relief from the heat of gunfire and a wave of violence gripping the city streets. >> wbgn news at 9:00 -- a teenage girl is in critical condition tonight. hurt in a possible drive-by shooting on the south side. >> reporter: it is a war zone. consider this -- this year 287 u.s. troops have been killed in afghanistan. 113 in iraq. in chicago, 293 people have been killed. 69 of those we

that looks like a whole lot of fun, jacqui jeras. >> heck, yeah, have you ever been to one of those places? >> i have, all the heat and rain, it's probably a good place to go. i think there's one here. don't you take their kids? do they let adults? >> got to love the monkey joe's. do they let you jump up and down. >> sometimes yes, especially if you have a private party for your children there, jump and do flips. i'll invite you next time. >> okay, i'm going. >> lots of people spending time indoors this weekend with showers and thundershowers all across the south and the southeast. really heavy rain, torrential downpours. we're talking about flooding. believe it or not especially along the i-20 corridor and northward. rain moving through the nashville area. isolate std thunderstorms have been rolling across parts of the northeast but this isn't going to be enough really to impact your plans, just short-term. boy, it's been hot, oh, yeah, again. 100 degrees in austin right now, still 100 degrees in san antonio. a number of records fell again today across the state. in fact, in san antonio,

jacqui jeras joining us to tell us about that and what's going on here. a lot of water. >> it is. it's so devastating and such dramatic pictures. and you know, the storm just sat there for about two days over taiwan. on friday and saturday, that's why they had so much rain, as much as seven feet nearly in some areas. after that the storm took aim on china. these are pictures from sunday out of china where you can see there were torrential downpours, heavy rainfall as well. winds were gusting around 74 miles per hour. so this was the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane as it hit china's east shore. that was today in china. the storm continues to move up to the north and will bring heavy rain into parts of shanghai. here at home into the pacific, the central pacific, we're watching hawaii for a tropical storm. this is felicia. this was a category 4 storm on thursday. now it's a tropical storm packing winds around 50 miles per hour, and you can see it's very disorganized and the northern side of the storm is starting to flare up a little bit. some greater convections. we could see w