lester? >> charles hadlock, thank you. as the gulf coast awaits the leftovers of bonnie, much of the mid-atlantic and northeast parts of the country are doing a slow roast. brutal heat and humidity with triple-digit heat indices are creating dangerous conditions. the midwest is trying to recover after violent storms and floods. rehema ellis picks up our coverage from manhattan central park. >> reporter: hi, lester. today there are excessive heat warnings in effect in 11 states. besides the oppressive temperatures some places are dealing with the effects of torrential downpours that caused major flooding. in some parts of the country, the summer continues to sizzle. >> it's humid and hot, sticky and even the breeze is warm. >> even hot in the park. >> reporter: another heat advisory was issued in new york when temperatures climbed to the mid 90s. that combined with smothering humidity made it feel like it was over 100 degrees. the hot, steamy weather triggered a flurry of thunderstorms. lightn

lester? >> anne thompson tonight, thanks. >>> with all this, that means along the louisiana bayou, there is a new unknown to deal with, and that is causing some high anxiety for people already dealing with their share of disaster. michelle kosinski is in dulac, louisiana, for us tonight. michelle? >> reporter: hi there, lester. people's lives here are so close to the water, there isn't much they could do about the storm. they can either ride it out or get out. some people say a hurricane headed for them wouldn't normally faze them, but they have never had a storm mixed with oil. in new orleans this morning, they closed the flood gates and loaded up sandbags in plaquemines parish. a day to clean up, tie down, move out. >> water got this high. >> reporter: on property still scarred from katrina and where those memories live so close to the surface. shrimper lynette gonzalez, known as net -- >> after katrina, you learn to just move your stuff. >> reporter: -- is trying to protect what is left of

lester, thanks, too.

lester? >> that's certainly good to hear, michelle, thank you. >>> now to a still-developing story overseas, american troops in afghanistan are tonight engaged in a desperate search for two of their own who have gone missing. u.s. officials say the american navy sailors have not been heard from since they left their compound on a routine trip two days ago. but officials are refusing to confirm a taliban claim that one of the servicemen is being held captive. nbc's pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski joins us from our newsroom. >> u.s. military officials are baffled, asking how did their two sailors get so far from their post and attacked by the taliban? at the same time, they're determined to track down and return the two americans. u.s. forces launched a massive search for the missing sailors, setting up checkpoints, searching for the slightest clue. in kabul today, joint chiefs chairman, admiral mike mullen. >> there's a tremendous effort going on to find them, to search. >> reporter:

lesters program. everybody talks about robust and adaptive. i will tell you the programs we invest in, we'll get fired if we under invest the point of the matter is we have to invest in something. we filled our first waste water plant. you build one that sat there waiting for the population you would get fired and that thes terminology we have to use. we invest the things to day that become the solution for tomorrow and the state has the resources now and probably in about a year or a year and a half we can't do more studies we have to move on action steps not only for the global warming but the endangers species questions nor owe and we can make those decisions and i don't fear them because i think we have good enough engineers and solutions and coupled with what lester concluded with, we have to get a level on thecs 2 gas emissions. i don't care if people are worried about global warming or not. you can get them into arguments. while we're doing some thing about it it's going to be more volatile and cause problems. what am i doing? i started

public engage meant so, what i'd like to do right now is say, let's follow up on the comment that lester snow made about getting a communications plan going. one of the things to kick that off today i'd like to say the san francisco public utilities commission will be able to pledge one hundred thousand. my budget, well we have one vote but i think we can get unanimous support for that. but get a hundred thousand for our agency and what i'd like to do is see some west coast and east coast for too emily, california, or gone , colorado, each of us pledge a hundred thousand dollars to this public outreach to educate people about how climate change leafy fekt one of our most precious resources, drinking water. and how it will effect waist water. real life things to educate people. i think all other major agencies - the larger agencies should pledge a hundred thousand dollars. i know everybody likes to think of themselves as the big kids but smaller agencies can pledge 50 thousand. then what would be great, lester , is for the state,dwr, is match the collection of the different agencies. [app

lester? >>> it was quite a week in washington politics with veteran new york congressman charles rangel getting toward face ethics charges in the house and the story that dominated the headline it is this week, the embarrassing on us ter of agriculture official shirley sherrod. for more on this, we turn to cnbc walk correspondent. the president would have liked to talk about financial reform, but we weren't talking about that. how badly did that hurt him? >> this is the week that the president struggled with the news cycle. he's had a lot of unfortunate incidents where the stories crop up and the washington struggles to contain them over the course of the week with the sherrod mess earlier in the week, the white house really did not distinguish itself as they were forced to apologize. the president had to make a call. all of that interrupted a news cycle in which the president really wanted to talk about one of the signature victories of his term so far and that was the wall street reform bil

him lester rain however, and your probably really sick of hearing that, so, next slide. what i'm going to do is talk a little bit about - not the science or impact which i've worked with quite a bit - but rather resources for managers to try and close some of the discussions. you heard this and this is a conclusion from years back from the water assessment approach. the people are chaning. and it's effecting society and water sources are now unavoidable. again 7 years back, and by no means i went back to my records and congress don edwards some of you may remember, held a hearing in 1987 on impacts of climate change on san francisco bay area and that was years back but it's getting a lot of attention but not a new issue. this graph could be temperature over time or green house gas over time. population. but what it is, actually is the number of publications scientific publication addressing climate change and water resources globally from 1950 up until the present and mike is still here. he was the lead author on this article it came out in the journal of climate change,

but that wasn't the point i heard miss lester make but it was to accommodate the neighborhood association who showed out in numbers at the draft e.i.r. hearings. i think it's critical that people in the neighborhood and their needs are taken into consideration and i don't believe that request of an additional being, given that it's summer and people tend to take family vacations in summer in august that it's an unreasonable request to postpone for one week. so i think project sponsor's needs are obviously important, but so are the neighborhood's needs. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: maybe i could ask staff questions on this. so originally, this was noticed for today and it's been represented by, i mean the project sponsor that about two weeks ago, they asked you for the continuance, is that correct? >> correct, a little over two weeks. commissioner antonini: , ok, two and a half weeks ago did you inform the dir requesters of that continuance? >> this is technically not a dr case. commissioner antonini: yeah i misspoke. >> so i informed miss lester of the continuance when sh

then what would be great, lester , is for the state,dwr, is match the collection of the different agencies. [applause] we are willing to volunteer. we are willing to volunteer our staff of the san francisco, puc, is willing to be the group that convenes the different communications heads. all of you have public relations people or head of external affairs, and we'd be willing to pull together that committee of different communication heads of different agencys to see about getting and energy gaming public outreach. any of us going to do heavy lifting with planning, legislation, we have to get the public to buy in and say, that's right way to spend our money, and yes, i will make that tough decision about conservation. i'll get off my soap box now but i hope you join me and e-mail and say, we're in. >> susan, i urge you to say what they can do about it's a well. not just how serious it is people are looking for that. and i'm sure you meant that but i wanted to add that. >> we have one response here and then we'll go to the floor. >> i just wanted to follow the very important point about edu

that's a two-base era, but lester may have been shaken up a bit. the next, saunders.p and the mariners got 3 more in the 8th. boston, seven games back in the east. in sports, you >>> >>> the last heavy lifting was done in spain today. contador is set to win again. it's a 32-mile individual time trial. last race for 38-year-old lance armstrong. he's almost 40 minutes behind the leader. >> well, if you thought it was easy, take look at johan -- he's exhibit a of how tough these trials can be. stage was won by the sprint king -- but it came down to two guys, schleck and contador. schleck had a couple of slips that cost him time and possibly the tour. contador actually trailed she trailed schleck but he made up time. he has a 39 second lead over schleck. santa rosa's levy finished fourth. >> the brick yard 400, former indy 500 winner monitory ya is on the pole. a memory refresher of what happened last week. keselowski took a couple of hard hits an was lucky to escape injury. edwards was docked 16 points. keselowski is in the white no.22 car in the middle of an accordion w

area we talk about overlaying that planning process with a focus on climate change and i talked to lester snow last night about this and i'm glad to hear the department will be promoting that but that's a good forum for the work we're talking about here today. with all the partners the local agencies and others and there is a public engage meant component as part of that. when we develop the plan one element we try to do is reach out to community groups and stake holders. i think that's one place california already has a process in place and it would be helpful for all of us to focus on climate change as part of that process. >> thank you. >> good morning. larry wilson. i'm thinking as a product of this summit that we should come up with a statement of the reality of science as we see it today. we all agree that certain things really happening. we ought to state the obvious. a statement from this summit signed on to by the participants here and if we can do that along with some of the back up issues about the action plans and stuff like that we can probably put out a product with a value

public engage meant so, what i'd like to do right now is say, let's follow up on the comment that lester snow made about getting a communications plan going. one of the things to kick that off today i'd like to say the san francisco public utilities commission will be able to pledge one hundred thousand. my budget, well we have one vote but i think we can get unanimous support for that. but get a hundred thousand for our agency and what i'd like to do is see some west coast and east coast for

been killed so far in july with twelve of those deaths coming in the last day or so for r t m or lester washington d.c. . the u.s. is handed over the last of iraq's prisons to the country's government authorities will take control of around one thousand six hundred sixty camp cropper close to the capital baghdad the u.s. will continue though to hold two hundred detainees some of which were members of saddam hussein's last government though the majority have been identified america is slowly withdrawing from iraq with a final deadline set for december next year let's get more now from andrew gilligan he's a journalist with britain's telegraph he also worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched back in two thousand and three and even to you good to have you on the program to talk first about these two hundred detainees still being held by u.s. forces what we know about the man drew indeed they were likely to be and why haven't they been how did over do you think. well the problem is we don't know very much about them we know that some of them are high ranking m

i'm lester holt, reporting in new york for all of us here at nbc news, good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. i'm diane dwyer. several fires in san jose overnight kept firefighters busy. the most severe burned part of an apartment complex and killed an 8-year-old girl. the fire started just before 2:00 this morning in an apartment on hamilton avenue at meridian. george kiriyama is in san jose with the latest for us. george? >> well, diane, we've learned six families, more than 20 people, are staying somewhere else tonight. some with friends, others at a nearby hotel. a maintenance worker was boarding up a couple of apartment units. it was tough for many of the neighbors because an 8-year-old girl died in this fire. she was visiting from north carolina and was staying with relatives here at the apartments. firefighters found the 8-year-old in a back bedroom of a bottom apartment unit and pulled her out. she died an hour later. there were five other children and a couple of adults inside when the fire broke out. most of them were able to get out on their own.

i with twelve of those deaths coming in the last day or so for our team i'm more lester washington d.c. . where u.s. strategy needs afghan chiefs to take control which will be fall for means the afghan war veteran jake in the past his experiences. the overall strategy is just shoot pass over leadership from the americans and the coalition forces to the afghans but as die experience when i was just in afghanistan a few months ago in the afghan national army training center again national army is going to be in effect even unable to get leadership from the americans now like you're going to hear a lot of talk about the iraq surge working because we passed raqi the leadership of the iraqi army but the iraqi army is light years ahead of where the afghan army has the afghan army is is ill effect given in every possible way so to tell we're going to gain momentum going fortunately unless there's peace talks and peace negotiations the situation will always be a quagmire. still to come on the program a blog also from the palm. the seeds of polygon became so popular that alongside the memorabil

been killed so far in july with twelve of those deaths coming in the last day or so for r t i'm more lester washington d.c. . news from russia this is spectacular a prominent russian human rights activist natalya estemirova has been identified and placed on a wanted list studies according to president dmitri medvedev who outlined the course of the investigation after a meeting with german chancellor angela merkel estimate of who was kidnapped and murdered in the north caucasus region a year ago night or a series of reports. russian authorities are claiming success a year since the murder of a chechen human rights activist in this together to say they knew who did it the russian president can say and they now have a main suspect and he has been put on the international most wanted list now the hunt goes on for those who ordered the murder soon after that was killed russia's president said finding those responsible was a metal or not i wouldn't to say on identified men bundled a fifteen year old woman into a car if she left. her body riddled with gunshot was discovered later that day lying in

more lester washington d.c. . for the u.s. strategy to work the afghan forces have to take control but the transition that will be anything but straightforward as afghan jake debated points out. the overall strategy is to pass over leadership from the americans and the coalition forces to the afghans but as i experience when i was just in afghanistan a few months ago in the afghan national army training center. again national army is going to be ineffective and unable to take over the leadership from the americans now while you're going to hear a lot of talk about the iraq surge working because we passed rocky the leadership of the iraqi army but the iraqi army is light years ahead of where the afghan army is and the afghan army is is ill effect given in every possible way so to tell we have a good game momentum and unfortunately unless there's peace talks and peace negotiations the situation will always be a quagmire not in thirty five years ago russia and the u.s. took a john leap for mankind the launch of the first joint sp

been killed so far in july with twelve of those deaths coming in the last day or so for r t m or lester washington d.c. . first five years ago the u.s. took a giant leap for mankind the. joint space mission. they have at most only the beginning of an era of space cooperation between the two countries but also a warming in cold. were nations company out of a reflects on an historic all of us henri. it was a turning point the launch the keenly fought call the war space race into new heights two rockets blasting off half a world away from each other would bring the soviet union and the united states into the same orbit when so use nineteen and the apollo craft docked i should a whole new chapter in space exploration the first ever joint project between two better rivals it was a giant leap for the men on board two. he was the second pilot in a say you screwed. apollo it was one of the most significant moments in history of russia and the us before everything was secret all the details of our space programs every detail was a pool of project we could finally pass the barrier. you believe he

lester holt will be here with you this weekend. we hope to see you back here on monday night.e meantime, have a good weekend. in the meantime, have a good weekend. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> another major bay area city is losing dozens of cops. >> it isn't a lay-off, it's a quiet forced reduction. the announcement made as the f

been killed so far in july with twelve of those deaths coming in the last day or so for r t m or lester washington d.c. . the u.s. has handed over the last of iraq's prisons to the country's government authorities will take control of her own one thousand six hundred detainees have come close to the capital baghdad america's slowly withdrawing from iraq with a final deadline set for december next year the u.s. will continue to hold two hundred detainees though some of which were members of saddam hussein's last government though the majority of the five still but earlier i spoke to andre gilligan he's a journalist from britain's daily telegraph newspaper and also worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched back in two thousand and three he told me that remaining prisoners of the last go in the u.s. occupation. they are the last remaining if you like american black hole of detainees we we know roughly who's held one town in mowbray we know who's in custody in afghanistan and we still don't know who these people are conditions in very many. not very good condit

all of those deaths coming in the last day or so for r t m or lester washington d.c. . us is just he needs afghan troops to take control which will be far from easy afghan war veteran a date in the best who shares his experiences the overall strategy is just to pass over leadership from the americans and the coalition forces to the afghans but die experience when i was just in afghanistan a few months ago in the afghan national army training center again national army is going to be ineffective and i'm able to take over the leadership from the americans now while you really hear a lot of talk about the iraq surge working through past raqi the leadership of the iraqi army but the iraqi army is light years ahead of where the afghan army is and the afghan army is is ineffective in every possible way so you tell we're going to gain momentum and unfortunately unless there's peace talks and peace negotiations the situation will always be a quagmire. also come on the program last from the pos. the scenes apollo got became so popular that alongside with your memorabilia the spe

guy named lester smith. got on the phone. i told him what i wanted to do and he said to me, okay. he said that sounds like a -- what are you going to do with the million dollars? i said i'm going to take elvis on tour. and he said to me, well a million dollars is a lot of money. what do i get for the million dollars? i said, you get 50% of my concert company. he said, 50%? i said, yeah. 50%. he said, for how long? i said forever. you got 50%. now i made a very good deal because i didn't have a concert company so i wasn't really giving him -- >> larry: he made a good deal too. >> yes he did. >> larry: the elvis presley performance that rocked the concert world, next. youtube didn't exist. and facebook was still run out of a dorm room. when we built our first hybrid, more people had landlines than cell phones, and gas was $1.75 a gallon. and now, while other luxury carmakers are building their first hybrids, lexus hybrids have traveled 5.5 billion miles. and that's quite a head start. ♪ that can take so much out of you. i feel like i have to wind myself up just to get out of bed. th

guy named lester smith. got on the phone. i told him what i wanted to do and he said to me, okay. he said that sounds like a -- what are you going to do with the million dollars? i said i'm going to take elvis on tour. and he said to me, well a million dollars is a lot of money. what do i get for the million dollars? i said, you get 50% of my concert company. he said, 50%? i said, yeah. 50%. he said, for how long? i said forever. you got 50%. now i made a very good deal because i didn't have a concert company so i wasn't really giving him -- >> larry: he made a good deal too. >> yes he did. >> larry: the elvis presley performance that rocked the concert world, next. another heart attack could be lurking, waiting to strike. a heart attack that's caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix, taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming dangerous clots. ask your doctor

lester on the republican line. would you vote for an independent? caller: i would vote for a tea party person. i had it with the republicans. they don't have the guts to really go after the democrats. i have had it with obama madness. i am tired of what is going on. i want conservatives in there who will bring the country back away it used to be paired -- used to be. host: texas, independent line. caller: yes, i am an independent but i mainly vote with the democrats, but i do believe we should be voting for the person and not the party. host: how would you be voting? caller: primarily with the democrats, but i do go down the list and studied the candidates. host: arlington, virginia, democratic line. caller: listen, it is a wasted vote voting for an independent for president. he does not have the party structure. obama, even though he has the majority of independents and what not, he does not have enough votes to do what he has to do. if you are in -- independent, you are out there by yourself. 3 republicans. they had such a disastrous affiliation w

lester is hoped that they can convince their colleagues -- let's just hope that they can convince their colleagues in the senate. this vote would give them the extensions they need until the end of november. only have to 99 weeks so that they can put food on the table. host: mark from texas, good morning. caller: i am a republican, and i just turned 47 in june. i lost my job in may of 2009 after 12.5 years with city financial -- citi financial. i have not been able to find anything. of course, my benefits have run out. if i am getting ready to lose everything. again, i am a republican. these guys have got to vote on this thing who. the benefits have run out. i do not have anyone to turn to. i do not know what to do. guest: mark, i am so sorry, first of all. people who have been hard- working like you, nine years with the same company. that says that you were a good worker and your company valued you because in that industry, you would have been gone before. i hope that you have been able to access the opportunities, the services at the local one stop in texas. i spent some time before j

and then lester surro, a depeen at mit was going europe was going to be number two and we were going to be number three. and i said no the united states would likely be ahead of the convergence clubs. all of these countries seem to have high levels of living. that is the norm. we're going to return to the norm. the united states has certain advantages. it's the largest integrated market, the dollar is the international currency, english is the language. our media sets the tone of culture. we have the, in terms of higher ed and especially graduate ed. our schools are by far the best. we have capital infrastructure. we also have what i like to say is the ability to change such that when microsoft came along, ibm hired these two nobes to put their essential -- nobodies to put their essential programming ahead in their pc. that never would have happened in europe. and europe had a conference saying could microsovet, sissco, intel have happened in europe? and they agreed that it wouldn't primarily because people like to keep their relationships. where as in the united states venture cam t

and then lester surro, a depeen at mit was going europe was going to be number two and we were going to be number three. and i said no the united states would likely be ahead of the convergence clubs. all of these countries seem to have high levels of living. that is the norm. we're going to return to the norm. the united states has certain advantages. it's the largest integrated market, the dollar is the international currency, english is the language. our media sets the tone of culture. we have the, in terms of higher ed and especially graduate ed. our schools are by far the best. we have capital infrastructure. we also have what i like to say is the ability to change such that when microsoft came along, ibm hired these two nobes to put their essential -- nobodies to put their essential programming ahead in their pc. that never would have happened in europe. and europe had a conference saying could microsovet, sissco, intel have happened in europe? and they agreed that it wouldn't primarily because people like to keep their relationships. where as in the united states venture cam t

lester is hoped that they can convince their colleagues -- let's just hope that they can convince their colleagues in the senate. this vote would give them the extensions they need until the end of november. only have to 99 weeks so that they can put food on the table. host: mark from texas, good morning. caller: i am a republican, and i just turned 47 in june. i lost my job in may of 2009 after 12.5 years with city financial -- citi financial. i have not been able to find anything. of course, my benefits have run out. if i am getting ready to lose everything. again, i am a republican. these guys have got to vote on this thing who. the benefits have run out. i do not have anyone to turn to. i do not know what to do. guest: mark, i am so sorry, first of all. people who have been hard- working like you, nine years with the same company. that says that you were a good worker and your company valued you because in that industry, you would have been gone before. i hope that you have been able to access the opportunities, the services at the local one stop in texas. i spent some time before j

lester mark on this topic -- >> are you going to a smaller team? some people are asking you. >> they are right. anyway, that is going to be a job for the end of october. anyway, we are at the end of july. the overture to the minority will be different. >> if you are nice enough to advise me, i will answer your question then. we're coming to pension reform. that is going to be presented tomorrow in the council of ministers. it is still being discussed. the french are reserved. for you it is the main reform. it is an essential reform. >> i will explain. it is not because it is a great pleasure that i do this. two major mistakes have been committed in the last 20 years. first of all, it is when the retirement age -- and the democratic evidence against anything that happened in other countries, we went from 65 to 60. it is great on the social level, but we do not have the means to afford it. second mistake, when the country last started this incredibly insane economic policy, where we started working less with every single country in the planet working

and then lester surro, a depeen at mit was going europe was going be number two and we were going toid no the united states would likely be ahead of the convergence clubs. all of these countri seem to have high levels of living. that is the norm. we're going to return to the norm. the united states has ctain advantages. it's the largest integrated market, the dollar is the international currency, english is the language. our media sets the tone of culture. we have the, in terms of higher ed and especially graduate ed. our schools are by far the best. we have capital infrastructure. we also have at i like to say is the ability to chge such that when microsoft came along, ibhired these two nobes to put their essential -- nobodies to put their essential programming ahead in their pc. that never would have happened in europe. and europe had a conference saying could microsovet, sissco, intel have happened in europe? and they agreed that it wouldn't primarily because people like to keep their relationships. where as in the united states venture cam talsm, try something new. >> we like to

meantime, we have lester and jenna here and they're going to tell us what's coming up on the week. >> bars. what's at stake for the young actress now? will she be grant add delay and what happens if she doesn't show up? we're also going to start a new series "today goes to camp." we take part in various day camps. i was first up head to go dog camps where owners and their pooches spend some quality time together. that was me. some quality time together at dog camp. it's actually the dog and the owner both go to camp at the same time. massage and spa. >> the dog gets a massage? >> the dog gets the massage while you get a massage. it's crazy. >> in the same room? >> not the same room. >> good. >>> here's a look at san jose, nothing but sunshine and it is a totally different story in san francisco. we still have low clouds. look at the difference in temperatures. we have the low clouds, still in the 50s, almost 74 degrees already in livermore. notice the wind, gusty around fairfield. if you're heading to the sierra, look out for thundershowers. highs inland today around the bay area, 80s

meanwhile, a man who is a pretty good musician in his own right, lester holt. >> he thought the crowdsr dreams mean and ask can they be manipulated. i heard to covert ops camp where civilians get a taste of what it's like to be g.i. joe. i had a lot of fun there. and a cool new video, whef video of the whale over that sailboat. >> that is amazing. >> the question whether that was photo shopped or not. >> there is a whale coming out. more of that incredible story. >> it is just while. >> they thought it was going to appear somewhere but not on top of their deck. >> we're going to need a bigger boat. >> it's all coming up this weekend. >> very cool. unbelievebliable unbelievable. >>> in the gulf coast they're going to be watching bonnie making landfall sometime sunday. rain ahead of that. risk of strong storms from indiana, illinois, into upstate new york. sizzling and hot in the eastern half of the country. sunday more hot weather along the eastern seaboard. heavy rain in the lower gulf thanks to bonnie coming onshore and the sizzling weather >>> good morning to you, a beautiful cool st