when he was a teenager in little rock -- little rock, ark., that is when they had that little rock nine. that stayed with him for the rest of his life. he felt he could not believe the a very and the white community, and the threats that were made -- the angry and the white community, the threats that were made. he had members of the integrated school in the white house and at the ceremony, and became good friends of a couple of them. his experience with that very serious moment in his younger life. through his administration. he became very comfortable in african-american communities, particularly in the churches. he understood the importance of the african-american church. a lot of people talk about attending a church service with president clinton, and he knew all the words. he could sing the whole thing, and he would boomed out the spiritual. it is interesting how this whole racial history really effected so many of our presidents. >> did any of these presidents have social friends that were african americans? >> more recently. bill clinton had vernon jordan, was an influential pers

nearly $600 at a hotel in little rock, arkansas. and $160 at a steak house in little rock. this comes on the heels of d.c. attorney general irv nathan's civil lawsuit which claims thomas used $300,000 in city money as a personal expense account. thomas denies the accusations but has stepped down as chairman of the economic development committee pending an investigation. >>> one of harry thomas' colleagues will face tough questions today. the d.c. board of elections and ethics is holding a hearing in the d.c. council chair's kwame brown's campaign finances. brown's campaign committee is accused of failing to report more than $100,000 in contributions and nearly $350,000 in expenditures. the ethics board confined brown the ethics board can fine brown or refer the matter to the u.s. attorney's office for possible criminal charges. >>> vincent gray is urging the board for the dulles metro station to build it above ground. gray once supported an underground station but now says that is just too expensive. he said the $300 million price tag would jeopardize the entire rail extens

nearly $600 at a hotel in little rock, arkansas. and $160 at a steak house in little rock. this comes on the heels of d.c. attorney general irv nathan's civil lawsuit which claims thomas used $300,000 in city money as a personal expense account. thomas denies the accusations but has stepped down as chairman of the economic development committee pending an investigation. harry thomas isn't the only d.c. council member under scrutiny today. the d.c. board of elections and ethics is holding a hearing in to d.c. council chairman kwame brown's campaign finances. brown's campaign committee is accused of failing to report more than $100,000 in contributions and nearly $350,000 in expenditures. the ethics board confined brown over further matter to the u.s. attorney's office for possible criminal charges. >>> president obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt reduction plan. the president is meeting with top leaders from both parties at the white house this morning. according to "the washington post," the president will propose the democrats accept ma

rain from the gulf coast, little rock, memphis, nashville and louisville. showers and thunderstorms around minneapolis, chicago and detroit. also stormy in the northeast from new england down to washington, d.c., and humid with near triple-digit heat in georgia and the carolinas. some heavy downpours in the southwest. >> phoenix hits 105. 90 in salt lake city and 74 in seattle. upper 80s from fargo to detroit. 79 in boston, 85 here in new york and 90s from baltimore to miami and dallas. >>> and coming up next on the show this morning, a republican rising star sent to the hospital. how governor chris christie is coping this morning. >>> and tiger woods makes a big announcement about his future. >>> what if there is a debt default? today the treasury department outlines what will happen at its meeting in new york with 20 of the largest banks which often buy government bonds. bloomberg reports if there is a default, treasury will give priority to making interest payments to bond holders. the u.s. debt crisis is again weighing on asian markets thth morning. tok

nearly $600 at a hotel in little rock, arkansas. and $160 at a steak house in little rock. this comes on the heels of d.c. attorney general irv nathan's civil lawsuit which claims thomas used $300,000 in city money as a personal expense account. thomas denies the accusations but has stepped down as chairman of the economic development committee pending an invest gapgs. >>> one of harry thomas' colleagues will face tough questions today. the d.c. board of elections and ethics is holding a hearing in the d.c. council chair's campaign finances. brown's campaign committee is accused of failing to report more than $100,000 in contributions and nearly $350,000 in expenditures. the ethics board confined brown over further matter to the u.s. attorney's office for possible criminal charges. >>> there's a new warning this morning about potential terror attacks on airplanes. it says terror groups are going to greater lengths to beat airport security, including using surgically implanted bombs. kreg mehlman explains. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they have intercepted intelligence fr

thunderstorms from houston to little rock. monsoon rains in the southwest.ern lifornrn. >> man, there is a lot of heat out there. 83 in sacramento. 93 in boise. 90s, triple digits from dallas all the way up to minneapolis. do you believe that? they get feet of snow, now they're dealing with that. 91 in new york. 88 in miami. 89 in new orleans. you know when it's 91 here in the city it's just disgusting. >> it's not fun at all. >> everything smells like dirty hair and no air moves. >> that's why you need to leave on the weekends. >> exactly. >>> those furnace-like temperatures led to extreme measures at an amusement park in nebraska. >> the water in the swswming pools was so warm they had to bring in tons of ice just to cool the water down. it helped a little bit. it brought the temperature down from 88 degrees down to 82. so a mild improvement there. >> with the weather in omaha still oppressive the swimming pools should be getting another ice dump tonight or tomorrow morning. >> my gosh. >> never seen that before. >> no, that's extreme measures. especially

. $600 at a hotel in little rock, arkansas and 160 bucks at a steak house in little rock. this comes on the heels of herb nathan's civil lawsuit which claims thomas used $300,000 in city money for personal expenses. thomas denies the accusations, but has stepped down pending an investigation. >>> one of thomas's colleagues will face some tough questioning at a hearing taking place right now. the d.c. board of elections and ethics is holding the hearing and qualm brown's campaign financing. brown's campaign committee is accused of failing to report more than $100,000 in contributions and nearly $350,000 in expenditures. the ethics board can fine brown or refer the matter to the u.s. attorney's office for possible criminal charges. >>> tibet's spiritual leader is meeting with some top u.s. lawmakers. he is in town hosting an 11-day session of prayer and peace festival at the verizon center. he's scheduled to meet with house speaker john boehner and house democratic minority leader, nancy pelosi. the white house declined to comment on whether president obama will meet with hi

look at the temperature your body is going to feel tomorrow. 110 in little rock, 106 in memphis, 104rees in jackson, mississippi we have also got some stormy weather to talk about. it could bring a chance of severe thunderstorms and we have been seeing a little bit of that in parts of colorado. we also have some popup thunderstorms into the deep south, nothing severe here, but a lot of lightning and a lot of heavy downpours. so don't get caught offguard, if you're at the pool, if you're at the beach, make sure you give yourself a good 30 minutes until you hear that last bit of thunder. atlanta had a ground stop earlier because of thunderstorms rumbling on through, but that's starting to clear up a little bit. and the rest of your weekend's thunderstorms all over the place. that threat really focusing in the upper midwest. so heat, a whole lot of it for a whole lot of people. >> one of them just rumbled through here. she was blow drying her pants, i thought, what did you step in a p puddle, she said no, it's storming outside. >>> did you know there are scholarships for tall people, na

>> beth annie was >> beth ann ranken is a former miss arkansas and was once on my staff at little rockbeth ann has been noted for, not just a safer for the governor's office or candidate for congress last year, but she grows hair and then cuts it off for the locks of love. which makes hair devices for children who are suffering through cancer. beth ann, good to have you here. >> thank you so much, governor, i proosh you letting me come on and let me talk about locks much love. >> you're going to cut your hair today. >> yes, on your show. >> mike: i wish i had that much hair. >> you'll be inspired to do this. >> mike: and this is what you looked like with the hair that you had. carolyn from magnolia arkansas is cutting the hair. >> geraldo: like two big pony tails, why did you start doing this for locks of love. >> governor, it's when i actually worked in your office in little rock, in 2003. one of my colleagues mentioned my hair had gotten long and locks of love and with red color, what a neat thing if i gave my hair away to locks of love, this organization is special, human hair, hair

well, it brought me back to thinking about 60 years ago right in arkansas, the battle in little rock,me a long way since then, and even though i have fall to civil rights. i'm the first so say we made a lot of progress, but we're not there yet. when we look at kimberly, it is not polarizing to bring up the difference in race, to bring up the difference in gender, to bring up homophobia. last year we marched. this year we're going to be watching again. i want to salute skip mason and others making it possible for us to have it at the monument in

little rock 111, st. louis 112, 106 nashville, 109 into montgomery. we wrap things up, tomorrow you will notice basically the same deal. take a look at 106, 110 montgomery, how it's going to feel in columbia with 110 degrees also. brutal times, it is summer. be careful out there and take it easy. pitch it to you in new york. >> it's so red it's purple. that means stay inside if you can. >> usually that's a good plan. roasting the map so hot. >> pocket square, i love it. >> real deal holyfield, use it on days like this. >> thanks, reynolds. >> it was a world wind weekend in california. prince william and catherine, duke and duchess of cambridge headed on their north american tour, playing polo, raising money. >> he's keeping busy. the polo thing. it's ending. from the glamour of the red carpet to the grittier side of los angeles, the couple made the most of their quick visit. max foster joins us live from los angeles. i keep seeing these references to them being on skid row. what is that about? >> yeah. it's been a wirlds wind as you said. they fitted

give hope to southerners in particular that he was sympathetic, and i think ultimately it took little rock for him to persuade the south he would not tolerate this and whatever his personal feelings about brown and the court were, and by that point he was quite agitated with the court, he was going to see to it that federal authority was federal authority, and therefore, it took little rock, i think, to persuade people he meant that seriously. >> sir, come over on this side next. >> yes, addressed to tom and jim, just to throw out your comments before concerning the comparison of obama and eisenhower with respect to their resonance with superpower active engagement of the enemy, ect., ect., the history of eisenhower speaks completely, completely different from obama in my humble opinion. if you go back to world war ii, he almost preempted roosevelt in saying no, we're not going to go to berlin. there's too many american lives lost, let the russians do it, and i don't think roosevelt had had come to that decision, and yet eisenhower wrote directly to marshall stalin concerning that subject

we'll continue to track those from little rock to memphis and even up to kentucky during the day. maybe south florida a stray storm. you notice much of the country is looking great today. your picnic plans in the great lakes should be fine. in areas of upstate new york, got drenched yesterday. today will be much better. it will also be much warmer. if you're watching us on wfla-tv news channel 8, tampa, florida, celebrate independence day with a face painting arts and crafts, and of course the fireworks at family funfest, aboard the american victory ship. and that's your "early today" event of the day. >> see that makes sense. face painting, fireworks. zombies? i mean, that just doesn't really -- >> you haven't gotten over that. >> here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. as expected this weekend the new transformers transformed the record books. transformers, dark of the moob taking over 97 million dollars, beating the 90-plus million debut of pirates of the caribbean for 2011's best opening. dark of the moon also broke the three-day fourth of july weeke

louis is 96 as is little rock and i think we'll feel closer to that tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon. still 79 in town, gaithersburg 66, manassas the same and a little cooler back out there for martinsburg and winchester, too. how about that 4th of july forecast? what we can expect this weekend, we know things will get a little warmer the next couple days. tomorrow we're up into the lower 90s. it looks like on sunday we'll be a little bit more humid, temperatures in the middle 90s. it will feel like it's in the upper 90s for a brief time on sunday afternoon before these thunderstorms and showers start moving on across and it looks like the chance of storms for the 4th is real slight now. it looks like it wants to be pushed down to the south. so things are looking better for us on the 4th. comfortable temperatures overnight, lower 60s out in the suburbs. i think the temperature here in town will be right around 70 degrees but just great tomorrow morning, loads of sunshine, a few clouds at noon. we're already hot, though, 87 degrees. an isolated thunderstorm is possible at 5:00 and real

. $278 at jimmy buffett's margaritaville in myrtle beach, nearly $600 at a hotel in little rock, arkansas, $150 at a steakhouse in the same city. the list goes on. these revelations follow the d.c. attorney general's civil lawsuit filed last month that alleged thomas used $300,000 in city money as a personal expense account. the attorney general listed 14 such examples in his complaint including money spent on an audi suv and golf outings to pebble beach and other courses. thomas has denied the accusations but has stepped down as the chairman of the economic development committee. he did not get back us to about this tonight. >>> another warning tonight about a potential terror attack on airplanes. it shows terror groups are going to even greater length in an effort to beat airport security. craig melvin is at dulles international now with the impact on all the flyers on all this. >> reporter: i talked to a federal security official tonight. he told me while there is some new intelligence about a possible technique, he wanted to make sure that folks knew there was no imminent or specific

wet on i-40 from knoxville to little rock and i-35 from minneapolis to kansas city.ing on i-10, 15 and 40 from southern california into tucson. salt lake city and albuquerque. >> heading to the airport, look for delays possible in new york, philly, d.c., kansas city, vegas, salt lake, also phoenix and miami. >>> terrorists have come up with a chilling new way to get explosives onto passenger jets. >> the plan is to surgically implant bombs deep inside the human body so tucked away even the most sensitive airport scanners are unable to detect them. brian ross has the details. >> reporter: the reports of so-called belly bombs has led to an urgent alert for increased scrutiny of passengers heading to the u.s. who appear to have had recent surgery. >> al qaeda has been working for over a year on the idea of implanting bombs surgically inside human beings, and they may bybyow have actually done that. >> reporter: the tsa is warning that the surgically implanted bombs are clearly designed to get around most current airport screening machines. >> we are treating the informa

can >> hand a little rock and roll.hter] >> a live look from cape canaveral as we are waiting to see of spatial the atlantis will lift off. one hour 28 minutes weather permitting. be sure she still works year

well it sounds when it's really jittery in the middle of the night well that's what i look at this little rock. he called me one night. when i come home i have to do something now members are spending a year in iraq as a military journalist i saw so much waste going on with the u.s. contractors i saw so many soldiers not having a clear mission or just kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed every year and then i talked to some iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s. presence gone just watch the movie i guess or not part of the light and he told me to go outside so i kind of understand some of the feelings he was coming from people trapped in the room coding you know he was this special has been protesting work for decades you know and i focus on his footsteps pretty pretty i just always assume he's crazy here and there and here. where there may be restored or is really a dream i just said i'm going to spank him it's hard because in protesting this kind of a paradox you need to do something crazy enough to get the media and people to pay attention to you in the same time it can be

pop-up showers in south florida thunderstorms around houston, new orleans and little rock. a wet day in the pacific northwest. and northern california. rain from new mexico to wyoming. >> phoenix, things are heating up to 108. 91 here in new york. 88 in miami. 89 in new orleans as well. >> some of that rain is looking pretty good right now. >> yeah. i wouldn't mind a couple of days just to bring everything down to normal. >> i could get caught in a storm today. >>> coming up -- harry potter's half billion dollar weekend. >>> plus, new duties for duke and duchess. after a successful visit to the states. >>> and a collapse at rock 'n roll concert, sending people running for their lives. roll concert, sending people running for their lives. >>> ford's ceo says that there may be an economic recovery in your future. in an interview with usa today, he said that the improving economy is the result of decreasing oil prices and moving beyond the japanese earthquake. he also says that manufacturing is the foundation of that recovery and job growth. >>> worries about europe's banking

wet on i-40 from little rock to nashville and on i-10 along most of the gulf coast. >> and if you'reday, you can expect some airport delays in minneapolis, chicago, detroit, memphph and new orleans. >>> and now to thahaquestion that led chicaca's mayor to walk out of an interview. >> a reporter asked rahm emanuel who is,, of course, known for having a pretty short fuse about his children's education. abc's jonathan karl shows us what happened next. >> reporter: newly elected chicago mayor rahm emanuel's famously hot temper was on display in an interview with wmaq-tv chicago when he angrily refused to answer a question about where they will go to school. >> marianne, let me break the news to you, my children are not in a public position. the mayor is. and as long as i'm -- >> reporter: you don't think nobody knows where they go to school. >> you're asking me a value statement, not a policy. let me -- no, no, you have to appreciate this. my children are not an instrument of me being mayor. my children are my children. >> reporter: political leaders, of course, have a right to family pr

scrap a gas exploration deal with the us a left leaning citizens' groups as they are arrangement little rock by the dish of its natural resources and compromises the country's interest as it's facing an acute energy crisis government officials claim the contracts will help around the country's chronic power shortages stalls that schools will close down tropicals destructed in the capital for a day. five iraqi policemen have been killed after being kidnapped as a checkpoint west of baghdad that type was carried out by insurgents because guys didn't get forms driving a stolen police car it took place in one by a province on a major highway that links iraq with the wear and jordan. italian police have again clashed with demonstrators west of the city of turin protesting against the construction of a high speed rail return all through the alps stones and petrol bombs were thrown at officers who responded with tear gas to disperse the crowd several arrests were made and at least thirty policemen were injured many residents live between two arena and the french quarter say a rail link would ruin t

and little rock, arkansas, in 1999. there, 11 died. luckily, most of these accidenen are not fatal. the black boxes have been recovered in the guyana crash. and the national transportation safety board will help figure out what went wrong. lisa stark, abc news, washington. >>> and now, to anotheheperilous journey. this one undertaken by some of the most desperate people on this planet. abc news was the first american network on the scene of that massive humanitarian crisis, over in east africa. our david muir, the only american anchor there, reporting on the parents literally carrying their children for miles and miles to s save them om this famine. but as david found out, the final steps can be the hardest. tonight, he's at the teeming dadaab refugee camp in kenya. david? >> reporter: dan, good evening from kenya. and as you know, we've been reporting all week, on that long, perilous journey from somalia, to the refugee camps in kenya. for so many of those families, walking on foot, more than 100 miles, to get here. and what we discovered, that once they get to the camps, they're i

your guy i mean i'm not a woman i'm sympathetic to are trying to push the limits a little bit be a little rock of what i think this is clearly over the line i mean it's like sexist and racist like a little bit graphic i don't know. the last one just like goes off into a spanish tirade. it's like who thought this would be a good idea like hey i do this so i don't look at racially uncomfortable things it's also just completely uncomfortable to watch a talking vagina tell you about feminine products there's nothing smart about this this is going nowhere you have time to show one more real quick ad oh we're done. and other news airbrushed ads got pulled from britain and got milk ads want to educate people about him that no cats were funny what i want to know is who is hiring these people to make these ads because they clearly are not even making it. i don't know i got milk i was really funny i was actually there it is got no i mean i'm sorry women need to get a sense of humor if you want to use p.m.s. as an excuse for everything you do wrong people make fun of you for having pm as you have to suck

his ex-wife says he lived in memphis and little rock before he moved to new york. >> i'm more saddened the tragedy of the little boy. my whole heart goes out to his family. >> a neighbor accuses him of trying to kidnap her son, but that she scared him away. >>> time now is 7:57. a heat wave continues to grip much of the u.s. how long the high temperatures are expected to last. >>> plus, what a u.s. senator now wants airlines to do, if your luggage does not arrive when you do. >>> we will bring you amateur video shot moments after a san francisco shooting. >>> casey anthony is a free woman this morning, where she was taken after her release from a florida jail. >>> and the u.s. soccer team goes for the world cup. you can watch that game just hours from now. >>> it is sunday, july 17. expect more clouds, fogging and drizzle today. meteorologist rosemary orozco is here. >> we've got drizzle around the bay area. widespread clouds out there. temperatures up just slightly. anywhere from 2 to 4 degrees. that's how we will be for the afternoon. outside of that, not a lot of change. we are look

into reverse then trying to make spirits is very own economic and political crisis and if you know little rock is right about trying to or mentions of them twice in the column this is something that is actually true of all of the bric nations fact it's all true of all of the developing countries if the united states was to go back to having a protectionist policy like we did from seven hundred ninety one until more or less the reagan era the last thirty years if we were to go back to doing that we would be making computers here again we'd be making t.v.'s here again we'd be making computers but you know cell phones here again we've been making clothing here again we would be making pretty much everything that we need and this is kind of a radical idea. that a country actually is not saying that facetiously a radical idea that a country every country in the world actually should try to organize their economy in such a way that if they had to stand alone like we had to do in world war two story that they can make everything they need pretty straightforward stuff we should be able to do that simi

prisoners have access to a state of the art gym where they can shoot hoops or do a little rock climbing and there's artwork sprinkled throughout the facility including this mural and we're not even showing you the prisons recording studio where inmates are rehearsing the prisons first musical production come on believe in the norway prisons how is that reasonable for present well i mean i wouldn't recommend just overall in their entire prison system it's just that in every in every prison so they have this guy should just be the toilet i mean if you just replace one of the toilets and he should be this is really tough because it's the person who may go there and there's a great big did it's. so fresh in our minds it's atrocious and it's horrible and to think that people like i could end up there is just awful on the other hand think about the prisons we have here in the us in norway they only go to prison for twenty years they're going to get back out into society so this guy excluded if you have a lower offense people going to prison maybe it's nice that they're in places where they ca

the prisoners have access to a state of the are japan where they can shoot hoops or do a little rock climbing and there's artwork sprinkled throughout the facility including this mural i'm not even showing you the prisons recording studio where inmates are were pursing the prisons first musical production. that's a bit of anxiety in that report i personally like the prisoner artwork but aside from that the daily the new york daily news also expressed disgust over breivik possibly entering this facility in an article they wrote such as life in the halls in prison were doing hard time means doing without h.b.o. and where inmates don't fear their showers because every prisoner has a private bathroom ok back up wow so the new york daily is angry because breivik will fear for his safety when he showers because the threat of rape isn't always just around the corner when he bends down for so ok it's obvious that the united states and norway have very different opinions on how prisoners should be treated in norway all these elements like recording studios personal bathrooms personal trainers

i had, i had been inspired by the nine kids who integrated central high school in little rock. >> right i had asked myself could i do what they did.. >> mm-hmm. >> .if ever the chance came my way. >> yeah. >> well, the chance didn't come my way and i didn't make the chance for myself until i was challenged to do this by lonnie king, and i took the challenge. >> yeah. you, so you were a college student and then a young adult at the time of dr. king and at the time of malcolm x. >> mm-hmm. dr. king taught me. >> he did? >> yes. >> so talk about dr. king. you're one of the only people i could be sitting across from who knew dr. king. >> i'm one of.i'm one of eight people in the world..3 >> yeah. yeah. >> .who was actually taught by dr. king. you hear people all the time say, "dr. king was my teacher." >> yeah. not true. >> they're lying. they're lying. i was one of dr. king's students. >> okay. -> eight people, students at morehouse and spellman college.. >> yeah. >> .took a class that he co-taught in philosophy.. >> yeah. >> .and i was one of the eight students. >> a.and? >> and i remembe

in the town of little rock. union pacific says none of the cars were carrying hazardous material. evacuations are mandated until the scene has been assessed. >>> cal osha is investigating about whether employees followed safety regulations when that massive fire erupted fairfield. the smoke hey not have been -- may not have been as harmful as originally feared. the plastic did not contain color even or nitrogen that can contain talksics compounds. >> i got a little dizzy and my chest was like congested. >> reporter: they say the appear -- they say the fire appears to have been caused by an employee. >>> k tv u has been telling you about sudden oak death ever since it was first found here almost 20 years ago. tonight, the latest strategy to try and find that disease. >> reporter: crews are cutting down trees to save oak trees in the santa cruz mountains. they are chopping down 250 bay trees at skyline ridge to slow down sudden oak death, a disease that has killed thousands of oaks. >> they are very important. they add so much to the am byians here. unfortunately we have had to get

in the town of little rock. union pacific says none of the cars were carrying hazardous material. the evacuations are mandated until the scene has been assessed. >>> cal osha is investigating about whether employees followed safety regulations when that massive fire erupted fairfield. the smoke hey not have been -- may not have been as harmful as originally feared. the plastic did not contain color even or nitrogen that can contain talksics compounds. >> i got a little dizzy and my chest was like congested. >> reporter: they say the appear -- they say the fire appears to have been caused by an employee. >>> k tv u has been telling you about sudden oak death ever since it was first found here almost 20 years ago. tonight, the latest strategy to try and find that disease. >> reporter: crews are cutting down trees to save oak trees in the santa cruz mountains. they are chopping down 250 bay trees at skyline ridge to slow down sudden oak death, a disease that has killed thousands of oaks. >> they are very important. they add so much to the am byians here. unfortunately we have had to

as far as what we're looking at going forward, 109 degrees we expect today for a heat index in little rock notice these temperatures begin to break down a little bit as we go through thursday and into friday. but until then, all bets are off and do what you can to stay cool. guys, i walked by elizabeth's little demonstration there. there were recommend napts left over. i thought you don't want to eat that stuff today and i don't think she got that stuff this morning! >> she might not have gotten it this week! eat at your own risk. >> rob knows me well enough if i were in atlanta there would be remnants of that. >> it would be gone. >> kfc, you can eat later. it definitely has improved. >> mcdonald's fries will last the better part of a decade. you don't throw those things out. >> exactly. >> my kids find them in the back of the minivan? forget it! they are eating them again. so bad! thanks, rob. >>> he didn't ask for a dime but the irs may still come after the guy who caught derek jeter's 3,000th hit. a home run in the left field bleachers and it happened saturday. "the new york times" tal

shreveport, jackson, little rock, even montgomery. 108 degrees is that feel like temperature becauser body simply can't cool itself down when you get weather like that. one more thing that can pop up as well. >> thunderstorms, right? >> exactly. that is the belt way. washington, d.c., getting really pounded right now. look at that number. 1,304 lightning strikes from northern virginia into d.c. and now heading up the bw parkway to baltimore. and so the airplanes are very slow at this point in time. very few planes getting in and out of baltimore into d.c. or even into iad. let me show you what it looks like here in atlanta. you saw that beautiful picture. let me show you what it looks like in washington, d.c. right now. that is haze and rain coming in. you could hardly even see the capital. that's only a couple of miles away. the haze and humidity is so thick right now. at least the rainfall, when you get a shower in the summer or springtime, it will cool you down. stay away from the lightning. 1,300 lightning strikes in one thunderstorm heading over the district of columbia ya. >> q

northern los angeles county, the accident happening about 1:25 this afternoon in the community of little rock. it is not a heavily poplated area, but some homes were evacuated while the officials determine if any cars contain hazardous materials and are leaking. no injuries at this time have been reported. >>> and tonight the debt showdown is getting intense, just six days until the country hits the borrowing limit. and as democrats and republicans work on several plans to raise the debt limit, here is what our lawmakers are doing to find the solution. bay area lawmakers say their constituents fear a default, telling them? >> i'm scared about my social security benefits. >> we're tired of this, fix it. >> reporter: but as of tonight there is no fix. house speaker john boehner delayed a key vote after government number crunchers found his proposal wouldn't deliver the deficit savings promised. he defended the plan. >> he is keeping the promise to cut spending more than any increase in the debt limit with no tax hikes. >> reporter: bay area democrats had hard words for the plan new . >> i don't

back into little rock perhaps even into st.sas city by early and midafternoon. that is a quick snapshot of your forecast and your delays. let's pitch it back to you. >> some of that weather is why we might be getting a delay in the shuttle launch. i want to ask you about this. have you ever been to the running of the bulls? >> never have. definitely on the bucket list. >> it kicks off in spain today, marks a full week of parties. running the bulls has gotten major heat in animal rights groups. it starts today. thank, buddy. >> take care. >>> today's word of the day is endo cannabinoids. find out what it means right after this short break. [ male announcer ] built like a volkswagen. the 2011 tiguan. [ grunts ] there's another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. tidy cats premium line of litters now works harder to help neutralize odors in multiple-cat homes. and our improved formula also helps eliminate dust. so it's easier than ever to keep your house smelling just the way you want it. purina tidy cats. keep your

national weather service, kennedy airport reporting a record of 102, philly at 100, as well as north little rocknsas, and a look at what it looks like in central park today, you'll want to stay in the shade because that's the best place to be in, try and get maybe a little bit wet from some of those found da mountains as well. that's part of the problem, this is covering many, many states, the humidity levels are extremely high, so your temperature on the thermometer doesn't have to say 100, it's the temperature that your body feels and it's feeling 105 in kansas city, 105 in memphis, and the northeast corner now in with this as well. we call this a big heat dome or an area of high pressure that's stacked up miles into the atmosphere. and we think of high pressure, we think high and dry, right, beautiful, sunny weather. but in high pressure systems, the air is descending and when it descends, it come presses, when it compresses, it heats up so when you're closer to the center of this dome, you're seeing higher temperatures, for example it's hotter in new york city than it is in georgia. now that

my path to prison started when i began selling drugs in little rock, arkansas. three years after selling drugs, i end up going with a buddy, not really a murder-for-hire, but we were supposed to beat a guy up really bad and make it look like a robbery. i told my father about it later on that night, and six months later, my father called me on the telephone and asked me, how much would it cost to get a dog run over? i didn't understand his little code at first, but later on, during the conversation he told me that some relatives wanted to get their husband killed for supposedly molesting their 8-year-old daughter. during this whole time, my relatives are phoning me, constantly, leaving message, pleading with me, afraid that he's going to spend another minute alone with his daughter. so at that time, i decided, hey, this is family. i got to do this. so i asked him, i said, hey, just tell me exact time and exact place where i can find him. they ended up telling me tuesday at about 2:15, he would go to a day care center to pick up his son. i staked out the place, pl

expected to be 10 degrees or better in shreveport and little rock. another steamy day across the southeast. dangerously hot in many locations. we'll be rereporting live from piedmont park in atlanta, georgia. folks will be getting out trying to get their exercise on. if they're wise rnlgs they'll do it before the sun gets too high in the sky. >> going to be pretty, but it's going to be hot. that heat wave, by the way, across the country isn't going to help the hundreds of thousands of people who still don't have power in chicago this morning. close to 400,000 homes are still in the dark. it's going to be saturday before power is turned back on. the high on saturday is expected to be 88 degrees. there's also a chance of thunderstorms. before we go, today's quote of the day, can you guess who said this? we're open to penetration if someone decides to penetrate. get your minds out of the gutter. that's not what you think. i'll tell you who said it when we come back. it's nine minutes after the hour. boy, i'm glad we got aflac huh. aflac! oh, i've just g

little rock also looking at delays but there has been some heat relief and that's been the good newsy -- have been across parts of the northeast check out new york city after seeing 104 and then 100 on your saturday we're dropping down into the 80s. look at that. great weather coming up ahead. washington, d.c., records for you too. late last week and into the weekend dropping down a little bit and, of course, increasing those chances of thunderstorms and then we'll take a look at dallas, as well. there you can see the triple digits all the way across the board so there are a couple of places where people are really suffering with this extreme heat, a couple breaks, though we'll take any break we can get. so nice in boston today, for example. >> look at who i'm watching on my ipad. >> the new cnn app. >> there's jacqui jeras right there. cnn app, get it streaming live. >> a little bit of a delay. i think a little bit. >> cnn.com/video. there you go. jacqui jeras. that's very cool. >> very cool. >> i was watching it at breakfast and watching fredricka whitfield. >>> heartbreaking story

fast-forward to what it's going to feel like late this afternoon with the heat and humidity. 105 in little rockeat and humidity beginning to build up -- well, for some reason it's not coming up. let me just tell you, it's going to be incredibly warm. high temperatures are going to fell like they're well into the century mark in many places, especially in parts of tennessee. something else we can expect, we touched on the heat. but the possibility of thunderstorms also going to pop up, especially for parts of the northern plains, the upper midwest. and it's all coming together where we have this boundary making its way to the east. it's going to interact with a lot of moisture at the surface. that with your daytime heating will make for a very unstable atmosphere. severe storms, talking about pop-up thunderstorms. maybe the possibility of small hail. the water could stack up. you could have a little bit of flash flooding, especially on the creeksides. and you could have on isolated tornado. some of the storms may pop up into the afternoon. the reason we see this happen, you get the converging se

oklahoma city into little rock, memphis, nashville, st.louis, kansas city, louisville, kentucky, and cincinnati now. all these cities are going to be feeling temperatures somewhere between 100 to 110 degree. i think tomorrow is going to be the peak of it. it's going to take until wednesday to start to wane off when we get showers and thunderstorms to hopefully provide some of that relief. the current heat index right now is dangerous. look at kansas city. feels like 109. even minneapolis. you really need to hydrate yourself. you need to take it easy. check on your neighbors. if you need to be able to calculate the heat index, go to weather.gov and find a map like this or chart where you can look at what the air temperature is. find what the relative humidity is. calculate the heat index. on average you're adding somewhere between three and five degrees to the temperature on the thermometer. showers and thundershowers popping across the upper midwest. some severe. a new tornado watch issued for parts of soud south and north dakota. includes

we're talking about 105 in little rock. 93 in nashville. 106 in montgomery. and as we head into tomorrow, we're going to bump that up a little more and a little more as we head into our monday. unfortunately. the other concern we have is severe thunderstorms. we'll be watching the upper midwest, not just today, but tomorrow as well. at this hour, nothing too severe out there. we have spotty thunderstorms into the upper midwest, bringing in downpours, maybe impacting your barbecue. we're more concerned about the thunderstorms that are starting to kick up across parts of the southeast. extremely heavy rain. we could be picking up one to two inches per hour and a lot of lightning. that worries me in the summertime. i can't tell you how many times i've been at the pool and there is thunder, and nobody pays attention. go inside. >> usually at least have to get out of the water. >> if you got a lifeguard, they're telling you to get out. if you don't -- >> that's true. all right. >> get out. >> note to self. all right, thanks. >>> time for a cnn equals politics updat

heavy rain from around little rock, memphis, and louisville.rms and flooding minneapolis to detroit. more downpours in the desert southwest. thunderstorms in the northeast. >> 105 in phoenix. 90 in albuquerque. mostly 80s fargo to detroit. 94 in atlanta. 85 here in the big apple. >>> well, here's a story that we usually don't hear from the middle east. a world record, in fact. >> pretty cool story. some 13,000 children steered clear of trouble in gaza to fly their kites at the same time. it all made for a pretty colorful show in the skies. >> beautiful. the previous record of more than 10,000 flying kites at once was set earlier this year in china. so good for those kids. and congratulations. >> that is a cool scene out there. yeah. a little peace and a nice little event and a world record. >> and a world record to go with it. >> not bad. >>> more "world news now" coming up after the breakak. here would you go next if you had a hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible ith a hoveround. tom: hi i'm tom kru