todd moye has been associate professor of history of the university of north texas and director of that university's history program. todd moye will be speaking today about his new book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". a narrative history of the most significant civil-rights struggle of the world ii e >> in addition to numerous scholarly articles and op-edhere graduate from university ofar north carolina chapel hill where he earned his ph.d. -- ph.d. degree he directed the park service tuskegee airmen project through 2005. 00 welcomen me tok es professor at todd moye to the roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much.ch i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas intol the hudson valley in the middle of the summer. it is a great place to bee b and to come back to the fdr library. it began as the oral historyl project 2000 through 2005 if i was one of five historians who worked for the national park service developing avi new site in tuskegee alabama where they learn to fly. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money

todd moye has been associate professor of history of the university of north texas and director of that university's history program. todd moye will be speaking today about his new book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". a narrative history of the most significant civil-rights struggle of the world war ii era based on a collection of 800 oral histories. todd moye is also the author of what the people decide. in addition to numerous scholarly articles, review article that up beds, graduate of the university of north carolina chapel hill where he earned his b.a. in history at university of texas austin where he earned his m.a. and ph.d. degrees todd moye directed the national park services oral history project from 2000 to 2005. please join me in welcoming professor todd moye to vote roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much. great to be here. i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas to the hudson valley. this is a great place to be ended as always fun to come back to the fdr library. this book began as an oral history project. from 2000

heavy rain and gusty winds from north texas to colorado.evening rain in northern california and the pacific northwest. >> 77 in seattle. 81 in portland. near 90 in boise. kansas city gets up to 87. and chicago a comfortable 80. 90s from dallas to atlanta. mostly 80s from boston to baltimore. >>> in new zealand, a wayward penguin known as happy feet is recovering from a third life-saving surgery this morning. >> the poor little guy. the bird ate a lot of sand, mistaking it for snow, and that clogged its digestive system. surgeons removed as much sand and twigs as they could but the emperor penguin is still in critical condition. >> it turned up on a new zealand beach last week nearly 2,500 miles from its antarctic home. >> a lot of folks following that story, hoping he's all right. >>> she has bony legs, scraggly hair and a protruding tongue. but she's top dog when it comes to the aesthetically challenged. >> yeah, introducing yoda. the world's ugliest dog. this distinction bestowed on the 14-year-old chinese crested chihuahua mix who beat o

red flag warnings are in effect for new mexico, much of north texas, and portions of, of course, colorado utah. >> we've been having the fires in texas burning for a couple of months, and now the fires in new mexico, arizona, and starting to move into colorado. i can't -- i cannot stress enough just how dry this summer is. >> reporter: i'm greg black reporting. >>> arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords back in texas to continue her rehab. >>> that's right. she spent the weekend with her family in tucson, arizona. this was her first hometown trip since she was shot in january. giffords was released from a houston hospital on wednesday, and she had begun her out patient therapy. >>> it is 5:48 now. forget all about dot-com. how about dot vegas? could happen. the big change that could be in store for the internet coming up. >>> your favorite. >>> why not? >>> it's a wonderful place. >>> also ahead, meet the couple who proves you're never too old to say "i do." >>> ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and

they used the pepper spray on the man before robbing him on travis boulevard and north texas street. and the italian consulate and his brazilian wife were charged with keeping a woman as a slave. they lured her from brazil, saying the u.s. law didn't apply to them because they were with the government. this dispute they say is because of a scheming woman who wants to stay in the united states. >>> and san jose police looking at kidnappers, robbing an elderly woman. we have photos to show you, officers say the victim was forced into a vehicle outside the wal-mart on story road. she was taken to a bank, forced to take out money. officers say the men may have pulled a similar crime a week later in las vegas after this incident. >>> and the cruise ship arriving in san francisco in the middle of sharp concern from health officials. the ship has had two virus outbreaks. the federal officials plan to look at the cleaning of the ship, to make sure it is safe for the next trip to alaska. >>> and a new addition to the aquarium, getting a lot of take place, not because she is just cute. she was

one from the dakotas and goes down into north texas and moves towards missouri, as well.'s likely to be a hot spot and then, this zone right here in the mid-atlantic. these will be rolling for awhile. gusty winds, even a little hail involved this that. and the heat stays on in the south. i have a feeling we won't get a break. patterns just don't look like they'll dip cool air from any direction in places like dallas. oklahoma city, 98 by saturday. memphis staying in the 90s, as well. jacksonville looking at the 90s. so, the big board shows you the cold air holding in the west and all of america's weather was brought to you by amazon. george? >> thank you, sam. >>> coming up, snake pit. the real estate nightmare that drove a family from their dream house. the best approach to food is to keep it whole for better nutrition. that's what they do with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain. while the other guy's flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. [ female announcer ] now, just pop, click, switch your lids whenever

the police work to keep people away, and kron4 jeff pierce texas round north bayshore and thus more storm damage. >> saturday's agreement was records having it as a the way for setting a new record for the month of june. motorists waited through streets fill with water as a of rain fell to make this the most rainy june 4th since 1947 and has set the pace for the issue to be the most rain that has fallen in san from to school since 1934. >> i think we need the rain, i love it. >> rain fell in more rain to fill up the usual spot for traffic has rain clouds shrouded the nearby hills. peaks that are usually reduced to a trickle are gushing with water. >> this is different, this is odd, but is beautiful lithographs even greater. >> with home plate a mud puddle, softball play--games were postponed, picnics were canceled, but the scottish- celebration honoring the shrine. >> this is a little bit of scotland. >> scottish winner in the best-scottish weather indeed. >> coming up, we will show you who made appearances at a conservative convention in washington. plus officials believe a u.s. drone ki

north texas, temperatures up above a hundred. record-breakers there. steamy side for sure. here what we we expect to see today when you take temperatures and combine it with the humidity. 102 what it feels like today in little rock and 102 expected for a heat index in jackson. notice, atlanta, columbia, nashville where the sliver of drier air and that makes all of the difference in the world when you got dry heat versus a moist heat. that's when it gets to be miserable. actual air temperature in dallas specked to be a hundred and 98 expected in memphis and 74 in chicago. 65! my goodness! a cold snap of gigantic proportions what you were seeing last week with record-breaking temperatures to near a hundred. a cooloff for the big apple. three-piece suit is the way to go when it's 65. you're dressed perfectly, ali. >> i was in new hampshire yesterday and it was football weather. >> i saw you! poor christine, every time she wasn't on camera, she had a little stadium blanket around her. >> it was 8:00 and one of the photo journalists said, wow, we just broke

twister as it touched down in aurora, nebraska, just one more of the more than 40 reported from texas to north dakota. take a listen. just terrifying sound there. can you imagine? well, the storms unleashed heavy rain, 80-mile-an-hour winds, hail as big as baseballs. sparsely populated farms were the hardest hit so there were no reports of serious injuries. >> all on the first day of summer. high winds left a number of homes in ruins. trees and power lines came crashing down and thousands of people lost electricity and thanks to the weather, play will have to resume this morning in the college world series between florida and vanderbilt. the teams were playing in omaha last night when severe storms forced officials to call a rain delay. >>> that same storm system has parts of the rockies discovered in white on this first day of summer. up to 5 inches of snow came down yesterday in the colorado's high country. they were forced to cope with icy mountain passes and some roads had to be shut down. a live update later on "good morning america." >>> president obama marks a major milestone in the afg

texas. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that the proceedings during the former members program be printed in the congressional record and that all members and former members who spoke during the recess have the privilege of readvising and extending their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute for the purpose of making an announcement. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. foxx: the committee on rules may meet the week of june 20 to grant a rule that could limit the amendment process for floor consideration of h.r. 2021, the jobs and energy permitting act of 2011. any member wishing to offer an amendment must submit an electronic copy of the amendment and description via the committee's website. members must also submit 30 hard copies of the amendment, one copy of a brief explanation of the amendment, and an amendment log-in form to the rules c

north today. record-breaking temperatures are expected from texas to vermont.the record-breaking heat is expected to last through the end of the week. >>> now for a little history lesson. way back in 1919, a 30-year-old german soldier wrote a letter describing what he called the jewish threat. the writer was adolph hitler and the letter his first written call for killing europe's jews. that letter is on display at a museum in new york. manuel gallegus reports. >> reporter: it is a four page letter adolph hitler wrote when he was a young soldier in the german army. in it hitler labels jews as an inbred race, a tuberculosis on a nation. in one paragraph he calls on his government to have the courage to remove all jews from its midst. >> before he ever heard of the nazi party hitler had a plan for the jews, he had a deep seeded hatred and anti-semitism that burned within him. >> reporter: the original document known as the gimlic letter was revealed for the first time in new york's simon weizenthal center, it purchased the letter from a private dealer in californi

way too much rain and snow in the north, almost none in the south. texas suffering, as you may know, under severe drought conditions and now the wildfires that have been hitting hard. nbc's tom trong is with us in grimes county in east texas tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hey, brian. the extreme drought here is jeopardizing the livelihoods of countless cattle ranchers and it's making the difficult task of fighting wildfires even harder. rain finally fell today on parched areas of texas delivering temporary relief to communities threatened by wildfires. >> we just pray that none of our houses are burned down there. >> reporter: firefighters are attacking 17 wildfires across texas. since the start of wildfire season, more than 3 million acres have been scorched in the lone star state. today's rain will help the containment efforts, but the fires rage on. >> the next few days, we're anticipating more hot weather and it's going to be dry. we're not out of the woods yet. >> i'll take whatever we get and glad to have it. but this is by no means a droug

and in texas, dry conditions have allowed simple sparks to turn into flames. north of houston, a 14,000 acre blaze is among the largest east texas has ever seen. and tonight, across seven states, the wish is the same. >> we need rain. we really need rain. >> and so we want to turn now to our team in the fire zone tonight. cynthia cisneros with our station ktrk in houston is inside the davey rocket national forest tonight, that's just outside of dallas. cynthia, i know you are battling the high temperatures. we appreciate this. what is the situation inside the park right now? >> reporter: by the numbers, it seems to have gotten worse. 14,000 acres on fire yesterday. 15,000 acres on fire today. however, the texas forest service saying they have gone from 20% containment to 40% containment today. that largely has to do with the amount of manpower that is out here. at least 12 fire departments, half a dozen helicopters capable of dropping about 500 to 600 gallons of water each onto this fire. the grass is extremely dry, like a tinderbox out here. all of these contributi

just pyrrhus texas around the north bay to show us more storm damage. >> saturday's rain has been record-setting, it is paved the way for showers on sunday to set a new record for the month of june. motorists waited through streets filled with water this was the most a rainy june 4th since 1947, and has set the pace for this june to be the most water that has fallen here since 1934. >> i think we need the rain, i like it. i love it. >> rain clouds shrouded the nearby hills. peaks that are usually reduced to a trickle, they work gushing with water. the creek was full of with levels that they only see in january or february. >> i love it, this will make the grass even greener. >> softball games were postponed, june picnics were canceled, an outdoor dining was not even considered. [music] >> the scottish pipe and drum competition would go on rain or shine. >> this is just a little bit of scotland. >> scottish weather in deep. how >> this is not baseball weather. this helped to delay the giants' game about 20 minutes. the giants and the rockies were often subtly challenge, they cannot get it going,

bands of heavy rain are moving north from tropical storm arlene toward southern texas.n is sliding across the northwest. later today hot and hazy conditions will spread across the central and northern plains. the northwest will see cool temperatures, 60s and 70s. severe weather is moving east across the northern plains. the southeast will get more rain and thunderstorms. >>> in sports, wimbledon's defending champ, rafael nadal made some amazing shots to advance to the semifinals. in the fourth set he served to american mardy fish and despite an injured foot flicked an incredible shot into the corner. nadal is on a 19 match winning streak at wimbledon. >>> in baseball an interleague meeting of first place teams. new york's jorge posada hit a shot to right field that he thought was a home run. umpires disagreed and he was tagged out. the umpires reversed themselves after a video replay showed it was a homer. the yankees beat milwaukee 5-2. >>> in chicago two outs bottom of the ninth, the cubs aramos ramirez hit a single to left and the runner scored from third base. chica

in texas, dry conditions have allowed simple sparks to turn into flames. northa 14,000-acre blaze is now among the largest east texas has ever seen. across seven states, the wish is the same. >> we need rain. we really need rain. >> reporter: david muir, abc news, new york. >>> forecasters are keeping an eye on tropical storm beatriz, which could strengthen into a hurricane by day's end. the storm is 195 miles south of zihoatanejo. it is on mexico's pacific coast, with winds about 45 miles per hour. bands of rain have already started hitting coastal areas. >>> and taking a look at the weather that's a bit closer to home. omaha, des moines, sioux falls could see severe storms today. with 80 mile-an-hour winds and also flash flooding. it is hot and dry in the desert southwest. there also could be a few showers across northern new england. >> mostly 70s in the northwest. temperature records could be broken in parts of the south, with some readings ten degrees hotter than usual. and chicago is a pleasant 82. >>> well, the u.s. has reclaimed a world record. it's an i

texas. >> the border. >> where is it? >> it's north and way too dry. well, welcome into the show, as well. tell me about this. >> i wrote a book about the effects of war on my father and how i survived them. >> what was your dad in? what branch? >> vietnam war. >> army? >> marine. my dad was a marine. robin, are you upstairs? >>> i came running up here. it's been a trying year for our friend, sarah ferguson. she's rebuilding her life. had help from a very big mentor of hers, oprah. and fergie's transformation is chronicled in a new series, called "finding sarah," premiering this sunday, on own. the duchess of york. >> my friend. thank you for having me back. >> absolutely. i've been thinking about you. and this series is really going to shed a light into your struggles. and more importantly, how you are righting the ship. and how you're going to help others with this. >> you're very kind. i've been so lucky to go from a total disaster of last may, and oprah to open up her hand. and dr. phil, you know, to actually go and spend some time

direction will affect the ride into downtown. >> now look to the wildfire burning in texas, this is near grove town, north,000 a. in two counties. dry conditions are feeding the fires. more than 3 million a. in texas since october. most of the state remained at a red flag warning. temperatures hit over 100 degrees on sunday with 20 mi. per hour winds. temperatures will be a little cooler today but still on the house side. extremely high winds have forced the authorities for more evacuation orders in arizona and new mexico along the border. nearly 1500 homes were evacuated yesterday afternoon after this fire jumped a highway and is now blowing in a new county. it has forced nearly 7000 people to flee their homes. meantime, the massive will wallow fire that has been burning in eastern arizona for three weeks kept about 300 residents under an evacuation order. it has consumed over half a million acres and has destroyed 32 homes. >> 8:28 a.m., we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes. take a look at one of the big stories that we were following the aftermath of a fire in sunnyvale. as you can see

and in texas dry conditions have let sparks turn to flames north of houston. a 14,000 acre blaze is one of the larmgest they have seen. and tonight across seven states the wish is the same. >> we need rain. we really need rain. >> altogether 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate. 44 homes have been destroyed. >>> nato says one of the air strikes in the libyan capital of tripolli went astray and may have killed officials. they say nine civilians were killed including two children. the nato commander is blaming a weapons system failure and he says he regrets the loss of innocent civilian lives. >> thousands continue to protest in greece against the government's uh stair tee measures. for the 20th straight day, they demonstrated in front of parliament to protest spending cuts and tax hikes. the protests come as parrel meant -- parliament opened a three-day meeting about a second bailout mac kedge. greece's prime minister is vowing to make deep changes to the constitution and blamed the state sector for the economic collapse. many experts say the debt load is

north georgia. in the fifth inning, rain delayed the braves/texas game. this was the frantic scene captured on an iphone at a concert in rome, georgia, a tree limb fell into the crowd, sending two people to the hospital. in north carolina, winds threatened outdoor events. >> i was thinking we might have a tornado. >> reporter: in a frightening scene in the orlando airport, rain water caused a pipe to break inside the terminal. and mother nature today is not being kind to fathers on father's day, we have more severe weather, in fact a tornado watch until 10:00 a.m. central time in portions of southern illinois, indiana and west central kentucky. take a look at our widespread con vehicle tif outlook. i want you to focus on nebraska, about two-thirds of that state under a moderate risk of severe weather. so look for supercell development towards the later afternoon and early evening hours. dan, back you to. >> a mess out there. that lightning strike was incredible. jackie, thank you. >>> to politics now and one day after the so-called golf summit where presid

north and west, that's where we've had a touch of fog. dew .64 and the barometer sitting at 29.98. >>> i want to show you what's happening national satellite and radar. houston, texasas 105 degrees. that is an amazing temperature for them. there's a lot of heat here. we'll tap into that bringing it north and east by wednesday and thursday. right now we have storms in the middle of the country and you can see the severe thunderstorm watch. these storms moving east-southeast. chicagoland in a few hours could be getting storms. you do the math, that the not good for the monday morning flight status here. a lot of planes go through chicago. high pressure is building now, so we'll have a good day today and stay relatively quiet. the future cast, we had a shower or sprinkle last night. not much action expected today. by 5:00, mostly sunny. at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, it's quiet. through the day we'll pop showers potentially in the mountains by midday into the afternoon and then one or two of those, we'll try to come south and east toward us. north and west tomorrow, a better chance of that, mainly afternoon storm, let's say d.c. south and east. we'll do the same thing on wedn

north charleston, south carolina. >> pelley: we are getting word of breaking news from texas tonight. cbs affiliate khou tells us sheriff's deputies gone to a house in hardin, northeast of houston, after getting a tip that dozens of bodies are buried there. deputies are trying to get a warrant to search further. an f.b.i. evidence team has been put on standby. along the missouri river, the focus is on flooding. the water is dangerously high because of heavy rain and melting snow. today, the army corps of engineers pumped more water out of a dam in south dakota to relieve the pressure. the resulting floods swamped dozens of nearby homes. the water could be there for months. a wildfire in eastern arizona has grown to nearly 500 square miles. it's now the second largest in state history. a picture from space gives you a sense of the size. more than 2,500 firefighters have been unable to contain the fire so far. no one's been hurt, but as many as 10,000 people may have to evacuate their homes. in egypt, protesters toppled an oppressive regime, but now comes the hard part. that story is ne

texas. to the north of that, we have tornados on the ground right now north of hill city, kansas.ig box here, another box i put in here, there will be 2,300 lightning strikes. every time it flashes, there's one spark, another spark, another spark. this is a brutal night for a couple things. from dodge city back into west texas. no fires outside. this is the red flag warning. nothing to do outside with flames, you can't risk it because of what it looks like on the ground. i'll draw this out for you. this is arizona right here, here's new mexico here, here's texas. everywhere you see this maroon color, that's an exceptional drought. yes, you can even get droughts in deserts. i know deserts are supposed to be dry. but if you don't get enough rain to even get the plants that live there to stay alive, then you have the exceptional drought, and it's all the way from tucson up to albuquerque and all of texas. that's why texas is essentially on fire. it's burning at this hour in many spots. we'll continue to watch all the weather for you here. we'll watch that big cell. that's the one i'm

it started just friday about 100 miles north of houston in east texas and has already taken 15,000 acreshe house, we'll leave. till then, we're staying. >> more hot and windy weather is expected in the south, and that also is expected to hamper firefighting efforts this morning. >>> the head of the iaea is calling for safety checks on every nuclear reactor in the world within 18 months. the iaea began a four-day meeting in vienna this morning in the wake of japan's nuclear disaster. it is preparing to release a report on the fukushima disaster which will say japan underestimated threat from tsunamis. >>> syrian president bashir al assad blamed saboteurs for the political unrest in his country. he hinted at constitutional reform and urged those who had fled the government crackdown to return. cbs news correspondent wyatt andrews is standing by on the board werrder with details. good morning, wyatt. >> reporter: betty, good morning. there were two bashar al assads speaking this morning. the first admitted that his government has been too corrupt, not responsive enough to some of the people

i'm familiar with the north carolina model, and it could work very well for texas in a rural or area where we have star plus in urban areas. so i think the answers are out there. i think states have done a lot of innovative work on this very important issue for us because of the medicaid expenditure and also medicare is going to benefit from that too. so the models are out there. >> yes, mr. bloom. >> yeah. i think that's exactly the answer. i couldn't agree more. the only thing i would add is that if you look at commercial health plans which typically are an approach to integrating care for the duals, they attempt through their contract network to integrate care, but they do a wonderful job, i think, in improving the coordination of care for the most part. but they often will carve out long-term care racing from their payment, and that is the population we serve. so i think as mr. millwee mentioned, these are programs that work very comply meant ri, albeit for distinct populations and segments of the duals. if done right, and i think texas is a good example, it provides great hope,

north carolina. >>> a single mom in texas tries to stop three brothers from stealing beer from a local walmart.d them to the car and jumped on the roof and tried to open the driver's door as the car sped off. she's okay. cops arrested the three after a dramatic chase. the woman says she is tired of people who see crime and look the other way. >>> new intrigue at the casey anthony murder trial. as you look live in the courtroom in orlando, a potential new witness surfaced who spent time with casey anthony and her same child died the same way that little caylee died. if she testifies, david, what impact could the testimony have? >> reporter: well, it was a surprise yesterday when the prosecution came forward. the jury didn't hear any of this. but they don't know what is going on. but the prosecution saying that investigators are pursuing a theory that casey anthony may have fabricated her story about caylee anthony dying in the family swimming pool and being discovered by her grandmother after hearing a similar story, a real live tragedy from a fellow cell mate while she was in jail. this cell ma

mcallen, texas, 102. north charleston, south carolina, 102 again.nd never happened in june. gainesville 1 hundred degrees and heat warnings in effect across the southeast. summer here and winter across the antarctica. if you're a penguin, i suppose easy to get lost but this, beautiful! emperor penguin was found in new zealand! that is 2,000 miles from where that puppy should be! they think he's a youngster, probably less than a-year-old and got lost making his way for food. he looks sad and lethargic as well. >> got lost 2,000 miles? did he end up on a cruise ship and took a little ride? >> made a wrong turn. >> i bet he was somebody's pet. >> no way! >> no way. who has a pet penguin? >> they stink! you don't want to be that close to a penguin. >> i know a few who do. >> you do not know anyone with a pet penguin! >> what are they going to do with the poor guy? >> like four years since this happened. not move it back to antarctica, too dark and think it caught some diseases and they don't want to bring it back to the home land so letting nature take

a new wild fire ignited and the north central portion of arizona. dozens over the state to texasncluding 15,000 a. and a trinity/polk county in texas when of the largest in east texas. >>catherine: stormy weather are still causing headaches! thousands of homeowners are bracing for more flooding and what is already hit their community. >>catherine: take a look those are fish crossing a road in missouri is no joke. they are flopping elongate two-lane street is part of the fallout after several of these began failing on sunday. they are not up to holding the surge of water from the dams. this is a levee in the north portion of the state. the water is rushing over the barrier. the nebraska/iowa state lines. not far away a partially submerged picture. dozens of badly homes with a submerged-church. troops from the national guard are on the scene but there's always some much that they can do. in st. louis, storms continue with lightning on sunday lighting up the sky bringing up more rain. flash floods parts of severe areas of indianapolis', rivers and streams or danger high levels. nort

texas. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. price: mr. chairman, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. price: and would like to yield to my colleague from texas so she can respond to the last speaker. the chair: the gentleman must remain on his feet as he controls the time. and the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. jackson lee: i thank the ranking member. and i think it's important i listen to the gentleman, mr. aderholt, list a lot of numerical and factual points about personnel. let me be very clear, as senator lieberman said, all of our sisters need to be on high alert and all of our citizens need to be on high alert as we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11. . it is clear, mr. chairman, and our colleagues, that something is awry with al qaeda. al qaeda is interested in transportation modes and they're interested in our rail systems. they have already done mumbai, they have done london and they have done madrid. and therefore, they are looking at the united states. no, we don't have

america is in the grip of pulver tizing summer heat, stretching from texas all the way to the big cities in the east coast. and even in the north, highways are buckling in the heat. steve osunsami in atlanta tonight with america sweltering. >> reporter: in woodstock, georgia today, where it felt like it was nearly 100 degrees -- you don't carry a sweat rag? >> no. >> reporter: sergeant keith smith showed us how in the world he keeps cool, wearing a bullet proof vest under his shirt. it's a device called the cool cop. an officers here are attaching it to air conditioning in their patrol cars and connecting the other end to a sweet spot underneath the vest. because it makes the difference? >> definitely. it makes you, you know, when you are holt and miserable, it puts you in the mood of, this is all you can think of. when you get in the vehicle and put it into your vest it cools you off, puts you in a better state of mind. >> reporter: someone definitely turned up the heat. the roads were so hot, they before buckling, from minnesota to mississippi. and in cincinnati, kansas city and memphis, they were calling this a heat emergenc

texas instruments ticked higher, despite the tech company trimming its earnings and revenue forecast. citi group is replacing credit cards for about 100,000 north american customers after revealing some 200,000 of its online banking accounts had been hacked. >>> aides for secretary of state hillary clinton says she is not pursuing a position as the next world bank president, angrily refuting reuters report she's in negotiations to leave the obama administration. >>> payments tied to the federal foreclosure prevention program have been suspended for wells fargo, bank of america and jp morgan chase after the banks failed to meet basic program requirements. >>> in a rare reversal, apple has scaled back its demands that publishers sell subscriptions through its apple itunes store. >>> finally, one customer got a big surprise when he found a bag of $17,000 next to an atm. turns out an armored truck service left the cash and an honest man returned every cent. >>> kent clobbers another, the phillies flop unflubed and the sox sink the yankees. plus, the mavs go from downtown to beat the heat and grab the lead in the nba finals. your early morning sport

texas. good morning, ryan. >> reporter: we're just a little bit north of huntszville. be behind me, you have seen the fir battling firefighters. it high winds and even higher temperatures, a helloish scenarios for firefighters in east texas. smoke filled the skies. the thermometer well above 100 degrees. 200 families here have been evacuated. plenty of others refuse to go. the choking smoke forced the closure of interstate hooking up dallas and houston. this morning, wildfires are raging across seven states, more than a million acres have been wiped out in just the last few days. on top of what has already been a record wildfire season. >> what we're seeing is prolonged droughts. we're seeing more weather extremes. >> reporter: in arizona z50 mile-per-hour winds pushed a wall of flame near sierra visit ya. >> i feared for my husband and my animals, for the air quality. >> reporter: more than 700 firefighters have come from all over the country to battle what's known as the monument fire. so far, 47 homes and 22 other structures have been destroyed. right now, the winds

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texas rise. mr. smith: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from from north carolina, mr. coble. the chair: the dean of the north carolina delegation, mr. coble, is recognized for three minutes. mr. coble: i thank the gentleman from texas and it was my belief that diversion had ended. let me make my statement and maybe we can get to this subsequently. a robust patent system is critical to develop a strong economy and it serves this goal by ending diversion of user fees to other agencies. ending diversion is essential to a robust and strong patent system, it seems to me. this is not a new concept. it has been a controversial issue for many years but we are at a point if we aren't doing something, the office will be overwhelmed. i answer, two words, bag log, pendency. the number of pending applications is around 700,000 and average time for an application to be reviewed is 30 months. this is unacceptable and the number of pending claims that should be, approximately 300,000 and the pendency time period should be approximately 20 months or 10 months less of what it is now. patents p

texas yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. price: mr. chairman, i'd like to ask to reserve as the chairman has further speakers. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama rise? mr. aderholt: i would like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. frelinghuysen. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in support of the homeland security's appropriations bill. as a member of the committee from a 9/11 state, i work daily to ensure that our state and nation are prepared to meet any and all potential homeland security threats, whether those threats come from natural events or from activities of violent international extremists. one month after osama bin laden was brought to justice, we cannot ignore the fact that terrorists are plotting and planning at this very moment to harm americans everywhere. they're waiting for us to let down our guard so they can attack our communities and our neighbors. mr. chairman, it rema

north lawn. thank you. >> this is a fox news alert. just breaking at this hour. authorities in texas say as many as 30 bodies have been found buried at the intersection of two county roads in the southeastern part of the state. houston tv station is now reporting local others in river county, texas, told the sheriff department there, saying these are all bodies of children. the f.b.i. has been called in to assist in this investigation. this is quoted from the liberty county sheriff office, 25 to 30 bodies buried at the intersection of county road 249, and 2048. we are just getting this information at this hour. obviously, crews are on the way to the scene. trying to get ahold of the liberty county sheriff office. to get more information. as well as with the f.b.i. but the initial report here dozens of bodies, some believed to be children buried at the intersection of the county road. as we get more information we will bring it to you on the fox news channel. american economy on the top of the agenda for a man who hopes to replace president obama. republican candidate tim pawlenty lai

north and from the carolinas to miami. wet on i-10 from jacksonville to new orleans and also in south texas rain makes for a slippery ride ont lake city to helena and i-5 froro seattle to portland. >>> flying airport delays are possible in boston charlotte, miami and salt lake city. >>> day two of an fda hearing on the breast cancer drug avastin opens later this morning near washington. >> the drug's maker launched a last-ditch effort to keep the medicine available. karen travers reports on the emotioiol testimony from the hearing's first day. >> reporter: five years after she was diagnosed with pat cancer, pat howard says she can't believe she has to beg for the drug she says is keeping her and many other women alive. >> due to avastin i'm experiencing a quality of life that is nothing short of miraculous. >> reporter: doctors and patients like howard made personal appeals to the fda to keep the breast cancer drug avastin available to them. >> i believe avastin coming off the market would be devastating to my breast cancer patients. >> reporter: the drug was approved in 2008 to treat advanced stage breast cancer that has s

why would you want to be california's unemployment level when you could be texas' unemployment level or north dakota? and if you believe in the 10th amendment, we ought to let the states learn from each other. the right to work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the hasme unionized states. -- the heavily unionized states. the public employee unions are a different issue. >> as a businessman who says your strength in in campaign as someone who created jobs, the question is right to work. >> i do believe that the states should have the right, i believe in right to work. and i hope that new hampshire they who get it passed. and i agree with the speaker and the others who believe that if the federal government continues to do the kinds of things that this administration is trying to do, through the back door, through national labor relations board, that's killing our free market system. and the free market system is what made this economy great. and we have to keep the free market system strong. >> a lot more ground to cover with hour candidates. we're about to take our first break of

north america so an individual monarch butterfly that emerges in minnesota or somewhere else in the northern part of its breeding range will migrate through the central part of the united states through texas and into sites in central mexico where they spend about four or five months and then fly back into the southern part of the united states where they start another generation of monarchs. so what we're doing is we're trying to figure out the relative impacts of the genetically modified crops and all of the other things that might be killing miners in there in . the moment to fly lays its eggs on a wheat new quiett that grew on fields after the industry had developed to supposedly ingenious method of killing all clones except for the desired. useful plant by the calculated use of a certain herbicide it took away diversifies habitat. and the only intentional side effect of gene technology in the culture. we now know through our experience with corn in the united states that the biological pollution of these you know pigeon across is uncontrolled there's no buffer zone you can't control the way insects fly or that rainwater will carry any vector can take this these new genes and spread th

most of us know north korea has missiles to present a significant threat and they continue to have the ballistic missile trying to build not texas but california and alaska hawaii. [laughter] my parents live here. concern for me as well. but the first time they tested was 2006. three stage missile going to the first page over the sea of japan and then as it went from first through second stage it blew up. everybody said they cannot build the three stage missile but three years later they tested it again. this time it went all the way through the first and second stage and as it went into the third stage it tumbled into the pacific ocean. but this shows not so much failure but advancement showing day advance get done this so ready to go. so we could hit alaska or hawaii o or worse. they also have said and extended range, as goods with ranges 35300 kilometers. what does that mean? north korea can hit every single inched of south korean land mass with the scud missile. it is something they have now and so of one talks about the tanks cannot run as well but now they don't need to use those they could inspire the ballistic missile at

texas. 100 in new orleans. 100 in jackson, mississippi. 102 in pensacola. >> temperatures right now feel more like the mid to latter part of july with temperatures even in the north rising into the mid and upper 90s. this is catching a lot of folks off guard. >> reporter: in chicago a half marathon was stopped mid-race as heat and humidity sent a dozen runners to the emergency room. one man who collapsed later died. >> how you doing, sir? >> reporter: in houston a blistering 102 degrees today, shattering a record set more than 30 years ago. >> ridiculous. why does the other part of the country have all this rain, too much water and we don't have any? >> reporter: with texas stuck in one of the worst droughts on record, public fountains have become neighborhood cooling centers. an early plunge into a summerlike heat wave. in what has been a season of extremes. forecasters say the heat and humidity could now spawn violent thunderstorms in a season that's already shown us so much severe weather. and, lester, tonight it's not just the nation's midsection and south. northern california is dealing with unusually heavy and perhaps record setting amounts of rain. back to