north texas. subsidy exxon mobil. he. sounds like the whole woodstock show. the crowd loves the cowboys and the big oil prices the green jobs and prosperity. but the ladybird there's a natural gas at the united states thirty nine hundred employees in north texas. take care of our kids is not blessed next to you oh thanks a plug. but the price of the fracking frenzy makes a wild bucking bronco saying saddam ate. in just a few years drilling rigs has sprouted up through the texas suburbs like towering hills horsed across from shopping centers close to schools otherwise residential neighborhoods have become industrial zones. when the fracking staats trucks gather around the world. the sand water and chemical mixes pushed deep underground at extremely high pressure. escaping vital drifts in the week. three dangers the sea a lot of injuries i've seen since somebody actually get blown all the way back from a blowout c. one got a blow out. dangerous even deadly but lucrative. fracking is now underway in thirty four states in the us. to hit and urban cowboy tyler is

hunters from north texas into nebraska and into the southern -- in the hundreds from northern texas and nebraska and into the southern dakotas. 63-67 the overnight low. we keep the clouds all night. a little spotty. tomorrow morning we expect a little more of that. by the afternoon, probably some breaks in the clouds. we will shoot again for tomorrow. it'll be improving. still a lot of clouds. 81-85 the high. ocean city will be dry and in the 80's sunday and monday. a lot of clouds. by monday into tuesday for us the rain chances are to increase. humidity and heat. by tuesday we will be up to 90. >> the orioles are trying to keep the winning streak going. >> they will try to make a for in a row tonight in cleveland. open championship pilots coming up in sports. -- >> from the sports center, that this is 11 sports. >> good evening. after a terrible start to the road trip, and they have rallied. baltimore won the last two against minnesota up and then won the first of four cleveland. last night was a rare rally for the orioles. this one was close. they changes in the third inning. the thir

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. >> finally tonight, a surprise for people in north texas.time along the roadside hunting for bugs. some are catching grasshoppers and others since early june had cornered locus by the armed hole. some speculate they are using the bugs for food. some places think that's a delicacy. >> coming up on

oklahoma city, all of a sudden, kansas, oklahoma, and even north texas getting very hot and very dry. it's not like the heat wave's going to end. it's just going to shift a little bit to the west. >>> bill, thanks so much. >>> coming up, big ben boosts stocks, barbie boosts business, and a divorced mother of two tries to boost her chances of selling her house. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, this brand is apparently back on the market. >>> coming up, the return of an ace, revenge at fenway, and a mascot hits the skids. you're watching "early today." >> announcer: "early today" is brought to you by caltrate. >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. during a reconstruction of iraq, an estimated $68 billion has been wasted. an inspector general reese report says the exact amount lost to fraud and abuse can never be known because of bad record keeping by the pentagon and other agencies of the u.s. government. >>> the boy scouts of america is reaffirming its policy of bannin

the heat will be on from kansas to north texas.lower mississippi valley highs will be in the high 90s and 100s. >>> a solid showing for team usa in basketball. kevin durant led the way with 22 points, lebron james had a victory. tomorrow in swimming, dana vollmer set a new world record while taking the gold in the women's 100 meter butterfly. but the french winning the gold as the americans settle for silver. that silver is the 17th for michael phelps' career. here the the medal count. china leading the way with 12 total, including 6 gold. the u.s. in second with 11 total. italy, south korea and france round out the top five. in doing so, she set a con sective medal record back in 1996 when she was still a teenager. >> reporter: she wore a smile and a new gold medal after accomplishing what no american never had. she's the first to win medals in five consecutive olympic games in a non-team sport. >> it's just overwhelming. it's just something like you're pinching yourself. is this real? it's just incredible. it just seems like a dr

the heat will be on again from kansas to north texas.he lower mississippi valley, highs will be in the high 90s and 100s. in sports this morning, a sunday thrill in the olympics and a solid showing for team usa in basketball. lebron james had 8 assists in a 98-71 victory over france. in swimming, dana vollmer set a new world record while taking the gold in the women's 100 meter butterfly. but the french win the gold as the americans settle for silver. that 1silver is the 17th medal f michael phelps' career. so after the second full day of competition, here is the medal count. china leading the way with 12 total, italy, south korea and france round out the top five. >>> one member of team usa deserves special mention. kim rhode won the medal in skeet shooting and set a record dating back to 1996 when she was still a teenager. medal record back in >> shooter kim rhode wore a smile and her new gold medal after accomplishing what no american ever has. she's the first to win medals at five consecutive olympic games in a non-team sport. >> it'

a man from north texas says tsa officers at dallas love field took off his wife's clothing to inspect her feeding tube even though she had handed over information from her doctor explaining what was going on. they said they needed to physically handle the tube and then swabbed it for explosives, which the couple says could lead to infection. the tsa is thoroughly investigating before they comment on this. they do say the swab was not supposed to touch the feeding tube, itself. >>> tom davis has died. viewers of "snl" in the early days will remember him as one-half of the duo franken and davis. franken became senator al franken and davis continued in comedy, wrote books, and famously experimented with and enjoyed to the fullest a slew of drugs from opium to lsd. lauren michaels discovered the duo doing stand up in l.a. they worked on "snl" for 13 years on and off and shared three emmys for their work. tom davis dead of cancer at the age of 59. >>> you might call the following the sound of freedom. ♪ o say can you see >> let me explain this. william dillon was convicted of murder and se

pushing 108, 110, oklahoma, north texas, little rock. yesterday they were 111. a lot of heat here.'m telling new because some of that is going to break off and head toward us as we head toward the weekend. not going to be hundreds but well back in the 90s with this ridge here. all the heat, showers and storms, very powerful storms across parts of alabama, west florida, even coming out of michigan. so we've got the spotty showers on the future cast for the afternoon. lack at the storms in the mountains march toward the east this evening. 6:00 p.m. not everybody is going see the rain, and i know many folks need it. we're still seven and a half inches below normal since january 1st here in d.c. tonight things settle down, then tomorrow looks like the rain is going to be a little bit more weighed spread. so a better chance for showers and storms areawide tomorrow than today. then we're going to start to dry out and warm up. so about 81 today. yellow alert because some of us are going to be impacted by these storms where it may mess up an afternoon or evening plan to get outside. tonigh

arkansas, now oklahoma, even north texas is now quickly shifting back into a bad drought. when you're really dry, the soil has no moisture in it, doesn't really help you cool. it's almost like a desert effect. usually the plants and the trees and the shrubbery help cool things off. but with everything so bone dry, it's easily with the sun up today going to get from 105 to 110 today from dallas to kansas all the way back over through arkansas. and even as we shift to tomorrow, there's no relief in sight. there's no rain in sight either. i mean, this area of the country just got a feel for all the people that their livelihoods depend on rainfall. talking the ranchers all the way through all the farmers. forecast for the northeast, you get a dry day today. a beautiful day, figures after a rainy, wet weekend in many spots. d.c., a slight chance of a storm. for the most part, you're dry. coastal areas of south carolina, florida and north carolina, late in the evening or early in the morning, you look just fine today. luke, a little preview of tomorrow does show some of those st

. >>> there's a new rule limiting flags at a north texas cemetery that's created a controversy. a minute, maybe we better reconsider this. that city ordinance says flags must be gone within 21 days of burial unless in a approved container. city officials say it was to keep the cemetery neat and orderly and say flags are fine year-round, as long as they're in vases or something similar. flags honoring veterans and volunteer firefighters are allowed without restriction in the weeks before and after memorial day and veterans day. what about independence day? back to our lawyers now. jennifer, the supreme court, if i recall, has said flags are covered by the first amendment, free speech, an expression of your beliefs. so isn't this a violation of the constitution? >> yeah. arguably it is an infringement on people's way of expressing their love and honor for loved ones but it's a stupid idea. you have to wonder what these lawmakers are doing there that this is on their priority list, given all of the issues that are affecting our communities. it's a bad idea. it seems as if they didn

look at the big ridge of high pressure over oklahoma, north texas and kansas i should say, with showers and storms up and over that. scattered showers and storms off the carolina coast. winds more out of the east that will keep our temperatures from being too warm. as we get into the afternoon the winds hit the blue ridge and some of the mountains out west. pop up showers there maybe one or two by the bay. spotty showers this afternoon, nothing terribly widespread. quieter tonight with mostly cloudy skies, more storms, especially in the mountains tomorrow more area wide coverage come wednesday. today green, good, 88 degrees, isolated showers and storms. 60s and 70s tonight. yellow alert days. tomorrow probably green to yellow borderline with a couple of storms 86. 8 wednesday, we get back to the 90s with a cup of storms by wednesday. >>> howard good morning everybody. i don't have any major incidents to report early this monday morning, i'm happy to say. if you are planning to head northbound on i-95, you are seeing a bit of yellow here. let's take a live look closer in springfield you

just houring after the shooting in colorado, north texas batman fan were road di. >> nothing will stope from coming to see batman. >> with the constant coverage of the massacre all over tv, raid you and the internet, it's bound to raise tough questions for some kids and teens. >> it's going to be important for parents to understand they know their children best. and you know, listen to this their gut instinct on how much information they should share with their children. >> cinda says it's important to be honest and direct while sharing age appropriate information. >> i don't believe in sugar coating i. because kids are going to overhear things and try to fill in their own blanks for information that they are looking for. consider tagging along when they go to the theater. >> some may not be that happy. this is where you have to pull out the parent card. >> eric joule went to see a movie with his son who says he could separate the movie from reality. >> i try not to think about it. >> others have a new warning for the kids. the teenagers said while they were not scared to go into the t

by the way, no some of your from north texas state are some university in texas. how many of your native texas? i am a native texan as well. enders, texas, way out west near odessa and midland. try as we might, you natives, the rest of them just don't get it, do they? it's impossible to explain. all right. i'm going to put it to work just a little bit. we will have a little fun uneducated the same time. lets plagal word association game. work with me on this. you say eagle forum. >> eagle forum. >> i'm going to say washington d.c. you say washington d.c. >> washington d.c. >> i'll say america. [inaudible] what would you say? what one word would you say best defines america? >> freedom. >> is it that easy? so easy. but what is freedom? all my life i wondered this question. if you go to the dictionary you will find what is not. you will find it is not being enslaved. it is not being restrained. it is not, it is not, it is not at least 17 different definitions of what is not. what is it? all of you know the last two sentences of the star spangled banner, the second t

. >>> the north texas toll way authority just released the video. four cars sending car parts flying all over the road. there were no passengers on the bus at the time. two other people were hurt. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. the bus driver is on paid leave while that happens. >>> chris christie isn't commenting after a video shows him in a heated back-and-forth at the jersey shore last night. tmz obtained the video after someone criticized his education policy and kept walking. >> you're a real big shot. >> stop shooting your mouth off. >> you're a big shot. keep walking away. >> keep walking. keep walking. >> governor christie recently signed legislation to expand public funding for charter schools. critics wanted that money to go to struggling public schools. >>> doug's here with more about our weather. >> to that it might be cool today compared to tomorrow, that's saying something. the highest i sauce was 99 at the haired. i think we'll be setting some records. we'll show you how things are shaping up. plenty of sunshine,

100s they are down to 87 chicago 90, and minneapolis 88 here is the heat sitting over oklahoma, north texasphis, 107, it will stay right there. slight improvement in the temperatures here, but looks like we have also a chance of a little higher temperatures by the weekend generally this week just about normal weather, as far as the end of july beginning of august. normal temperatures now there is a couple little features moving across midwest and the plains probably keep us in at least a chance of widely scattered showers and thunder shower activity more down to the south tomorrow afternoon wednesday as well, a weak front coming through, probably increase the chance of a few showers here, by probably tuesday night and wednesday. some areas getting widely scattered thunder showers, any of these could be slow movers brief downpours where you live. others won't see a drop after that might begin the dry out and heat up until the end of the week. southeast winds a to 10 knots, bay temp, 82 degrees, mid-to upper 60s low 70s slight chance of a shower chances are slim though. gain tomorrow clouds -

. >>> residents are surprised for a whole different reason in north texas.those residents are karching grasshoppers. catching grasshoppers. others since early june have caught locusts by the jarsful. speculation is they are using the bugs for food. fried grasshoppers are a delicacy in some parts of the world. but they haven't exactly caught on in the panhandle. so there's surplaws -- surplus, in case you're interested. >> bon appetit. >>> that's it for us tonight. >> thanks for watching, wjz. maryland's news station. we don't want you to rush away. there's much more ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley, including the drastic measure local cities are taking to keep the city afloat. plus, why veterans aren't getting the >> pelley: tonight, going broke. a city near bankruptcy cuts the pay of firemen and cops to minimum wage. another city's cuts have students jammed into classrooms. elaine quijano and ben tracy on cities in crisis. the supreme court upheld the president's health care law. but now several states are opting out. anna werner reports. wha

we have the dna from princess doe in the codis database with the assistance of the university of north texasing the dna work for us. so we can take those reference samples from any family that comes forward and say i believe princess doe may be my daughter and we can do the comparisons, but to answer your question, randi, you made a comment about maybe she was never reported missing. that has always been one of my fears in this case is maybe she was never reported missing so we have no reference to go to to find her. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> keep us posted on any movement in solving this cold case. >> i intend to return as soon as we get the results. >> best of luck. thank you. >>> there will be a memorial at noon today in blairs town, new jersey, for princess doe. you can learn much more about this story and my other stories at cnn.com/randi. >>> the show of the century cut short. so why did police pull the plug literally on paul mccartney and bruce springsteen? we'll tell you. >>> battling smut in your hotel room, at least on the hotel tv. it's made for some pretty strange be

course we have the dna from princess doe in the data base with the assistance of the university of north texasng the dna work for us. so we can take those reference samples, any familyhat comes forward and says i believe princess doe may be my daughter, and then we can do the comparisons. we've eliminated many. we have a potential match list on our princess doe website. that list is ever-changing because we are eliminating and unfortunately then we sometimes have to add continually to that list as more missing persons come in. but to answer your question, randi, you made a comment about maybe she was never reported missing. that has always been one of my fears in this case. maybe she was never reported missing, so we have no reference to go to to find her. >> and no clue as to what might have brought her to that cemetery. do you know if she was killed there? or maybe brought there afterwards? >> we don't know that at this point. that's why, again, it's most important to get this out to the public. in my opinion, it's the public and media that are going to help us solve this case. >> certainly

. >>> a grandma from north texas says that tsa agents crossed the line when she passed their securitytion when forces her to wear a gastric tube. she says agents pulled her aside for a pat down behind a screen, not in a private room. her husband says she was humiliated and embarrassed. >> i was mad. this is over the top. it's too much. people do not have to go through this kind of touch. >> i want everybody to be treated better. i want this system to work better. >> they say agents threw away melinda's special attitufood, an she complained, they retrieved it from the trash. it's a soft food diet. when she objected they took it out of the trash and handed it to her. thanks for that, took it from the trash. >> we've heard so many horrible tsa stories. i don't know what to make of it personally but i think -- national security's a big issue, but some things, it's a commonsense matter, know what i mean? can we have a little bit of that at the gate? that's all. >>> thousands of frightened syrians are now pouring across the border as violence in their country intensifies. it has been anothe

extreme weather and a flash flood emergency from texas to north carolina, this morning. two dozen high-water rescues in the raging waters of san antonio. this woman jumped from her car into the deep water on the interstate. and much more rain on the way. >>> also breaking overnight, 28 climbers caught in the path of a deadly avalanche in the alps. at least nine injured, five dead, and the rest missing. a frantic search and rescue right now on the growing disaster in the mountains. >>> knockout. kristin chenoweth, knocked out by a scaffold and a seizure on her hit show. she was rushed to the hospital. we'll have the latest on her condition. >>> and watch out. >> it's a shark. >> a family vacation turns wild when a little fishing off the deck reels in the shock of a lifetime. yep. that's a big, old shark. in the most unexpected place. we'll talk live to all about their jaw-dropping tale. >> my favorite shot. >> everyone here today. i think it's demeanor the wardrobe. you're all bright. and gray suits over there. >> you look great, george. >> let's keep it. >> fishing for a

look north texas one wants to hear about more government spending. is, what you need to do -- austerity now is like putting a malnourished patient on a starvation diet. consumers are not spending. businesses are not spends. it's a necessary evil. government needs to get in there and jump start the sputtering economy. >> i think that's where romney has an opportunity to get out there. the fact is, he should probably come home from europe and start addressing these issues. he hasn't done a whole lot of laying out of the his economic plan, but what's talked about cutting government spending. that's a good place to start. >> kelly: i'm glad you brought that up because a lot of people who are criticizing governor romney wld like to see specific plan. but john, getting back who to what you were saying about republican leadership and then democrat leadership, how about just good old american leadership where we all roll up our sleeves, across the aisle, left and right, everybody working together to get something done to help this country get back to work? >

we're at hawaiian falls water park in north texas. typically on summer day they have 2000 people. today they have about 3,000. and texas is not alone, by the way. triple-digit temperatures in the forecast for oklahoma, kansas, missouri and arkansas. heat advisories and extreme heat warnings are in effect for much of the south-central united states with no reprieve in sight. hot, hot, hot all week and heather, some people say again, that is part of living in texas, in july and august. heather: this certainly doesn't help the drought conditions though, on a serious note? >> reporter: yes, very serious note. that is a story that is not going away anytime soon just as you said. the u.s. drought monitor reporting that 46% of the united states in severe to exceptional drought. the number is much higher when you look at statistics from the palmer drought severity index, more than half the country in the u.s., and this will have big impact on food prices as well, heather. heather: casey stiegel, from garland, texas, you shouldn't have opted a black shirt in the heat. >> reporter: bad choi

like six-fold and the results of that are just coming home to roost so what's happening in north dakota and texas and ohio and pennsylvania on the gas side and the oil side and the ngl side is a reflection of the results of capex deployablely and it's happening in the deepwater as well. it will happen in the deepwater gulf of mexico again as drilling activity has now resumed. there's a big lead time between the release of the capital and the results of it, and the chart on your right shows that for most years before 1980-'84 the amount of oil discovered excluding extensions and revisions to old discoveries was more than the amount of oil consumed, for this period of year in which the years in which the industry was living off of old investment the amount of oil discovered was less, and now the evidence is clear that discovery rates are significantly higher than and will remain significantly higher than oil consumed for a period of time to come. what's required to keep this going is clearly high enough prices. this is a map, it can't be seen but it's 250 most recently discovered fields and their e

. >>> severe weather tore through north texas friday. high winds caused an 18-wheeler to tip over on to a passenger vehicle near the dallas-ft. worth international airport. hail, lightning and heavy rain delayed several flights. no one was seriously hurt. >>> separately, torrential rains caused part of a ceiling to collapse friday at a mall in charlotte, north carolina. shoppers say it was frightening, but fortunately, everyone got out okay. it's estimated that up to three inches of rain fell in about 45 minutes. >>> turning to syria, where the rebels are pushing deeper into the capital of damascus in their fight to topple bashar al assad's regime. nbc's ayman moin dean is here with more. >> reporter: they have clashed for a seventh straight day in damascus. since an attack on wednesday killed the country's defense minister along with three other top security officials, rebel have been frequently ambushing troops and attacking police stations in the capital, but the syrian military is fighting back fiercely, attacking neighborhoods with

the north texas toll way authority releasing video from the crash. when you watch it, keep in mind a young victim remains in the hospital in intensive care. let's watch. you see a dallas area rapid transit van slamming into the back of line of cars on a exit ramp. the first is a sedan. a 28-year-old is in the sedan and husband father of two is hanging on to his life after this brutal hit. the dart transit people are looking at this and put the van driver on paid administrative leave what they find out what happened and they suspect the transit driver was not paying attention and failed to slow down. five other vehicles involved in this, a chain reaction as you mentioned, jenna. in a case where one person at least was seriously injured. back to you. jenna: luckily not more. what a video and what a crash, harris. thank you. >> reporter: sure. jon: some new details to bring you on a shocking sexual assault case at one of the nation's busiest air force bases. we'll take you live to texas for that story. jenna: casey stiegel on the story. america faces an