get you up-to-date on is the power outage that swept through southern california, arizona and northern mexico and a lot of lights and an attack on this morning. a million and half in san diego. look at all of the darkness from last night and yesterday. there was a massive outages that affected so many millions of people. this morning they did restore power to san diego customers. that was after the gridlock on the freeways and at the airports. in orange county had problems with its hoighways. " a worker in and yuma, ariz. triggered the power loss. look at this video yesterday. look at the traffic because of this year and 11 flights between sfo and san diego airport had to be canceled. offs this is something we're falling as the power gets back to normal. we are of course following the weather as we head into the >> weekend. here is a shot from the golden gate bridge. we're picking up the morning's fall. we are seeing a little bit of drizzle from that. as we head into the afternoon, mostly sunny conditions. traders are ignoring quite nicely. this weekend, a slight chance of thunderstorms. >> t

across all of san diego county, southern orange county, into northern mexico, baja peninsula, affecting the city of tijuana and east into arizona and it's affecting millions and millions of people. as you might expect, it's causing great concern. power company officials have urged people, they have stressed that this is not an act of terrorism. they call it a system failure, a major transmission failure. now, this comes in the midst of a tremendous searing heat wave across the southwest, temperatures as high as 113 degrees in yuma, arizona, 107 degrees in palm springs and this has been going on now for three days. the power failure has knocked out traffic lights. it is causing major traffic jams and this just at the start of rush hour. it's creating, as you can see there, quite a mess. the power is out, of course, in homes and businesses. some people are trapped in elevators. power company officials tell the region's residents don't expect a quick fix. >> we want all of our customers to be focus on their emergency supply plans, make sure you've got plenty of water, make sure you have pl

the blackouts even spread to northern mexico.sey wian is live in san diego. why is it taking them so long? >> reporter: believe it or not, carol and christine, there is actually good news. it's not taking them so long. they have power restored to all customers of san diego gas and electric just a little more than 12 hours after this massive blackout caused business disruptions and massive traffic jams and a lot of frayed nerves. >> i'm happy to report, after a very long 12 hours, we have restored power to all 1.4 million customers in san diego. as we have been talking about all day, this was the most widespread power outage ever in our service territory. the restoration process was a very difficult process. we had to build our transmission system back piece-by-piece. once we got the transmission system in place, we worked with all of the local generators in san diego and got them back and, finally, as we were doing that, we also brought our customers back in service. >> reporter: now when you think about the job that they have ha

cities in northern mexico also affected.ower service described the causes a quote, employee generated event, but it was not terrorism related. >>> the state of texas as appealed to president obama to declare a major disaster so they can get assistance for the wildfires there. the lieutenant governor of texas said we need help yesterday. the biggest fire burning near austin tikilled two people and only partially contained. officials say another big fire north of san antonio is now more than 50% contained. >>> did you realize it was hot this summer? the u.s. was dealing with record-setting heat, and now meteorologists are confirming this has been the hottest we have seen in 75 years, and the second hottest on record. >>> also, nfl superstar, peyton manning will not be joining his team this sunday for the first game of the season. the indianapolis colts underwent another surgery fthis week. he holds the second longest starting streak for the nfl, and the other being brett favre. >>> you can hear him say it again, again, and aga

from southern california all the way into arizona and across the united states border into northern mexico. this was the scene last night in san diego. crews worked through the night to restore power and tonight nearly everybody has their power back on. today officials urge people to save since some of the power plants in the area are still off line. >> our system is still fragile though everybody has power back, not all of the power plants are operating today. some of them took a pretty tough hit when the lights went out yesterday. >> the outage also led to flights being canceled caused delays in the bay area. arizona officials now say they believe it was a worker who was switching out a small piece of whichment that triggered it and they are trying to determine why it wasn't contained its thought the power outage cost the state about 100 million time for government workers cost up to $20 million and the cost of spoiled food was $18 million. the national university system released those figures. >> another friday sell off on wall street. >> and a new vehicle recall is bo it feels like hel

from southern california all the way into arizona and across the united states border into northern mexico. this was the scene last night in san diego. crews worked through the night to restore power and tonight nearly everybody has their power back on. today officials urge people to save since some of the power plants in the area are still off line. >> our system is still fragile though everybody has power back, not all of the power plants are operating today. some of them took a pretty tough hit when the lights went out yesterday. >> the outage also led to flights being canceled caused delays in the bay area. arizona officials now say they believe it was a worker who was switching out a small piece of whichment that triggered it and they are trying to determine why it wasn't contained its thought the power outage cost the state about 100 million time for government workers cost up to $20 million and the cost of spoiled food was $18 million. the national university system released those figures. >> another friday sell off on wall street. >> and a new vehicle recall is issued tonight. how

also, a city in northern mexico -- in northern mexico city rather, i should say, is planning to trainrodriguez calderon says the training is designed to help put a stop to crime in the town on the texas border. rodriguez himself has been the target of two assassination attempts. so far about 3,000 residents from garcia and nearby cities have signed up for the course. also, a time of remembrance in russia. the nation mourning the deaths of dozens of international hockey players in a plane crash yesterday. 43 people were killed when the plane went down just after takeoff. the aircraft was carrying a hockey club to a game that was happening in belarus. many of those on the team had ties to the u.s. national hockey teams. they had declared three days of maurng in t mourning in the region. >>> you've heard from the republican presidential candidates. you'll hear from the president tonight, but coming up main street america has some serious questions about how their politics will translate into more jobs. stay with us. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare sup

. >> two million people are without electricity tonight across the south west and northern mexico. and power out annual affecting flights in the bay area. almost all south west flights to san diego have been cancelled. 5 from oakland at least 3 from san jose. south west united and virgin america have cancelled a tl of 8 flights from sfo. no power means no traffic lights down south causing snail lick movement lick this on roads in the orange county town of mission viejo. employee moving a piece of equipment causing problems at power sub station in south west arizona likely caused the outage. >> when you lose a transmission line you start bringing in a lieutenant mr. power on the other transmission lines and then when youless power plants you don't if he isly have enough power to serve the rest of the load so you have a little cascade event when you don't have if you have power you start to cascade the syste system. so it is possible that high demand could place some over all but frankly i suspect in this case it was the system was just overwhelmed by too many out annuals in too many

and are steadily returning to other parts of southern california and northern mexico after a major blackoutesterday afternoon. millions of people spent a hot, dark night without electricity. two nuclear plants went offline after losing electricity, as well. officials say the outage was accidentally triggered with a utility worker replacing faulty equipment at a substation did something wrong. it's unclear why this caused such a widespread outage there. interpol issued its top most wanted alert for the arrest of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi and his son saif. the move follows a request by the international criminal court which is seeking the men for alleged crimes against humanity. gadhafi has not been seen in public for months and went underground after rebels swept into tripoli and stormed his compound. >>> former wrestling executive linda mcmahon is on the verge of announcing another run for the u.s. senate in connecticut. the republican party chairman tells the new haven register mcmahon's announcement is imminent. she spent more than $50 million of her own money in an unsuccessfu

but what is the exploitation of the violence in northern mexico and i should say that to deny the spillover violence is taking place is not to deny that we have the incidence of the violence caused by organized criminal the activities based in mexico, we do the killing of brian carry to the contrary, the shooting of the rancher robert krenz. all of these events are elements of violence but if we held chicago with detroit and philadelphia or phoenix to the standard of one criminal even to meaning the city was out of control we would hardly have a city that was sent out of control in the united states, so the question is why exploit how can this be exploited and i think this is part of the aftermath of 9/11 is this notion that the borders, the former devotees we felt that day were brought to borders are taken advantage of by those who would exploit fear and for that i would offer some bits of wisdom for the history. the first is to quote mark twain again as first let's get the facts straight and then you can distort them as much as you would like and the second as the reminder to us the only

most of the power is back on in parts of southern california, arizona and northern mexico. 5 millionafter an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a substation in arizona. the blackout caused a sewage spill that closed several beaches near san diego and the schools there are also closed. >>> stanford hospital in palo alto, california, confirms to the new york times that information on 20,000 emergency room patients were posted on a commercial website. the information included names as well as diagnosis codes, and it stayed online for nearly a year until it was discovered last month. >>> firefighters are tamping down the hot spots and holding back the flames from what is beingb÷ called the most devastating wildfire ever in texas. it has burned since sunday and killing two people and destroying nearly 1,400 homes near austin. because of the progress in controlling the fire, officials called off the plans to use a dc-10 jetliner to drop fire retardant on the flames. i'm alex witt in for tamron hall, and join me this weekend for the live anniversary coverage of 9/1

. >>> this morning power is slowly being restored to parts of southern california and northern new mexico. san diego got the worst of it. overnight it looked like much of the nation's eighth largest city disappeared. power officials say a worker replacing some equipment in yuma, arizona, touched off the trouble. >> the initiating event for this major system disturbance throughout the southwest did happen as an employee initiated event in arizona. that was confirmed by arizona public service and that was the beginning of the event that has affected so many people. >> the power loss knocked out gas pumps and cell phones. >> we can't call anyone. this is all over scary. seems like the end of the world. >> my car stopped on the freeway but we coasted down here, hopefully trying to get some gas but there's none. >> officials say it may be late today before most of the power is restored. >>> here in the northeast some of the worst flooding in 40 years has forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate. in the past few days parts of new york and pennsylvania got up to ten inches of rain from the re

see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. and in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. you could send messages over mountain ranges. there are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. i talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70's and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of --

but what is the exploitation of the violence in northern mexico and i should say that to deny the spillover violence is taking place is not to deny that we have the incidence of the violence caused by organized criminal the activities based in mexico, we do, the killing of brian carry to the contrary, the shooting of the rancher robert krenz. all of these events are elements of violence but if we held chicago with detroit and philadelphia or phoenix to the standard of one criminal even to meaning the city was out of control we would hardly have a city that was sent out of control in the united states, so the question is why exploit, how can this be exploited and i think this is part of the aftermath of 9/11 is this notion that the borders, the former devotees we felt that day were brought to borders are taken advantage of by those who would exploit fear and for that i would offer some bits of wisdom for the history. the first is to quote mark twain again as first let's get the facts straight and then you can distort them as much as you would like and the second as the reminder to us the onl

they're asking people in southern california, southwest arizona, northern mexico, to conserve so all the circuitry and transmission lines can be recharged. bill: it's 6:00 in the morning out there. you've got a little time before the sun comes up, but not a lot. >> reporter: we do. bull bill casey stegall, live in southern california, thank you. martha: busy morning. those are a few of the stories we're watching in "america's newsroom". coming up, we have this for you, epic flooding in the northeast, mother nature sparing nothing in her path. >> oh my gosh. that was a house! >> martha: unbelievable. we are live from one of the hardest hit areas in pennsylvania today. bill: when is that going to end, huh? >>> so president obama making his pitch in almost prime time. what part of his plan has a chance? good question. martha: that's one of the more defining moments of 9/11. who will ever forget this moment, when president bush found out? >> immediately -- i didn't want to leave the classroom, i didn't want to rattle the kids. i wanted to project a sense of calm, so i hasely -- hastily s

she had been president of the hickory apache, and that's in northern new mexico. and she was very troubled, very intense and very difficult to interview because i could never find out what she was impeached for, and i had met her at a women's gathering called we women. this woman was very upset. you just can't say all women great because women helped me kick me out of my job and she was very, very upset. and i went to see her years later, and i said what happened? and what she said was that -- well, there were -- she just spoke in generalities. she wouldn't really say what was the matter. and finally, i had to go to the albuquerque journal website to find the whole story. i guess she thought i knew maybe. but the story is that the tribal police on the reservation were raping inmates, and they were raping them frequently. and this was a big, big problem. and it was reported to her. and she tried to get help for it. she wrote to then vice president cheney to say, we need help. she tried to get the fbi in. and the recognition was pretty much what happens in other com

good news is for people here in southern california that parts of san diego, southern arizona, northern mexicoually. bad news, parts of southern arizona, southern california, the lights are still out. 1.4 million. that was just in the san diego county area. there are more than six million people in the area where the lights went out. there's all kinds of varying numbers and estimates of how many people are actually -- were actually out at some point. but there's really no way to ever know exactly but by some estimates, more than three million depending on who you talk to, the outage was triggered yesterday afternoon, 4:00 when an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation in southwest arizona. that's what caused all this. basically just an accident, human error. officials at the power company say two reactors at both of california's nuclear power plants went off line after losing electricity but they're safe. they had the back up power systems that kept those cool and kept it cool for the workers and people nearby so there's no threat there. if you talk to

it looks like the bulk of that precipitation more towards the northern gulf of mexico.'ll could thkeep you upda. >> thank you so much. >>> new jersey governor chris christie has been dealing with his own hurricane disaster. irene caused chronic flooding throughout the state, but this weekend, the governor will be personally helping the new jersey coast economic recovery. >> i'm heeding my own call. we're at the beach for the weekend. mary pat and i and the kids will be down here. we'll be going to different spots and hoping that everybody follows the lead. >>> coming up, will this be a jobless labor day and are there more fears of another recession? . ah. mom? he's here. nice wheels. oh, thanks. keeps me young. hello there, handsome. your dinner's in the microwave, dear. ♪ where do you want to go? just drive. [ engine revs, tires screech ] mom? ♪ but not in my neighborhood. ♪ [ female announcer ] we're throwing away misperceptions about natural gas vehicles. more of the vehicles that fuel our lives use clean american natural gas today. it costs about 40 percent less tha

it looks like the bulk of that precipitation more towards the northern gulf of mexico.ut we'll keep you updated. >> thank you so much. when it rains it powers but apparently not in the right places. thank you so much. >>> new jersey governor chris christie has been dealing with his own hurricane disaster. irene caused chronic flooding throughout the state, but this weekend, the governor will be personally helping the new jersey coast economic recovery. >> i'm heeding my own call. we're at the beach for the weekend. mary pat and i and the kids will be down here. we'll be going to different spots and hoping that everybody follows the lead. >>> coming up, will this be a jobless labor day and are there more fears of another recession? personally helping the new jobless labor day and are there >>> as we head into labor day weekend, at least 14 million of our fellow country men and women don't have jobs. nearly 9 million more have only part-time jobs. either because of cut backs or because they can't find full-time work. today's jobs report raises fears of a second recession

they're pretty widespread across the northern gulf of mexico.shear breaking it up but you have to realize the water temperature throughout the regis 88 degrees. so the atmosphere is very ripe for something to happen. when you take a look at the computer models, a lot of them are taking the storm a little farther to the west. here's lake charles in louisiana and texas. it would be great if we could have all the models pushing towards texas. texas really needs the rain. but there is divergence into where the storm will go and when it will get there. it's possible it could me and ier through the gulf of mexico for you a few days. that is very bad for new orleans. when you have a storm sitting in the gulf it can continue to push a lot of rain into this region. we are seeing up to 10 inches of rain easily by the latter part of the weekend if the system does sit and spin in the gulf of mexico. but right now we're still monitoring it. it could change and we have something to keep watch on. but we may have another tropical storm in the gulf of mexico as

mexico when all hell broke loose. trace gallagher picks up the story from there. trace? >> reporter: because really it's the story of the week, megyn. she was actually selling seafood in the northerne hears a loud bang, and then something hits her in the face. it knocks her down, and she reaches up, and she feels blood, and then she passes out. she's rushed to the hospital, and then she gets there and tells doctors she believes that a rock hit her in the face. they take a closer look, they take an x-ray, it's not a rock, it's a grenade lodged between her upper and lower jaw. she was shot by a grenade launcher. it embedded, but it did not explode. they evacuate the hospital knowing if it goes off, it kills everyone within 0 feet. carla flores is then isolated. the clock is ticking, and none of the doctors want to operate on her. finally, the head surgeon asks for volunteers, they get four of them. two anesthesiologists, one nurse and one surgeon. they take her out in the middle of a field, and they set up this m.a.s.h. unit, a mobile hospital. this surgeon takes four hours trying to carve around this explosive device. they finally got it, took it away and detonated it. carla flores

the model's completely disagreeing about whether tyke this into mexico or the northern part of the gulfwe've got an awful lot to resolve. back to you. >> a lot to watch. carl parker at the weather channel. thanks. >>> financial worries are leading more and more people to shy away from self-employment. last month 14.5 million people were self-employed, down more than 2 million from the recent peak in '06. experts say it's a troubling trend as self-employed businesses did a big bulk of the nation's hiring growth before the recession. >>> all right. and as we count down to the president's address on the economy, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says the president needs to focus on liberating the job creators. in hour hiring now series today, we are focusing on a company that is doing well adding jobs despite the economic doom and gloom. scotttrade has more than doubled the workforce in the last five years, hasn't had that layoff since 1980. joining us now is jane wolf, chief administrative officer for scottrade. explain to all of us, no layoffs since 1980. how does scottrade maintain

we are watching katia with the item in the gulf of mexico we will watch that very closely and folks who live in the northernor that. folks living in texas would love to get some of that. >> that was like a spaghetti bowl there. quite a thing when you say that september 1st in dallas have a nice cool day, just a hundred degrees. rob, thank you. >>> president obama pushing back his jobs speech after republicans objected to the date he asked to speak to congress. this as the president's approval on the economy tumbles. a new cnn/orc poll are not happy with the way the president is handling the economy. when asked about how things are going in the country, 73% said badly. brianna keilar is joining us from the white house. for those not following this closely we knew the president would make a speech next week. he basically wrote a letter to john boehner and to the senate to say, can i speak next wednesday? and then what happened? >> reporter: yeah, he wrote a letter and according to white house press secretary jay carney who was just on msnbc he said the house republicans were given 30 minutes notice and democr

mexico city after a mass police raid on the town may 4th and then staying in mexico city and then later traveling on to northern parts of the country, eventually traveling to all of the states in mexico. in woe hack ca, an annual teachers' strike was brutally repressed in 2006, and the popular rejection of that act of presentation led to a six month popular uprising, the creation of the people's popular assemble which, effectively, occupied peacefully and held control of the city for almost six months. after the july 2nd elections in mexico city, massive protest movements alleging fraud had been employed in the service of calderon's victory. the opposition candidate called hundreds of thousands of people to occupy the streets. they occupied the main city square of mexico city, shut down the central downtown avenue for almost two months. um, mexico in 2006 was in the grip of an incredibly inspiring, massively protest movement, mobilizations with massive participation. when calderon takes office december 3rd, 2006, first off, he had to sneak in the back door at midnight for his inauguration ceremony. i was with s

northerners ranting. with texas saying they will invade new mexico which taylor felt was absurd. taylor knew the terrain. he would have personally hand the governor of texas the way andrew jackson promised. not threatened but promised to lead an army into columbia and hang the governor of south carolina in the nullification crisis but taylor is upset but fulmer is upset by the fact the texans might invade mexico. what does he do? fires the secretary of war and secretary of the interior and everybody else. he then spends the first three weeks of his administration trying to put it together. gets most people in order but peculiarly he can find no one to take the secretary of the interior or the secretary of war positions. the two people he needs most to deal with the issue of the territories. he brings as secretary of state daniel webster, his old friend. daniel webster spent his entire life wanting to be president as he plots to get the eighteenth it -- eighteen 52 nomination. if i can fast-forward to the 1852 whig convention fillmore wants the nomination. the other hero of the me

mexico. here in the northeast, northern new england will see beautiful blue skies and clear conditions.w pressure which is very stubborn. more clouds and showers from new york south of virginia. unfortunately. to the west coast, good morning in san diego or los angeles. hot conditions will continue there. temperatures above average for the pacific northwest. south through los angeles. one quick look. tropical storm nate. we thought nate would bring relief to texas. that is what happens. you cannot get water when you need it. nate is staying south bringing rain in mexico. we will talk about maria as well off the coast and it shouldn't affect the east coast. that is a quick picture. >> alexandra, thank you. >>> honoring the victims of those killed. the victims killed on 9/11. i'll tell you about the special events planned today from the pentagon to shanksville to manhattan. stay with me. me too. you booked our room right? not yet, thanks for reminding me. wait, what? fret not ma'lady. i have the hotels.com app so we can t a great deal even at the last minute. ah, wellyesir. dolo free hote

mexico could easily be the tent. accuweather is warning us this system could bring 20 inches of rain and it might never develop but it might hover and sit over the northernausing possibly disastrous flooding. now, several oil companies have already recalled their personnel from oil rigs out in the gulf of mexico. and if this storm does intensify, other companies could follow suit, bringing more people back to shore. again, it is not necessarily the wind in these storms that causes the disaster and the immense cost, but the water. massive rain causes flooding. that's what we saw in the northeast from hurricane i ine. that is what meteorologists are telling us we could see in the area of the northern gulf coast. already in new orleans, mayor there is telling people stock up on food, water, batteries, flashlight, anything you might need to sit out a storm. the louisiana state emergency alert system is already in effect. so people there are starting to take heed of this storm. again, major problems could be caused more by flooding than wind. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> mother nature is definitely still angry. i don't know what's going on. >> hate to sou

and they think that it will be very close to the northern part of south america. so if you're maybe mexicou might look down at the very, very far south in the sky. really low on the horizon. you may see something as it reenters. this is still plus or minus. >> a lot of water around there. >> this is still plus or minus nine hours. but they moved it ahead about one hour come fired yesterday. so let me tell you what we're talking about here. you've been talking about this thing and how the entry and how the whole, it goes like this. then the next hour it goes like this. and it covers the whole world eventually. as they predict the 6:07 p.m. entry tomorrow evening, this will take it right over northern south america. now if it is late by a couple of hours, even three or four hours, it could be on this line which would take it over north america. but, let's say it does go right over the northern sections there. we're talking about colombia, northern parts of brazil possibly. are there people there? here's where there are people. here's a map of where the lights are at night. there are people.

mexico where nobody lives. so that's the good news out of all of this. you can see on the northern tier of this system, we have got dry air which has been coming in from texas, that's been helping to keep this storm a little bit weaker, but it remains offshore so as long as that center is over the open water, there is a chance for intensification, so the biggest concern is as these rain bands come in here with the threat of tornadoes and the downpours to go along with the flooding. this thing isn't moving much, it literally has only moved maybe 20 miles all day long. right now the present moment is to the north at 3 miles an hour. it's basically going to sit in this area for the next 24 to 48 hours and landfall isn't really all that important. it's where that rain track is going to be. and as you can see, as we head into monday into tuesday, it's still down here near the gulf coast. we're waiting for a cold front to come in and try and sweep this up and pick it up. the rainfall forecast as you can see, it's going to be as much as ten to 20 inches. and some of those numbers are alre

mexico. we acquired vast territories in the southwest. southeasterners insist that all of this -- southerners insist this is open to slavery, the northerners don't want it open to slavery. the gold rush is on, and california has almost 100,000 people, about ready to be a state, and everything is in chaos. southerners want a new fugitive slave law. northerners say to end slavery in the district of columbia because it's obscene to have people bought and sold in the shadow of the nation's capitol. taylor, the general, sees all these problems and as a general, as a man who defeated santa ana's army, outnumbered, still wins, a general who understands how to fight wars, taylor sees these as a series of separate issues, and he wants to tackle them one at a time. first he'll bring california into the union as a free state. then he'll bring new mexico in as a free state because there's enough people to come in, and they don't want slavery there, and then he'll deal with the other territories, then he'll deal with fugitive slaves, then slavery in the district of columbia. along the way, he'll deal with texas' absurd demands that half of new mexico s

mexico. there's a good government approach in this regard when it comes to northern command and then southern command -- i am reasonably familiar with this. i'll get into this more as overseas travel commences. that will be high on the list of places to visit. >> i want to reflect similar comments you have heard from other folks on the path out that thank you both for your service to our country. congratulations, director petraeus on your new role. i yield back, madam chair. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you for your lifetime of service. the 9/11 commission recommended -- should transfer to the defense department. that has not happened. you are in a unique position to comment about whether that should happen. there are some pros and cons. is that something you will push for? do you think the recommendations of the commission have been overtaken by improve cooperation between cia and the defense department? general clapper, the arabs bspring -- the war in afghanistan, the military efforts have done more to provide a military body blow to the control of al qaeda than anything else. the arab

mexico, it's caputh. none of that moisture getting into texas. maria, tropical storm 150 mile north of puerto rico, taking a pass similar to katia. nay affect bermuda. katia now is approaching northernme big time winds. it's going to be slamming into the northern part of the uk here over the next day or two. this front will help push away maria. it will also drive down cooler air. so this hot will be short lived. probably see a little in the way of cool weather towards the end of the week. by the way, la nina returned. didn't really go anywhere. it's one of the reasons we had the tea mutt chtumultuous weath winter. expect driving conditions across the south. wetter conditions in the ohio valley much like last year. a crazy hurricane season now potentially a repeat of what we saw last fall. meanwhile, in tampa, ali, a little steamy this morning, but lovely, none the less. >> hello, rob. i don't know that the black three-piece suit was really the best of planning. >> you left the see suckrsucker home? >> the seersucker is in atlanta. if i'm hanging around here, i need something other than that. >> when you say jump, i say how high, ali. i'll get right on that, buddy. >> rob good to se

but what is the exploitation of the violence in northern mexico and i should say that to deny the spillover violence is taking place is not to deny that we have the incidence of the violence caused by organized criminal the activities based in mexico, we do, the killing of brian carry to the contrary, the shooting of the rancher robert krenz. all of these events are elements of violence but if we held chicago with detroit and philadelphia or phoenix to the standard of one criminal even to meaning the city was out of control we would hardly have a city that was sent out of control in the united states, so the question is why exploit, how can this be exploited and i think this is part of the aftermath of 9/11 is this notion that the borders, the former devotees we felt that day were brought to borders are taken advantage of by those who would exploit fear and for that i would offer some bits of wisdom for the history. the first is to quote mark twain again as first let's get the facts straight and then you can distort them as much as you would like and the second as the reminder to us the onl