were beyond 350 boats taking part in the world's longest fresh water boat race from chicago to northern michigan will take most of them between 40 and 60 hours to complete. and lastly, two days, that's how many days dozens of rare and vintage surf boards around the world will be up for sale in honolulu, hawaii one on display was made in 1850. all the proceeds going to charity. alisyn. >> thanks. all right, smokers beware, if you buy your cigarettes online and think they're tax-free, think again. some people are burned by thousands of dollars in back taxes. fox's eric shawn investigates. >> gladys cramer has been buying cigarettes online for years now, but feels burned. >> what the heck is this? and this was not-- this was 4500 plus dollars, so i called them and they told me, it was tax on cigarettes. >> like a lot of americans, gladys thought ordering smokes on the web was tax-free and she received a note from the state of pennsylvania demanding thousands of dollars in back sales taxes and the department of revenue slapped a lien on her house to get the money. >> i don't want to pay something on

northern michigan's historic fish town is down to one working fishery. >> the lakes have changed a lot. >> reporter: now in the biggest financial commitment of any administration, president obama wants to spend $475 million to help the great lakes survive. >> we need to invest in the economy and the environment together. >> reporter: it will be epa administrator lisa jackson's responsibility. >> i don't think the country can afford not to spend the money. water is going to be the challenge of our time. and although there's lots of water in the great lakes, if it's not useful if to us, if we can't have it as a resource, it's nothing more than the dead sea. >> reporter: in traverse city, local conservation groups are trying to stop polluted storm water runoff from reaching the creeks and rivers that run into the grand traverse bay. some filtration programs are in place, but money is needed for more. and this is the payoff, a bay with clean water and a huge impact, rippling through the area's economy. one small way to protect the world's largest freshwater resource under siege. ann thomps

some places here in northern michigan, grayling, michigan, now is 36 degrees on a july morning in there. elsewhere, it's only 58 in detroit. buffalo's at 54. this is quite a large cool air mass. it's very dry. we'll be benefiting from that. it's a large area of high appreciate that you are is centered right over the northern part of the lower peninsula of michigan. that high is continuing to circulate this dry and comfortable air right on down into our region. we have a stalled front to our south. that's keeping the humidity at bay. it's going to hang around down there and keep u dry here for the next day or so, but then eventually as we go forward over the next 36 hours, there's a line of some showers, maybe thundershowers crossing the great lakes later on today and into nit. then that front will drift over our region on thursday, give us a chance of showers and more humidity. now here's our forecast for today. by 9:00 in the0 m-7ids. a delightful morning. then by noon temperatures in the low 80s. by mid-afternoon, the mid-80s. so, a terrific summer day. have to say just a perfect su

>> well, we do have a pretty viable hospitality industry in michigan, particularly in the northern part of my district, as you mentioned, in the grand traverse area. traverse city and among other areas. i think that does help. we really have three things in michigan. tourism and hospitality, agricultural and manufacturing. and, obviously, manufacturing piece has taken a huge hit and that has caused a lot of problems in our state and a lot of people have lost their jobs. but that's a very important part. i wish the summer had been just a little warmer and more people would have needed to go to northern michigan to cool off. >> congressman camp, thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> love to have you join us in new york when you're in new york next. >> although would love to. >>> for more on the topics we're discussing check out carloswatson.msnbc.com. >>> coming up next, too much, too fast. one of the biggest criticism of this administration and with all that president obama has got on his plate, is he now getting off track? we'll ask white house insider melanie barnes. you'r

growing up in northern michigan you don't get many french open champions.hristmas tree farm with salmon fishing. if you weren't a bow hunter you weren't much of an athlete. you know, this game has given me a life beyond my wildest dreams. and it doesn't get any better than playing -- the match tonight will be amazing. kournikova in town. what we do for the washington kastles is bring tennis to the community, to everybody. inner city gets a taste of this. not only leg mason but world team tennis, you will never see another format of tennis like this ever. because davis cup doesn't have it. fed cup doesn't have it and the tours were all five -- events, as men and women, played on the same court and the same night play fog for a victory. >> mark, preeshg your time. next we have serena williams coming to town. that will be a big draw. also, mr. jensen, huge redskins fan. >> thanks. i would like to see mark and rigens together. that would be fun. thanks so much. have a good night down there. it is really exciting. this team, very entertaining for the fans. caron

these are some other morning low temperatures around the region, from 42 in northern michigan into theeninsula at 44 degrees. 51 in pittsburgh this morning. it was 48 all the way in northern maine. even in our western suburbs, walkersville, westminster, into southern pennsylvania, we saw temperatures in the 40's this morning. mchenry at 45 degrees. an unusually cool july morning. 58 at b.w.i.-marshall tied the record. look how much warmer it was in downtown baltimore. the nearby harbor keeps them much milder at 68. ocean city was at 78. but everybody else a quite cool and comfortable july morning. the satellite right now shows basically clear skies. the lower the dew point, the drier the air. this is very unusual to have dew points in the low 40's in july. in the heat and humidity of a normal baltimore summer, dew points can be pushing toward 80. so this is very dry air across the region. that means these temperatures will fall quickly once the sun goes down this evening. look for another comfortable night. 50's in the suburbs. 60's downtown. sunset at 8:33 this evening. the record low

"dalva," and "rurning to earth," have been set in the sparsely populad areas he knows well: northern michigan, the sandhills of nebraska, the arizona-mexico borr, and here in the beautiful padise valley near livingston, montana, wherhe now lives much of the year. >> other than fishing d a little bi-hunting, all i do is write. >> reporter: harrison a determinedoutsider," in all senses. >> you reay get a hang of the country, ratr than be struck in what i call thgeo-piety of the easterseaboard. > reporter: careful, because you know that's whe i am. >> i kno but you serve it, too. but itoes happen. >> rorter: now 71, jim harrison a falstaffian figure-- blinin his left eye from ahildhood accident, chain-smoking his amecan spirit cigarettes-- pt wild man, part cultated literary lion, who peppers hispeech with talk ofirds and great ets of the past. it's poetry, in fact, that s remained harrison'sirst love. his new collecti is called "in search ofmall gods". >> you sense those srits in certain, often remote aces, whether it's the spirit animals, the spit of trees. so ose are the small gods. >> report

up north of there, showers when you get in toward northern michigan. wisconsin, light rain too.le daytime heating and upper level low. you'll get thunderstorms near chauchlgt here's the satellite picture in the northeast. here's your low. notice the rain underneath it. the low gray clouds hanging in philly down to d.c. and new york, possibilities of fog. we'll have more coming up in just about 15 minutes. >> all right. thank you. so a scuffle broke out when a trooper pulled over paramedics when they were taking someone to the hospital. you remember this video. we showed you a while ago. now a legal scuffle is just beginning. @pp >>> hey, remember the video of a scuffle between a paramedic and a state trooper? we brought it to you about two months ago. well, the paramedic sued the trooper yesterday saying he violated his civil rights. the trooper's attorney says that claim is not valid. the trooper pulled over paramedics while they were taking a woman to the hospital. >>> all righty. fed chairman ben bernanke is going to be back on capitol hill in a few hours. it will be day two

>> right now northern indiana, missouri, michigan. here's your area of low pressure. up across northern canada, towards minnesota. that cold front goes all the way back down into the rocky mountains. that's going to usher in cooler temperatures for you starting probably thursday into friday and then getting into saturday and sunday for lower parts of texas. you finally see a cool-down, even though a couple days in coming. sho chicago, the low clouds are out there. let me take you live. here's what it looks like. clouds are in place, o'hare has a 30 to 45-minute delay because of the low clouds. that will be there for the morning, later today, little sunshine, still the possibility for a thunderstorm late today. the heaviest raib rain i think has been through and will chug to the east. south of chicago, toward champaign, springfield, a lot of rain, thunderstorms just north of st. louis. it's raining in that city right now. over to the west, cold pront in place when you get toward kansas, couple of pockets of rain. it's not severe, not even that heavy anymore. it's still

my world district of northern michigan contains more than alaska and we have a keen awareness of water. michigan is also home to a large water facility that has not been without controversy over the years. in 2008 americans consume 8.6 million gallons of bottled water. bottled water is a billion dollars a year industry that sales up more than 83% this decade. many americans believe the water they drank from a bottle is held through the and the water that comes from their faucets. the water research foundation found nearly 56% of bald water drinkers cite health and safety as the primary reason they choose bottled water over tap water as a result americans are willing to pay top dollar for bottled water which costs up to 1900 times more than tap water and uses up to 2,000 times more energy to produce and deliver. over the past several years away for bottled water has been recalled due to contamination by queen compounds, mode and bacteria. in april it doesn't pay the college junior high school reportedly were sick after drinking bottled water from the vending machine. consumers may not r

of michigan, mainly northern wisconsin into a moderate to severe drought in those areas and you've seen the dry pockets go away in the southeast. that's been the big change. we continue to see the dryest area basically from san antonio toward the coast of southern texas where it is just an extreme to exceptional drought. we have our typical dry areas off to the west. you can see some improvement in parts of the four corner region anyway. not quite as dry as it has been. let's go day by day as we head through this week. on monday, we're expecting pretty nice weather across the great lakes into most of the northeast although lingering showers in northern new england. some sunshine through this areament stationary front will have stalled out finally across the southeast. this will cause scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly the afternoon variety. that will extend back into the southwest. of course, some of this is monsoon moisture kind of coming into the southeast. that's definitely afternoon and evening type of showers and thunderstorms. system coming through the northern parts of th

of michigan all the way into northern missouri.r clouds in the pacific northwest, and that rain gets >> we are going to be very the cloudy today, mid-80s, a slight chance for a late day showers and storms. tomorrow, hazy, hot, and humid. and that's your latest weather. natalie? >> al, thank you. now to new information in the death of michael jackson. nbc news has obtained a list of items confiscated during a police raid on the offices of jackson's personal physician. nbc's jeff rossen is in los angeles with more. jeff, good morning. >> hi, natalie, good morning to you. for the first time, court documents reveal that dr. conrad murray is the target of this criminal investigation. we saw detectives storm his office on wednesday. now we're getting an inside look at the manslaughter case they're building against him. we watched as federal drug agents rummaged through dr. conrad murray's office in houston. now, nbc news has obtained the search warrant, and the wording says it all. investigators were looking for evidence of the offense o

northern virginia and 38 in delaware. several murder suspects were taken out in the sweep. >>> we are following a developing story out of michiganly train collision near detroit. an amtrak train crashed into a car 20 miles west of the motor city killing five people in the car. the car was heading north when it crashed the train tracks and hit. the train pushed the car about 150 feet from one road crossing to another. no one on board the train was hurt. >>> encouraging news for air travelers. transportation officials say more flights arrived on time in may of 2009 than 2008. a little more than 80% of flights arrived on time in may. 79% last year in may. the transportation department reports fewer mishandled bags and cancellations. >>> mcialtion's memorial -- michael jackson's memorial is costing taxpayers about a million and a half bucks. most of that is for police officers working overtime. the city put out request for donations. they got about 17 grand so far. l.a. is facing a half billion dollar deficit this year. aeg live has not donated a penny. >>> jackson won't be honored with a resolution from the u.s. house of representa

showers in western new york state, western pennsylvania, northern ohio, scattered showers, same with eastern michigan are getting some rain out ÑÑ there too. it's filling in nicely around buffalo, the finger lakes and rochester. but dry in syracuse. drew dry in albany, and showers later tonight. when you get toward carolina, most off shore but a couple break-away showers move through, around chesapeake toward baltimore. north of there, let me show you what it looks like by nyc. if you are traveling to this region the haze is there, and you can see it. the clouds are lower and they thicken and you see it especially tonight. and winds pick up and that will slow you down. we'll talk about airport delays in a bit. >> thanks, bob. >>> police are ticketing a man thought to have caused an explosion that destroyed part of an interstate. look at the video here. officers in hazel park, michigan say the man was speeding when he crashed into a tanker that then exploded here, taking out a huge chunk of an overpass. transportation officials say it will probably take $2 million to fix the bridge. >>> so thieves sto

the city of behight michigan is 60 miles from the northern border, nearby to areas where smuggling and illegal crossings are known to occur. in places like whitefish, local law enforcement often ends up assisting border patrol with response to suspicious activity at or near the border. local law enforcement also helps out with security around and awareness about wildfires during montana's fire season. many of the fires up in northwestern montana occur on federal lands. when the feds need assistance, whether it is the border patrol or forest service or i.c.e., they depend on resources of local communities like the community of whit whitefish. in whitefish and similar communities, local law enforcement works closely not only with those federal agencies but interagency cooperation is a fact of life in northwest, montana. and the cost local government -- understand that costs local governments money, which is too often -- which too often it doesn't have with an unfunded mandate. some special interest groups located right here in washington, d.c., on connecticut avenue have called the white

midwest and into the great lakes and the upper peninsula of michigan is going to be on the soggy and cold side. breezy as you head into northernome showers to roll into theúp-o northeast as we head in tomorrow evening. that's a quick look at the national map. >> that's a quick look at your weather picture. harry, we'll send it inside to you. >> all right, dave. >>> by any standard, kevin connolly is having a really good year. the actor started off 2009 with a golden globe nomination. then he appeared in the blockbuster film "he's just not that into you." and this week's sixth season premiere of his hit hbo show "entourage" scored its highest rating in a couple of years. kevin connolly is back. it's great. you look at the paper, "entourage" is coming back, and the reviews have been really, really good. everyone is talking about this show feels like it's been reborn. >> it's been great. also being the sixth year of the show, the fact that we're doing the numbers we're doing and people are still into it, it's great. it's a good sign. >> do you know when you're doing a show season after season after season, this year did you say,

canada and mexico are in fact texas, california, michigan, ohio, illinois, new york, indiana and pennsylvania and so while we regularly hear the northern american free trade agreement is being maligned and responsible for any economic challenge we face in this country, the opposite is the case. have there been any people displaced? well, of course there have been. and that's one of the reasons i supported trade adjustment assistance as i know my colleagues have, so that any people who do in fact face job loss, that they will be in a position where they are able to be retrained and put into positions that will end up being very beneficial for them. so i'm very pleased now to be joined by one of the great champions of the trade agenda, who's a member of the agriculture and intelligence and the armed services committee and he's the gentleman from midland, texas, mr. conaway. i'm happy to yield to him. mr. conaway: i thank the gentleman for yielding to me and those are some pretty startling facts. i'm a c.p.a. and i tend to work better with facts than i do with hyperbole and make things up and guesses and wishes. those facts are pretty sta

michigan. this will begin to fill in later on today as we go through the afternoon. most of the action down towards louisville in through northernparts of alabama in through central parts of louisiana. that's where it starts to get a little bit more treacherous as far as the thunderstorms. this will get a little bit more active as the day rolls along as it typically does in the summertime. 81 in new york city, a lot warmer than yesterday. 86 in d.c. this will be your day where it's dry. tomorrow will be another shot of seeing some wet weather. 85 degrees. still continuing cool in atlanta and 87 expected in chicago. delays at the airport, check them out, cincinnati and nashville, 32 minutes to 60 minutes. houston and birmingham and san francisco will also see some low clouds and a quick check, i know you showed some video of the eclipse in asia, this is out of india. there were clouds, that was an issue in a lot of spots but they could see the entire full solar eclipse in india. i didn't know this but they're a little more superstitious over there. pregnant women are not supposed to be outside because this is supposedly supposed

michigan, it comes back with a lot of strange and mandates attached to it. saying, you're going to build these signs that may be expensive, but -- in the northern part of my district few years ago, they were going to build a turtle fence. along the expressway. it goes through a westlands area. maybe a mile, mile and a half long. and we found out about it. we are not going to build a turtle fence. we were effective in delaying the building of that turtle fence for about a year. came back a year, year and a half later and saw there was construction going on along the road there. it's kind of like, man. they are going to build this turtle fence. and for those people who don't know what a turtle fence is, you don't need much imagination. a turtle fence is a fence you put alongside the highway to make sure that turtles don't cross the road. and that's really good for the turtles. except when you build the turtle fence and you prevent -- build it, and build the fence along the river so a turtle can't sneak into the river, swim under the bridge, and get into the median by getting up on the bank there, they put the turtle fence there, so all they can do is get in the rive