virginia has their own thing which is like northern virginia right maryland doesn't have one and i think merely made this up just so they can just times because the only thing merrill is known for is heroin and crabs so they're trying to see if they can get group. marilyn over here on the wire was a really good show. this is this it is really kind of it is true because it's like i.d.m. be what i'm going to die and either i go to murder sitting at the d.m.v. in california for hours waiting to get tried life driver's license or something so it's really that yes not a coma i don't like that we don't like that the district is good about thing breaking search or being a day before we go it is time for our friday tweet we told you about the pastor who got underwear packages pulled from walmart because he thought they were too sexy so we thought well for the underwear model tweet i have a feeling he'd say something like this why you hating. pastor god gave me these as in this hard ass and he would want me to flaunt it i'll have more tweets for you next week that's it for tonight's show thanks f

eats right and keeps in shape by taking daily walks with her dog mischa near her apartment in northern virginia. but on the inside, she is fight ago serious heart condition called cardio myopathy that weakens her heart. equally important, it also makes her uninsureable. >> it's frightening. right now because my health is pretty stabilized. the only thing that i'm worried about is if i have a catastrophic event. what if i have a heart attack? i really love this picture. >> reporter: she has had no health insurance since last fall because of her pre-existing condition. the federal government estimates that hundreds of thousands of americans share her dilemma and are denied insurance coverage because of health problems. but starting this summer, they'll be able to apply for temporary coverage through the pre-existing insurance plan. it's part of the new health care reform law passed in march. the plan is designed to provide coverage until 2014. that's when the broader rules that will forbid insurance companies from denying coverage to all individuals with health problems kicks in. richard popper h

the chinese government were to apply the same logic and lodge a missile strike against her in northern virginia, what with the united states government's reaction be? how would we distinguish that at from what we're doing in targeting individuals? >> i think there are many ways to distinguish it. in part, it deals with the relations that we have with the host governments. without getting into some very sensitive operations, the u.s. government continues to go out and target individuals who we think are actively plotting. they're not targeted because they have bad ideas. the are not targeted because they inspire others to -- they are not targeted because the inspire others to do things. they are targeted because they are attacking our homeland. >> the last question -- as a journalist, i have good days when i break a story and beat my competition. i have bad days when i get beaten on a story appeared as the director of the national counterterrorism and -- on a story. as a director of the national counterterrorism center, when do you drive home and say i feel really good about what i did today? gi

power. 262,000 in montgomery county, maryland, 43,000 without power in baltimore, 38,000 in northern virginia. and the cleanup has just begun. officials in the area say the damage is so severe and so widespread that as of now they have no timetable as to when most places will be back online. in aspen hill, maryland, i'm kristen fisher for cbs news. >>> there are also severe storms in the midwest and rising floodwaters caused an iowa dam to break. cynthia bowers is in delhi, iowa, with the latest. good morning, cynthia. >> reporter: good morning, betty. this concrete dam had stood since the 1920s when it was built for hydroelectric power. the lake it formed had provided generations of iowa families with an affordable getaway, until saturday when a foot of rain upstream came crashing down taking a 30-foot section of concrete out. in a matter of minutes, a 9-mile long lake was reduced to a puddle. 1/3 of the 900 homes took in water. 50 are total losses. the sad news for folks here is in a recession finding the money to rebuild this thing may be next to impossible. no loss of life is the only goo

. >>> a 20-year-old from northern virginia is facing charges of helping a group linked to al qaeda. authorities say the former high school athlete is part of a growing trend and that many potential home-grown terrorists are out there. here's abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: the fbi claims zachary chesser, who just two years ago was a student in a suburban virginia high school, became a terrorist hell-bent on jihad. neighbors can't believe chesser, a former high school athlete, wanted to join al shabaab, the al qaeda-affiliated terrorist group based in somalia. the same group suspected in the recent bombings in uganda that killed 73 soccer fans. >> i'm just shocked, i'm surprised. not the kind of thing i would have expected in this neighborhood. >> reporter: abc news has learned chesser is one of 34 americans charged and accused of ties to international terrorists in the past 18 months. law enforcement sources tell abc news the trend represents an unprecedented spike in homegrown terror that has them deep lawyer concerned. >> the last six to nine months has seen more fbi activity in

we have an all-day training seminar coming up on july 31 in northern virginia. contact us if you are interested in that at all. katherine is an yout spoken critic of liberal feminism, and she has been honored by pro life groups for hero rigs. her articles have been in the "wall street journal", the "new york times," stars and stripes, and catholic periodicals such as our sunday visitor and the national a catholic register. once she was even featured in "playboy." they devoted an entire page to criticizing her so-called cultural hang ups. so now we know there actually are articles in "playboy." [laughter] katherine graduated from catholic university in america in washington, d.c., where she studied philosophy and politics. she was a gutsy and fearless campus leader and speak out boldly when the man who was president of the university denied his involvement with questionable policies. katherine is a native of new york city, the chelsea section of manhattan, and now she works largely out of the washington, d.c. office of national review. please join me in welcoming

how might encompass parts of washington, northern virginia, even in ohio. some public policy issues, especially those from technological failures, there have been social and political consequences beyond who is up into is down and how it will play out in november. the deep water rise and will change the country as a whole, although it is impossible to predict what and how profound the changes might be. check out the web site, type in your zip code, transforming the gulf spill over your area of the country to give you a sense of how wide and far it is." back to your calls, short on money, lot of problems. democratic line, good morning. caller: thank you for letting people like me voice my opinion. last year there were questions, the republicans were so much against our president and letting our people suffer. for example, we have millions of people out of work. the republicans are not happy. do they not know that there is an election and we are taking notice? host: jerry, republican line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call, this is the first

graciousness of many private sectors, including senator warner and his support of a consortium and northern virginiachnology interests, we are exploring the possibility of assistance from the outside to facilitate and accelerate that to the greatest extent possible. there are some legal issues there with prohibitions and certain fashions for accepting outside guests, but if we can work that out, we will use those resources as well. as soon as the i.t. problems are solved, we will begin the process of checking and cross checking all of those records for each of the 330,000-some graves. >> mr. secretary, in the course of your review of the situation, have you encountered information that would explain why the army did not replace the leadership team, the civilian leadership team at arlington? because the army was obviously well aware of the dysfunctional relationship between the superintendent and his deputy. >> we can speculate some with some reason not so much the last inspection 1997 had a follow on that it has not been widely reported. the commanding general after that report and the council the s

but it was felt throughout maryland, d.c., parts of northern virginia and west virginia. it woke up our household. kind of a rumble that came in a wave, started low, a crescendo, only five or seven seconds or so. if i didn't know better, i would have it was that old cliche, a massive freight train rumbling by. meteorologists who lived here for decades say this is the most significant quake they've ever felt. small quakes happen every few years, the last one 2.0 in 2008, but literally 200 years ago, matt, an earthquake rat. ed d.c. in 1828. president john quincy adams was in the white house and he was talking about a big shaker. back to you. >> i can't believe you went to the old freight train line there. that's okay. we got you. tom costello in washington. tom, thank you very much. five after the hour, here's meredith. >> matt, thank you. president obama is expected to comment on the situation in the gulf at any moment. chief white house correspondent chuck todd is at the white house for us. good morning. >>. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. we wait for the fot talk a

that through the generosity and graciousness of many private sectors, including a consortium of northern virginia technology interests, we are exploring the possibility of assistance from the outside to facilitate and accelerate that to the greatest respect possible. there are some issues there with regard to accepting outside gifts, but if we can resolve that, we will move forward with that. as soon as the i.t. problems are solved, we will begin the process. >> mr. secretary, in the course of your review of the situation, have you encountered information that would explain why the army did not replace a leadership team, the civilian leadership team at arlington, because the army was obviously well aware of the dysfunctional relationship between the superintendent and his deputy? >> we can speculate with some reason, but not so much uncertainty. i think it is important to show that the last inspection in 1997 did have follow-on that has not been widely reported. the commanding general after that report did indeed council the superintendent and deputy superintendent which, as i know you are aware,

. >> you have to divide virginia in the southern and northern part, bun central appalachia we estimate there is six to seven tons and you could go for 40 years. that number will probably grow as technology improves. but u.s. has 250 billion tons of coal. it's our greatest resource for having a strong economy and homeland security, and it's one that we should cherish than vulify. >> how important is the energy and (inaudible) and clean coal? >> clean coal can be called to describe a lot of things, it's important to remember that coal is 70% cleaner than it was 20-30 years ago. all the sulfur removalals. the big difference between co 2 and other pollutants, there is no known technology to remove co 2. ccs is not a proven technology. and pumping co 2 takes tremendous effort to pump in. and you go fwook pragmatism and i think that's what has to drive every effort of our political thought, or environmental thought or national security thought. is just common sense and thinking through the issues and looking at the facts. >> are efforts to regulate co 2 in the united states completely misgui

virginia. the bill goes to the house, where it is expected to be passed. >>> in northern arizona, a 12-year-old girl has died after being swept away by wast-moving floodwaters. a muddy mess and forcing dozens to evacuate. the area was scorched by a wildfire last month, causing water to flow even faster. >>> and now, for this morning's weather from around the nation. a large area of severe storms, from montana all the way to the northeast. isolated tornados in the high plains. gusty winds, hail, and flash flooding in billings, omaha, cincinnati, st. louis and d.c. and showers across the gulf coast and southeast. >> and 90s from dallas to new orleans. and most of the east coast. upper 80s in detroit, indianapolis, and the twin cities. 80 in seattle. and 91 in colorado springs. phoenix hits 109. salt lake city 100. and boise, 94. >>> and when we return, is the economy slipping back into a recession? we'll get a progress check today. >>> plus, the government worker fired over comments posted online. but apparently those comments were taken out of context. >>> and a fisherman plucked to safety, mome

. >> you have to divide virginia in the southern and northern part, but in central appalachia we estimate there is six to seven tons and you could go for 40 years. that number will probably grow as technology improves. but u.s. has 250 billion tons of coal. it's our greatest resource for having a strong economy and homeland security, and it's one that we should cherish than vulify. >> how important is the energy and (inaudible) and clean coal? >> clean coal can be called to describe a lot of things, it's important to remember that coal is 70% cleaner than it was 20-30 years ago. all the sulfur removalals. the big difference between co 2 and other pollutants, there is no known technology to remove co 2. ccs is not a proven technology. and pumping co 2 takes tremendous effort to pump in. and you go fwook pragmatism and i think that's what has to drive every effort of our political thought, or environmental thought or national security thought. is just common sense and thinking through the issues and looking at the facts. >> are efforts to regulate co 2 in the united states completely misgui

. >> you have to divide virginia in the southern and northern part, but in central appalachia we estimateyou could go for 40 years. that number will probably grow as technology improves. but u.s. has 250 billion tons of coal. it's our greatest resource for having a strong economy and homeland security, and it's one that we should cherish than vulify. >> how importants the energy and (inaudible) and clean coal? >> clean coal can be called to describe a lot of things, it's important to remember that coal is 70% cleaner than it was 20-30 years ago. all the sulfur removalals. the big difference between co 2 and other pollutants, there is no known technology to remove co 2. ccs is not a proven technology. and pumping co 2 takes tremendous effort to pump in. and you go fwook pragmatism and i think that's what has to drive every effort of our political thought, or environmental thought or national security thought. is just common sense and thinking through the issues and looking at the facts. >> are efforts to regulate co 2 in the united states completely misguided? >> i think that we are misgui

northern border counternarcotics strategy, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and the gentleman from california, mr. lungren, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. scott: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scott: mr. speaker, h.r. 4748, the northern border counternarcotics strategy act of 2010 amends the office of national drug control policy re-authorization act of 2006 to require that the director of the national drug control policy submit to congress a northern border current narcotics strategy. united states northern border with canada is the longest open border in the world, spanning 12 states and over 4,000 miles. president obama recently released drug control strategy describes a