i come from oklahoma. if. lead, we've got it in oklahoma. go on down a hole and get you some coal. then he would sing a song. >> in 1940, woody guthrie appeared on the new york review program featuring the folk singer leadbelly. >> folks songs and america featuring that great negro folk singer of louisiana leadbelly. he has with him today the dusty as dust bowl of the mall, woody guthrie of oklahoma. >> i think now we are going to sing a song that has to do with a book and some pictures that came out, "the grapes of wrath." john steinbeck went out to see what was happening with the it turnsn the u.s. and did s out that he made a jackpot. i did not read the book but i seen the picture three times. i come home and i wrote a little piece about it. the name of this is the balance of tom jones. ♪ after four long years on a man killing charge george came down the road walking george came walking down the road it was there he found a truck driving and there he ask them for a ride said i'd just cut loose from the old penitentiary ♪ >> woody guthrie

and okemah, oklahoma. known as one of them old hard-hitting fist fighting democrats, you know, run for office down there and they used to miscount the votes all the time. so every time my dad went to town, the first question i would ask him when he come riding in on a horse that evening, i would say, "well, how many fights did you have today?" he would take me on his knee and proceed to tell me who he was fighting and why and all about it. we will show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do. >> where did you live, on a farm? >> no, i was born there in that little town. my dad built a six-room house, cost him about $7,000 or $8,000 for a day later, it burned down. >> what kind of a place was okemah? how big was it? >> in them days, about 1500 in 2000 a few years later, then about 5000. they struck some pretty rich oil pools all around there. all up and down the whole country there that got oil got some pretty nice will fill the round okemah. >> anybody in the oil company in your family? >> no, w

aor htth bomb was not made -- that it was made in southwest oklahoma city. i fiy goto gto hreew as itn mdeb iot ve mo mcveigh was -- he and my second son were stationed together at fort riley kanas and ey nomms t wto rs gt y olot atl that bomb that he and tim made did not blow up the federal building because they didn't know how to m bombs ath waal p ot era lo eme nobody wants ttalk about. >> let me address one or two of those things because ihink to rurshaeee rced offoro attre,t di think it'svery important to try and distinguish facts from fiction. it is absolutely true that terry nichols has witten,nd he wrotto ua lome an de with mcveigh did not destroy the moral building. it is ompatible with what exploded. the issueodin t [iib asslr. >>l,ha, a negative blast waves makes a tremendous amount of noise. assuring of the collins and the building and taking makes a terminus amount of noise. fi t epetsinhe aue] iggt [inaudible] >> right. by all means read the, see who i've spokento. challenge their credibility if youant, uti e i fttoyo aak r ii. miim s, whe othe

oklahoma is no stranger to drought. some 80 removes from the infamous dust bowl era with reexperiencing the nird major drought within six short years. virtually every year in oklahoma one quarter or more of the state is classified in at least the severe drought category. notably my agency and the water development board and the chairman and ranking members home state of texas were created in 1975 on the heels of what is the worse drought of record. we have come far in oklahoma in understanding and mitigating droughts impacts. oklahoma's world renowned weather research community utilizing the 120 climate monetary stations scattered across the state has developed advance tools utilizing real time on precipitation, soil, moisture and many othe parameters impacting water management and stakeholders. augmented this special weather data and research conducted at national weather center is stream flow information collected by the usgs cooperate extreme program. land sat, thermal images and numerous resources of critical data.

maybe in new york city you don't think oklahoma city is a city, but it's a city. and after i won, i was the first republican elected in my district since 1928. and my district was 74% democrat. and i wasn't supposed to win, but i did and i won again. the oklahoma state legislature at that time was 9-1 controlled by the other party. and they were kind of bothered by the fact that i won. and so they redistricted me because the majority of -- whichever party is in the majority in the state legislature in 37 of the states can make that decision. they redrew my district so that it went from the middle of oklahoma all the way up to the kansas line, halfway over to arkansas, a big upside down l and i'm a politician, so i'm self-centered and self-referential. so when i was teaching, i kept thinking about look what they did to me. i would tell my students at harvard and later at princeton look what they did to poor me. they didn't do it to me. i'll end with this. the most important part of the constitution says that every single senator and representative must be an inhabi

. >>> shreveport in march, april in little rock, oklahoma city may. wichita in june, and this past weekend in jefferson city. watch for the continuing travels of c-span's local content vehicles every month on book tv and american history tv, and next month look for the history and literary culture of our next stop, louisville, kentucky, the weekend of august 4th and 5th on c-span 2 and 3. >>> oklahoma center tom coburn says one of the biggest threats to this nation's existence is the government's overspending problem. his remarks came during a recent three-day western conservative summit held in denver, colorado. senator coburn is the author of the newly released book "the debt bomb." this is 50 minutes. >> is where the true fires in colorado really should be right here in this room, right? and those of you, by the way, watching on facebook and as the streaming here all afternoon. did you enjoy mr. bennett, bill benet? great guy, wow. what a wealth of knowledge, powerful, powerful man, and, of course tonight, 710k nas's hugh huitt will be joining us a

jd strong, executive direct effort of the oklahoma water resources board.under his leadership, the resources board updated the oklahoma comprehensive water plan, a 50-year water supply assessment, policy strategy designed # to meet oklahoma's future water needs. mr. strong also oversees and administrates the aaa rated $2.7 billion financial assistance frame. he began the career at oklahoma water resources board working as an environmental specialist. next witness is dr. james -- [inaudible] professor and directer of earth systems, science of california at irvine. his research group uses gravity recovery and climate experiment mission, satellite, remoescepsing, and attract water ability and before joining the fact that the university of california irvine in 2001. he was an assistant, associate professor, and the department of geological sciences at the university of texas. glad to have you there. i now reck nation the representative to -- recognize the representative to introduce his witness. >> gregly a. ballard, the 48th mayor of indianapolis 2006 and 2007

oklahoma city, 107. many areas from texas to arkansas, southern missouri and kansas, we'll do it all over again. some areas shot once again of hitting 110 degrees. and oklahoma city's forecast, look at this, lynn, 108 through thursday and we cool it off to 100 on saturday. >> that's like an arizona forecast. >> easily. hot arizona forecast. >> all right, bill. thanks so much. >>> stocks finish flat, hsbc takes another hit and the end of a rhode island institution. the first look at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> ichiro hits the century mark, and the angels pull the old switcher yo on the rangers. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪ the one and only, cheerios [ female announcer ] the next generation of investing technology is now within your grasp with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they're doing with free streaming quotes, news, analysis and even your trade ticke

not only do they have the drought, but 109 degrees there in oklahoma city. the highest temperature oklahoma city has had in july, 110 and that was a year ago. all-time record, 113. it is in the 80's there. we are getting a break because of that little wave in the atmosphere, if you will, that has come to us and that has not om brought in the clouds and showers, but also a bit cool air. many spots right now, in the low 60's. mt. airy and half an inch of rain has fallen. tonight, a few more showers coming our way out of the mountains of west virginia, but again, they will be scattered. there is some around round hill. some of the spots have been dry. the heavier rains as you can see more to our south and that will be the story tomorrow. look at tomorrow morning a lot of spots into the mid-60's and because of the northeasterly wind i think our high temperature will only be into the 70's, high 70's tomorrow. when you get up and head out maybe a few showers. and we saw a few moisture. the temperatures in town, 70 degrees and a lot of 60's. the high temperature to

i have to say this, this is a great compliment to my state of oklahoma. because we have had since 1987 five rounds of bracc rounds, called base realignment and closure commission rounds. when they go through and make evaluations as to which of these military establishments are perhaps not making the contribution to our nation's defense that they should, they go through readjustment and realigning and so forth. now, i'm proud to say in my state of oklahoma the five military establishments i just now mentioned all have benefited from each of the rounds in terms of number of missions, and number of people. i have to say there's a reason for that. it's not political influence as a lot of people might guess. it's community support. i have people saying, well, every community, every state has that. no, it's not really true. when there's a problem, a need, we pass bond issues such as the very large bond issue in oklahoma city to allow us to get the g.m. plant, and consequently we have new missions going in. i'm saying that in a complimentary way. on the other ha

of the state the panhandle and parts of central to southeastern oklahoma are in extreme drought while most of the remainder of the state isn't severe drought the only rain do max is no golly washer or strangler as they say down in those parts. of course not but you know this drought that's happening in the physical world the analog world that's destroying the economy it's really reminiscent of the one nine hundred thirty s. dust bowl when you had the depression which was caused by wall street in the twenty's and all the activities that predated glass steagall at that time and then why the dust bowl and the crash in the depression happened concurrently and then again today that's an interesting subject to debate whether purely coincidental or whether there's something more millan's at play well max the drought is covering sixty four percent of the u.s. so back in the dust bowl days i believe it was eighty nine percent but this is. the the biggest since then and we don't know how bad it's going to get but rancher paul sjoberg of clinton oklahoma said he has considered selling off as her

but in oklahoma city one man is trying to force the world's oldest profession out of his neighborhood's got a video camera, an internet connection, and a lot of guts. and he's putting the hookers and their johns on notice. >> it was in my neighborhood. it was in my front yard. it was at my neighborhood grocery store, in the church parking lot. >> brian bates says street prostitution infests his oklahoma city neighborhood. >> don't be bringing hookers down here, buddy. >> brian is a husband and father, with a teenaged son living at home. if brian can see it, kids can, too. and what kind of parent would want their children to see this? >> no child should have to grow up where their memories of childhood involve prostitutes, drug dealers, and pimps. >> in the mid-'90s, brian bates first notices lewd behavior in his neighborhood and files reports with the police. but he feels his complaints fall on deaf ears. so he decides to do something about it. he picks up his video camera and takes to the streets. >> i hope you're not married. >> and before long, the media notices. >> he calls himsel

strong's leadership, the oklahoma water resources board updated the oklahoma comprehensive water plan. it's a 50-year water supply assessment and policy strategy designed to meet oklahoma's future water need. mr. strong also oversees the administration of oklahoma's aaa-rates 2.7 billion financial assistance program. mr. strong began his career at the oklahoma water resources board working as an environmental specialist. our next witness is dr. james famiglietti, did i do pretty good with that? okay. a professor and director of earth systems sciences at the university of california at irvine. his research group uses nasa gravity recovery and climate experiment mission for satellite remote sensing and to track water availability and groundwater demeese on land -- depletion on land. before joining the faculty in 2001, he was an assistant and associate professor in the department of geological sciences at the university of texas. glad to have you there. i now recognize representative pew champion to introduce our second witness. >> thank you, mr. chairman. our second witness today is the

but areas from kansas southward, oklahoma, texas, no such luck for you. >>> well, if you're watchings on news channel 7 in boise i dough learn about the differences at hands-on museum at visual fx. and that's your "early today" event of the day, lynn. >> all right, bill. thanks so much. >>> and now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. now that "american idol" has filled its diva chair, could the show's next judge have some country flavor? the show reports it's considering brad paisley who's recorded on the show and recorded with the most successful idol winner to date, cari underwood. >>> other reports that they may keep randy jackson and go back to a four-judge panel. >>> e online reports kate gosselin has signed up to look for the new love of her line on the atv dating series. kind of pound your head against the wall stuff. it's a show that has not yet found a network home. >> please don't. >> i was waiting for you to say that so i didn't have to. finally the blogosphere is winding up on kristin stewart and robert pattinson. this is due to her carrying

[ male announcer ] today tastes so good. >>> caught on tape, oklahoma is being hit by grass fires. hot dry conditions have fueled the flames. some farmers had to release their horses to get away. at least five buildings have been destroyed. oklahoma has been declare add state of emergency. >>> now to india, suffered a major crippling to the power failure today. it's the second outage in two days. it's affecting more than 680 million people and it's estimated that businesses will lose hundreds of millions. train service came to a stand still in the capital of new delly and its suburbs. it's the worst in india's history. >>> coming up, we'll tell you about a new type of marketing you can expect to see. >> and what really bothers you as a consumer. see if your complaint makes the top 10 when we come back. whoa, look at all those toys. insuring that stuff must be a pain. nah, he's probably got... [ dennis' voice ] allstate. they can bundle all your policies together. lot of paperwork. [ doug's voice ] actually... [ dennis' voice ] an allstate agent can help do the switching and paperwo

that state governor declared a state of emergency for all 77 oklahoma counties. counties because of the extreme heat and ongoing dry conditions. >> here in maryland, the governor is asking for financial help in playing for the cleanup after the severe weather thismonth. he made a disaster declaration request. if approve the monies would first go to baltimore city, then calvert charles and kent and montgomery and st. mary's counties. other counties could be added a bit later. >>> time for check on our weather. and it's dry. >> it is dry. you are talking about st. mary and and calvert county they are getting hit with storms. good news we need the rain especially along the eastern shore but we are not getting any. and that's what i don't like to see. going into the afternoon we have that chance. as long as we have the chance that's a good thing. see the big picture and nasty thunderstorms firing up in alabama. showers and thunderstorms dropping through michigan and heading into indian ohio. look what we are watching. showers and thunderstorms off along the coast thi

. >> now, more from the western conservative summit with oklahoma senator tom coburn. he says one of the biggest threats to the nation's existence is government overspending a topic he addresses in his new book. this is 45 minutes. >> he's one of the true fires in colorado really should be right here in this room. and those of you by the way watching on facebook and as the streaming here all afternoon, did you enjoy mr. bennett, bill bennett? great guy. wow. what a wealth of knowledge, powerful, powerful man, and of course tonight 710 k hue hewitt will be joining us. i hope you'll be here. the reason i bring that up is because i'm steve kelly with 710 knus and it's good to be here. now you can see why i'm on the radio. okay? i have the face for radio. but i was thinking about this as i was coming here, the conservative camp. this is where we do to throw logs on the fire while our state is literally on fire and i'll talk about that in just a few moments and introduce our guests who will then introduce senator coburn who is here and his new book, the debt bomb. you're in

tom cole, republican from oklahoma.ou for coming on and sharing your views this morning. >> thank you. >>> if the housing market finally starting to turn around? a quick preview of the day on wall street. that's next in the market rundown. how many sitting vice presidents have been elected president since 1900? the answer, first correct answer gets the follow tuesday from us. is it done? [ john ] no. ♪ were you just... no. are you supposed to be driving that in here? no! yo! teresa here? ♪ no. so is it okay if i stay out just a little bit longer? so...okay... so no. did mom say we could eat all that? [ john ] yes. [ male announcer ] in a world filled with "no," it's nice to finally say "yes." the new line of oscar mayer selects. the tastes you love and no artificial preservatives. it's yes food. trick question. i love everything about this country! including prilosec otc. you know one pill each morning treats your frequent heartburn so you can enjoy all this great land of ours has to offer like demolition derbies. and d

>>en breve le platicamos delas llamas que ya han afectado a oklahoma >>padres preocupados por sus hijos esta tarde, en primer impacto. ?sabia que hay un animal que guia nuestros pasos? eso aseguran los expertos..y nos muestran como podemos llegar a <>>las llamas de incendios de maleza en oklahoma alcanzaron cinco estructuras, se trata de granjasde caballos donde los animales fueron liberados el gobernador declaro estado de emergencia para 77 condados >>y las autoridad retoma el control ante un motín, tras horas de negociación, se recobró la calma >>un tecnico acusado de propagar hepatitis, trabajó en a lo menos tres hospitales, han recomendado que 4 mil personas se hagan una prueba de hepatitis c. >>está por comenzar el año escolar, los padres se han preocupado por el bullying , por lo que padres buscan inscribir a sus hijos en clases individualizadas, para evitar el acoso. >>muchos niños no disfrutan el colegio como debería ser, sino por el contrario es angustiantes >>padres se enfocan en buscar una solucion para sus hijos. >>asegura que más y más padres optan por la educacion en casa

producers.we take you live to oklahoma city... after the break.-live look aurora, co-the bodies remain in the theater-12 dead... 38 hurt 3 power outages from last night's storms are causing some school closings this morning.classes at ccbc in dundalk are canceled today. 3 fiebr map 3 3 again... we're following breaking news at this hour out of aurora, colorado... where a massive shooting has taken place at a theater.video has been pouring into our newsroom all morning... including a clip from moments after the shooting happened.we want to warn you... the video is graphic. graphic.nats of video video update:- youngest victim... 3 month old shot.. doing ok -somewhere between 12 to 15 people confirmed dead... number keeps changing - 9 patients in 3 critical condition.. so death toll could go up-about 50 injured ... reports say at least 6 children are among the victims... -midnight showing of "the dark knight rises"... new batman movie -shooting happened during a gun scene in the movie movie ---witnesses describe seeing some sort of gas released in th

the air resources coming in from oklahoma, florida, -- we have resources coming in from oklahoma, florida, as far as canada. >> there are people at home go again withe pepco. is by to take another week, at least. what you have to say the critics? this was a catastrophic event. it several utilities from the the mid-atlantic. there's nothing i can do about weather. we focus on restoration. we are working as hard as we can. our crews work 16-hour shifts, night, 24-7 until every customer is reserved. -- restored. we know it is an uncomfortable situation. we are faced with -- it is not even a hurricane. it really pounded us and many of the utilities. >> thank you. it appears we will get no relief from the heat. as for our immediate future, we take a first look. that aking a few storms in theg to pop up western parts of the region. looking at a severe thunderstorm watch. is concentrated across maryland, the panhandle of west virginia. take a look at the super doppler radar. storms are beginning to develop around frederick, hagerstown, points .oward the west are looking at storms just the south

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could be in oklahoma, arkansas today. oklahoma city 107. little rock expecting a high around 110.ooks like for oklahoma, only going to get hotter tomorrow and wednesday. wednesday they could be up pardon 110. very -v are hot air with this ridge of high pressure still over the central part of the country. it was over places like kansas city and st. louis, kind of drifted south. they are expecting more 100-degree heat over the next few days. a couple of showers here and there, looks like maybe a better chance for a few storms in the mountains of west virginia. we'll go throughton, an isolated shower, skies becoming mostly cloudy. tomorrow we have a better chance of showers and storms here, at noon in the mountains out to the west, can't rule out an isolated one near here. wednesday i think the shower and thunderstorm chance, wednesday morning, becomes a little bit more widespread as we head into the midday and afternoon wednesday on wednesday. you think about the green and the yellow sort of the days, today there have been a couple of showers but not that widespread. i'm going green

no such luck, especially from oklahoma city to dallas.ve is heading for dallas, it should be near 105 in dallas saturday and sunday. >>> well coming up, the latest rumors on "american idol" judges and kate gosselin ready for love. and a new tv show. >>> reports all is not well with hollywood's vampire couple. your "first look" at entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. sometimes, we go for a ride in the park. maybe do a little sightseeing. or, get some fresh air. but this summer, we used our thank youpoints to just hang out with a few friends in london. [ male announcer ] the citi thankyou visa card. redeem the points you've earned to travel with no restrictions. rewarding you, every step of the way. holding down the fort while you're out catching a movie. [ growls ] lucky for me, your friends showed up with this awesome bone. hey! you guys are great. and if you got your home insurance where you got your cut rate car insurance, it might not replace all this. [ electricity crackling ] [ gasping ] so get alls

veronica was born in september in oklahoma. and from that moment, they were a part of veronica's life. >> we were at the birth and the delivery room. matt cut her umbilical cord. she's never not been with us. >> you want mommy to hold you? >> reporter: they were thrilled to have their new baby girl. they took her straight from the hospital to their house in charleston. and were in the process of finalizing the adoption. four months after they brought veronica home, dustin brown signed a waiver saying he would not contest the adoption. but two weeks later, brown decided he wanted his daughter back. and filed for paternity and custody. jessica monday is a friend. >> it wasn't until this child was 4 months old that he decides he wants to be a part of her life. with no regard to the birth mother, her decision, the pregnancy, the family that's taken care of his child, and to just come and say, i've changed my mind, that just doesn't work, it shouldn't work that way. >> reporter: south carolina law says aather is stripped of his pate

to the men in his spirit that she had grown up around in the southwest part of the united states, oklahoma and later in illinois. people with midwestern virtues, somebody able to be, in a sense quiet about himself, to understand himself, not have to mean himself constantly and make decisions. one of the danish things he said to his foreign-policy adviser, richard allen who was advising him when he was running for prez in an early 19th 79 said what is your view of the soviet union? reagan famously looked up and did we win, they lose. how do you like that? jean heard that and really like that. so she got to know reagan, who really courted her and eventually became part of the apparatus and brought within democrats like yourself who have been alienated by what had happened in the democratic party by the radical takeover that defeated the appeasement mindedness it took over the democratic party. they gave kind of an intellectual vigor come intellectual spinal cord to the reagan administration in foreign policy particularly. in terms of how i got to know her, or why i write about her is the que

fortunately we've been able to reach out to oklahoma, florida, missouri, georgia, and they have made commitments to bring those resources in. we're looking for them to come on to the system as early as tomorrow. we continue to do outreach for who should em assistance -- mutual assist departments as far away as canada to restore power as soon as possible. we are doing tree trimming to help. we are continuing these efforts and we ask for our cuss merse' -- cuss merse z -- customers' patience. but with this much damage, it will take time. i spent a lot of time over the last couple of years visiting many areas in montgomery company and prince george, and dc, all over the service area, and the damage is devastating. there's large trees that have crashed down on homes and cars and our utility poles. i've seen areas today where a tree came down and snapped poles and the road is completely blocked. we saw a home last night on old georgetown road that had been crushed by a tree. i understand the sensitivity with respect to our customers but i can assure you that recovery source that we -- eve

coburn and his wife are both graduates of oklahoma state university and i'm sure along with t. boone pickens they want to see a national championship come their way. senator coburn has a track record of a lot of wins in other areas. these wins would be found with his family, faith, business, formerly he was in the u.s. house, then the senate, and as a medical doctor. he's a man of integrity. people know that he is a man of his word, when he says he's going to do something, he does it. when he pledged he was going to be in the house for six years he lived up to that term limits pledge and i think he was the only republican to ever hold the seat up 'til that time in the previously democratic second district of oklahoma and then he was elected as we know to a term in the u.s. senate and was reelected. currently he's on the senate judiciary committee, homeland security and government affairs committee, and the committee on finance. he is a leader in the fight to uphold the true meaning of marriage, the dignity of human life, by protecting the unborn, second amendment rights, and in

hot weather continues once again around 106 in oklahoma city. thunderstorms north of that in nebraska. another rant of storms in minnesota. the energy wants to go into the ohio valley. winds out of the east going to bring a little bit of atlantic moisture. we could see showers pop out to the west later on this afternoon. we are talking about isolated showers today. tonight things will quiet down although again with the onshore flow becoming mostly cloudy overnight, tomorrow we are going to pop some showers and storms especially in the higher elevations out west. a better chance area wide is showers and storms. today 88 degrees stray shower or storm. 70s in town still a few 60s north and west. the yellow alert for the afternoon storms especially in the mountains but a better chance for storms on wednesday. tomorrow is sort of borderline green or yellow. thursday 92, a stray storm hot. 93 friday and a few storms and even hotter over the weekend. it is 5:17. here comes monika samtani. >> imagine what it is like without this little piece of equipmen

mcconnell: i thank my friend from oklahoma. he confirms this is not about the nominee who apparently is well qualified. this is about an approach that's developed, called the leahy-thurmond rule, over several decades, under which it's been the practice to kind of call a time-out within rather close proximity to the election. in 2008 the time-out was called in june. we are going to enter august the end of this week. by say also to my friend from oklahoma we have confirmed for the president in this election year six circuit court nominees nominees, president bush in 2008 got four. president bush in 2004 got five. we've not been unfair to the administration. and it's certainly no reflection on what is apparently an outstanding nominee from your state. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president, i hope the american are american people are witnessing this moment in the united states senate. we are about to make history. we're going to make

is that nationwide -- >> no, that's just oklahoma.numbers nationwide. 47 job training programs. nine agencies, and 18.9 billion dollars a year. no metrics. all of them overlap except 3. >> all right n. oklahoma and even -- i realize there is duplication, things that shouldn't be done that we don't need. what about the jobs -- are there jobs available for those who go through these programs? >> sometimes. but we don't have any metrics on it so nobody knows how to measure that. oklahoma has a 4.7% unemployment rate so we would like to have people trained for the jobs that are out there. but there is no metric to measure that, except the programs that are state run that have no federal involvement and they are very well run. we have metrics on those. but we have none on the federal -- and as a matter of fact, the workforce investment act requires that you cannot go after metrics in creating jobs. congress legislated that you can't. >> so you could have an incredible waste of money in duplicative program it's. >> we do have. >> yeah. we d

could even be near 110 right around tulsa from 105 oklahoma city to dallas. little rock's been above 100 day after day. 107 today around little rock, ridiculous. it's pretty humid around new orleans up into areas of alabama and mississippi, too. i tell you what, dallas, this week, 105 all the way to about 100 right through friday. so it doesn't look like any relief is coming. thankfully in kansas city, we do have a few thunderstorms this morning. we'll take whatever rain we can get. it's not drenching the whole area but from st. joseph to k.c., we may see a rumble of thunder. it looks like in the north east, everyone can dry their umbrellas out and leave them at home today. >> a little better for you, right, bill? >> yeah, a little bit. >>> gas prices rise again and crunching the numbers on olympic gold. your first look at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> red sox and yankees need extras. history made in baltimore and a perfect ten for the reds. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. (cat purring) mornings are a special time for the two