a contested primary, four years ago, every single state, tennessee or oklahoma or georgia, people of lesser caliber are beating him down there. people like newt and santorum were beating him every single time. >> they're not particularly comfortable with him, they're not particularly comfortable of him as we know because of the religion and his positions on socially conservative issues. the equation changes fundamentally come november when the person they have to choose between, mitt romney or barack obama. >> the mormons and independents in missouri are locked up for the mormons in salt lake city, utah. chris: that's a different group, right? >> it's hard to -- chris: let's get to the politics. will the barack obama people secretly or openly or in any way play this card, john harris? >> no, i don't think they will. chris: we talked about the weirdness thing and -- >> they're happy to make him look like he is of a different generation, that he is something out of "mad men" as they say in the campaign. no, they won't play on this. there is a reason we have to be blunt about this. amer

it may not necessarily work in california, texas, or oklahoma. what we did works in massachusetts. it was never meant to be a one size fits all. the governor has described the mandate as a penalty. let's take a step back and look at what the president has said about obama care. in order to get it past the congress, he insisted pubically and to the members of congress that the mandate was not a tax. after it passed, he sent his solicitor general up to court to argue that it was a tax. now he is back to arguing that it's not a tax. >> you guys called it a tax? >> the governor disagreed with the ruling of the court. clearly stated that the mandate was not a tax. >> okay. which -- so i guess -- we're -- i think we're talking around each other. the governor does not believe the mandate is a tax? that is what you're saying? >> the governor believes what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and he disagrees with the court's ruling that it is not a tax. >> but he agrees with the president that it is not -- and he believes that you should not call the tax penalty a tax, you should

only a quarter is rated good or excellent. oklahoma state university's says because the drought is so widespread the impact will be more widespread as well. >> expectations now for corn yields have dropped from nine to 15 bush manies an acre depending on who you ask. that changes conditions now so we don't expect any feed market relief from the -- from the current corn crop that we see happening. instead we will remain tight and we have seen corn prices in terms of futures go up dramaticly in the last two weeks. >> he said producers need to assume the worst and start making a plan. he said they have seen quite a bit of cattle movement including early marketing of calves. >>> the drought could force future contracts to be renegated between produces and buyers. lower yields could force farmers to buy back the bushels they aren't able to supply. he said not only does it mean they could fail to meet the contract already n ated but producers could loose more money if grain prices rice above their locked in rate. >>> the committee passed tha

the blue tarrytowns and a lot knockout pot how or in oklahoma we're seeing thick smoke as hundreds ofes are burning here. oklahoma has a severe drought. the government of oklahoma has this all declared a state of emergency for all 77 counties. >>darya: taken of the video. a concrete water main broke and cause flooding. this is all from a water main break. some cars were submerged. it filled some buildings in the church. it is right to take a while to find out what caused that. >> the wife of trayvon martin shooter is entered a not guilty plea. shelly zimmerman was invested--a message. george zimmerman pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charge of trayvon martin >>mark: to california power plants may go back on line despite problems. we will be right back. 3q finally carpet cleaning got easier. try resolve easy clean to deep clean your carpets. just 3 easy steps for beautifully clean carpets. it removes 3 times more dirt than vacuuming alone. don't just vacuum clean. resolve clean. >>mark: the troubled reactor it may be restarted in working by december. in a tube gray -- to brea

bush's tenure more than that night on september 11th, 2001, or after the oklahoma city bombings with ident clinton or with the "challenger" explosion. there are moments we remember and not in a kind of partisan divide that colors everything else we do here in washington, it seems. it's a way in which we feel we really count on the president as a leader of all americans to express what we are all feeling. >> bill clinton, oklahoma city. mark halperin, you have watched these leaders and the way they respond at moments, at times of emergency, and this is when as both president obama today and mitt romney described us as the american family. >> just the nature of our politics. barack obama has a reputation in some quarters of being aloof. mitt romney as being someone who can't relate to people. you saw in both their statements today, both referencing their families, both of them at moments like this, it's clear, think about their own families, their own human situation and what this would be like for them if their families were going through it. we all are thinking about what happened in

look at the history of these things, the tragedy of the gabby giffords shooting and so on, or even back to oklahoma city, back in the '90s, they seem to have an impact on us for a week or two, you know, collectively in the media or the political campaigns and in congress, and then it kind of dissipates, pretty quickly, as soon as there's a reason to sort of throw the switch and get intense again or nasty again, it happens. so i think we'll see a return and there's not going to be any long-term impact because of this tragedy and we're certainly not going to be talking about gun control policy in a serious way either. >> well, let me ask you about that, susan. because, obviously, in a very tragic way, this has provided an opportunity for people, both outside and inside the beltway, who are interested in this issue, to raise it again. but is it likely to change anything, or is gun control going to be a serious topic of discussion in this campaign in any way on either side? >> i think the short answer is, no, we saw no inclination on president obama's part over the weekend tone gauge on the issue of gu

oklahoma city. some areas could be 112 or hotter. look at the big ridge of high pressure over oklahoma, north texas and kansas i should say, with showers and storms up and over that. scattered showers and storms off the carolina coast. winds more out of the east that will keep our temperatures from being too warm. as we get into the afternoon the winds hit the blue ridge and some of the mountains out west. pop up showers there maybe one or two by the bay. spotty showers this afternoon, nothing terribly widespread. quieter tonight with mostly cloudy skies, more storms, especially in the mountains tomorrow more area wide coverage come wednesday. today green, good, 88 degrees, isolated showers and storms. 60s and 70s tonight. yellow alert days. tomorrow probably green to yellow borderline with a couple of storms 86. 8 wednesday, we get back to the 90s with a cup of storms by wednesday. >>> howard good morning everybody. i don't have any major incidents to report early this monday morning, i'm happy to say. if you are planning to head nor

oklahoma. they issue watches we may or may not get and they going to call it a marginal severe situation and they're going to handle the storms on an individual basis and have put down severe thunderstorm warnings. north-northwest of hagerstown and this other storm has a history of being severe into secs of maryland and i suspect this is moving in your area there in frederick county, virginia and that is over the next 45 minutes and between chambers bug and hagerstown at 81. the severe thunderstorm warning for carol and franklin and to frederick county, maryland and there is some wind in this storm, 35 to 40 miles per hour and what we've seeing here is updrafts and hail and the threat of wind is the primary threat from those storms and nothing like on what we had friday night and those are marginally severe storms capable of the hail and wind and to that 50 miles an hour or so and racing to the southeast and most is dry, hot, 93; 86 at 9:00 and a chance of thunderstorms and some thunderstorms lingering by 11:00 and i am going to keep a chance overnight and there might be more after midnight tonight.

five or six years but already we have seen great gains in that regard and we talk about how can farmers access this information the weatherman for example in a state and agriculture states like oklahoma or rock stars, those other guys most people pay attention to when they watch the nightly news but now folks are starting to learn and farmers and producers on the ground are starting to learn they can access even more information related to drop through the drought portal which has been set up and through integration of noaa and scientists involved with land grant universities and that sort of thing, helping to get the word out and helping farmers and producers get better access to that information. there are still a lot of gains to be made in that regard and hopefully an additional six years or more of nidis will help us get that valuable information to our farmers and producers so they can make sound decisions and investments a season in advance if not a year in advance. >> looks like a lot of time but i would like to see this program continue as well. thanks. >> the chair now recognizess the gentlelady from alabama for five minutes. >> to begin with thank you for coming to testify

many areas of the desert areas of nevada, california, arizona. 106. 100 from oklahoma city to wichita. this is day seven oright in a row. we'd love to get a little bit of warmth. a nice little summer period with an offshore wind. unfortunately we're continuing with the southwest flow all over the open waters of the pacific right onto the coastal areas. we'll call that an onshore flow. that means the cooler air dominates the coastal areas. you'll get afternoon sunshine. that's keeping us very cool. this weather pattern does not look to change any time soon. that's why coastal areas like san francisco all the way down through the beaches here near san diego, l.a., everyone struggling with a cool, cool 8 throughout much of the northwest. updated thursday forecast coming up. >> bill, thanks. >>> coming up, apple sours, netflix flops, and like it or not, same-sex marriage is good for business. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, reports all is not well with hollywood's vampire couple. >>> more late-inning heroics, and philly plus the dream team makes a statement in their final ex

today, about 365 mutual assistance crews came in from oklahoma, florida, canada and we have another 350 or so coming in the next few days and we're making a dent in it. >> and most of pepco's work is restringing lines that snapped because of falling trees and branches. until they're about 1800 trees down and in their coverage area. the swelting heat is lingering and gary mcgrady has more. >> reporter: today was a bit of a relief, brian and humidity levels are down. as we get into the holiday, hope it's humid again and hot and a chance of thunderstorms. we'll get to the heat in a second and i want to show you briefly, we're not worried about the thunderstorms this evening to the west and there are several thunderstorms. i want to start the temperatures in the heat story and with what is happening to the west of us. nashville,ity; saint louis, 81. they cooled because of the thunderstorms in the area. you look up the chicago at 97 and you look to wichita at 97, little rock at hive and -- 95 and cincinnati at 94. there is heat building out there again, brian, and there is some humidity buildin

or lexus. >> jesse jackson spoke at a memorial for the it people killed and oklahoma.ountry's previous ban expired in 2004 and jackson says hit criminals should not have access to those kinds of weapons. >>mark: of the house in the senate's passed a resolution to recognize this individuals in the theater who sought to eight others. they're talking about one of the victims who is in critical condition, cable and. his wife is gave birth give. >>darya: the families that had a lawsuit against pg&e due to the explosion have settled in court. >>mark: police and opened fire on a par 3 suspect. the with as early suspect. >> this was the scene wednesday night. is there protests nonstops. it to officer and of shootings happened of the weekend. there been 1000 demonstrators the bank causing all this trouble throwing rocks and bottles could this is an anaheim california. this man has served in the district for 20 years. test he says he will be in better position to fight oaklands crime problem to run is a council seat member at large. >>darya: you can see in this truck scooping th

oklahoma. dewey makes about seven or eight stops or ten stops in oklahoma. his wife is from oklahoma.ut oklahoma, it's oklahoma. ohio is always the game then and now. truman makes all these stops in ohio, dewey makes, like, two. and when he does, they've got a crowd of people outside waiting for him to come out on the train, say hello to them, say a few words, he won't come out. worse, he has a rally with the republican leadership the state, robert a. taft, who had beaten him for nomination, mr. republican. they fought the leader of the republicans in the senate. he's on the stage with him, he snubs him. he won't even say hello to him. and ta is just, like, i don't know why that man hates me so. but it was his personal style which is, which was a big problem. the man was a real icicle. as they said, you really had to know him to dislike him. >> host: burbank, california. roger, please, go ahead with your question for david pietrusza. >> caller: thank you. i'm just wondering if martin rothstein who -- [inaudible] kennedy in the prohibition days? >> guest: i don't know if he did or not.

oklahoma. the flow was mentioning oklama. wekesutseve or e sts en opn oho wis la. ohs ase gth now. truman makes all these stops in ohio, dewey makes, like, two. and when he does, they've got a for m to co ohe ferdhe'tomt. rse hly he republican leadership of the state, robert a. taft, who had beaten him for nonation, . bl. eyghe erth bls heen oe e , h s. w e sel. d susii t ow why that man hates me so. but it was his personal style which is, which was a big problem. the man was a realicic. tsayoueahad h bnk cor r,eagohe w urst foravid pietrusza. >> calr: thank you. i'm just wondering if martin rothsteino nale ed t ibnay uei tw eid ven ss a nnon ourld -ey were both in the same business, and they were both in the business of importing scotch and very high-grade scotch from roei ut ter ic tgh thigav abe vo iatreet speculation. kennedy makes his, one of his 19rtunes in wl stre in the prtiheroke op of a pre-crash phenomenon. and, you know, it's one thing to gin up sales with, you know, just churning accnts. bunaa cr o th d was designed that it was going to cras it was gointo go down. but

virtually every year in oklahoma, one quarter or more of the state is classified in at least the severedrought category. notably, my agency and the water development board and the chairman and ranking member home state of texas was created in 1957 on the heels of the worst drought in record in the great plains. oklahoma's world renowned research community, unit till lazing our climate monitoring stations scattered across the state developed advanced tools utilizing realtime information on precipitation, temperature, soil moisture, and other parameters impacting water management and water stake holders augmenting the information collected by the usgs cooperative stream gauging program, corp. of engineers reservoir gauges, and numerous other sources of critical data. still, oklahoma, like the nation in general, remains largely vulnerable to the drought, and its annual multibillion impacts. reducing those impacts requires improved insight into this recurring disaster. that, as you know, is the goal of the still relatively new nidis program. thanks largely to the foresight of congress and l

writings, we found in these cases that even when the unabomber wrote his monday fess toe or the videotapes for the oklahoma city bomber, they aren't clear to us. don't know what value it will have there. the other conflict here is when did they get it and when did they find it. the earliest reports on this quoting law enforcement forces said it was sent as early as july 12th. those reports seem to exceed the calendar a little bit. it appears it was sent sometime before the shooting, maybe just before the shooting. but the university is very clear that it a arrived there on monday. police investigators were already there looking for something. >> in terms of who was sent things, the fact that this was a psychiatry professor, is there anything to glean from that or is it simply a coincidence, you think? >> i think there is something to glean from it, but i don't think we know what that is until we get further into his head. which is hard to do in this circumstance. typically in a case like this, they may send communication to the one person who they thought understood them, an a lie or in the case of a perso

people will have the final say and the final responsibility as to whether or not this unpopular law continues. >> let's talk about oklahomawed that 624,000 oak home ans are uninsured right now. they said they would become eligible for medicate and they have not decided on whether to accept it just yet. what happens to the people in oklahoma if the state does not accept the expansion? >> i think if we go step by step and do the right things in washington, d.c., that allows associated health care plans and have medical insurance liability reform and allow companies to go and pool and insure things. we can do a lot to eat into that number. we think this particular plan will bankrupt of follow government. it's full of taxes. $500 billion rate on medicare what will happen to those people when we drain that much money out of the system just at the time that the baby boomer generation is retiring. we think there is a lot better way and the american people looked at this for three years. three years of the debate and three years since passage and we don't like this law. we would like to have it repealed. that will be a big part o

the family but was a sole practitioner and was subjected to the cycles of or itrndd boom and bust ofh ma tmove away from oklahoma as the oil move towards illinois so to speak. and she was most likely to i'avdrof water.amily. the first grandchild on both des of the family. you know, one of the two leadi studen in her hghcl, ghie, acin very ambitious but she came of age right after the war and there was a sense that you know, even talented girls were supposed to excel an thencome me gmari. she got her father to allow her to a kind of semi-finishing school after graduating from high school and a place called stephen's coege inissouri which was a two-yearcolle. wupd inwen for you know, the domestic arts as it were, raising a family. she was unwilling to accept that and was part of the contial battle. there was an inedible pride abt her insidehe fily and thr fe t sir heketo all her, going to do? she is not going to have a faly of her own. what does a woman do? and sh acuallwraned gosh nto thhemogeto because she said new york is where big ideas happened and i want to guide yes. >> host: let's talk a little bit about h

oklahoma city and little rock ... the humidity is 48% ... there is no grass orree pollen happening today just sometime old council ...me high mold spore counts... and here are the regional temperatures ... and the local numbers ... you need to use your sunscreen today ... 19 and 46 are the duration * for exposure wiener at the end of july and thunderstorms are on the way ... we have fast-moving thunderstorm clusters ... these storms can be quite damaging ... so we will keep an eye on the severe weather for tonight ... we are 7.3 degrees above normal for the month of july that is a record we've had an extraordinary number of 90 degree plus days ... the 8 d92 degrees will be the high temperature for today ... you will see on the forecast ... 7:00 this evening we you are looking about a shower over lake michigan ... there could be some scattered gusty thunderstorms ... a brief period. very warm with increasing humidity today the high temperature depending on where you are 89-92 degrees warming tonight ... tomorrow mostly sunny temperatures will reach 87 degrees les

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 just drawing 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 it's 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 shill berg of clinton oklahoma said he has considered selling office heard of black angus but he would lose too much if he did he said quote most of the cattle i

tulsa, oklahoma city all in the 110-degree range give or take a couple with thunderstorms up and over the ridge. another line of storms coming from michigan into indiana on this morning diving south and for us with the easterly and southeasterly winds, we'll see some showers and storms especially to the blue ridge west where the mountains give a little extra lift. 88 today with a few extra storms, yellow alert. tomorrow 88 and better chance of storms. thursday we start to dry out. that means hotter 92. friday sunny and hot and 95 and mid 90s saturday sunday and monday. still sailing on the roads. she's monika samtani with timesaver traffic. >>> good morning everything. things are great all across the beltway. doing a little dance for me. i wish you could see it. unless you are traveling on the southbound side of the bw parkway as you exit here to new york avenue, the only big problem we have is a deer struck and police are on the scene trying to remove frit the right side of the -- it from the right side of the ramp and may slow you down just a bit. in fact over to southern maryland o

or trev. we get heavier floods we get 100 year floods occurring more often than once every huned the. th ngf wer rercampan wawlyins d oklahoma. we're going see an expansion of e i d d aid res. e heecob rmisexnsoft overturning circulation called the hadly circulation, the rising motion in the tropic and the subsidence which caw th stticoerery th nd letge wa. thectsth un ss, the mediterranean region in the northern hemisphere. for example, we see these increased heat waves andes h hor. hrhfruean arovb t r e sreased by a factor of three or four in the united states over the last half century. andt' t auft crd al rm >>kto en enacted how would it have changed our current trajectory? >> very little. kyoto -trth fsste whresiveytl reduction in fossil fuel use. a w countries were able to reduce their emiionsgeny anbrin an bc te osoa e thouasintor anrele u it. rmany used the emission because east germany was incooperated and their technology was 50 years oldn eyse d otthaes rytlrectai ct ny countries emissions actually increases what we actually need is a simple, honest uay rsi onbo iss. tn, t ul stimulate the economy. if the money is

i have never doubted for one moment the honesty or the sincerity from the senator from oklahoma.he is saying what he believes. he has the courage to get up here and say it and i appreciate that. we are good friends and i hope we will continue to be good friends. and i thank, frankly -- and i think, frankly, it does the senate and it does this country good when people here, very differences of opinion on an issue that i consider to be of enormous consequence. so what i would say to my friend, i hope, in fact, this is the beginning of a resuffragencf discussion about this issue, and i look forward to engaging in that discussion with my friend from oklahoma. and with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. mr. sanders: mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. franken: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. officer withouthe presiding offt objection. the clerk will report the following nomination. the clerk: nomination: robertette bacharach of oklahoma to be united states

marshal, i think the guy's name was clements or something like that, hired a bunch of deputies, black, white and indian, and their job was to clean out oklahoma territory, get all the bad guys out of there. bass reeves was one of the best at the job. best man hunter. he said he killed about 14 men, but he was not a killer. he was very reticent to kill people, he'd rather bring them in, hand them over. but he was really good at his job. never heard of him, did you? tavis: mm-mmm. >> right. so i really wanted to do that. i wanted to play that part, but as you say, my chronological advancement is -- tavis: but given that you own a production company, you can always produce the project. >> yeah. tavis: and have somebody else. >> yeah, yeah, i've been trying to do that for a lot of years. tavis: yeah. >> one of the hardest things about trying to do anything is getting a script. it's really hard. so i've been trying to get a script written and haven't been successful, and a lot of people have come with ideas and even with scripts, but they don't match what i want to do. tavis: so you know a good script when you see one. >> yes. tavis: so what's mak

in filibustering the very uncontroversial or non-controversial nomination of robert bacharach nominated to the u.s. tenth circuit court of appeals in oklahoma say our courts are woefully understaffed yet rather than doing something about it mitch mcconnell is content on just being a jackass and the very very ugly another jackass rep steve king most of the nation finds dog fighting disgusting but steve think thinks it's ok and defending his efforts to weaken animal cruelty laws king expressed his support for animal abuse and dog fighting telling his constituents that quote it's wrong to rape animals above human beings and quote and said that if we allow humans to fight i can boxing and dogs and other animals should be able to fight too well last time i checked we don't allow humans to fight to the death but i suppose king would support that too right you know next up proposes america's very own version of the hunger games and that is very very ugly. coming up. coming up despite thousands of japanese citizens protesting the continued use of nuclear power in the nation government officials are restarting some of their nuclear power plants but

wheat field nearly the size of the state of oklahoma enough wheat to feed everyone on the planet three one pound loaves of bread per day for an entire week. or maybe a better way to picture how much food we waste would be to travel just six hundred miles from our southern shores to the tiny country of haiti. with our ninety six billion pounds of food waste the entire country of haiti could be fed for five years or more. here in the poorest country in the western hemisphere twenty five percent of children are chronically malnourished. reduced to eating mud cakes made from dirt salt vegetable shortening in filthy water to curb their hunger pangs unfortunately we can't simply put our wasted food on a boat and feed haiti. and that's not what haiti needs to become whole again. but the contrast of our excess and their lack exist side by side as with the needy and marginalized in our own wealthy country. if nothing more it is an unsettling reality that calls into question our flippancy with food waste. and in spite of the complexities surrounding food production consumption and waste we can no doubt eliminate both food waste and hunger in the unite

or at oceans for that matter. 87 in detroit. the really hot stuff has pushed to the south. oklahoma, memphis, dallas 102. this hot temperature is going to stay down there. some of that heat will transfer to our region. at the end of the week getting slightly above 90 but nothing that hot here in the midwest. minneapolis at 88 and bizmark at 89. to the west of us a batch of showers. an area of low pressure will drag a front toward our region on wednesday. tomorrow night maybe a widely scattered shower. a better chance on wednesday with that front getting close and action to the south that's slowly doing to be pushed away from -- that's going to be pushed away from the region. a couple of areas had some showers but that's pretty much gone right now. looks like a rather quiet night. during the day tomorrow, a slight chance of a shower late in the day, a better chance on wednesday, behind it looks like higher pressure moves in, may dry out a little bit for thursday and friday, looks like temperatures may go up a little bit as well. southeast winds at the bay. five to 10 knots the bay temp around 82 degrees r

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 in texas were created in 1957 on the heels of what is the worse drought of record on the great plains. we've come far in oklahoma in understanding and mitigating drought's impacts. oklahoma's world renowned weather research community utilizing our 120 climate monitoring stations scattered across the state has developed advanced tools utilizing realtime information on precipitation, temperature, soil moisture and other parameters impacting water management and water stakeholders. augmenting this essential weather data in research conducted at the national weather center is stream flow information collected by the usgs cooperative stream gauging program, corps of engineers reservoir gauges, land sat, thermal imaging and numerous other sources of critical data. still oklahoma remains largely vulnerable to the vagaries of drought and its annual multibillion dollar impacts. reducing those impacts requires improved insight

or so and we've had record heat. lots of records broken. and today, we're going to be seeing continued heat through much of the central u.s. oklahoma city getting up to 41 degrees. you're going to be seeing temperatures in and around the 40-degree mark for the next couple of days. denver getting up to 38 degrees as well. much cooler in the pacific northwest. and here your getting the rain, too, as well. very enviae people. . >>> storms moving through the northeastern locations and you can see another front coming up through the alpine region and meeting that low so the heavier rain up toward the northeast but you'll see storms dragging to the central mediterranean. the british isles, warmer and dryer. down in toward the south, it will stay dry and hot in some locations heading toward the upper 30s. madrid, 37 degrees for you. almost a 30 in rome. 29 and 35 in athens as well. i'll leave you with you're extended forecast. >>> today's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in to o tokyo. thanks for joining us. -- caions by vita www.vic.com