speaker, h.r. 771 introduced by my friend and colleague, the gentleman from south texas, mr. cuellar, would designate the facility of the united states postal service loketsed at 1081 elbel road in schertz, texas, as the schertz veterans post office. this bill is co-sponsored by the entire texas delegation and i'm a proud co-sponsor myself, mr. speaker. it's altogether fitting and proper that we designate this post office in schertz to honor those who have sacrificed so much for this nation, our veterans. mr. speaker, i'd like to commend my colleague from texas for introducing this legislation and also commend him for introducing h.r. 1318, the south texas veterans health care expansion act. i'm a proud original co-sponsor of this legislation as well which is vitally important to the veterans all over far south texas. h.r. 1318 would expand health care across the more than 117,000 veterans who reside in far south texas. currently without adequate medical facilities, many of these veterans are forced to drive over six hours to the nearest facility in order to receive needed med

tropical storm a aene makes landfall tonight and brings rain to south texas, not expected to threatenbenedict gave an ipad holy tap launching papal news and information site to help the vatican communicate. he has sent his very first tweet. >> guests were around the world are gathering around monica for the wedding of prince albert ii and charlene whitstock. the prince is son of grace kelly. the three-day affair kicks off tomorrow night. i'm sure it could be quite a show. >> he's been a latch lohr for a very long time but no longer. >>> for some of you local news is next. >> is there such a thing as at the leptllepathy between twins? of heart attack. diet and exercise weren't enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i've been eating healthier exercising more, and now i'm also taking lipitor. if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol, stop. along with diet lipitor has been shown to lower bad cholesterol 39 to 60 p pcent. lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease. [ female annou

marathon oil will pay $3.5 billion for land in a south texas shale oil area. the seller is a joint venture which includes private equity firm k.k.r. marathon shares fell almost 3%. meantime, sealed air dropped almost 7% after announcing a $2.9 billion deal to by a private cleaning products company. the market didn't like the price. finally, american airlines picked up its lawsuit against its former business unit sabre holdings. the two had been negotiating over how american airline tickets are distributed and sold. meantime, after the close, an illinois court ordered american to put its ticket information back on travel website orbitz. orbitz shares heading lower since december when american pulled its flights off orbitz. continuing this downtrend. after tonight's ruling, orbitz stock shot up to over $3 per share. one to watch tomorrow. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: the health care sector has been a port in the recent stock selling storm. our street critique guest is hillary kraemer, editor of game changer stocks. always nice to see you. health

mexico could face heavy rains and flooding and some rain may reach south texas. >>> the fda advisory council will vote today on whether to end its approval of the cancer drug avastin. some cancer patients are pleading with the fda not to take their drug away. dr. john lapuque reports. >> reporter: liz cleary and her husband, bob, were newlyweds nine years ago, when they got devastating news, liz had breast cancer and 18 months later the chemotherapy stopped working. so as a last ditch effort, doctors decided to try avastin. which kills cancer cells by choking off their blood supply. cleary credits the drug with keeping her alive the past five years. according to the fda, liz cleary is the exception, not the rule. the fda granted preliminary approval to use avastin for advanced breast cancer in 2008. last year studies of almost 3,000 women show the drug can cause life-threatening complications, delay tumor growth by three months or less and on average did not extend the lives of patients so the fda planned to withdraw approval. dr. gary lyman of duke university was one on the fda pane

rain bands from arlene are also drenching brownsville and other cities in south texas. >>> taking a look at this morning's weather for this thursday, we have some severe storms with gusty winds and hail from fargo to cheyenne. rain drenches down to northern new mexico. showers in the pacific northwest and pop-up thunderstorms along the gulf coast into the carolinas. heat advisories and warnings from oklahoma to minnesota. >> 90s in minneapolis. omaha and kansas city and 101 in dallas. phoenix heats up to 106. upper 90s in albuquerque. and colorado springs, 82. here in new york, rather comfortable. 92 in atlanta and 89 in miami. >> it's about time. we were cold then we were hot. nice temperate day. here we go with summer. >>> coming up, some business news. it is a bombshell really. despite its troubles american airlines announces a radical plan sure to please passssgers. >>> justin timberlake's new role. internet mogul. his new plans to revive myspace. >>> all right, and the new wet and wild ride for your next trip to the beach. >>> and news that's bound to send shock waves through the ai

and forecasters say it could also dump some rain on south texas. >>> overseas now to that story we broke as wewe werer coming o the air last night. afghan officials are investigating how eieit suicide bombers managed to get into kabul's intercontinental hotel and carry out that deadly assault. 19 people including all the attackers were killed. and now, hotel security here in new york and other cities has been beefed up. >>> the government of greece took action today to head off economic collapse and a global financial crisis. but that sparked new violence. protesters and police fought in athens after the greek parliament approved spending cuts and higher taxes, that could cost the average greek family $4,000 a year. equivalent of one month's income. public salaries and pensions have already been cut and unemployment in greece is over 16%. >>> now, to a bombshelll development in the case of amanda knox. the american exchange student who has spent nearlyour years in an italian prison for the murder of her roommate. dna evidence helped seal her conviction. but count appointed experts are no

way too much rain and snow in the north, almost none in the south. texas suffering, as you may know, under severe drought conditions and now the wildfires that have been hitting hard. nbc's tom trong is with us in grimes county in east texas tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hey, brian. the extreme drought here is jeopardizing the livelihoods of countless cattle ranchers and it's making the difficult task of fighting wildfires even harder. rain finally fell today on parched areas of texas delivering temporary relief to communities threatened by wildfires. >> we just pray that none of our houses are burned down there. >> reporter: firefighters are attacking 17 wildfires across texas. since the start of wildfire season, more than 3 million acres have been scorched in the lone star state. today's rain will help the containment efforts, but the fires rage on. >> the next few days, we're anticipating more hot weather and it's going to be dry. we're not out of the woods yet. >> i'll take whatever we get and glad to have it. but this is by no means a droug

as tropical storm arlene hits mexico, south texas gets up to 3 inches of rain. understorms from the gulf coast into south carolina. windy with hail and heavy rain from the dakotas to the northern rockies. showers from seattle to portland. that sounds unusual. extreme heat from oklahoma to minnesota. >> and if you were wondering, yes, we are listening to a song from "grease." 80 in boston. 92 in atlanta. triple-digit highs in dallas and phoenix. 98 in colorado springs. 78 in salt lake. >> can you sing "o canada" if we were to do that now, speaking of singing? ♪ o canada >> it would be a pleasant 5 in ottawa, canada, where prince william and his bride will arrive later today. it will be the first official trip for the new duke and duchess of cambridge. >> the royal company have a week's worth of events to attend in canada, which is part of the british common welt, of course. >> technically. >> and next friday they will travel to california for a three-day stay. we can't wait to have them hit the states. kate's first time. >> they're coming here. they're going to be

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north texas and south texas and kentucky and indiana were shifted because they complain answer appears aside they are too much trouble and untrained ago. by 1945, faber in indiana and once again the commanding officer in this case created one officers' club that the designated for supervisors all of them are wide to and trainees all who were black although members of the officer corps were returned combat veterans and they had come back to train the bomber units. they had risked their lives and came back to free man field which emphasizes segregation is a national problem, not a southern problem. and segregated enough, 104 of them refused and physically tried to enter one had been offered the white officers club but notoffi all 104 did that. several dozen did that and three of them were arrested. 104 of them refuse to sign a letter to say i agree with the policy. i agreed to be segregated and three of them were court-martialed. the others have the marks on the record for their entire career. so then they were shifted again transferred to kentucky. they would has been trade up and -- tr

and the only triple-digit heat i p@n see is in south texas in >> over to you, bianna. >> all right, jackie. thank you. >>> well, dan, we always know there is a celebration when we're here together on the weekend show. there's also a big celebration this morning in london. the traditional trooping of the color, a display of british regimental might that doubles as a celebration of the queen's 85th birthday. taking part here is -- >> that is not a fascinating. >> that is not a fascinator. his wife is also part of the festivities and jeffrey kofman is there this morning. good morning to you, jeffrey. >> reporter: and good morning to you, bianna. in fact, take a look behind me. the queen is just returning to the palace. catherine middleton, now known as the duchess of cambridge, has already gone back in and so has her husband. this is quite a year. this is the troop iing of the colors, the official birthday of queen elizabeth. she already turned 85 in april but for 200 years they've celebrated the monarch's birthday in june because there's a better chance of good weather. it's been pretty good

investigators have been searching an area south of texas after receiving a tip-off from a psychic that the area may be the site of a mass grave and perhaps even containing the bodies of some 30 children. the reuters news agency are now approaching the county judge in the area saying this is no crime scene, and the tip about a mass grave was false. so the county judge in texas is saying no crime scene in rural texas and a tip about that mass grave from that psychic was false. so that's the latest information coming to us. we will keep you updated on that situation in texas. as soon as we get more information on it. >> the european commission has asked member states to approve a compensation package to farmers who have been unable to sell their vegetables because of the e-coli outbreak in germany. health officials have not found the source which is said to have killed more than 20 people. they have been discussing the crisis in luxumborg. >> in places they trudge up cucumber slopes, dumping box after box, waiting for them to be crushed. there is growing frustration that the source of the

for the southeast, central and south texas, hazy, hot and humid at the same time.xpect temperatures in many locations in spots like atlanta going to 96 degrees but it will feel like 100. forget about the humidity, the air itself in houston will be up in the triple digits. 59 in san francisco, 71 in los angeles, 105 in phoenix. chicago, new york and boston mainly into the 70s. that's a full wrap on your forecast. back to you. >> reynolds, appreciate you as always. thank you. >>> 20 to the top of the hour now. the president's point man on the economy is talking to cnn this morning. in particular, talking to candy crowley but i'm talking to her right after the break. i have astigmatism. so my old contact lenses would sometimes move out of place and blur my vision. my eye doctor said there's great news for people with astigmatism. acuvue® oasys for astigmatism. he said it's the only lens of its kind designed to realign naturally with every blink and created with hydraclear® plus. i'm seeing more clearly, crisply, comfortably, all day long. now life doesn't have to be a

. >> play the winner of tonight's game between south carolina and texas a&m. >> alan: coming up at 6:hting at a marin county beach. park reason jersey order everybody out of the water. and one of those popular tourist cars flips over in san francisco. what led to that crash. >> join us at 6:00. and that does it for us here at 5:00. thanks for joining us. our next newscast at 6:00. and connect 24/7 at abc7news.com. see you soon. captioned by closed captioning services inc.

. >> if you are from pittsburg but represent a south texas congressional district, walk us through the 60's. you went through medical school and became a surgeon and ended up in the air force, and in texas. >> i received a draft notice. the draft notice said i had been drafted as a private in the army. if i wanted to volunteer, i could be a doctor and could pick the service of wanted to be in. i volunteered. but under the pressure of being drafted, i went into the army and got to practice medicine. i became a flight surgeon. i actually stayed in longer than i had thought. my obligation was to years. with my reserve duty, i stayed for five years. i was based out of san antonio, texas. i finished medical training in the university of pittsburgh, but my wife liked texas, and thought it was a nice climate. there was a medical practice not far from houston. we took that opportunity and moved out there. >> why did you decide to become a doctor? >> it is interesting. i think for many years i wanted to be but would not admit it. you do not like to fail. in high school and college, i never said

. >> rick: cal plays the loser of the game between south carolina and texas a&m. that's on tuesday.to do things the hard way, coming back from the dead. >> alan: and fun watching. ryan reynolds is the latest superhero to hit the big screen. >> alan: ryan reynolds' latest superhero movie, green lantern, earned $52 million in its dibuoy weekend. that's actually low compared to other comic book adaptations. super8 slipped to second place, earning $21 million, and mr. popper's penguins earned $18 million in its debut. a lot of great movies to watch. that's it for us. thanks for watching. hope to see you tonight at hope to see you tonight at 1111111111111111111111111111 ♪ ♪ free access to chase atm's wherever you are. that's a step forward. chase customers can avoid atm fees with over 16,000 nationwide. take a step forward and chase what matters.

. >> born and raised in pittsburgh yet you represent south texas.as a graduate, become an air force medical surgeon, and then ended up in texas. >> i went to duke and started my residency at henry ford in detroit. it was there i received a draft notice. it's said that i would be drafted in the army unless i wanted to volunteer and then i could be a doctor or pick the service i wanted to be in. i volunteered under the pressure of the feeling drafted out right into the army. i got to practice medicine, so i went into the air force, became a flight surgeon, stay in longer than i thought. my obligation was two years and with a reserve duty i actually stayed in with five. i was stationed in san antonio, texas. we decided that texas was a nice place and she liked of the warmer climate. there was a medical practice available not too far produced and, so we took -- from houston so we took that opportunity in lake jackson. >> why did you take -- what did you become a doctor? >> it you do not like to fail at all. in high school and college, i said that and di

. >> a south texas mom received five years probation and a tongue lashing for spanking her own child.nking left a few red marks on her 2-year-old daughter's rear end. the judge bluntly told the mother, quote, you don't spank children today. the state took away the girl and her two siblings. gonzalez is now working to get them back. >> pretty tough. couple interesting tidbits. no belt was used in the spanking. some people said what sort of spank was this, there was no belt used or anything like that. the mother was also arrested after the paternal grandmother complained to authorities. >> in case you are wondering how they found out about this. >> you have to think that has got to be tough on the kids. they get spanked but also to be separated from their mom. >> hot button topic. we talked about it in the newsroom. people said do you spank your kids? no, no, what you do behind closed doors, you have to wonder. >> someone said, well, not in front of anyone. >> don't tell anyone about it. >>> taking a look at your weather. stormy with hail. fierce winds. flash flooding from nebraska to m

lene is bringing much-needed rain to south texas but there will be no direct hit on the u.s. to some folks there. >> good news there. >>> let's take a look at your wednesday weather. we do have showers from seattle to portland. also from the colorado rockies into utah, idaho, and montana. a washout from upstate new york to northern new england. showers and thunderstorms in the southeast and along the gulf coast. heat advisories from arkansas to arizona. >> phoenix pushes mercury up to 110. albuquerque 97. salt lake city 98. 80s from minneapolis to kansas city. 90s in dallas, new orleans, and atlanta. boston gets up to 82. and new york a comfortable 80. >>> we love these stories. they say that love is blind and apparently so are maternal instincts. you have to take a look at t th. >> we have some evidence here. a golden retriever in alabama has adopted two newborn kittens. nancy the dog went into full mommy mode and began nursing the abandoned kittens as soon as her family took them in. they say she treats them just like her own. >> they're so cute. it's not the first time nan

texas panhandle. rain in northern california. showers and thunderstorms around atlanta, montgomery, and charleston, south carolina. scorching heat from texas to tennessee. >> and we're looking at dallas getting up to 97. new orleans, 91. atlanta, 96. 70s in new york and boston. minneapolis, omaha and kansas city hover around the 90-degree mark. near 70 degrees in seattle. 64 in salt lake city. >>> coming up, the deadly e. coli outbreak in europe has now sickened people here in the u.s. >>> and the new details of jaycee dugard's 18-year kidnapping nightmare, including the day she was tasered and taken away. >>> and the nation's new superspeller. her incredible preparation to become the champ. >>> overseas markets are holding steady, while they await the new u.s. job numbers this morning. tokyo's nikkei average fell almost 63 points today. hong kong's hang seng was down 183. and in london, the ftse opened slightly higher. on wall street, the dow fell . 41. 1/2 points. the nasdaq index was up four. >>> when the deal is approved, the bailout will have cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. but treasury secretary, timothy geithne

caller: good morning from corpus christi, south texas. i wonder if we don't have more of a domestic security issue coming from our southern border and the northern state of -- with the zetas as the military officers and personnel who the government of mexico can no longer pay and now they are siding with narco traffic and the coyotes. who cares whether the mossad in israel is here. they are near my house. host: we will move on because we are talking about what secretary gates had to say yesterday. once again, this is what secretary gates said in the defense appropriations hearing about international relations. host: -- caller: how long do we support governments who lied to us? when do we say enough is enough? secretary gates, and will start with you. >> first of all, i would say based on 27 years in the cia and for a half years in this job, most governments lie to each other. that is the way business gets done. >> do they also arrest the people will help us when they say their allies? >> sometimes. and sometimes they send people to spy on

cal will face the loser of texas a&m/south carolina. >> it was a great ball into the seventh inning.ng to come down to -- i think at times both teams were given base runners and maybe given opportunities, who was going to come up with a big hit. that's kind of like the way the games have been going all year long. >>> from the diamond to the pitch. a sport based on teamwork and goals which is why the san francisco street soccer club's journey is all the more unique. as first reported by the "chronicle," brody brazil has the story. >> reporter: in a city short on patches of grass, street soccer is a perfect atappedtation. >> it's way different. the ball goes more faster and not like grass. it goes slower. the pace is faster. >> it's four on four. you do a lot of running. seven minutes nonstop time. and it's just exhilarating. it's awesome. >> the only thing more unique than this game are the competitors showcasing it. this team represents the st. vincent depaul multi service center in san francisco and all of its players are homeless. >> this team is mostly motivating people to change,

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>> later today, record-breaking heat is possible across 2/3 of the nation from texas to wisconsin and across the deep south. thunderstorms are possible along the gulf coast and a few lingering showers out west. >>> in sports, milwaukee completed a four-game sweep of florida. the brewers prince fielder field hit a three-run homer to the right field in the fourth inning and milwaukee went on to beat the marlins, 7-2. >>> in kansas city with the bases loaded at the bottom of the 11th inning, a single to center driving in the winning run. kansas city beat toronto, 3-2. >>> the university of southern california has been stripped of the 2004 bcs national football title. the action was for rules violations involving former usc star running back reggie bush. the ncaa found that bush received improper extra benefits in that season and ruled ineligible to play. >>> when we return, a look at the top stories. >>> and steve jobs unveils the future in the cloud for apple. steve jobs unveils the future in the cloud for apple. she felt lost... until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health defend

two of them were seized by the mexican army a state just south of texas. >> they caught by surprise severalho were running into a clandestined workshop where they were indeed making the kind of vehicles that were headed for northern mexicos. this is the warehouse where criminals were hiding the tanks. in addition to the armored trucks, authorities also found 23 other trucks that were being fitted as narco tanks. the interior can fit 20 armed men and is coated with polyurethane. they're built with one-inch thick steel plating which can with stand gunshots on two .50 caliber weapons and explosions. to destroy this kind of vehicle, you would have to use anti-tank weapons. so far mexican security no, sirs have -- all with very similar features. they suspect there may be numerous other clandestine worked shops where these trucks are still being made. >>> and to our viewers, you're in "the situation room," happening now, as the obama administration reworks america's counter terrorism strategy, the u.s. steps up it's secret air strikes in yemen and may have killed a key al qaeda commander there. >

south carolina would walk off with a 5-4 victory. the bears have to beat texas a&m on tuesday or their season is over. of course their program is just about over a few months ago. so they know all about come backs. >> and not easy to come back from. >> they will have to win four straight. >> it would be a good story. >> thank you. that concludes another broadcast of abc news. i'm alan wang. our next newscast is at 4:30. thanks for staying up late with us. good night, everyone.

minnesota, missouri, nevada, new jersey, new mexico, north carolina, ohio, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, texas, utah and virginia. and i.c.e. it appears has worked very diligently since 2009 to fix concerns with the program by strengthening public safety and improving consistency. in my home state of nebraska, there is interest at the local level. the city of fremont, in particular, has voiced enthusiasm for this program and could directly be impacted by increase of funds to help their community. ensuring full funding for the 287-g program preserves the high spirit of federalism and empowering states to work together with the federal government on a critical homeland security matter. mr. speaker, mr. chairman, america has been very for a long, long time a just and generous nation in regards to immigration policy. opening her arms to persons, particularly those facing social, economic or even political persecution who wish to come here and make a new contribution and a new community to the well-being of their own lives. this should remain the hallmark and spirit of sound immigration policy, but

more large fires have burned and the south east, texas, oklahoma, arizona, and mexico. we also have some large fires in alaska. however, in the sierras, the cascades, and the northern rockies, they are having a record snowmelt spread it remains to be seen how -- based on the projections, the funding should be sufficient. appropriations are the same as last year. that should be enough to prevent any transfer of funds. i want to thank you for securing the flan account for us. the flame act required federal fire managers to develop a management strategy. we wanted to do this in a more collaborative effort than we have done in the past. we brought together the federal partners, the state, the tribes, local and municipal governments to develop a shared national framework. this cohesive strategy has three main goals. the first is to restore and maintain healthy resilience landscape. by managing vegetation to restore the national process of function, we can minimize the adverse impact of fires. the second goal is to create fire adapted human communities by reducing fuel and by

to the south, 108 degrees in texas, amarillo seeing 106, parts of georgia and north carolina getting mbers as well. although there are some spots across the mid-south specifically where temperatures have moderated somewhat or at least the humidity levels have come down just a little bit. but, there's going to start to be pumped up again across parts of texas through arkansas. temperatures will get into the 90s, some cases over 100 and with the humidity will feel worse than that. meanwhile, comfortably cool i guess and you might argue it's chilly across parts of the northeast compared to what it was last week. 65 degrees for the high temperature in new york, 73 in san francisco. speaking of san francisco, check out this video coming to us from san francisco bay where they were testing the 45 catamaran, the oracle boat there, look at it capsize. double hul boat. look at the sailors holding on for dear life. they wear helmets in these. they cruise over 30 knots. and that's a -- that's about half the size of the boat they're actually going to sail in the america's cup come 2013. so, testi

texas. to the south, two smaller wildfires are also burning in arizona. so far, they've destroyed several cabins and outbuildings. but to this point, there have been no injuries in any of the fires. in the meantime, haze from all the smoke now stretches across colorado and even as far east as iowa. and ning me now from town of eager, arizona, is jim cross, a reporter for ktar radio in phoenix. he's been on the fire lines today. jim, what are the conditions firefighters are dealing with? what are you seeing there? >> well, we just got back from the front lines. we were taken up there on a tour and about as bad as you can get, quite honestly. your eyes are burning, your throat hurts, you're plugged up. the wind is just howling out there. it's blowing. it's breezy here, but throughout just seven or eight miles back this way it is just tours you wind. big plumes going up, trees on the mountainside going up kind of like candles, roman candles, you know, a lot of fire fighters in there. once it comes down-- if it comes down-- out of this mountain area it's goin

the bears win today, they'll play the winner of south carolina and texas a&m. this is their first trip to the world series in 19 years. >>> rory mcilroy is looking for the first major of his young career today. the 22-year-old irishman has an eight-stroke lead heading into the final round in bethesda, maryland. yesterday, he set the 54-hole scoring record with a 199. two years ago, he led the masters and imploded on the back nine to infish 15th. >>> it's not even officially summer yet, but it's already warming up. rosemary is joining us now with your father's day forecast. >> reporter: yes, good morning. anywhere from 3-5 degrees warmer, but inland is where we really will feel the heat. giving you a look outside our doors. a gorgeous view there. plenty of sunshine already moving around the area. we will continue to see those low clouds this morning continuing to burn off. temperatures in the low 60s already. mostly sunny skies. 63 for the coast at your lunch hour. mid-70s expect the for the inland areas. afternoon, 89 degrees in some spots. flirting with 90 for

they extend through seven states at this point and now back up through kansas and as far south as parts of texaslong the rio grande valley. big ben national park, having some issue there's. along i-35, if there are fires that are going to set, they will burn the foliage, it's very dry. you could have more of the fires developing in parts of arizona and even into colorado at this point. it is definitely a mess. could be a mess later on today. we have a whole different variety. we're talking about a moderate risk of severe storm into the northern plains. all the components are there. we have a lifting mechanism. the gulf of mexico is wide open, just a conveyer belt bringing in moisture. that combined with that frontal boundary and daytime heating could make for a very unstable air mass over the central plains. if you happen to see lincoln, nebraska, maybe into the dakotas, by late afternoon there will be a chance of tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, even flash flooding and heavy rain from time to time. your temperatures are ridiculous in parts of texas. 102 in dallas, 98 in houston, definitel

suitable for budget travelers including maine, florida, rhode island, south carolina and michigan along with the u.s. virgin island, texas. so some bragging rights tonight. it is a great day to be in santa cruz. >> some people may be wanting to escape to the beach in time for the weekend though. we will cool back down just a little bit. temperatures sored today from 10 to 10 above what we -- 10 to 15 above what we saw yesterday. the red and orange is indicative of heat. if it is hot the wind is feeling pretty good. that's reporting 24 miles per hour. the rest of us 10 to 20 miles per hour. 14 in oakland. 16 livermore. and again our temperature still quite warm. livermore at 90. concord the doing the same. 830 in san jose. widespread 70s. 84 red dew win city. cooling down as we move through the next hour or so. santa rosa 82, the north bay saw upper 70s low to mid- 80s outside the doors this afternoon. the satellite is showing you it is going to break down just a little bit by tomorrow. we have a system to the north of us. it will deepen by thursday, and not going to see really a big change by tomorrow. in fact the heat w

south. this is the size of texas, and here in darfur, also about the size of texas. the difference is these people are muslim, and these people are christian. the kris chaps in the south basically objecting to the fact that the people in khartoum who are islamists. i don't mean islam, but islam, political islam as practiced by bin laden and his friends. they want to impose the law to the people in the south, and there's a tremendous amount of racism involved in this. what we've had then since independence in 1956 was the mar gypallization -- marginalization of the other groups here who feel they have no stake where the power is in sudan. the people in khartoum have been rather clever and skillful in the way they have conducted ethnic cleansing. what they've done is typically there's a pattern to this, and it's being repeated to this day, right now in abia. they use their air force to bomb villages in what they call softening up, and this has been followed not by regular soldiers, but by my sish sha -- militias of disgruntled no mads who they pay and arm to do the dirt

how about dad cities like south padre island texas, at about 94 degrees.> yes. >> i think we're ready for it too. right now lara spencer is with emeril, though. emeril lara. >> sam i am with emeril in honor of father's day. and we are cooking up some very special thing, hopefully giving you great ideas for sunday. an important day to celebrate the men in our lives. let's talk about brick chicken. i was going to break into "brick house". >> that's later but my neighbor is going to wake up probably waking up right now, got beautiful roses but no bricks. i took all the bricks and it was raining anyhow. >> serious, any brick will do. >> any brick will do and basically you want to wrap it in pile. >> such as like a little present. >> exactly. >> i can handle that. >> let's make a marinade. i have olive oil. >> we should point out the type of chickening. >> an organic chicken and it's a fryer chicken, 3, 3 1/2 pounds fresh lemon juice, lots of garlic. >> garlic. >> garlic. >> we love that on father's day. >> on father's day, they love garlic, now, also some lemo

south carolina. >> pelley: we are getting word of breaking news from texas tonight. cbs affiliate khou tells us sheriff's deputies gone to a house in hardin, northeast of houston, after getting a tip that dozens of bodies are buried there. deputies are trying to get a warrant to search further. an f.b.i. evidence team has been put on standby. along the missouri river, the focus is on flooding. the water is dangerously high because of heavy rain and melting snow. today, the army corps of engineers pumped more water out of a dam in south dakota to relieve the pressure. the resulting floods swamped dozens of nearby homes. the water could be there for months. a wildfire in eastern arizona has grown to nearly 500 square miles. it's now the second largest in state history. a picture from space gives you a sense of the size. more than 2,500 firefighters have been unable to contain the fire so far. no one's been hurt, but as many as 10,000 people may have to evacuate their homes. in egypt, protesters toppled an oppressive regime, but now comes the hard part. that story is ne

as you get to the south and texas, temperatures anywhere five to ten degrees above normal. 90s to 100s, to text, the gulf coast, 50s and 60s through the northeast. 100s extend into the interior sections of california. strong storms in the mid mississippi river valley. beautiful weather in the pacific northwest. seattle, temperature in the 70s. >> good morning to you. we're already close to 60 degrees. it's still early. 59 degrees in fairfield. 54 in oakland. 54 in san mateo. we're headed for a warm-up. 80 in san jose. 80 in gilroy at noon. your high temperatures in the 90s inland. 90 in concord and 90 in napa. lovely day, though, in san francisco. once you work back to the east bay or the north bay after work it will be hot. warmer tomorrow. >>> more from las vegas and our charity revealed in the next hour. that and your weather forecast coming up later. >> we look forward to it, al. thank you very much. >>> coming up next, more of ann's exclusive interview with president obama, including how the first daughters feel atec a. theidad run for a second term. that's right after this. ♪ pro

. >> taking a look at another scorcher in the south, with 90s from midland, texas, to atlanta. 68 in new york city. 61 in boston. upper 70s from omaha to indianapolis. and a hot 102 in phoenix. 91 degrees in albuquerque. >>> when it's hot your lawn doesn't grow so much. i have a different solution in this next story. an administrator at a pennsylvania school is happy to give his students the summer off. but some of his animals may not be so lucky. >> that's the way to do it. sheep are being used to keep the grass trimmed around the school's solar panels. they'll be at it all summer. i bet they don't mind, though. >> exactly. work and play right here. started with two sheep out there. then, added five more. he has others waiting if needed. using the sheep instead of a lawn crew saves nearly $15,000 a year. this idea is not bad at all. >> there you go. this guy's clearly an environmentalist. he has the solar panels out there. then, the sheep to trim the grass. >> yeah. and they'll probably provide a little fertilizer when they're out there, too. you know what i mean? >> i give it

that includes names of beach towns in maine, florida, rhode island, south carolina, michigan as well as the u.s. virgin islands, texasorgia, oregon. >>> we now what triggered this and who was injured. >>> and the new style of plane that could completely eliminate all those arguments over that window seat. >>> a group of hackers is claiming responsibility for breaching the u.s. senate's website. the group published files online over the weekend taken from the senate .gov website. senate officials confirmed an intrusion into the server but says that no sensitive information was compromised. same group took credit for hacking into sony. >>> the u.s. government is projected to blow right through it legal borrowing limit of $14.2 trillion on august 2nd. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is also urging republicans and democrats to work together to develop a long- range plan to tackle the deficit and he warned republicans not to use the debt ceiling deadlines to force democrats to make cuts. >> the debt limit is the wrong tool for that important job. failing to raise the debt ceiling in a timely way would be self-defeat

story we brought you at the top of the hour, authorities in texas say as many as 30 bodies may have been found at the intersection of two south roads in southeastern part of the state. houston tv station reporting the bodies are of children. this is from khou in texas. liberty county sheriff department deputies are on the scene of a home in harden, where a tipster told them 25 to 30 bodies are buried. the house is located we're told at county roads 2048 and 2049. the tipster told the sheriff deputies dozens of dismembered bodies are buried there. the sheriff deputies said they found blood on the scene. they're trying to get a warrant to search further. 15 sheriff deputy vehicles, cadaver dog on the scene. beaumont f.b.i. we're told has been asked to investigate the site. we have details. that is from khou in texas. the story just breaking at this hour. >>> things are going from bad to worse for congressman anthony weiner. that story and more, as "special report" continues. >> bret: a day after tearful confession, more damaging information is surfacing about new york democratic congressman anthony weiner. here is senior corres

skies are mostly cloudy from texas to the northwest, but later today strong thunderstorms will move across the south. dry heat continues in the southern plains, and the southwest. and warming up in the northeast with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. >>> in sports, flirting with another no-hitter, detroit's justin verlander almost pitched his second no-hitter this season as he struck out 12 cleveland batters. the bid ended in the top of the eighth inning when orlando cabrera hit a clean single to center. verlander gave up only one more hit and shut out the indians 4-0. >>> in chicago in the tenth inning the cubs' castro hit a long looping single to right scoring the winning run against the brewers. the final chicago 5, milwaukee 4. >>> the nfl and his players are making some progress in secret talks for a new contract. they met in maryland at an undisclosed location. one report says there is at least a chance of working out a deal to end the lockout by july 4th. we will astay on top of that for you. >>> and a spectacular accident in san francisco bay. look at this. one of the boats getting ready for