i'm terrell brown. today the republican controlled house is expected to vote to repeal president obama's health care law. it will be the latest in dozens of such votes. the first though since the supreme court ruling upholding the law. and in this election year vote, the gop isn't offering up an alternative. republican officials want to focus on the law itself. a law described by one gop lawmaker as economic malpractice. tara mergener is in washington with more. tara, good morning to you. >> good morning to you terrell. all gop lawmakers are expected to support the repeal and they're even hoping a few democrats will join. still, the outcome is all but certain. republicans in the house will vote today to overturn the affordable care act, something they've done before. >> the american people do not want to go down the path of obama care. that's why we've voted over 30 times to repeal it, to fund it, replace it. >> democrats say the vote is just for show. >> it is political theater, puts political games ag

i'm terrell brown. finally, the deadly record breaking take your breath away heat wave that scorched much of the country for days is starting to break this morning. the blistering temperatures are blamed for at least 46 deaths across the country. more normal temperatures are forecast for today from the midwest to the east coast. the cooler air and the storms it triggered began to arrive yesterday. drew levinson has our report. >>> a fast moving storm sent trees and power lines smashing into homes and cars in free hold, new jersey. >> the wind went through. it was incredible. looked like a tornado going through. >>> will fernandez and his son ben spent sunday cleaning up their yard where a tree barely missed their house. there's no electricity and with temperatures still hovering around 90 in this neighborhood, fernandez says it's tough staying inside. >> how uncomfortable has it been for you? >> very uncomfortable. no power. so it's been sweating profusely. >> jersey central power and light says more th

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. >> good morning, terrell. law enforcement officials say suspect james holmes is not cooperating with them and it may take months for them to determine a motive behind this massacre. he will make his first court appearance this morning with one of the county's top public defenders. >> amid the chaos in the moments following the shooting, 24-year-old james eagan holmes almost got away. wearing tactical gear, he slipped out of the theater and looked like any other swat team member on the scene except for one mistake. >> there was one particular piece of equipment that he had on him that was out of place. i am so proud of my officers that they spotted that right away and challenged him. >> authorities were able to clear out all of the explosives in holmes' apartment. including 30 homemade grenades designed to kill whoever walked in and triggered a trip wire. among the evidence found inside, a batman mask. >> we're building a case to show that this was a deliberative process by a very intelligent man who wanted to

. >>> happy monday, terrell. mitt romney now says president obama will do anything to get re-elected and that he's still owed an apology. but the president says the attacks are justified. >> president barack obama is back on the campaign trail today to talk about jobs and the economy. a topic mitt romney consistently criticizes the president about. but on thursday, president obama told cbs sunday morning he doesn't mind the attacks. >> you don't hear me complaining about him making that argument. if i was in his shoes, i'd be making the same argument. >> it's been romney on the defensive lately. he says he gave up managing bain capital in 1999 to run the salt lake city olympics. but bain filed documents showing romney is the chairman, ceo and sole owner of the company until 2002. >> it is standard, though, to, while you're on leave, to sign those documents for the s.e.c. he was still ceo and had shares but he wasn't responsible for management and that's the bottom line. >> if you're telling the s.e.c. that you're

i'm terrell brown. this morning, nearly 2 million people in the eastern united states are still suffering without power following a strong weekend storm, and the outlook is not looking good. states of emergency have been declared from ohio to washington, d.c. crews are working to repair widespread, extensive damage, and it may not be until this weekend before power is completely restored. adding insult to injury, the excessive heat. the national weather service says the blistering heat wave will last for several more days as well. danielle nottingham reports from hard-hit silver spring, maryland. >> reporter: the power came back too soon to this neighborhood in silver spring, maryland. sparks from the still damaged line caused a fire and another delay for some in the 2 million homes and businesses still waiting for the lights to come back on. vanessa himmins blames her power company, pepco. >> having down wire is so dangerous, and we called it in numerous times, and not only have they not removed it, bu

i'm terrell brown. the battle continues today over two contentious issues front and center in this year's election, health care and taxes. the president will campaign in iowa, mitt romney in colorado. both candidates will be pushing their vision of tax fairness. the president is touting his proposal for a one-year extension of bush-era tax cuts on the first $250,000 of a family's income. republicans counter that by calling it a massive tax increase. danielle nottingham begins our coverage. >> reporter: president obama drew an election-year battle line over taxes. he wants to extend cuts for middle-income americans but thinks those who earn more should pay more. >> let's not hold the vast majority of americans and our entire economy hostage while we debate the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy. >> reporter: the president is calling for a one-year extension of the so-called bush-era tax cuts for households earning less than $250,000 a year and individuals earning less than $200,000. they're due to

i'm terrell brown. take care everybody. i'm terrell brown. take care everybody.eat day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a freeway shooting in the east bay. how the victims were able to call for help >>> watch out for the mall lions, the bay area campus where its moving and >>> and we're starting of accident feet for the details on your morning commuters coming up >>> time now is 430. we're following developing news in the east bay. two men pulled into a gas station in her place and say they had been shot while on the interstate 80 last night. of the highway patrol shut down be free way so that they could look for evidence last night. they pulled over her 22 year-old angel last nine on highway 17. angel last nine on highway 17. he surrendered without incident.

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good morning, terrell. that's right. mitt romney insists the obama camp will not be happy no matter how many tax returns they see. he says they are trying to distract voters from the real issue, president obama's record. mitt romney will head from pennsylvania to ohio today for a series of events. >> i need pennsylvania and ohio both. >> romney unveiled a new attack tuesday criticizing a comment president barack obama made at a campaign event in virginia last friday. >> if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. to say something like that is not just foolishness. it's insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator. in america. it's wrong. >> the obama campaign says romney is taking the president's words out of context. >> somebody helped to create this unbelievable american system that we have that allows you to thrive. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. >> the romney campaign has been looking to change the narrative of th

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i'm terrell brown. it is back to business today. president obama kicks off his first bus tour of the campaign. the betting on america tour is a two-day swing through two critical states. meanwhile, mitt romney changed his tune regarding a key provision of the president's health care law. susan mcginnis gets us started today. good morning to you. >> terrell, good morning. the president is flying to toledo, then hopping on this bus to go through ohio and pennsylvania, two key swing states where he's after blue collar votes. that's a group he really needs. romney is staying focused on health care and trying not to look like a flipflopper. president obama is hitting the road today for a bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania. mitt romney is still on vacation. he's stealing headlines thanks

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i'm terrell brown. the alleged gunman in friday's movie theater massacre on friday, james holmes, is due in court this morning. here's the latest. holmes is "lawyered up and isn't talking." the question asked now is what's the motive behind the attack? the answer is still unclear. 12 people were killed, 58 wounded. we know holmes applied for membership at a gun range. he was rejected because of a bizarre voice mail. he started buying the weapons he used in the attack two months ago and purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet. the residents of aurora, colorado are mourning the victims trying to make sense of this. manuel gallegus is there. good morning to you. >> good morning, terrell. law enforcement officials say suspect james holmes is not cooperating with them and it may take months for them to determine a motive behind this massacre. he will make his first court appearance this morning with one of the county's top public defenders. >> amid the chaos in the moments following the shooti

i'm terrell brown. the university of colorado received a package from alleged theater gunman james holmes. the package containing handwritten papers was addressed to one of holmes' instructors in the neuroscience ph.d. program. meanwhile, the first of holmes alleged victims was buried. teresa garcia in aurora, colorado, has our report. >> investigators say a package from accused movie theater gunman was found in the mail room of the university of colorado denver. the package which was discovered monday was handled by a bomb squad robot and x-rayed to check for explosives. sources say the letter was sent to one of holmes' former professors, a psychiatrist. in it, he talked about shooting people and included crude drawings of a gunman and his victims. the letter may help investigators learn more about holmes but experts say not to expect closure. >> there is nothing that this individual could say to us that would cause us and the general public to sit back and say now i understand why you did this. >> def

ash, good morning. >> good morning terrell.he aarp says more than a million americans over the age of 50 lost their homes during the mortgage crisis and millions more are at risk. the report finds about 600,000 older americans are in foreclosure and 3.5 million hold mortgages that are underwater. >> the rise in u.s. housing, making asian markets a bit of a bounce. the nikkei went up almost 1% and the hang seng jumped over 1.5%. >>> on wall street, stocks were lifted for a second straight day. the dow was up 103 point and the nasdaq added 32. >>> it was a rough day for capital one. the credit card company can reported its second quarter profits were down 90% and the company was ordered by the government to pay a $210 million fine. capital one allegedly misled consumers into buying costly credit card services. >>> city leaders were considering a new tax to fix san francisco's potholes. transportation planners are looking at charging drivers 10 cents for every mile they travel. that could add up to about $1300 a year on average. b

i'm terrell brown. there will be no relief today for the millions of americans who have been sweating it out after a record-breaking heat wave this week. the national weather service has issued excessive heat warnings and watches throughout the u.s. temperatures will reach triple digits an the extreme heat is making its way to the east coast. 100 degree weather from new jersey to the carolinas expected to last into the weekend. >> heat, extreme heat, so hot part of a roadway near downtown chicago buckled and cracked. people working outside in the windy city were dreaming of a cool breeze as temperatures soared past 100 degrees. the city's been swamped with hundreds of heat-related emergencies and officials are asking the public to check in on elderly or frail neighbors. >> nothing prevents any one of us from doing a well-being check on a neighbor or someone who may need assistance. >> it's not just the elderly who are at risk during this hot weather. >> this can happen to anybody. >> obviously people on

i'm terrell brown. the dust-up over just how long mitt romney was in charge of the private equity firm he founded, bain capital, is heating up. president obama travels to cincinnati to talk about the economy. mitt romney will be in mississippi and louisiana. tara mergener is in washington. we covered the country. >>> happy monday, terrell. mitt romney now says president obama will do anything to get re-elected and that he's still owed an apology. but the president says the attacks are justified. >> president barack obama is back on the campaign trail today to talk about jobs and the economy. a topic mitt romney consistently criticizes the president about. but on thursday, president obama told cbs sunday morning he doesn't mind the attacks. >> you don't hear me complaining about him making that argument. if i was in his shoes, i'd be making the same argument. >> it's been romney on the defensive lately. he says he gave up managing bain capital in 1999 to run the salt lake city olympics. but bain filed do

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good morning. >> good morning, terrell. country wide the mortgage lender that played a central role in the foreclosure crisis made hundreds of discount loans to government officials in order to buy influence according to a report by the house oversight committee. the discounts were given between january of 1996 to june of 2008. among the vips who received the loans, six current or former members of congress and executives of fannie mae. the report says countrywide may have skirted federal bribery laws. country wide was taken over by bank of america in 2008. >>> overseas markets were cautious ahead of a decision by the european central bank. the nikkei shed a quarter percent and the hang seng gained half a percent. >>> today we'll get the weekly unemployment data and tomorrow the government releases the june jobs report. wall street will be open for business after an off day to celebrate the fourth of july. a shortened trading day. the dow added 72 points and the nasdaq gained 24. >>> if you got on the road this independence

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good morning to you. >> terrell, good morning. the president is flying to toledo, then hopping on this bus to go through ohio and pennsylvania, two key swing states where he's after blue collar votes. that's a group he really needs. romney is staying focused on health care and trying not to look like a flipflopper. president obama is hitting the road today for a bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania. mitt romney is still on vacation. he's stealing headlines thanks to this comment on the "cbs evening news." >> obama cares attacks, like it or not it's a tax. >> the comment directly contradicts statements made by his own campaign, including one of his top advisers. >> the governor believes that what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. >> romney's new position puts him more in line with the majority of the republican party. >> it's now a tax since the court said it was a tax. >> the gop fear that romney will be criticized for appearing to flipflop on the

i'm terrell brown. republican presidential hopeful mitt romney is in poland this morning, his last stop on what turned into a bumpy overseas tour, while president obama looks to pick up campaign cash in the big apple. susan mcginnis is in washington with details this morning. susan, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, good morning, terrell. yeah, we'll see if romney can get through poland and a foreign policy speech there today without controversy. this is after he inadvertently insulted the british in london and then made a comment in israel that is upsetting palestinians. mitt romney got an enthusiastic welcome in poland. >> we want you to be president of the united states. >> reporter: the presidential hopeful wraps up his overseas trip today with a foreign policy speech in warsaw. monday, romney picked up an endorsement from lech walesa, the legendary leader of poland's solidarity movement, who invited romney to poland. >> so, governor romney, this is lech. >> reporter: but romney is also being cr

i'm terrell brown. the opening ceremony for the summer olympics in london is just hours away. and this morning the olympic flame is on board the royal barge making the final leg of its 8 thouz,000 mile journey. >> mitt romney is in london. his first steps on the international stage as the presumptive gop presidential nominee. but romney stubbed his toe. british officials are taking romney to task for comments he made about olympic preparedness. susan mcginnis is in washington with more. good morning to you. >> good morning terrell. romney's trip was largely benign. he met with top leaders in britain and made very few and very sweeping general comment, that is, until he made this olympic-sized blunder. before the lights go on at the olympic stadium for today's opening ceremonies, the u.s. team will start the day with a breakfast, with first lady michelle obama. when mitt romney wakes up, this is the headline that will greet him in today's papers. "ready, set, go! whatever mitt romney says." romney has up

i'm terrell brown. high heat and dry conditions this summer are fueling a drought of epic proportions across the united states. the government report shows 55% of the country's experiencing moderate to extreme levels of drought. the affected area stretches for thousands of miles from the desert southwest, across the plains and into the midwest and southeast. it is one of the most severe droughts in decades, even rivaling those of the dust bowl in the 1930s. a prayer for rain sounded by millions. this summer's drought is taking its toll on farmers and ranchers, hoping for some help from mother nature before it's too late. >> ranchers are in trouble because the pastures around here which normally would be at least knee-high, if not up to the thigh in some cases with good prairie hay, it's like somebody mowed it, and besides the cows. >> fields throughout the plains are parched, their crops withering. some haven't seen rain since early june. illinois governor pat quinn pleaded for federal disaster help for

happy friday, good morning. >> happy friday to you too, terrell.kei fell almost a 1.5% and the hang seng went up april fraction. >>> good earnings reports from ibm and others. stocks went higher for a third day. the dow is up 34 points and the nasdaq gained 23. >>> one tech company that didn't fare so well was microsoft. it posted its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company. the loss resulted from a $6.2 billion write-down on an online ad service microsoft acquired five years ago. the company is looking ahead to the october release of its new operating system, windows 8. >>> the chief executives of american airlines and u.s. airways held a morning meeting to discuss a potential merger. u.s. airways is pushing for the merger. it's already secured the support of americans labor unions but american's ceo says he will not be rushed into making any deal. the best hope for growth is through a merger. >>> ford issued a recall of one of its suvs and is telling owners not to drive the vehicles until a critical fix is made. the recall fraekt

i'm terrell brown. the funeral for a victim of friday's movie theater shooting will be held in colorado. gordon cow den was 51 yoers old and the oldest victim. his two children made it out unharmed. >>> the shooting unfolded. some victims say the alleged gunman, james holmes was shouting as he stalked victims. holmes remains in solitary confineme confinement. he'll be officially charged monday and the judge says cameras will not be allowed in the courtroom. meanwhile, one of the victims became a father. teresa garcia in aurora has that story. >> katie medley gave birth to her son tuesday morning there in the same hospital where katie's husband caleb is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. >> baby is doing good. katie is, she's recovering. caleb, he's still in critical condition, but he is stabilized. >> the medleys went to go see the new batman movie last friday night in aurora, colorado, for their last date before she would deliver their baby. a half hour into the movie caleb was fighting for h

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