officials and san antonio tx are pushing for federal money to fix problems on city roads. now the san antonio council says it needs the money so it can put it infrastructure in place to prevent future flooding damage. ofonce we declined the level destruction. , which a separate level means hours. duringnches of rain fell the weekend. the government will get back to the council's request. >> [inaudible] heavier rain tomorrow. that system moving from the middle portion of the country and the first tropical storm turning down in the western coast of florida. impact as with heavier band of rain. it a direct impact but definitely will bring us rain, soaking rain. good for the plants. florida getting inundated with the rain down there. and all across the state, flood watches and warnings. even a tornado watch time to spend up. have definitely been watching heavy rain. i can show you the track in just a bit. gusts to 69. it is moving to the northeast at 13 miles per hour. it will trek across florida and then along the eastern seaboard. tomorrow night just off of our coast. allowi

.>> ----0@ta $ @a[zíë(xuqtáúl]tx [ cheers and applause ] >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight. the director of ironman, the former director of speechwriting for president obama. he is the cofounder of fenway strategy and a columnist for the daily beast. please welcome to the program jon favreau. [ cheers and applause ] how are you? >> i'm well. how are you? >> jon: how was your new career? you've left the speechwriting. >> left the speechwriting. i have a life again. >> jon: how long did you speech write? >> i speech-wrote for... jon: don't. i see your talent already, sir. >> i was with the president since 2005 when he got to the senate. >> jon: but you seem very young to me. how old were you when you first began to write for him? >> 23 or 24. i can't remember now. >> jon: [bleep] you. how about that? how about that? wow. that's truly remarkable, not that i was doing wild turkey in the basement of a liquor store on route 1 in jersey. how did they find you or how did you find them? >> i was in the kerry campaign i was robert gibbs' assistant. gibbs left to go work for obama. obv

the scandal is overtly partisan groups set up semi-awsemi-autonomous to get tx deductible donations ->> but the problem is -- here is the thing. sierra club does this. >> but it's both sides of the political aisle. we have have to go to 2010. the context, the president was basically claiming that foreign operatives were pouring in the non-profit sector and getting themselves involved in the u.s. election system. what do you make of that? >> i think the "wall street journal" pointed out this wasn'ter is ra tissue "se"rapticious. this was political and one-sided. ink blot it goes wider and wider and wider like waterga watergate. >> what do you make of carl levin saying to the i.r.s., you're being passive. senator franken and others say we'll pass legislation if you don't respond the way you want. >> what i make is if that what they did -- >> there is evidence. they have letters. take it up with them. but this is not clear it went to the top. there isn't evidence tocanide it that. stop with the propaganda -- >> but wait. hold on. not propaganda. >> it is. >> the president removed the lea

ladies and gentlemen please welcome from seattle, wa, karen widden and from corpus christie, tx, april thomas. welcome them both to the show. give them a big round of applause. give me that hug. come on girlfriend. give me a hug. come on next to me. there you go. come on april, talk to me for a minute. that knee problem. how long was that bothering you before you had the surgery? it went on for 2 years. and then after that surgery you thought you were gonna get some relief but, what happened? it basically, the cartilage was so bad gone that my knee swelled up 3 times the size it was. did you try the braces and other things? i put braces, gel, endless painkillers to where i was like, i was more sleepy than up. you could no longer keep up with your littlest one. yes. and then you had to ask someone else to step in to help you, right? and who was that that you had to ask? my son, and he's only 10. and he's right there. right? but you knew you needed to get some relief. yes. how did you find out about the sleeves? i was up one night and i was like lord is you still want me to be a momma, s

that are safe, that ultimately, not only generate revenue for the city, but jgenerate vast amounts of txi mean, it could really change things. >> and if the government decides to regulate and tax, we might soon be calling the bureau of atf, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and marijuana. on february 14th, 2013, judge james ruled that the city of oakland had no standing in suing the federal government on behalf of harborside and threw the case out. harborside is still awaiting a trial date to present their case in front of a bay area jury, the case will most likely be decided in 2014. facing the possibility of a much longer sentence, matt davies accepted a plea deal to send him to prison for the mandatory minimum of five years. as for u.s. attorney melinda hague, i have called, and called and called and -- nothing. that is what i am getting from the phone calls right now. >>> hey, i'm anderson cooper. flight twa had taken off when it had slammed into the ocean. that tragedy, and it is now in the news again. controversial documents disputing that the crash was an accident, and the

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there is another shale formation that has been found over in catanar central tx text that may have threees more oil in it than what the eagleford has. we're talk multiple tens of billions of dollars of gross state product. putting families to work in areas of new york state -- >> which have been in a virtual depression for -- >> for 50 years. >> for decades. it's incredible. >> since world war ii. >> it's unbelievable. >> so the opportunity to do that is beyond me -- >> they've done it in pennsylvania. i've had governor ed rendell, a democrat, former head of the national democratic committee. rendell's been on this show several times, strongly endorsing the shale decisions that he made while he was governor. and by the way, the state gets its take on this also. people get rich -- oh, my gosh. one last question. you're all over the country. you're running these ads. radio, television. got your free market message. so the deep, penetrating question is will you run for president? >> i'll make a decision sometime later in the year. i've got to make a decision on whether or not i'm going to r

. >>> a tx x town trying to recover from a massive explosion, the town is dealt another big blow.nment. >>> high-rise rescue. terrifying moments, two window washers stuck on a platform 45 stories above a manhattan street. >> not a job for me. >> they have smiles on their faces. >> because they are crazy. welcome back. this is "early start." >> we are going to begin with severe weather. extreme conditions expected to affect 74 million people across the country today. pay attention, this could be you. in colorado, unpredictable wildfires is the big concern. five fires burn thg morning. two of them major infernos charring more than 11,000 acres. dozens of homes gone. >>> in northern iowa, two confirmed tornado touchdowns including downed power lines and debris. two businesses took the brunt of the wrath. no injuries reported but there were power outages. >>> pawpaw illinois, 130 miles southwest of chicago. speaking of the windy city, that's bad, huh? the windy city lived up to the bill. chicago saw 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts coupled with dime-sized hail. >> a striking image at the h

the state senate in austin tx whoh senator wendy davis, some now talk about as a potential candidateor governor. the lotbuster withheld taking place in texas. it could come up again in another special session. we will hear from governor rick perry in a minute. in the is joining us in fairfax, virginia on this debate over the health-care law and contraceptives. your take as a republican? caller: i have never heard the set during the objection, ever thee the aids epidemic government has been providing free contraception. anybody can go to any health department and get all the bedoms you want, it may not the contras -- it just may not be the contraception you prefer. contraception is a health care issue. the malady york trading would have to before we get the malady you are treating it would have to be -- administrationa -- next is susan joining us from north which lend hills, texas. texarth richland hills, s. is a hero.ndy dvis what i find interesting is that the ones that are so opposed, these business leaders, particularly, do not have any complaints about by agra and see alice and t