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he was working for bp on clean-up duty after the oil spill took away his livelihood. bp says is has now spent $2.35 billion on the oil spill response. that includes crews, cleanup, containment, the federal bill and drilling a relief well. cnn's chris lawrence is in the gulf. chris, we've heard from a lot of people in this industry who want to see this moratorium lifted. >> reporter: that's right. now really for the first time bp also says that. you never thought you'd see that. a lot of people here in the gulf agreeing with something that bp says. but now a bp official has come out and says he also thinks that the moratorium should be lifted. obviously there's some people here who think it should be, too. the state claiming that anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 jobs could ultimately be affected here. really when you talk to some of the workers, that is the real key and they feel that really, they are being hurt by this. we talked with one man who said his company has already started the process of starting to lay people off. >> i have to sit across the table from employees and tell them, i know you have husbands, i know you have wives, i know you have children, but i can no longer afford to keep you on. >> reporter: so the government says it's already started to send letters out to the oil companies telling them, okay, you are now free to drill. that is not going to happen because these companies are not going to spend that kind of money and invest that much in restarting these rigs, recalling all their crews while the threat of the government's appeal is hanging out there. it could just come them way too much to have to shut down again. the company says while these companies are looking at short-term economic impact, the government is looking at long-term environmental and economic impact. environmental groups would wr not happy at all with this judge's decision to lift this moratorium again. >> we're disappointed with the decision. clearly, deepwater drilling has been shown to be a high-wire act without a net. it seems to me as this forest fire is raging out there, that we want to at least take away the matches from the kids who started the fire. >> reporter: ironically, the state of louisiana agrees with the federal government in that deepwater drilling could be a threat to public safety. they just disagree on the length of this moratorium. governor bobby jindal offering some sort of compromise with the government. >> for example, why not put a federal inspector on every rig that can shut down production. or for example, why not allow the 33 rigs affected by the moratorium to drill but not up to the reservoir? that's where the greatest dangers are. or why not only allow them to drill in areas where there are known pressures so they know exactly what they're dealing with? >> reporter: but again, this is not just about one company because the same official at bp, the chief operating officer who said that the moratorium should be lifted, admitted that what bp does, its practices, are pretty much uniform throughout this region by the other companies as well. jim? carol? >> chris, another looming concern down there in the gulf is this possibility that there may be be some tropical storm activity coming your way. i mean what are people saying down there? obviously this is a community that had to deal with the aftermath of katrina and rita. how are they preparing for this possibility? >> reporter: they're very, very concerned about that. you know normally down here, jim, you've been down here a lot, you know a tropical disturbance, tropical depression, people won't bat an eye over something like that. even a category 1 hurricane doesn't get people down here all that worked up. but now there is the real fear that this is going to push the oil in directions that normally it wouldn't, that it will disrupt some of the oil collection process. so i think it is a real race against the clock to try to get some of these additional systems online so that they can disconnect and reconnect a lot faster if they get bad weather coming through this area. >> chris lawrence, live in new orleans for us this morning, thanks, chris. i want to get more specifics on this storm, where exactly it is going to hit and when, how serious of a threat is it. let's go to the weather center and bonnie schneider. tell us about this storm, bonnie. what might happen? >> well, right now we are tracking an area of low pressure that's in the caribbean. it's been a very slow moving system and has been slow to develop as well. you're looking at a massive thunderstorm. right mao you can see what we're calling this area of low pressure is about 150 miles east-northeast of the honduras-nicaraguan border. it is still very disorganized but in the past few days it's gotten more organized especially yesterday afternoon. because of that, the national hurricane center in miami upgraded the chances of tropical cyclone development to 60%. that had had been down to 30% yesterday morning so it is more likely categorized as high that we will see a depression develop as it gets closer to the yucatan some time within the next two days. the system is moving very, very slowly, kind of drifting slowly to the northwest. as it heads to the northwest obviously the concern is the gulf of mexico. the past track of the system has been a very slow north-northwest movement. some of the computer models are taking it across the yucatan. some are dissipating it, some take it into the gulf of mexico. there is a real wide swath of area in terms of what we're watching in the future. a hurricane hunter aircraft is scheduled this afternoon around 2:00 to investigate it. once we get the data readings from that flight if indeed it does take place -- it's been canceled twice before because the system didn't develop. but today i'd say the likelihood is good that flight will take place. once we get the findings this afternoon we'll know whether or not this indeed is a tropical depression an that will give us a lot better understanding as to the future path of the storm. residents along the gulf coast from texas even into florida need to always keep monitoring the situation because these tropical systems particularly before they've actually developed are very unpredictable. the conditions though are conducive for development. low wind shear and very warm water temperatures. >> the the wait is agonizing. interestingly enough, coming up in our 8:00 a.m. eastern hour, we'll talk to admiral thad allen. send us your questions for him because, are they prepared for this storm? do they have a plan in place? i mean how do you disconnect the enterprise from the leaking oil underneath and get it out of there and get everybody out of there safely? >> that's right. we'll press the admiral on that in the 8:00 hour. speaking of weather, we have other amazing video to show you. check this out. an incredible scene of destruction in bridgeport, connecticut. yesterday a thunderstorm packing 75-mile-per-hour winds knocked down trees and power lines, blew out windows and damaged homes and businesses. the city's mayor has declared a state of emergency. at least 25 people were reported injured, though none of those injuries are life threatening. i was on the amtrak yesterday. it was really frightening. firefighters in arizona are battling a wildfire that's scorched more than 14,000 acres. there is a real concern this morning winds will pick up and fan the flames more. so far the fire is only 25% contained. it started sunday from an abandoned campfire. the president will spend the next three days in canada att d attending the g-8 and g-20 summits. official have reportedly spent $1 billion to protect the world leaders. there's already been a security scare. homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is live in toronto following the developments. tell us about this security breach, jean. >> reporter: well, first let me show you a little bit of the security behind me. you can see here some of the fencing, the jersey barriers that are put in place. heavy police presence here in toronto. it's because of this economic summit that's coming to town. there have been a handful of arrests, a couple of people picked up on explosives and weapons charges. then as you mentioned, a real scare yesterday when a car was pulled over. it had a makeshift carrier on top. inside police could see some suspicious things. they weren't happy with the answers the man inside gave them so they pulled him out, took him into custody, then investigated. they found inside there a chain saw, a loaded crossbow, pellet guns, sledgehammers. they were concerned. in addition, there were also five big containers, three of them with gasoline inside, an unknown substance in the other two. they investigated, discovered there wasn't any hazardous substance involved. in fact, they discovered it wasn't even a threat to the g-20. the man, however, has been charged and is expected to be in court today. there was also a demonstration yesterday. there have been demonstrations going on all week. we were in the thick of the one yesterday, saw absolutely no problems. there was a very, very heavy police presence. police on bikes and on foot lining the whole parade route. police on horses behind making sure there was no action in the back. there are about 20,000 police and security personnel who are being brought to bear on this security for these two events. you see a lot of them roving through the streets of toronto, trying to prevent any some of flash mob action by any of the demonstrators. the price tag for all of this is expected to be, as you said, about $1 billion. a lot of canadiens feeling that is simply excessive. there are also some points of controversy. there are some sound cannons that could be brought in to be used against the demonstrators. police say, hey, these are only for communication. that's the only way we're going to use them. but civil liberties and labor groups have gone to court to try to stop their use saying they could hurt hearing. we expect a decision on whether there will be an injunction against their use later this morning. >> i only have to say, the guy with the car, if he was doing something nefarious, it really wasn't very subtle. was it? >> he wasn't traveling stealth. >> no, not at all. no. not at all. i think that's one reason why when we got there yesterday, there wasn't a huge security zone around this vehicle. i think that there was some signs there that this may have been something else all together. >> jeanne meserve live in toronto this morning, thank you. we often think that the only action in sports these days is at the world cup, the soccer that's happening in africa. >> what action there is in soccer. >> man! we're off to a good start. yeah, that's good. i think that can be the case sometimes. but i was going to make a little segue here to tennis in that this was something else yesterday. normally you would think that the first couple of rounds of the wimbledon tournament are pretty boring. not the case yesterday. it was unforgettable. an american, john izner, beating france's nicolas mahut in the fifth set, 70-68. yes, 70-68. their match spanned three days and more than 11 hours, the longest ever played beating the previous record by 4 1/2 hours. they say the records are meant to be broken but i think this one is safe. izner, by the way, is set to play his second round match in about an hour. there's just no way i would have lasted that long. >> they ran a total of 28 miles or 24 miles? >> what about the ball boy? that was my question. >> i had that concern myself. we'll check that later. there is lots of reaction coming to an article that cost general stanley mcchrystal his post. post. we leaders are saying about that. or anything in the house... without blueprint from chase. create a plan to pay off large purchases... and save money on interest. does your credit card have blueprint? design your plan at 866 blueprint. it's harder my doto build bone densityge... with calcium and vitamin d alone. he recommends citracal plus bone density builder... the only calcium supplement with genistein found in nature in soy and proven to significantly build bone density. citracal. my wife and i want to lower our cholesterol, but finding healthy food that tastes good is torturous. your father is suffering. ♪ [ male announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal tastes great and can help lower cholesterol. bee happy. bee healthy. less travel? more video conferences? limit the cell phone minutes. that's not good enough. we're not leaving this room unless we can cut something else. can they really keep us here? 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>> not much. that's the main point. i think that both of them are extreme workaholics, very energetic. both are good communicators. >> reporter: still, there will be growing pressure for a troop drawdown. this has already been the deadliest month of the war for the coalition and general petreaus knows there will be pressure for him to show progress. jim? carol? >> thanks, barbara. coming up next on the most news in the morning, the senate fails to extend unemployment benefits for nearly a million people. christine romans is "minding your business." she's here now for a preview. interesting stuff? >> snip snip go the cords of the safety net for about 1 million people who will lose their jobless benefits. they won't be able to apply for an extension. it is the third time the senate has failed to extend these benefits. there is a big debate starting to brew in the senate about just to brew in the senate about just how long to help people who are out of work. i'll have that for you after the break. ♪ iliefoow rsretsvethg. ♪ iliefoow rsmos fwa ft. e w twk. on fm ri, op wh ee dabits acsswwprtrayom ♪ ♪ ay, yay, yay, yay ♪ ay, yay, yay, yay ♪ ♪ ♪ baby, baby, baby, baby... uh-oh ♪ ♪ welcome back. 6:22. time for "minding your business." christine romans is here. we were talking about this issue whether or not to extend benefits for the unemployed. part of this is probably a political issue. playing politics with this up on capitol hill. but at the same time, lot of people suffering. what do you do about it? >> and there is a big debate, how long do you continue to pay people who are out of work when a record number of people have been out of work for six months or longer and we know some employers are simply saying you need to have a job to apply for this job because we're not interested in people who have been out of work for a long time. here's the news. the news is the senate for the third time has failed to pass an extension for unemployment benefits for people who have been long-elm un hlong-term une. this means very near term, there are a lot of people who will find the jobless check will stop coming. however, food stamps, medicaid, also home energy assistance, school lunch programs, community-based emergency help, some of the "emergency stimulus" for the long-term unemployed is still out there. president sent a letter to congress a couple weeks ago saying we need to have money flowing to help the states and help people. in the senate there is a different debate happening here. >> part of the debate is enabling. how long do you give people unemployment benefits. as painful as it is, you know, taxpayers can't keep footing this bill forever. that's how a lot of lawmakers think. >> specifically there are people on the republican side who feel that way and feel we just can't pay for it. some on the republican side feel, no, we should be giving these benefits but we have to find a way to pay for it. some economists with be quite frankly, say you have 1% of the unemployment rate because people are on unenemployment benefits and aren't going out to look for a job. the number one thing is we need more jobs coming. we need more jobs. we need more private sector jobs. >> that's just not happening fast enough. >> that's leaving us with this really painful discussion as a country about what we're going to do for people who have been out of work for six months or longer, how as taxpayers -- how long and how -- >> we've run through all the ideas for priming the pump. home buying tax krecredits expi. cash for clunkers done. no appetite for another stimulus. >> no appetite for another stimulus. when the president goes to the g 0 it will be fascinating, some of his allies are saying deficit reduction, deficit reduction. still spending. >> that's a sat situation. christine romans, thanks. one year ago today the world lost a legend. coming up next, we remember michael jackson, the king of pop. don lemon talks with his brother jermaine. it's 24 minutes past the hour. remember that tune? welcome back to the most news in the morning. it is hard to believe, but exactly one year ago today the king of pop died. there are still a lot of questions surrounding michael jackson's sudden death. our don lemon sat down with jermaine jackson to talk about the day michael died and how he is coping with the loss of his brother. >> this is hard. my brother, the legendary king of pop, michael jackson, passed away on thursday, june 25th, 2009 at 2:26 p.m. >> i couldn't believe that i was announcing my brother's death for the world. i was numb. very numb. because it was like a nightmare. >> can you take the people who love you and michael jackson through that evening? >> cnn called my wife and said, do you know anything about michael being rushed to the hospital? and so i said, no. i called my mother immediately. she said she is on her way to the hospital. and so then i spoke to janet and she didn't know what the details were. so i called my mother back and i heard her say, he's dead. and i couldn't believe to hear my mother say her child is dead. my brother. and i got weak, very, very weak. my wife, she was driving. as we got closer to westwood, i mean i'm crying. the phone is ringing off the hook. i see all these helicopters in the sky and it was all taped off and roped off. as soon as i got through, they let me through. i rushed in and i saw my mother sitting there like in a days. i just consoled her. i wanted to see him. so i walked a few doors down into this room and he was laying there. to see michael lifeless just tore me apart. i never experienced that. so close, a brother who we grew up doing everything -- everything. the memories. that's what hurt. to know that there would never be another jackson five. >> perhaps a sign that michael jackson is still so sorely missed by so many, a facebook page dedicated to michael jackson -- 14 million members. 14 million people. >> hard to believe this was one year ago today. i mean remember all of those people who lined up in hollywood to watch that all unfold. it was quite -- >> and their's spending money too, even now. because i think that the jackson estate is making more money than michael jackson did when he was alive. >> not surprising to hear that. tonight, join don lemon as he speaks exclusively with michael jackson's friends and family members as they remember the man and the legend -- "michael jackson his final days" premiers tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. 30 minutes past the hour. that means it is time for this morning's top stories. president obama heads north of the border this weekend to meet with world leaders at the g-8 and g-20 summits in canada. security in toronto and in huntsville, ontario, tighter than tight. the summit will focus on the global economic crisis and they are expected to draw thousands of protesters. this is disturbing. police in peru say they have found skin underneath the fing nails of stephany flores, the woman that joran van der sloot is charged with killing. they say the sample is quite small but they are performing dna tests on it. police say van der sloot admitted filling flores but later reportedly recanted that confession in a jailhouse interview with a dutch newspaper. a major development along the gulf coast with potentially tens of thousands of jobs in limbo. the obama administration has lost its appeal to keep the ban on offshore drilling in place. the judge saying the economy along the gulf coast just can't take the shutdown. meanwhile, the coast guard is using another 20,000 gallons of dispersants in the gulf. 670 vessels trying to skim crude off the surface. >> still the oil keeps coming. the frustration keeps growing. now officials are confirming that one alabama fisherman took his own life. david mattingly has his story, joining us live now from orange beach, alabama. hi, david. >> reporter: carol and jim, he was just one captain out here among many on the gulf coast but his friends and family are now saying that his death should be telling everyone that there's something wrong out here. people who knew him say ael ln cruz lived to fish and those closest to him say that life unraveled when the oil spill hit the gulf waters where he worked. >> he thought it was dead. he said that to you. >> yeah. >> and that there was no hoping that the fishing was ever going to come back. >> not in his lifetime. >> reporter: among charter boat chantens here, cruz was a leader. drumming up business all the time and voicing the frustrations after community in the bad times. >> the day that the ill entered the gulf my phone quit ringing. >> reporter: just a month after that interview, cruz was found on his boat dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. for 14 days he worked for bp hauling boom and looking for oil. his brothers say he felt like his role in the clean-up as a bp vessel of opportunity was worthless. >> that's what he told you? he felt like he was being put out there just for show? >> yes. that's what he told his wife. didn't tell me that. that's what he told his wife. that's what she told me just a while ago. >> he told me it was madness. >> reporter: cruz's friends tell me he felt overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster and they're all feeling the stress. >> this has been a long-term situation. this started in 2004 with a direct hit from hurricane ivan. then the next year was katrina. then skyrocketing fuel prices. fishing regulations. and then an oil spill. this has been sick years that this area has really suffered a lot of stress. >> reporter: stress that his friends believe finally became too much for cruz. and now they're worried about others. >> are you afraid that maybe one of your other friends out there might be thinking about something extreme? >> sure. we worry about that. >> every day. >> what are you going to do about it? >> that's why we're trying to get the word out. >> reporter: as a gesture to the community that's now grieving for him, cruz's family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought back to home port in orange beach. here it is now, "the rookie." his friends say there is no better way they could think of to pay tribute to a machine who loved what did he for a living and loved the waters where he worked. it's "the rookie's" final voyage carrying a cargo of uncertainty and sorrow. >> reporter: and this is cruz's boat right here behind me. everyone expecting this spot to become a memorial here in orange beach, alabama. >> david, is there help for people out there with these issues? >> reporter: well, the cdc did put out a warning. it was in a lot of the information that was given out to the workers out here, warning them that fatigue and stress could lead to problems like post traumatic stress. but friends of cruz say they knew he was upset, they knew he was under stress but they didn't see anything like this coming. >> such a sad story. >> what a shame. >> david mattingly, thanks this morning. the obama administration loses another effort to put a moratorium on drilling in the gulf but does lifting the ban serve our nation's best interests? we're going to talk about it with author tom bauer. 10 years k to the look of skin. diminishing the look of even deep wrinkles. 10 years? i'll take that! 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[ male announcer ] save money. trust your business processes to xerox. xerox. ready for real business. welcome back to the most news in the morning. 71 degrees and sunny right now in new york city. it is gorgeous outside. i went outside for just a couple of minutes before the show. >> actually, he went out and got us all a cup of starbucks. we love jim for that! we do. >> you came up with the triple shot latte. >> are you feeling good? >> i could use three more -- i could use a triple of a triple shot latte at this hour but it was really good. >> don't do that, it is dangerous. it really is. 39 minutes past the hour. want to get a check of this morning's weather from bonnie snider in atlanta. good morning. >> good morning, carol and jim. i'm sure it looks and feels fantastic outside in new york city. only problem is we had some really strong thunderstorms that rolled through the i-95 corridor yesterday and they were intense. big-time wind damage. over 150 reports of wind damage. a lot of this was along the i-95 coreder from virginia straight to maine but now it looks terrific, night and clear and dry. we also had strong intense winds earlier in the week in chicago. one system really rolled on through. now what's happening is the front is stalled. oh, no. this means hot conditions across the southeast. it also enhances the chance of severe weather for parts of the carolinas, particularly coastal areas including cities like charleston and wilmington. you may see powerful thunderstorms later today. behind the system we have another area of low pressure in the northern plains that may bring about some severe storms today. we're watching that. windy weather as well behind the system. i mentioned the heat. heat advisories don't want to seem to let us. notice oklahoma city currently under a heat advisory at this hour. that will go straight through this evening. at 11:00 this morning, heat advisories will pop up in memphis, charleston and all the way up into virginia. it will feel like 105 again today. finally we're still monitoring the tropics. this broad area of low pressure is starting to get a little more organized so the national hurricane center is scheduled to send an aircraft to investigate it. hurricane hunters are scheduled to fly in this afternoon to get more data. there is a 60% chance according to the hurricane center this will develop into a tropical cyclone within the next 48 hours. we are monitoring it to see its progression. it is a slow mover right now. we'll have more coming up. >> bonnie schneider, thanks. the obama administration loses another effort to put a moratorium on drilling in the gulf. but does lifting that ban serve our nation's best interests? you know bonnie is talking about this storm coming in. wouldn't it be a good idea if they continue to stop drilling on those 33 rigs -- >> it's another potential complication for this whole thing. >> we'll get really into that with author tom bauer ha's wrwh written a lot on bp and the oil industry. 41 minutes past the hour. excellent choice for friday, elvis costello there. a showdown looms this morning over offshore drilling. a federal judge denied the administration's request to postpone an order that would end a six-month moratorium. >> that means if anyone wants to start up the deep water drills they can, but the white house says it will introduce a new ban in a few days. we want to know what a moratorium really means for safety though. is it really necessary? joining us from london this morning, tom bauer, who is the author of "oil, money, politics and power in the 21st century." good morning, sir. >> good morning. >> let's talk about this moratorium. i'm just going to play devil's advocate here. what's wrong with these oil companies to stop drilling in the deep water, these 33 wells, for four months? what's wrong with that? >> well, the cost. each oil platform, each rig costs at least half a million dollars a day, and often more, and they just can't afford that sort of equipment lying idle and the contractors will find other places around the world who want the rigs and they'll just take them there so there's just no choice. >> but isn't safety more important than money? these oil companies make massive amounts of money each day. >> well, of course safety is critical. as we've now seen, the catastrophe. all the oil corporations on the whole are working safely. this is just an aberration. >> that's what they say, it is just an aberration, but the bp disaster happened. nobody thought that could happen either. it is just not logical, is it, that argument? >> well, we don't stop driving on the road because of a car crash. people carry on driving and people walk up staircases and fall down them but we still walk up stairs. so in the end -- >> totally different when you're talking about an entire body of water as important as the gulf of mexico. the question i have, we've heard the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal, talk about why this moratorium should be lifted for the sake of jobs and so forth. but at the same time the governor is saying we need to built berms, do all these other things to protect our coastline and i'm just curious, is there a little bit of having your cake and eat it, too, when it comes to some of these gulf coast politicians saying we want the jobs and the protection from any environmental impact at the same time? >> well, look. i'm not an apologist for the oil industry but i must tell you on the whole their record is very good. and america needs the oil, it needs the gas, and the product in the gulf has been superb and they're doing have very good job down there on the whole. just like we don't stop fly when a plane crashes -- >> what do you mean they're doing a very good job on the whole down there? i don't know what that means. in what sense? i mean this entire body of water is at risk right now. it has been poisoned. and i'm just curious, what do you mean by doing a good job? the other day there were ceos from the entire oil industry testifying on capitol hill saying if they were to also engage in deepwater oil drilling, they essentially have the same plan of action in place if there is a major catastrophe, which is, well, we just have to see if we can plug the hole. >> well, look. again, i can only say i'm not an apologist for the industry but they are extracting amazing amounts of oil from the most difficult conditions. you have to ask why they're in the gulf and not getting it from mexico, venezuela or russia. that's one of the great issues. >> are you saying we basically put ourselves in this position? is that your point? >> well, i think the countries have got the oil to put america in that position. but on the whole they have done a very good job in the gulf and executives who testified on the hill have not had these sort of catastrophes that bp is just having. i've got to repeat on the whole they've done an amazing job to find oil and gas there and they are bringing it out safely. point is that the administration discovered that the regulators, the mms have done a very good job so the government has got some of the blame here. they let the oil corporations get away with murder for too long. they've now learned a lesson, they'll clearly have much better regulations down in the gulf and elsewhere as well, because believe me, they're going to have to start digging for oil and drilling for oil off other coastlines around the u.s. again because america needs the oil. >> funny you mentioned that, bp is doing that off the shores of alaska and it is doing this maneuver. three miles offshore, they drilling down very deeply, then they'll make a horizontal line, something that's never been done before. bp itself is being allowed to go ahead with this process when we know that bp doesn't have it together when it comes to extreme disasters and how to fix things. >> well, you're absolutely right. the horizontal drilling is really quite well established now. there's nothing new on that. that is a very effective way of getting huge amounts of oil out which previously got lost. i think bp has learned a lesson. i don't think they'll make that sort of error again. they'll be more careful than ever. they can't afford another catastrophe, nor can any other oil corporation. you've just got to set the seed that of course oil is a very risky business. what they've done down in the gulf is quite phenomenal. this is a catastrophe which never should have happened. everyone is learning lessons. they're going to do their best to prevent it from happening again but the government has got as much responsibility now as the oil corporations to make sure that the regulations are there and enforced. >> tom bauer, many thanks to you this morning. we appreciate it. >> pleasure. >> i'm not sure i agree that they're doing a bang-up job down there. >> you mean bp or the oil industry as a whole? i think he was separating them out. >> i think he was trying to separate it but it just doesn't feel right to say that as a whole the industry's just doing a great job down there. >> it is sort of like you have to trust them. that catastrophes similar to what's happening with bp doesn't happen again. oil companies are saying, well, we have a great safety record. but bp said that, too. well, we can't go on like this. we'll move on. this morning's top stories just minutes away, including one year ago today, the world was shocked by the death of michael jackson. we are at his final resting place and have new details this morning about the doctor's defense strategy. also, iphone failed. now that the lines of people waiting for the iphone 4 are gone, some complaints are rolling in. and it is president obama in a new race with lady gaga? yes, who will be the first to reach 10 million fans on facebook. those stories and more at the top of the hour. stay with us. welcome back to the most news in the morning. 54 minutes past the hour. time for the most news in the morning. americans don't usually get all worked up over soccer. >> we know you don't. as you said earlier in the show. the matches are long. >> they're long and nothing much happens. but it was exciting after 90 minutes or so. >> send your comments to carol costello. >> stop it, you're getting me in trouble. the world cup is changing that, jim. more americans are excited. >> team usa's game winning goal against allgigeria may have had defining moment. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: may be more refreshing than even a moment of zen -- the moment of goal. the kick that beat algeria was like a kick in the pants. making americans jump up in bars from seattle to nebraska. >> i was like i needed to take a xanax. okay? >> reporter: true, some americans are probably more familiar with disco balls than soccer balls. >> soccer, the sport for fourth-graders that foreign people take seriously. now even stephen colbert is a soccer convert and videos of the moment of goal -- being uploaded like mad. to youtube. who's watching all these moment of goal videos online? how about the guy who kicked the goal? landon donovan told cnn he had been surfing the web. >> i spent all morning watching the reactions in the bars across the country. >> reporter: even far from tvs, the moment of goal could be heard ever so distantly on the senate floor and at the white house. president obama told the u.s. team he heard cheers go up while he was meeting with general petreaus discussing general mctris tal's fam mcchrystal's fate. >> with the exception of one terrified patron. >> reporter: some put the moment of goal to music. and some singletons enjoyed the moment of goal alone. sometimes can you tell a lot by focusing on one great face -- no, not that face. faces like the lady in pink's. she went from being prayerful to patting her chest and pumping her arms. mouth open so wide a soccer ball could almost fit holding her face, practically worshipping, heaving a sigh and finally smothered under the jersey of donovan, the guy had made the kick. one announcer stretched the moment of goal. a full 11 seconds. then when he finally, finally ran out of breath, he did it again. for a moment goal this rare, it's worth getting down on your knees. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> look what it did for landon donovan on the "new york post" this morning, he got back with his wife because he scored that winning goal. she knows he's going to be very wealthy now. top stories coming your way after a break. >> stick with us. we'll be right back. good friday morning to you. i'm carol costello. >> i'm jim acosta. john roberts and kiran chetry on the west coast this morning hoping to bring home an emmy. >> "american morning" is going to win an emmy. go, go, go. >> go, team. let's get right to it. a judge now telling the obama administration it has 30 days to lift the moratorium on yore shove drilling say the economy along the gulf coast just cannot take another hit. we are live along the coast with reaction. president obama heading off for three days in meetings with world leaders in canada at g 8 and g-20 summits. the global economic crisis sure to be high on the agenda. plus one year ago today the world lost the king of pop. who gave michael jackson a fatal dose of the powerful drug propofol? prosecutors say all signs point to his former doctor, conrad murray. but murray's attorney tells a different story. that's ahead here on the most news in the morning. but first, a major development to tell but in the gulf oil spill. that's now day 67 of the disaster and the battle continues between the locals and leaders in washington. the obama administration has lost its appeal to keep the ban on offshore drilling in place. the judge didn't budge citing the local economy and the nation's need for domestic energy. >> so many gulf residents also stunned by the tragic news this morning that a charter boat captain from alabama took his own life. allen cruz was working for bp on clean-up duty after the oil spill took his livelihood away. bp now says it spent nearly $2.4 billion on the oil spill response. that includes claims, clean-up, containment, the federal bill and of course drilling those relief wells. chris lawrence is live for us in new orleans with more on the latest developments this morning. good morning, chris. >> reporter: good morning, carol. the federal government has now told these oil companies basically, look, you're now free to drill again with the moratorium being lifted. none of them are going to invest that kind of money in resources, recalling crews, restarting operations while the threat of the government appeal is still out there. ironically hard to believe but now you've got tens of thousands of people down here in the gulf region actually agreeing with the bp official. the chief operating officer of bp america now says he thinks the moratorium should be lifted quickly. and the government should go through and get its safety regulations in place faster to allow people to go back to work. a lot of folks down here are very werconcerned about that. i spoke to a man who just had a meeting with his staff saying i'm going to have to start laying you off after the fourth of july. >> i have to sit across the table from employees and tell them, i know you have husbands, i know you have wives, i know you have children, but i can no longer afford to keep you on. >> reporter: the government argues a lot 6 these companies are focusing on the short-term economic impact and the government has to look long-term, how will this affect the gulf, the environment, the economy long-term. a lot of the environmental groups we spoke to are now requesting that the judge who made this decision release his current financial records. we know that about two years ago, he did have some holdings, money invested in some offshore drilling companies. not a lot. i can tell you it's not uncommon for judges down here to have those investments. but now the environmental groups want to see his current statement and we're told that will be coming out soon. obviously the environmental groups not very happy about this judge's decision. >> we're disappointed with the decision. clearly, deepwater drilling has been hone to be a high-wire act without a net. it seems to me as this forest fire is raging out there, that we want to at least take away the matches from the kids who started the fire. >> reporter: ironically, the state of louisiana agrees with the federal government in that deepwater drilling could be a threat to public safety. they just disagree on the length of this moratorium. governor bobby jindal offering some sort of compromise with the government. >> for example, why not put a federal inspector on every rig that can shut down production. or for example, why not allow the 33 rigs affected by the moratorium to drill but not up to the reservoir? that's where the greatest dangers are. or for example, why not only allow them to drill in areas where there are known pressures so they know exactly what they're dealing with? >> reporter: but again, this is not just the actual rig workers. they're covered by the $100 million fund bp set up for them. these are the thousands of support workers affected. at the same time, environmental groups say this commission that's looking at whether it is safe to drill again shouldn't have a gun to its head thinking that, hey, every week that we take to decide this matter, thousands of people are going to be out of work. tough decisions all around. >> no easy answers, chris. chris lawrence down in new orleans for us this morning, thanks, chris. >> add to all of that that chris just told us about, a storm is brewing out there that may make its way to the gulf. we'll talk to admiral thad allen, is there a plan in place in case this storm hits the very place they're trying to remove all that oil. send us questions for thad allen, cnn.com/amfix. we'll post-pose your questions to the admiral in a couple of minutes. in a couple of hours president obama leaves washington for canada. three days of intense diplomacy with leaders of the world's emerging and developed economies. first at the g 8 summit, then the g-20 summit in canada. >> what do leaders hope to accomplish? cnn's dan lothian is live in toronto for us. good morning, dan. >> reporter: good morning. it will be a very busy weekend for the president. first of all he'll be focused on the g-8 summit, eight industrialized nations, focused on issues such as child health, sanitation and water. then he make the shift late tomorrow and the rest of the weekend into the g-20. of course the focus will be the economy, the global economy critical here is making sure that the rest of the world is also lifting up their economies because that will lead to job creation in the united states. lest you believe what happens here is just handshakes and photo-opes, experts from former advisors to former presidents say that's simply not the case. >> at the g-20 you will see increasing pressure on germany to consume more, to -- there's a real attempt at this g-20 to move some of the exporting nations like china to be more consumption-oriented, because consumer nations like the united states to be more export-oriented to balance the world economy. these meetings are important for that purpose. >> reporter: president obama does come here with some good news. he has seen up on capitol hill financial reform move forward and this gives the president a chance to say to the rest of the world, hey, take a look at what we're doing. this is something that you need to push for as well. again, the critical thing here is making sure that the world economies are lifted so that the u.s. economy can recover as well. >> that sounds nice. dna loathian live for us this morning, thank you. i told the staff i would do this this morning, let's go to the videotape. the wimbledon marathon match finally ended. american job izner beating france's nicolas mahut in the fifth set, 70-68. it took three days and more than 11 hours to complete. it is the longest tennis much ever played beating the previous record by 4 1/2 hours. how did these guys get through this? i think they need help getting off the court there. >> they ran a marathon! >> izner's back on the court right now for a second round match. that guy's playing tennis right now after all of that yesterday. >> he's in good shape. and he's young. >> ah, to be young and in shape and play tennis that long. we're seeing iphone complaints a day after the launch. iphone 4, the two biggies, some users say because the antenna wraps around the smart phone it is having problems with reception. apple says those missing bars are likely just a software bug. others say units have yellow tint in spots of the new so-called retina display screen. i have no idea what this means because i don't have one. but many bloggers are saying that yellow tint fades away once the phone has been used a bit. isn't that strange? >> i think some people said when you cover the metal piece around the phone with your hand the bars go away but that doesn't necessarily mean the reception is gone. so -- >> how much did that thing cost? is there an app for that when your phone doesn't work? >> nine minutes past the hour. let's get a check of this morning's weather with bonnie schneider. good morning, carol and jim. things are feeling a whole lot better there across new england after some really rough thunderstorms rolled through causing wind damage particularly into connecticut and penn. but right now we are waking up to a fine morning. storms have died down, temperatures are mild at 62 in detroit, 71 and gorgeous in new york city. not to say we're not going to see severe weather anywhere. we sure are. we have a good chance for some powerful storms across minneapolis today, into north dakota and also extreme sections of south carolina, north carolina. watch out for that. finally, the heat will continue to be a big problem from oklahoma into tennessee and the carolinas today. those heat advisories start at 11:00 and go straight through the evening. coming up, i'll have more on what's brewing in the tropics. i'll have a look at that later on this hour. back to you. >> thanks, bonnie. exactly one year after the death of michael jackson, his former doctor, conrad murray, faces charges of involuntary manslaughter in the case but murray's lawyer says there is no way the doctor killed the king of pop. that's next. and...they let me choose where to use them. the loyalty program he signed us up for has all these restrictions, blackout dates, a crazy point system... and we couldn't stay here. so what am i getting for free? 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jackson's home. >> doctor after doctor gets up and says this should never be used outside of a clinical setting, a hospital or clinic. >> the fact that the circumstances may be unusual, may be demonstrated to be unusual, does not make it egregious. that alone does not make it egregious. >> reporter: according to the coroner's report, jackson had the same amount of propofol in his body when he died as is used for major surgery. but murray says he didn't give jackson that much propofol. >> there's no way that dr. murray would pump michael jackson full of propofol sufficient for major surgery and walk out that room. it's not going to happen. that's not the doctor dr. murray is. >> reporter: how did it get in him? >> well that's a good question, ted. do you have any idea how it got in him? >> reporter: the only other scenarios, someone else gave jackson the fatal dose or jackson woke up and injected himself, which the coroner addressed but concluded would be a long shot. >> but is it possible? absolutely, it's possible. >> reporter: this is michael jackson rehearsing two nights before he died. murray says he got jackson to sleep without propofol after this rehearsal. but the day jackson died on june 25th, it was a different story. according to an affidavit filed in the case, dr. murray gave detectives the following time line -- 1:35 a.m., murray gives jackson a 10 milligram valium. 2:00 a.m., he inject jackson with another sleep aid. an hour later he gives him two milligrams of another drug, v. at 5:00 a.m., jack son is still away. after nine hours of trying to sleep jackson is still awake and murray gives him an iv drip of 25 milligrams of propofol. where dr. murray was from 10:40 until noon when the coroner's report says jackson was found unresponsive is unclear. it is the only window of time that someone else, including jackson himself, could have administered the fatal dose of propofol. prosecutors say the evidence points toward conrad murray as the person responsible for the overdose, but chernoff maintains that murray had the expertise and the equipment to safely give jackson small doses of propofol, and he says the doctor had the knowledge not to give him an overdose. >> whatever he did was to help. and he took the necessary precautions and then something happened that is unexplainable. >> reporter: jim and carol, dr. conrad murray has pled not guilty. he has a preliminary hearing in this case scheduled for the fall. right now we are at the glendale memorial -- forest lawn memorial cemetery in glendale, california. right behind me is where michael jackson is buried. they are expecting thousands of people to come here today to pay respects to jackson on the one-year anniversary of his death. >> ted rowlands live in los angeles this morning, thank you. coming up next on the most news in the morning, another setback for wall street reform. christine romans is "minding your business." that's coming up next. welcome back to the most news in the morning. it is president obama versus lady gaga. >> huh? >> it's not a dance-off. never fear. >> thank god. >> i guess we all saw "ellen," mr. president. president obama and lady gaga are in a race to become the 10 million fan on facebook. the president is at about 9,900,000. lady gaga has a slim 10,000-fan lead. now there is a deceased celebrity with over 10 million facebook fans. you can probably guess who that is. >> michael jackson? >> michael jackson has over 13 million fans on facebook and he's not even alive. so the race is on. will it be president obama? will it be lady gaga? only christine romans know. >> neither of those people were up all night trying to hammer out financial reform. >> no kidding. we were saying before the break that they may have had some trouble putting this together, but now it looks like this thing may be coming together? the president is expected to talk about it, make some comments before he gets on air force one to go to canada. >> an overnight success that took a year-and-a-half. but last night you had 43 lawmakers literally all night long. i think at 5:49 this morning is when they were finally hammering out the last deal. they started at 9:30 yesterday. those people made their money yesterday. but what they're trying to hammer out is this new financial reform that's going to change everything you touch with regards to consumer contracts. mortgages. credit cards. i mean you name it, it's in here -- except for auto loans, by the way. they are exempt from all this. what's in the bill? a consumer protection agency, you can get a free credit score if you lose a job offer because of your credit history. or if you are denied a loan because of your credit history, you will be able to see your credit score for free. there will be limits on card swipe fees. this is something retailers have been pushing for. when you buy something at a retailer of the credit card companies -- they pay 1% to 3%. >> they always complain. that's why some don't carry american express. >> that's why sometimes you get a discount for cash because they don't have to pay those swipe fees. there is a ban on liar loans. >> thank goodness. >> it is like a ban on stupid y stupidity. these liar loans are what really got us in a lot of trouble, mortgages where you didn't have to prove that you could pay it back. imagine, here's a loan but you don't have to prove your income. no more monopoly money. there is a lot of other things in there, too, but basically this is the house and senate versions. >> you're making it sound really, really good. i'm cynical and i know there must be -- >> you're like, "this ain't going to work." >> some protections have been watered down, no doubt. >> but elizabeth warren came out and said she's now okay with this protection agency which is a major thing. >> she's a big consumer watchdog. she's talking about how what happens in this bill is eventually good for the economy. here's why. >> we rebuild our economy one family at a time, and when families are healthy, when they can make good economic decisions, when nobody is tricking them and trapping them into spending more on credit and getting into crazy credit card arrangements and getting into crazy mortgages, then those families will be stronger and ultimately that means our whole economy will be stronger. >> the financial services industry spent $600 million over the past year lobbying to help shape it. you'll be hearing today about parts that some people think there's probably watered down. treasury secretary issued a statement saying this is good for americans. we're near the finish line. too big to fail is in there. there are some provisions about the early warning system that don't apply to insurance companies but there's too big to fail, also derivatives rules to try it more transparent on derivative trading, yes. all that. with the environmental tragedy in the gulf getting worse by the day, thousands are worried with their next paycheck with bills stacking up, mortgage payments missed and families on the brink. yes, all of that is happening. what is the emotional toll of this disaster? 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>> yeah. >> reporter: and that there was no hoping the fishing was going to come back? >> not in his lifetime. >> reporter: cruz was a leader among charter boat fishing, drumming up business in good times and voicing the frustrations of a community in the bad times. >> today. >> reporter: for 14 days he worked for bp hauling boom and looking for oil. his brothers say he felt his role in the clean-up as a bp vessel are opportunity was worthless. >> he told he he felt like he was being put out there just for show? >> yeah. he told his wife that just a little while ago. >> he told me it was madness. >> reporter: cruz's friends say he felt overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster and they're all feeling the stress. >> this has been a long-term situation. this started in 2004 with a direct hit from hurricane ivan. the next year was katrina. skyrocketing fuel prices. fishing regulations. then an oil spill. this has been six years that this area has really suffered a lot of stress. >> reporter: stress that his friends believe finally became too much for cruz, and now they're worried about others. are you afraid maybe one of your other friends might be thinking about something extreme? >> sure. that's why we're trying to get the word out. >> reporter: as a gesture to the community that's now grieving for him, cruz's family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought back to home port in orange beach. here it is now, "the rookie." his friends say there is no better way they could think of to pay tribute to a man who loved what did he for a living and loved the waters where he worked. it's "the rookie's" final voyage carrying a cargo of uncertainty and sorrow. >> reporter: and this is cruz's boat right here behind me. sitting as memorial to him. and a reminder, his friends and family say, that there is something wrong out here in this community. >> you don't know what to say, david. it is such a sad story. so many nice, hard working people down there in louisiana. it's just painful to hear that something like this happen. >> david mattingly live in the gulf for us this morning, thanks. stay with us. in a few minutes we'll take a harder look at this issue, the emotional impact for people in the gulf dealing with this crisis. we'll talk with a doctor down in new orleans. >> he'll tell you there is help out there. people need to know that. 31 minutes past the hour. time for this morning's top stories. storm threat rising in the gulf. some of it could really disrupt the clean-up effort there. the national hurricane center monitoring a system moving through the caribbean right now saying there is a 60% of it becoming a tropical storm in the next two days. we'll ask admiral thad allen how much of a setback this could be in the next hour. >> they don't need that. ahead of this weekend's g-20 summit in toronto, police arrested a man on weapons charges near the site inside the suspect's car, they found pellet guns, a crossbow, a chain saw, a sledgehammer and gasoline. not sure why but police say at this point there is no evidence that this incident was related to the summit. canadian authorities by the way have spent reported by $1 billion so far to protect the world leaders. general david petraeus says he supports president obama's july 2011 deadline to start withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanistan. the four-star general has been tapped to replace general stanley mcchrystal as the top u.s. commander in afghanistan. president obama insists his afghan policy remains the same after the dismissal of general stanley mcchrystal. but what do the top brass at the pentagon have to say about the change in command 123. >> our barbara starr knows the answer to that question, live at the pentagon this morning. barbara, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jim, carol. the aftermath of this incident now here at the pentagon fully out in public, unprecedented. >> honestly, when i first read it, i was nearly sick. >> reporter: admiral michael mullen and defense secretary robert gates just a year ago urged the president to choose general stanley mcchrystal to lead the war in afghanistan. but now, they're furious at disparaging comments in "rolling stone" by the general and his aides about the administration. >> it made me -- i literally, physically, i couldn't believe it. so i was stunned. >> the statements and attitudes reported in the news media are unacceptable. >> reporter: gates initially thought mcchrystal should stay. a senior pentagon official told cnn. he worried the war could not afford a change in command. but then -- >> it was the president who first raised petraeus' name. and it immediately, to me, answered a lot of the concerns that i had. >> reporter: general david petraeus was on capitol hill thursday to talk to senators in advance of his confirmation hearings. gates and mullen say there's no change to the overall worst strategy but the new commander could decide to ease rules restricting combat that were put in place by mcchrystal, rules some troops believe put their lives at risk. >> general petreaus will have the flexibility to look at the campaign plan and the approach and all manner of things when he gets to afghanistan. >> reporter: petraeus and mcchrystal do see eye to eye on the counterinsurgency strategy, but there will be a difference in their style of leadership? >> not much. that's the main point. i think that both of them are extreme workaholics, very energetic. both are good communicators. >> reporter: general petreaus is going to be under tremendous pressure now to show progress in the war. the month of unijune is not ove this and this is already the deadliest month of the war for the coalition. >> i think it is officially the longest war american has ever suffered through. >> barbara, what are the chances that other heads will roll now that david petraeus is moving in there to take over? >> reporter: well, probably heads that are somewhat lower level. it's widely expected some of general mcchrystal's aids, the men who surround him, who may have been the anonymous quotes in that article, could be resigning from the military, retiring very quietly. >> okay, barbara starr. >> no surprise there. >> thanks for that, barbara. appreciate it. coming up in very short order here, we'll go back to the issue of what is essentially like a post traumatic stress disorder down in the gulf with a lot of these clean-up workers, fishermen down there who are having to deal with seeing their livelihoods taken away by a company that they now have to rely on for their livelihood. a lot of these men go to work for bp now after their livelihood was destroyed by bp. there are a lot of issues down there for the folks on the gulf that we want to get into. that's next. we'll talk to a mental health expert in just a few minutes. 35 minutes after the hour. couple of minutes ago we told you about the tragic death of an alabama fisherman, allen cruz. his business depended on the gulf but with the spill getting worse, his brothers say emotionally he took a big hit. cruz also took a turn for the worse and as we told you he committed suicide. >> without leaving a note on wednesday, he took his own life. on top of the economic and ecological effects of this disaster, what about its emotional toll? let's bring in dr. elmore rigamer, the director for catholic charities of new orleans. a very difficult subject to talk about. you are a professional obviously dealing with folks who have these issues. i guess earlier i described it as sort after post traumatic stress disorder. i don't know if that's accurate or not but it just feels like that. what are folks dealing with down there? can you put a diagnosis on it? >> well, think it's hard at this point -- post traumatic stress i think certainly we'll see that later but they do have a lot of stresses due to this trauma. we're operating five crisis centers and we're seeing most commonly depression and anxiety, a lot of depression having to deal with agencies and the legal system. the brunt of our efforts and community centers in addition to financial assistance and helping them file claims is counseling for those symptoms. >> mr. cruz, the man who committed suicide, said he felt like a prop for bp. he was out there helping to skim oil out of the gulf. he said he felt like a prop. are you hearing that from a lot of people that you're dealing with down there? >> well, we're really hearing especially from the fishermen and the people in the industries directly involved, they lost their jobs. they lost their livelihood and more than that, their way of life. suddenly they have to deal with the legal system, they have to deal with bp, they have to deal with a lot of forms and certainly i think they feel pushed around, move around. and they can't make decisions like they were making before all of this started. they are dependent on others. >> it is a sense of hopelessness, what it sounds like, doctor. you had dealt with a lot of this during the aftermath of hurricane katrina. >> yeah. the difference is, katrina came and went and then we started picking up the pieces the tuesday afterwards. and we're still doing that. also the difference with katrina is if you -- you had a professional like carpenter, plumber, doctor, you could move to another city and get a job. not pleasant but you could do that. with these fishermen, for example, that's not so easy. so there are certain sectors of the population that are more vulnerable to depression and perhaps suicide that we look out for. we are in the community -- >> i was just going to ask you, if mr. cruz -- he told friends he feels like a prop because he's out there in the gulf basically doing nothing and he's feeling even more angry at bp and depressed because of this, is there anything bp should be doing or the federal government should be doing to make people feel more useful in this time? >> well, i think to restore their livelihoods as quickly as painlessly as possible. you wouldn't need me and social wo workers out there if they got back to fishing. but that's not going to happen. what he said is an indication that obviously he was depressed. in these community centers and outreach work that we do, we ask two questions of people to screen for depression. if -- it's called the phq, personal health questionnaire 2. if they answer positive to these questions, then we go a little further in talking to them and refer them to appropriate people, all of whom are there. when he says that he feels like a prop, we ask people specifically, do you have feelings of loss of self-worth or are you feeling manipulated or just feeling dismal about the future. then we also ask them, do you have little interest in doing things, nothing seems worth while, nothing seems meaningful to you. those are target questions that alert us to maybe we should have a further conversation. i would ask friends that if they hear other people talking like that, do the same, send them to us. >> that's great advice, doctor. one of the other issues i guess is that you've got a lot of guys down there, big, burly guys who are not likely to be the guys who are going to get help. the message we need to get out there to folks is if you think you need help or if there are folks around you who think you need help, get that help and make sure you go to folks like dr. rigamer. thanks for your time this morning. we really appreciate it. coming up in 30 minutes, we'll talk to the national incident commander for the oil spill, admiral thad allen live. every day admiral allen holds a press conference with the clean-up efforts in the gulf. we want to know what we should is ask him and what you haven't seen so far in the response, head to cnn.com/amfix. also stormy weather out in the caribbean may be headed toward the gulf. more southern storms ignite in the summer heat. the northeast is clearing up though. bonnie schneider has it all next. such a gorgeous day in new york city. sunny and 73 degrees. but 86 is the expected high later. >> not as hot as other places around the country, as bonnie schneider will tell us this morning. it has been so hot, high 90s, 100s across portions of the south. i was down in south carolina earlier this week and i think i took three showers in one day. it was just that hot. >> yeah, and it is going to be again today. we have heat advisories across the carolinas. you'll see nice weather in the northeast. i want to start off with the tropics. everyone is wondering what is going on down here. we're starting to get a little more active certainly with an active season ahead here in the atlantic basin. you're looking at a tropical area of disturbed weather, broad area of low pressure classified by the hurricane center as 93l. at least right now. hurricane hunters are scheduled around 1:00 to fly into the system. if they find the circulation, we could be looking at a tropical depression. the chances after tropical depression could occur in 48 hours, possibly 60% chance of that according to the national hurricane center. that's something we're monitoring here in the weather center, keeping a very close watch of that certainly. let's take a look at what's going on across the northeast. it is nice and dry after a real volatile afternoon of thunderstorms ripping through. wind damage was a huge problem with this system. we had 140 reports-plus. more like 150 of wind damage, particularly in the i-95 corridor. heat will persist. the heat in south carolina is back again, heat advisory straight through tonight for the carolinas, the mid south and oklahoma. >> all right. no rest for the weary down there in south carolina. thanks, bonnie. >> no, it will be hot. actor and teen heartthrob robert paterson may have had a lust for blood long before the series "twilight." the 24-year-old is actually related to vlad, the impaler. he of course is the the link. vlad is distant cousins with william and harry. >> that's one family tree i don't want to be on. this morning's top stories just minutes away, including trying to fix the biggest environmental disaster ever in the middle of a massive storm. it sounds like a problem. not just for the folks in the gulf but for everybody. hurricane season is starting. we'll talk to the man in charge of the recovery for the government, admiral thad allen. go to our blog, cnn d.com/amfix. it is still not clear how a lethal amount of propofol got into michael jackson's system. obama versus gaga. who wins in a popularity contest and who's taking them both down from the grave? those stories and more at the top of the hour. stay with us. ??????????????????? we begin the night with tennis. tennis? mcenroe finally goes home. winder what the fans think after seeing an historically long match such as this. >> one of must die! we are insatiable! run like a river! more tennis! >> as only jon stewart could turn wimbledon into gladiator. that's what it took for american john isner to beat mahut in their epic fifth set. >> isner said he was delirious after the match. he is back on the court now playing his second round opponent. what kind of shape would he have been in when he got up this morning? can you imagine that? how does the -- you know the human body handle that kind of physical stress. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen does and has been looking into it and is joining us live from atlanta. hay is up and playing again. he is an athlete. he is in shape. that must mean he is okay, right? >> right. it must mean he's okay. i mean, he wouldn't be playing if he weren't. elite athletes withstand incredible amounts of stress because they are in top physical shape. really, it is all about what is up here. i'm going to quote craig boynton. the coach said he's in trouble but the only thing getting him through was sheer will power. these athletes train to do what's basically mind over matter. i mean, he has never had to deal with this before. but he's had to deal with other adversity. i'm sure he had to play with an injury, for example, and play in pain at some point in his career. they are taught mental toughness. they are taught not to think about the big picture but think just about the point that's rye in front of them and that's how they get through something like this. carol, jim. >> zrech. >> stretch sing good. isner said something like that. while he was on the court he really didn't think about how tired he was. it was when he got off the court he was feeling the pain. >> right. that's a great thing. that's because he is such a great athlete, he was in the zone. they call it that. he was in the zone. he was just thinking about the next point in front of him and that adrenaline and that mental toughness was just getting him through what he needed to get through. >> he did say he felt delirious. what was he talking about? they had water breaks and -- they had bathroom breaks. but he said he was delirious. is it possible to hydrate yourself enough in that long of a time? >> you know what, you can't. you can't replace all the fluids you are losing or all the calories you are burning. he burned approximately 5500 calories during that seven-hour stretch he did that one day. he can't replace 500 calories and still play tennis. your stock marketing a couldn't handle it. you have to eat little bits of carbs throughout the match and you can become delirious. there is no way you can replace everything. all you can do is your best. >> medically probably not a good idea for him to be playing tennis now which is what he's doing. we will have to check in on his condition it is a game goes on. elizabeth cohen live in atlanta for us this morning. thinking about the other epic sporting events of all time besides anchoring three hours of "american morning." here are a couple in your "a.m. extra." first boxing. andy bo hen and jack burk in a fate to finish for a $2,500 purse after seven hours and 19 minutes and 110 rounds. boxers too pooped to punch and the match was declared a contest. baseball, brooklyn robins that were later named the dodgers and the boston braves. 26 innings. they didn't have lights at the ballparks back in 1920. it was called a 1-1 tie due the darkness. here is another sign of the time. both pitchers still in the game. >> that wouldn't happen today. top stories coming your way right after the break. how'd you do that? 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here is more. annual meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 countries and european union. >> g-20 nations represent 90% of the world's economic output. 80% of the world trade and two-thirds of the word's population. >> now you know. president obama got a head start with the russian president, dmitry medvedev. they shared a cheeseburger and decided how many relations have improved on president obama's watch. >> front page of the "new york times" this morning. candy crowley is here to talk about that and more from the world of politics. she is in washington. burger summit. how did the russian president, you know, how did he make out on that? did he okay eating that burger? >> he did. turned into the food place when they had the news conference afterwards. he said it was tasty but not quite healthy. thank you very much. but anyway, he seemed to like it. and look, this is about imagery, as you point out. it is about the front page pictures. it is -- it is about we are working together. this is no longer a huge conflict. the president -- the administration believes that there is a real hope here in the u.s. relevant relationship with russia in particular with this president. and -- this is sort of the continuation of -- if you don't want to call it a friendship, at least a working relationship. so the -- images say it all back home in russia as well as in the u.s. here. they talked so much when they got into office about resetting the relationship with russia and this is the ongoing part of that. >> something else that might be talked about during this summit is, of course, afghanistan. and going back to general petraeus taking general mcchrystal's place in this july 2011 exit date from afghanistan. the president actually seemed to give himself wiggle room at one point yesterday saying we don't need to switch the lights off and close the doors behind us. what's your read on that? >> well, i -- the administrationings got itself into a bit of trouble. when the president gave his speech in december, he had to two things. he had to keep the democrats onboard. many democrats looking at that time war thinking we need to get out of here. we have been there nine-plus years. it doesn't look like it is going that well. within that speech, when he was talking about putting more troops in, something that would satisfy the more conservative and hawkish people, really going to make a play in afghanistan. when he was striking that balance, he put in that 2011, july, deadline, if you will. however, was the administration -- what the administration swapts the wiggle room you talk about because he did not say, i must say, in december, so all the troops are coming home in 2011, july. it tends to morph into that. we saw general petraeus do that last week. on hearings on capitol hill. and now we see the president doing it. that is we are not just going to leave willy-nilly and say it is july, we are all going home. the fact of the matter is this is intended not just for u.s. audience to kind of, you know, set the table here and say wait a second, let's not expect we will leave. it is also aimed at afghanistan. because one of the big piers they know of karzai is the u.s. is just going to leave in the lurch. this is intended not just for home audience but the audience in afghanistan. >> with everything going on with stanley mcchrystal's departure and what's going on in the gulf, it is easy to forget there is a supreme court nominee waiting to be confirmed on capitol hill. kagan, the former dean of the harvard law school. there are rumblings on capitol hill. are there not? that this actually could be a bruising confirmation battle. >> generally you shall did a you see chest beating at about this time. we will hear -- start the hearings next week. as yet, there's not some huge thing that you think boy, this is going to be tough. will there be tough questions? yes. is she still likely to be confirmed? absolutely. i think the question here, one of the things i find interesting is a lot of times the paper trail tends to get nominees. and it tends to be well, between found this document, that document. in terms of injujuris prudence, kagen was not a judge. there's not that long of a paper trail. when you flip the paper trail theory on its head, when you don't have paper every little thing is large. she said this when she gave this public speech, she said that. what's that mean? i think you will -- see a lot of people sort of probing that and trying get an idea of where she goes jew dishly. you know how these things go. you never know much more than we knew at the beginning. >> that's because they never answer the questions in the confirmation hearings. >> just trying to prepare you. >> now to the most important question of morning for you, candy crowley. what's on "state of the union" sunday? >> politics, we have a long hot summer, lot of these candidates eager to get out. especially those on capitol hill. and we will talk to john cornyn and mel martinez, head of the senate committees trying to get the republican or democratic senators re-elected or elected in various places. we are also going to have a lot of talk about afghanistan. it is -- it is rough over there. we are going to bring together some experts and ask them what's going on. and whether the u.s. can win and what's win mean? >> all important questions. candy crowley will be exploring those sunday. "state of the union" sunday morning at 9:00 eastern on cnn. could it threaten the gulf coast? bonnie schneider tracking developments from the extreme weather center in atlanta. >> good morning. do i have an update. 8:00 advisory is in from the national hurricane center. and now it looks even more likely that this tropical system will develop into a tropical depression as it gets closer to the yucatan peninsula of mexico. look at the latest satellite perspective. watch the flare-up of thunderstorms. that's one of the factors that's indicating this system is getting more organized. the national hurricane center says now there is a high chance of 70%. that's up from 60%, from earlier this morning of the system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours. air force reconnaissance plane is scheduled to determine whether a tropical cyclone formed. they are looking for center of sicklation and measure the winds and get other data that will help us in determining the track of this system because right now the movement has been really slow to the northwest. mostly west-northwest. as the system advances to the yucatan within the next two days, once again, it is likely to become a tropical depression. it is possible that it could enter the gulf of mexico but really, the track is uncertain as we go into the weekend and early next week. because the storm hasn't actually formed yet. once we have an actual depression, we will have a better way which way it goes. we are monitoring it and anyone that lives in the gull coast area needs to also be tuned to cnn. we will give you the updates as soon as we get them in. we have a better idea of the intensity and track of this system. first name of the season for the atlantic would be alex. we are monitoring it very carefully here at the weather center. we will have more as we get it. >> someone else monitoring the tropical depression if it becomes a tropical depression is admiral thad allen. he is out there in the gulf. he is the leader out there. plan in place to get the boats out of the gulf skimming oil off the surface out of there? >> we will ask him. 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[ tires screech ] [ female announcer ] when business travel leaves you drained, re-charge with free high-speed internet and free hot breakfast. comfort suites. power up. there is a developing threat in the gulf of mexico. forecasters say a system is getting stronger in the care sxween could become a tropical depression in the next few days. bonnie schneider said that that likelihood is becoming greater over time. >> even if i turns out to be nothing, this is how it will be all summer. with every tropical wave and disaster unfolding. admiral thad allen joins us live from washington. thanks for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> good morning. >> you know, with what could be a tropical depression developing out there, you know, we wonder, is there a plan in place that you have to get all of those boats out of the gulf? have hundreds of boats skimming oil from the water. >> it is thousands and we have a plan. we have been working very, very hard the last six to eight weeks. generally if we think we will encounter the winds five days out we start at that point redeploying equipment and people and getting assets into a mode where they can be returned to their parent units. especially the coast guard for hurricane recovery work. that includes stopping production at the well sites and moving the vessels to safe shelter. >> where do those vessels go? >> a couple of options. they can move to a quadrant of the storm less dangerous and four quadrants of the storm. some are more dangerous than the others. sometimes they can take evasive action and deploy as a group, to the back side of the hurricane and come in behind it. those are the normal tactics for vessels at sea. it is hot a good idea to stay at dock. >> admiral, i guess since we are seeing this catastrophe unfold in real-time and it is something that's unprecedented, i suppose -- i mean, it just goes to reason that having to react to a tropical storm coming into this area will be something you will be going through for the first time. is that the case? there's really -- really no preparation for something like this. >> this will be the first time and there is no playbook. i will tell you there has been an extraordinary am of planning being done between the folks of the national incident command and incident commanders on the ground. they are working very closely from fema and secretary napolitano. >> there's no playbook, i mean, are you confident that all of though vessels of opportunity, all of the people will be on the same page when you have to execute this plan to get people out of there? >> it amounts to our ability to communicate and have them break off in time to seek shelter, right side of the storm. we certainly intend to do that. we are going to try to merge two response structures. one is proven effective in the past and that's simple coordination of search and rescue and operations are conducted and done out of the air force base in florida for hurricanes. and we are in the process of integrating our planning process. the oil spill response is -- it is integrated fully within the search and rescue recovery operation. >> this particular weather disturbance right now, how worried are you about it? >> any tropical depression. working down there to keep our eyes closely to appeal to it to make sure we can move as rapidly as we can should we need to do that. >> at what point? if it becomes a tropical depression, do you start your -- do you start implementing the plan? at what point do you decide do that? >> the threshold is when we are 120 hours away from predicti ii gale-forced winds. 120 hours in advance of gale-forced winds. >> another storm we have been following all morning the apparent or now confirmed suicide death of a gulf coast cleanup worker down there. i'm sure you heard about it yourself. i'm curious, how are -- the workers doing down there? can you give us an assessment? do you think that this -- could potentially become a greater problem as the days and weeks go on? >> of course. we extend our heartfelt condolences to the families involved. we had another grounding death as well. catastrophic events for the families, add to the misery of the spill created down there. we are mindful of that and look at our folks working down there. we are closely working with osha on worker safety and health issues. this is a trying time for everybody and need to be watching out for each other. >> you mentioned there was a drowning incident. can you tell us more about that? and how many deaths have there been altogether? >> it was just an off duty in the swimming pool at a motel. i believe the details -- leave the details to the family and officials to deal with that. neither one were directly related to the response. this is stressful work. folks are under tremendous financial pressure. >> you feel have you enough resources place, enough people in place to deal with this? 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>> michael jackson has 13 million facebook fans. >> made more money in the last year than he did the year before that. >> it is a strange world we live in. >> it is. i'm going tell you about tylenol, children's tylenol. strange world if you are a mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa. >> this sun believer zblabl is . this is all you get. you get -- >> i didn't know you clipped coupons. >> i got this because hi to return children's tylenol that was poor quality, recalled by the company. and you get this back. or you got monday were. i got money, too. $7 coupon. you can't use it anywhere because there are still shortages in the store. mcneil is the subsidiary for johnson & johnson that makes the different children's medicine that have been missing from the shelves because of quality problems at the plant. now yesterday quietly on johnson and johnson web sigh, a an update it could be shortages through 2010. they are going to have problems with the sources for the supply for some of the products throughout the rest of the year. as they handle their quality control issues. this is a big money problem. these drugs that were pulled, $650 million annually in revenue over the past three years. think how much money that is they are trying to figure out how to fill those shell ofs and that problem. if you are a parent that's still looking at those children's medicine shortages, it looks as though that will persist. lot of people are switching to store brands. they are switching to other things. doctors are looking around trying to figure out what other kinds of things they are. this is a brand nightmare for johnson & johnson, tylenol. benadryl, children's motrin. infant than motrin drops. >> think about this. during the summer you may not think about the quite as much. heading back into school when the kids go back to their, you know, petri dish zbles toxic kids. >> yes. >> sharing their germs and bringing them home. >> you are going to need that stuff on the shelves. >> this is something a lot of people have been talking about, school nurses to parents and caregivers trying to figure out when johnson & johnson will fix the problem. they are still addressing the problems. they had five or six different recalls of drugs, adult drugs, too. >> as a mom, several times over, we know you care. >> several times over. >> not to rub it in. >> everybody should care about it. if you are waiting for those to show up next week on the store shelves, they are not going to. >> thank you, christine. coming up next, fans around the world will remember michael jackson one year to the day that -- king of pop passed awaw. >> do you remember that? 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there's still plenty of questions surrounding the king of pop's death. jackson's former physician, conrad murray is charged with involuntary man slaughter. >> cnn learned his argue will argue murray did not give the overdose of propofol. >> good morning, carol and jim. behind me is where michael jackson was laid to rest here at the cemetery in glendale, california. they are expecting thousands of people here today. they have barriers up, doors open, gates up here in the next hour. the sun is just coming up here on the west coast. on the other side of the investigation into jackson's death, we had an exclusive interview with the lawyer to dr. conrad murray. his name is ed chernoff. based in houston, texas. hay told us that there's no way that -- this is what he said. there is no way that his client was the person that gave michael jackson a fatal overdose. >> dr. murray did not cause the death of michael jackson. >> reporter: ed chernoff says when conrad murray went to work as michael jackson's personal doctor, he had no idea that jackson was addicted to propofol. a drug used to put surgical patients to sleep. murray started giving jackson the powerful drug in jackson's home. >> it should never be used outside a clinical study, outside of a hospital or decline zblik the fact the circumstances may be unusual, demonstrated to be unusual, does not make it egregious. that alone does not make it agreej zblous according to the corner's report jackson had the same am of propofol in his body as is used for major surgery. murray says he didn't give jackson that much propofol. >> there is no way dr. murray would pump michael jackson full of propofol and walk out that room. it is not going to happen. that's not the doctor dr. murray is. >> how did it get in? >> that's a good question. do you have any idea how it got in him? >> reporter: the only other scenarios, some one else gave jackson the fatal dose or jackson woke up and injected himself which the coroner addressed but concluded would be a long shot. >> is it possible? absolutely it is possible. ♪ they don't care about us >> reporter: this is michael jackson rehearsing two nights before he died. murray says he got jackson to sleep without propofol after this rehearsal. but the day jackson died on june 25th, it was a different story. according to an affidavit filed in the case dr. murray gave detectives the following timeline. 1:30 a.m. murray gives jackson a 10 milligram valium. 2:00 a.m. murray injects jackson with 2 milligrams of lorazipan. another hour later two milligrams of another drug. jackson is still wake at 5:00 a.m. murray gives him more lorazapan. jackson is still awake. murray gives him an iv drip of 25 milligrams of propofol. where dr. murray was from 10:40 until moon the coroner's report says jackson was found unconscious, it is unclear. it is the only window of time where jackson or someone else could have administered the fatal dose of propofol. the evidence points towards conrad murray of the person responsible for the overdose but chernoff maintains that murray had the expertise and the equipment to safely give jackson small doses of propofol and he says the dock had the knowledge not to give him an overdose. >> whatever he did was to help. he took the necessary precautions and then something happened that is unexplainable. >> dr. murray, of course, pled not guilty. he's facing involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of michael jackson. you can see behind me, a lot of flowers. talking to a security guard earlier. they said they get nowers here every day. but a lot more have come in the last few days in anticipation of the one-year anniversary. sunflowers, thousands by lisa marie presley. the family will be here as well to pay their respects to michael jackson. >> what did you think when the doctor's attorney sort of snapped at threw in the middle of that piece? we were all struck by that. >> reporter: well, you know, he -- it was during the interview. that happens, obviously. as you know, when you are doing an interview. one of the things -- thing they wanted to hammer through was that, you know, they are basically saying that this guy, this dr. murray, was smart enough, knew exactly what he was doing, and that he never in a million years would have given jackson the am of propofol which ended up in his body. and while they won't talk about their defense strategy, i think it is clear the way they are going is possibly jackson woke up and injected himself because the iv was there and that's probably the way they are going go in terms of a defense. it twaesy in the interview. that's part of doing business. >> surprising that michael jackson had so many drugs in his body and he still couldn't sleep. that's amazing. all of this will come out in the trial. >> >> reporter: imagine trying to put him is self 9 1/2 hours he was trying to get him to sleep. he was still awake. apparently he had an insomnia problem which is a complete nightmare. >> don lemon speaks exclusively with michael jackson's friends and family members as they remember the man and the legend, michael jackson. at 9:00 p.m. jermaine jackson's first interview from his brother's final resting place. tonight on "larry king live." hands across the sand. it is in protest of offshore oil drilling. supposedly thousands and thousands of people no only across this country but in 20 or so other countries. join hands in protest of offshore drilling. we make meeting times, lunch times and conference times. but what we'd rather be making are tee times. tee times are the official start of what we love to do. the time for shots we'd rather forget, and the ones we'll talk about forever. in michigan long days, relaxing weather and more than 800 pristine courses make for the perfect tee time. because being able to play all day is pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. ♪ louder welcome back to the most news of the morning. a federal judge abandoned the government's request to halt deepwater oil drilling. that does not sit well with people seeing their beaches threaten. >> people from across the globe will take a stand against offshore oil drilling. the event was founded by dave rushcoal. he joins us now from pensacola this morning. dave, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. tell us how you came up with this idea. >> well, i created hands across the sand in response to the florida house of representatives trying to lift the ban on near shore drilling in florida. that's just three to ten miles off our coastline. on february 13th, we organized over 80 beaches and we had is on,000 florida citizens joining hands sea aing hucreating human >> so you planned another event similar to that and deepwater horizon exploded. what happened after that? had you a lot of interest in this event. right? >> well, i just fell that it was important. this is an opportunity of national importance and really global importance to bring this event to such a very simple expression for americans and for people of the world to stand and draw a line in the sand against expanding offshore oil drilling and camping and clean energy and renewables. so, yes, it caught on they quick, 4 1/2 weeks ago. the web sigh went live. you can tell you how many locations we have across the world. >> go for it. >> okay. let me -- >> don't tell us all of them. i don't know if we have enough time. >> we have 841 total events across the world. we have 725 events in the u.s. all 50 states, district of columbia and puerto rico. we just signed up france as well. >> they will be displayed in front of the white house as well, correct? >> that's obviously a message you would like to send to the president. >> absolutely. under the arch in st. louis as well. and really, the -- call to action is for americans to go to the website and hands across the sand. there is a button there and they can send a message directly to the president and to congress telling them that now, not late i is the time to change clean energy and renewable s and expanding offshore oil drilling. especially after what happened in the gulf. >> what do you say to folks in louisiana, though? governor jindal has been you on in front talking about this, you know, these are jobs we are talking about here. and, yes the environment is important. yes, those beautiful beaches on the panhandle are important. but folks have to eat. people have to put clothes on their kids and put a roof over their head and pay the mortgage. what do you say to those folks? >> absolutely. it is unfortunate when anybody loses their jobs. these folks lost their jobs due to an accident but never should have happened. and an industry that didn't have a solution to that accident. so it is very unfortunate. there is no question. it is may hope that we steer towards cleaner energy industries and certainly there will be a lot more jobs available there. let's just talk about the number of jobs across the gulf coast states that are going to be lost. homes that will be foreclosed on and you peel away the economic and emotional layer of that onion, it goes on and on and on. mine, how long are we going to allow an industry to endanger the coastal economies of our nation and in our environment and as well as the wildlife and our waterways. >> yes. that's going to take a while for people to not depend on oil quite so much. dave, thanks so much for joining us. we will be watching your event this weekend. good luck. thank you. >> join hands with us on the beach. thank you. >> thank, dave. 44 minutes past the hour. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 [ male announcer ] at schwab, traders have always gotten more. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 now they get it for less -- tdd # 1-800-345-2550 every online equity trade is just $8.95. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 flat. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 make one trade -- or a hundred. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 $8.95. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 trade ten shares -- or ten thousand. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 $8.95. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 put everything schwab has to work for you -- tdd # 1-800-345-2550 extensive research, live access to active trading specialists, tdd # 1-800-345-2550 and our 24-hour support. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 you get it all, and you get it all for $8.95 a trade. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 then trade with some serious tools -- tdd # 1-800-345-2550 from our advanced charting to trailing stops tdd # 1-800-345-2550 and everything in between. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 you can even help give your trading an edge tdd # 1-800-345-2550 with free seminars tdd # 1-800-345-2550 on topics like risk management, tdd # 1-800-345-2550 etf strategies, and much more. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 every bit of it is still just $8.95. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 every online equity trade. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 every trader. every day. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 switch to schwab today and get one more thing tdd # 1-800-345-2550 that sets schwab apart -- tdd # 1-800-345-2550 150 free trades. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 so start getting more. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 for less. tdd # 1-800-345-2550 visit schwab.com/activetrader tdd # 1-800-345-2550 or call 1-800-790-3808 today. cone on, kiddo, let's go. hold on a second... come on up here, where your brothers sit. wow! chevy traverse. a consumers digest best buy, with a 100,000 mile, powertrain warranty. it seats eight comfortably - not that it always has to. now, get 0% apr for 60 months on a 2010 traverse with an average finance savings of around fifty four hundred dollars. see your local chevy dealer. good morning. i'm bonnie schneider. we are tracking the tropics. we are looking at a broad area of low pressure in the caribbean the national hurricane center says has a 70% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone within the next 48 hours. slowly drifting to the west-northwest. we will have more on it. what's we get a reconnaissance aircraft report to see wlornl it is a depression. the u.s. mainland looking much drier and calmer after some volatile weather brought wind damage to states like connecticut and pennsylvania yesterday. today we are monitoring a severe weather threat across the carolinas. particularly coastal areas, as well as parts of the northern plains and upper midwest. severe storms with more lightning, hail, downpours of rain across much of the region. notice temperatures will stay hot south of the stationary front. that means heat advisories once again in effect throughout the day today for the carolinas and back out towards mid south and even oklahoma. that's a check of the national forecast. 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