World remain on high alert after credible terror threats. This morning there are new details about why theyre forcing many embassies and consulates to remain closed. Nbc White House CorrespondentKristen Welker has details. Reporter back at camp david president obama is getting brief tinges on the threat that has shut middle eastern diplomatic posts and put americans traveling abroad on high alert. Theres been an awful lot of chatter out there, conversation among terrorists about the planning thats going on, very reminiscent of what we saw pre 9 11. Reporter according to two top u. S. Officials the terror plot could include one large attack or simultaneous attacks around the world, but the intelligence still isnt crystal clear. From cairo to kabul are bracing themselves. Although the streets of kabul were closed, the embassies are on high alert. The threat is coming directly from al qaeda based in yemen, a terror group that has gotten stronger in recent years. Its more dangerous because now we have 2. 0 or 3. 0 which is widely dispersed. Reporter meanwhile the department of Homeland Security is asking for tighter screening of overseas flight. Fresh debate about the nsas surveillance Officials Say tipped them off about this latest threat. It is scary. Al qaeda is on the rise in this part of the world. The nsa program has proven its worth yet again. You have to be very careful about how much you represent that any particular program has contributed to our security. Reporter Kristen Welker, nbc news, washington. Alex rodriguez may be banned from baseball on the very day he returns to the naj ors. At high noon today the mlb is expected to ban arod through the 2014 season for alleged connections to a florida clinic that administered performanceenhancing drugs. Joe girardi confirmed arod will play his first game of the season tonight at the Chicago White sox. Jay gray has more on the mlb announcement. Reporter we expect the announcement around noon. Arod not the only player involved here. We expect 12 to 14 major leaguers will receive suspensions. Most of those 50game suspensions which will have them banned for the rest of the season. For arod it looks like more than 200 games, through the 2014 season, they say because of evidence that shows he used performanceenhancing drugs for at least three seasons and then tried to interfere with the investigation into biogenesis, that antiaging clinic that is allegedly provided these Major League Players with the performanceenhancing drugs. Arod has said he will continue to fight any suspension and that he will join the team in chicago and play tonight during an appeal. It looks like that, in fact, will be the case. It looks Like Major League baseball will allow him to play while he appeals this suspension. That appeal could take several months. That is the latest live here outside of a quiet Yankee Stadium as the mlb gets ready to break their silence on the suspensions, veronica, back to you. Jay, well be watching, thank you. Turning to los angeles where a man is facing a murder charge after a horrific hitandrun. A warning, this video is graphic. It happened saturday night on the popular venice beach boardwalk. It was all caught on tape. You can see the moment when a car drives straight into a crowd of pedestrians. One of those people, and italian woman on her honeymoon was killed. Nearly a dozen others were injured. There was people everywhere, blood everywhere. There was scattered stuff. It was horrible. It was the ugliest thing ive ever seen. The damaged vehicle was later found abandoned and the suspect, nathan campbell, was arrested. Hes being held on 1 million bail after fleaing the seen. No motive is known. Closing arguments begin in the trial of james whitey bulger. Each side has up to 3 15 to lay out its case. Hes charged with his role in 19 murders and is also facing charges related to racketeering, money lawn during and weapons. Bulger spent 16 years on the run and was one of the fbis most wanted until his capture in california in 2011. The 83yearold declined to take the stand friday, calling his trial a sham. He told the judge, quote, do what you want with me. Jury deliberations are expected to begin on tuesday. The search for a young snow border in oregon takes a tragic turn. Res curing returned the body of 25yearold collin becowski on mount hood. He was traveling with a group of friends saturday when an ice tunnel collapsed. His friends tried to dig him out. They couldnt break through the ice and snow described as as think as concrete. Here is your first look of scrambled politics t. Gloves are off in kentucky. 15 months before the midterm elections, Mitch Mcconnell and allison lunder man grimes are already facing off. The candidates pulled no punches at the 133rd fancy farm political forum. Kentuckys voice is often the voice of opposition to the obama agenda. And im proud of that. If the doctors told senator mcconnell that he had a kidney stone, hed refuse to pass it it was a quiet birthday for president sunday. Mr. Obama celebrated with a sevenhour golf party at camp david. The winners flew back to the white house on marine one and the losers took vans. Vice President Biden will be in New Hampshire today attend ag fundraiser for governor maggie hasan hosted by president obamas biggest supporter jim deemers who over the weekend endorsed Hillary Clinton. Maryland governor Martin Omalley admits hes laying the fraechl work for the 2016 president ial run. Meanwhile, on the republican side, a failed 2012 candidate says he might be willing to give it another shot. Im open to looking at a president ial race in 2016. Got a little ways, we have elections in 2014. The blame game over failed gun control took an interesting turn over the weekend. Vermont senator Patrick Leahy says tv ads by mayor Michael Bloomberg turned people off to new reforms. Thats going to do it for your morning dish of scrambled politics. Heavy rain in Central Kansas caused widespread flashed flooding. An assisted living facility and hundreds of other residents had been evacuated. A Flash Flood Warning sish used through monday morning. Now for a look another the weather, here is nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. All that water, is it going to continue . Theyre going to get more rain. The Flash Flood Warnings are in effect for today. It only takes two feet of water to sweep a car away. Thats why these warnings are issued to remind people dont drive into those, what look like puddles because they could be much deeper than you expect. Back through kansas were seeing more rain, also southern missouri and arkansas. Minneapolis seeing torrential downpours with those thunderstorms moving into northeastern iowa. We are looking at the threat of perhaps up to three inches of rain in minneapolis and down across southeastern kansas, southern missouri and northern arkansas, an area that does not need anymore rain. They could end up with another two inches of rain. Because of that there are still Flash Flood Warnings and regular warnings up and down the Mississippi River because of the potential for more flooding. Also the threat of severe storms from southeastern montana into parts of kansas where we could end up with large hail and damaging winds. A few tornadoes are possible but they should be brief. This is most likely later this afternoon and into this evening. The plains really do not need anymore rain right now. Absolutely. It could be a busy weather day. Straight ahead, the fbi let informants commit over 5600 crimes. Powerball is over 400 million. 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Eight months in to the 113th congress and the house has passed just 22 bills. That is the smallest number of bills passed on record. Jeopardy Game Show Host alex trebek is drawing outrage after a 12yearolds typo in emancipation proclamation didnt cost him the game but lost 3,000. Adult contestants are really subjected to his misspelling ruling. The highly anticipated superman batman film which feature a middle aged cape crusader, josh bri on, ryan cos going, max martini and matthew good are under consideration. We turn to cnbcs Bertha Coombs for a business report. It was two years ago Standard Poors cut the u. S. s aaa rating after congress failed to raise the debt ceiling. Stocks plunged, two years later the markets have more than recovered to record levels with the dow up 45 . Jetblue goes upscale. The wall street journal reports the low cost carrier will unveil premium seats today in the front of the cabin that fold down to flatbeds. Jetblue wont say how much the seats will cost but they will likely start on flights between new york, l. A. And San Francisco starting next spring. The cbs Time Warner Cable blackout enters its fourth day with no end in site to their dispute over programming fees. Both companies at this point cant even agree as to whether theyre still talking. No fun for fans who wanted to watch tiger woods this weekend. No fun for folks who wanted to see dexter, on and on and on. Thanks, bertha. In other news hsbc is reportedly closing the Bank Accounts of over 40 different embassies and consulates. They have been trying to clean up a tarnished image after record fines for handling assets of iran, libya and drug car tells from mexico. Car fax is out with a new study that shows hundreds of thousands of Hurricane Sandy flooddamaged cars are back on the road. The report says unscrupulous sellers are cleaning up the vehicles for resale. 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Tiger not in a major but does win at the bridgestone invitational. Evidently a fan, a cookie squirrel. He goes left, then he sees tiger, and then he goes right. We slowed it down for you. Theres tiger. Maybe hes not fan. To the pocono 400, david gillilands car hits the wall and catches fire. Later Danika Patrick triggers a four car bender. Jeff burton caught in the crash. Kasey kahne at the end getting the checkered flag. The dodgers are unbeatable, veronica on the road. You probably like that. A franchise record 14 straight after taking the cubs 10. This latest could have cost him the world series. Hanley ramirez sacrificing body over the railing with the out. Their key hitter left the game with an injured shoulder. At the world swimming championships, Missy Franklin wins her fifth gold med del. The men less successful. Watch as kevin cortes cost them a gold with the false start. The medley teammate, ryan lochte not happy, but he walks away with three golds in spain. He has something to carry home. Not bad. Sign this kid up. A ball girl hands this foul ball to a young pirates fan. There he goes nope. He throws it back. The ball girl, later gives it back to him. He keeps it. So he does understand the value of the ball at the end. Thanks, richard. Well see you soon. Time to dig a little deeper into some of our top political stories. Joining me on the phone is lynn sweet, Washington Bureau chief for the chicago sun times. Lynn, good morning. Good morning. We have to talk about this number. 22, the smallest number of bills to ever pass in the history of the house of representatives. Lynn, who is to blame . What needs to happen in order to get some work done . In this case, republicans control the house and they control who gets the floor. What has to happen is that until theres another election and something may change is that the House Republican leaders follow this rule that they wont vote on anything unless they have a majority of the majority. Its also known as the hatchet rule. That means a lot of measures cannot pass, wont even get called. Also, a bit of a view from the leadership that their job isnt necessarily the passed bills, but to stop democrats from passing their agenda and not trying to forge compromise. That seems to be the word. Were looking forward to 2014. Right now political watchers keeping a close eye on virginias race for governor. In particular, all the hillary fans out there who see Terry Mcauliffes campaign as a precursor for her possible 2016 run for the white house. How much stock, lynn, should we be putting into this . I dont put much into this. Hillary clinton doesnt need a farm team in virginia or new york with the mayors race there or anyplace place else. Yes, a lot of people who are donors to Hillary Clinton are helping terry mcauliffe. Theyve known each other for years, same with staff who worked in hillarys campaigns. The notion she needs virginia to have some kind of campaign in waiting is just silly. Shes got a Great PotentialNational Network without a virginia race. All right, lynn sweet with the chicago sun times. Lynn, thanks so much. Thank you. Coming up next, richard lui. Dylan dreyer will be here for first buzz. Well tell you what cause our eye today. Bacon . gotta get that bacon bacon . bacooon smokey bacon, meaty bacon, tasty bacon bacon . Ohh la laa. I say, is that bacon . Oh good heavens bacon bacon who wants a beggin strip . . Me id get it myself but i dont have thumbs mmm mmm mmm mmm mmmm its beggin mmm i love you. announcer beggin strips. Made with real bacon. Theres no time like beggin time because all these whole grains arent healthy unless you actually eat them multigrain cheerios. Also available in delicious peanut butter. Healthy never tasted so sweet. The house caught fire and we were out on the streets. [ whispering ] shhh. Its only a dream. And we have Home Insurance. 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Its always the second person that opens it that opens it with no problem because he loosened it. He gave it to the kid. The kid cracked it open for him. Remind me never to go to a mets game just in case youre on camera. Dylan dreyer has something about football. A Data Research company researched 470,000 plays of Football Games to see if weather was ever a factor in the games going back to 2002. They found out that 93 of bad weather games will see a fumble. The whole morale, they found out that weather does not affect the outcome of a game. It after sfekts a couple of plays, but doesnt affect the outcome. It hurts both sides equally. Ive got horrible video to show you. This is some event you have to see this. This guy is trying to demonstrate tae kwon do. Goes, twice. He asks for two people to come over to hold the board. Later he breaks it right here. The chip hits a kid. It goes on and on and on. It is a comedy by itself. Im veronica de la cruz. Stay tuned because way too early starts right now. Theres been an awful lot of chatter out there, chatter means conversation among terrorists about the planning thats going on, very reminiscent of what we saw pre 9 11. References to 9 11. Startling words about the threat that has american embassies still closed this morning. Monday is arod day. Baseball about to suspend the yankee slugger as he prepares to play tonight. We have one of the best voices in sports not my voice, someone elses to let us know what the heck is going on. Yet another reason you need to wise up and finally throw out those cds. Put them in a box and store them in the baseball right next to the cassettes. This is way too early. But the eight tracks are all gone. We havent had those in a long time. Im brian shactman. Sorry about the voice. Its monday, august 5th. I can assure you i feel absolutely fine. I want to start the day with news that the 19 u. S. Embassies will remain shuttered through next saturday. Top u. S. Lawmakers and intelligence officials are warning that the terrorist chatter is out there, as you just heard, reminiscent of the days before 9 11. Strong talk. Embassies spread across the middle east and africa closed over the weekend with fears of one large attack or a series of coordinated ones on u. S. Diplomatic installations. Security Officials Say the threat originates from al qaeda base