everyone else is running from.. [ speaking foreign language ]. reporter: we re traveling along the border between turkey and syria. we re with the white helmets. they ve just gotten a call. we wanted to see exactly what they do. this is all part of an intense training to become even better, even faster. all of a sudden, this area filled with smoke. there is concern that there may be another bomb or another attack coming. so they ve asked for all the lights to be concerned off. they don t want to be a target themselves. but you can see just how challenging that makes their job. the concern is that, the white helmets tell us this video on is of a barrel bomb being hurdled from a.chopper by the syrian government. as you see, they can be wildly inaccurate. as you hear, they are incredibly vicious. a barrel bomb dropping on your house is like 57.6 order of
northeast united states. rick is on the beach of new jersey. rick, i am guessing it is getting to be a met. rick: a couple of hours ago we had an accurate wind reading of 57.6 miles per hour. it is above that now. between the sand and the wind and the rain, we are getting pelted and it is painful. low tide was two hours ago so the water is coming up a little bit. the streets of point pleasant are flooding. ocean avenue is still relatively dry which is comforting because that is our escape route. the ocean, though, is churning violently and has been since yesterday. this town, one of many along the new jersey shore that was evacuated, of course all the barrier items were evacuated, point pleasant issued mandatory
spring buying. prices rose in 16 of the 20 cities surveyed. meantime, consumer confidence slightly herer in july, up to 59.5 from june s 57.6 but still well below 90, and that s what it takes to indicate a healthy economy. so far the markets seem more focused on company earnings than the debt crisis. the dow down slightly right now, about 55 points, but eventually the markets will react to the lack of a debt deal. fox business network s rich edson live from washington with more on that. rich? reporter: well, jon, it stands on two different proposals right now, one pushed by republicans, the second naturally pushed by democrats. first off, to the senate plan, something offered by senate majority leader harry reid. cuts $2.7 trillion over ten years and then raises the debt ceiling through next year and into 2013. now, democrats say this is everything that republicans wanted. republicans say it s filled with budget gimmicks, so they ve proposed their own plan over in
straight month in may helped by spring buying. prices rose in 16 of the 20 cities surveyed. meantime, consumer confidence slightly herer in july, up to 59.5 from june s 57.6 but still well below 90, and that s what it takes to indicate a healthy economy. so far the markets seem more focused on company earnings than the debt crisis. the dow down slightly right now, about 55 points, but eventually the markets will react to the lack of a debt deal. fox business network s rich edson live from washington with more on that. rich? reporter: well, jon, it stands on two different proposals right now, one pushed by republicans, the second naturally pushed by democrats. first off, to the senate plan, something offered by senate majority leader harry reid. cuts $2.7 trillion over ten years and then raises the debt ceiling through next year and into 2013. now, democrats say this is
mid-atlantic cities above a foot and a half, including pittsburgh, philadelphia, washington, d.c., almost at 20 now, and baltimore, last report we had was 22 inches. and it s still snowing hard. now, that is significant for baltimore. here s why. record-breaking. this is now the second snowiest winter ever recorded in baltimore. we ve had 57.6 inches of snow this winter. to break the all-time record, we only need four or five more inches. we may get that this afternoon. this so far is the fifth largest snowstorm in baltimore s history. we only need about six inches to break their all-time record, and we do have a chance at doing that. and the same goes for d.c. you see the snow is not over with. it s starting to taper off in pittsburgh and also much of west virginia, but the heavy snow continues. the bright white now extends from richmond northwards up into washington, d.c., baltimore, all of delaware, up into southern new jersey, including philadelphia. and philadelphia s been getting