they have a contract already, ready to respond as soon as the tar balls are found to pick them up right away, they think they can stay on top of this. they don t they have not told us they see an oil slick off the gulf but i can tell you that we talked to some of the people around here this past weekend, yesterday, after this was all confirmed and we found one woman who is from mississippi who normally vacations in florida over the july 4th weekend and she came here, she said, to get away from the oil and look what happened. so, unfortunately, it s going to be a difficult time for galveston to deal with but they say if they keep on top of it, the beaches will stay open. back to you. andrea watkins, thank you so much for the update from galveston. they got tar balls where they need beach balls. they say they re everywhere from a dime size to a golf ball size there. all right. yesterday, my wife and i were driving, we went down to somerset, new jersey, coming back and we were p
galveston area. kriv reporter andrea watkins is in galveston so tell us how this news is being treated in texas. well, galveston s mayor says that it is troublesome, absolutely. there is no reason to panic. he says this is a very small amount of tar balls right now and they are staying on top of the cleanup. but they do confirm by testing these tar balls that they did come from the deep water horizon spill. now, how it got here, whether it was pushed by the recent storm that we had in the gulf or if it came in on the hull of a ship, they just don t know, the coast guard who is in command here says they recognize the residents actually don t care where it came from, the fact that it s here is still a bother. but they are responding. they want people to know they set up a command post here in galveston. they have also set up a hotline, if you will for people to report tar balls.
i haven t seen one of these for a while. thank you so much. except at the smithsonian. oh, my goodness. e-mail us right now, it was so hot at your house. what happened yesterday or what could happen today? keep it clean. all right. it s going to be a very festive show for you this morning. we have your headlines. the heat is on in the northeast as steve just said. today, temperatures are predicted to hover around the triple digits from virginia to new england. these record-breaking temperatures are expected to last until saturday. heat warnings and advisories have been issued throughout most of the region. in new york city, 500 public cooling centers are being opened today to help people escape the heat. i ve had enough. got to cover up as much as we can. just got back from iraq. this is like nothing. it could not have come on a worst day. 600 amtrak passengers struck on a disabled train from boston to new york city without any air conditioning. it took two ho
thunderstorms or cooling clouds about distillch today. and as long as the high pressure sticks around the pattern will be slow to change and we ll deal with the record heat for a few days. here is your forecast. i mentioned the heat advisory. and temperature 100 degrees. and so plenty of liquids today. code orange air advisory. and it will be cooler into the weekend. i ll let you know when that arrives coming up. and we re following breaks knew this morning regarding those water restrictions in montgomery and prince george s county. those mandatory restrictions have now been live lift lifted. residents were told to conserve water because of a broken water main in potomac. the 8-foot wide pipe has now been fixed. wssc did some testing and found the water is safe to use. the company issued a statement thanking patients for their participation. you can see from their live picture from bethesda that crews are out watering the baseball field at cabin john regional park. that s
taking a toll on the oil cleanup efforts. sandbags usually visible are covered with water and cleanup boats are being forced to dock and workers asked to evacuate. while you were sleeping, gunmen set off a car bomb and fired rocket-propelled grenades at one of the biggest nato bases in afghanistan. this was a brazen attack being claimed now by the taliban. it happened at the jilalibad airfield. they stormed the entrance killing at least 32 foreign and afghan security forces. two nato troops also hurt. the attack comes hours after attorney general eric holder made a surprise appearance in afghanistan. he s going to meet with afghan and u.s. officials to talk about efforts to fight corruption and support the rule of law in afghanistan. he s also going to focus on building better relationships between law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in the two countries. and in just three hours from now, supreme court nominee elena kagan will be back on capitol hill. lawmakers are going