why we haven t got an deal yet. we ll tell you what we re talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. good morning, speaker boehner s office. how may i help you? a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er s office reporting as many as 300 people on hold for as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that s what s happening. and it s unusual. and there s new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research. pay attention to this. 68% say that lawmakers who share their views should be willing to compromise even if they str
getting the mage? we ve got new polling that says all of that. and this is important. recent polling may also explain why we haven t got an deal yet. we ll tell you what we re talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. good morning, speaker boehner s office. how may i help you? a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er s office reporting as many as 300 people on hold for as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that s what s happening. and it s unusual. and there s new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research
getting the mage? we ve got new polling that says all of that. and this is important. recent polling may also explain why we haven t got an deal yet. we ll tell you what we re talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. good morning, speaker boehner s office. how may i help you? a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er s office reporting as many as 300 people on hold for as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that s what s happening. and it s unusual. and there s new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research
highway into a hot. you can use high street or 23rd and no delay getting past the closure. thanks a lot, george. 7:02 right now and we are reporting live from fairfield this morning after this huge fire that burned all of these plastic containers at the macro plastics complex and contained but the fire broke out at 1:00 and six alarms and tons of firefighters that responded to this and investigators believe it started by an employee who accidentally lit a plastic container with a torch or welder but the fire did not spread and that s because they had so many firefighters and sixty firefighters from fairfield and for nearby departments and they used 21 vehicles. for that blaze and three firefighters suffered injuries but no one else was hurt. jackie thistle is out there live. good morning, jackie. reporter: as the sun comes up you are getting a look at the aftermath that have fire and you can see how intense that fire must have been. that s a chain-linked fence that is bur
new player and the game is you. in norway, breivik s father wish his son would have killed himself rather than slaughter dozens of people. bp has a big turnaround. the company raked in more than $22 billion in profits for the quarter! the debt, minute-by-minute, the nation inches closer to the brink of twault. the countdown less than seven full days before the federal government runs out of money and unable to pay its bills. in washington a stark message is delivered between the president and the speaker of the house. their parties are desperately divided and you and i are about to pay the price. we are covering all of the angles from wall street to the white house. ali velshi getting really creative and looking at the cost americans could face even before time officially runs out. of course, dan lothian with the politics and the posturing. ali, let s start with you. the markets open this hour, okay? how is the debt issue going to impact things today and the rest of the