drink a mountain dew. new jersey watching this? i want this to be my next stunt. oh, my goodness. i would be worried about. did you up the side of it. the one guy standing up scooting down the side of it. what if he goes off the slide? yeah. that s crazy. how many mountain dews do you think they had before attempting that. i love that drinking soda is extreme. they re jumping out of airplanes. or the red bull event. caffeine? yeah. that makes more sense, i guess. pretty good. rick is standing by to tell us what is happening in the natural world. that is awesome. why don t we have that as a live shot one morning. you and me. anna, let s do it. anna and i will do it. not on a bike though. yeah. i m not going down on the bike. do you remember the mountain dew commercials when we were kids, they would be in some beautiful stream, swinging off a rope swing. yeah. that s what i mean. you cannot do those physical activities unless you have mountain dew.
though, who are headed back to work this week, the house armed services committee chairman, republican congressman buck mckeon is saying, quote, i am very pleased to see so many of our national security work force will be able to return to work, though i do not believe the law required these hundreds of thousands of workers to be furloughed in the first place, it is welcome news. there are still going to be about 400,000 federal employees who will remain furloughed despite the pentagon s move. anna? all right mpg thank you so much, peter. 35 minutes after the hour. the father of a missing baby now being charged with murder. michigan prosecutors filing murder charges against 23-year-old shaun phillips for the death of his daughter baby kate. she disappeared two years ago when she was four months old. phillips is currently serving a ten year sentence in connection with her disappearance. they now have evidence to link him to murder. this is a tragic case.
unjustified. the investigation will determine if protocols were followed. an event honoring the military and their families in pennsylvania canceled due to the government shutdown. 10,000 people were expected to attend the hometown heroes event, but the shutdown has furloughed many troops at the national air guard station. so everything was canceled. well, if our family is not going to be here, we re not going to go forward with it so we pulled the plug. we had 80 to 100 vendors coming on and they were crushed. the event would have included everything from live music to a 5k, a run for charity. those are your headlines. thanks, anna. more extreme weather just days after snows and tornadoes tore through the great plains. this time storms hitting parts of the south with the tornado touching down in the state of tennessee. meanwhile, emergency crews in louisville, kentucky, rescued several motorists stranded in flash flooding there. you see the pictures posted on twitter yeste
citizenship. there are nearly 3 million undocumented people in that stat according to a survey. how about this? a 6-year-old boy wanted to know who s quieter, a navy s.e.a.l. or a ninja? so he wrote a letter to an expert, the head of special ops. well, this may surprise you. navy s.e.a.l. and u.s. admiral william mcgraven said ninjas are probably quieter but we are better at swimming. he s kind of a big deal. thanks so much, anna. any time there s a piece of new technology out there, i can t wait to get my hands on it. how about this? piece of technology that will get rid of the stubborn bounds at your mid section. not only is cool skuculpting
agriculture department, $144,000 in the agriculture department for tone near cartridges. they spent that one day. then $178,000 on cubical furniture rehab? is that what we should have done to the kirby couch, scotch guard it. it s a 12-step program. you have to go through and spray it clean. speaking of the couch, anna, you have a dress on that matches it. i was wondering. floating arms and legs? good to put this behind me? let us know what you think about it? we ll be talking about it. we have a lot of other headlines to get to this morning as well. i do have this for you. the father of dodgers fan who was stabbed to death after a giants game in san francisco is claiming to come forward today to beg for help from anyone who might have seen what happened to his son. police released their only suspect, michael montgomery,