plan would cost seniors thousands of dollars a year. congressman ryan says his plan would not effect seniors and aims to save medicare. shannon bream is live in the d.c. newsroom tonight. the president also under fire tonight over the raid that killed usama bin laden? yeah, shep. a group of former special operations and intelligence officials have formed a non-prophet called op. seq all about calling out politicians who leak sensitive information for political purposes. dishonorable disclosures they are pointing their finger at the current administration saying its decision to give insider information to hollywood producers making a film about the usama bin laden raid is endangering american lives. shep? shepard: wow, what s the white house saying or the president s campaign, i should say? well, the campaign says this is nothing but election year politics. campaign press secretary ben la bolt says. this quote. the republicans are vote resorting to swift vote tactics. the presiden
bloomberg unplugged at the nathan s hot dog wagon. seems he couldn t stomach the puns, like let me be frank. it s going to be a dog fight. and i ll relish it. it s bloomberg like we ve never seen him. also you can see the sparks flying all over the place. it was raining fire down on us. on the frontlines, colorado firefighters taking cnn with them as they fight the fires home by home. the fire chief telling the denver post this morning he knew the fire would happen, that it was a monster ready to awaken and kill. and on this independence day, what s your definition of a hero? our men and women in the military? your mom, your dad? think about it. it s our talk back question of the day. newsroom begins right now. i m carol costello. happy, happy fourth of july. good morning to you. right now, crowds are gathering and parades are gearing up in small towns and big cities across the country. but millions of americans will be missing one holiday tradition this year, fir
those dangerous fiscal problems, then they re going to have to deal with that themselves. it s interesting. is it possible that it s both? this was all about the unions, why he was being recalled. this has not been about unions the last several weeks. if you watch the campaign ads in wisconsin, they are not talking about collective bargaining. that has not been the issue. i think in the end both sides may agree this was a waste of a tremendous amount of money. maybe that s why president obama and obama ha administration is staying away from this. he hasn t gone there they haven t traveled there. keeping the focus on mitt romney and not focusing on wisconsin. he continues to stick with the attack line of going after bain capital. this is sort of doubling down from the campaign on exactly how they are going to go forward. from campaign spokesman ben la bolt says this about it mitt romney has made tenure as central by juted the central premise of his candidacy and claimed t is what cr
drought. we have pictures of tornadoes, storm reports that popped up yesterday. it was a real volatile day for kansas. look at that tornado. incredible pictures coming to us from storm chasing video. it s really when you see the light behind it, you really get a nice viewpoint of what the tornado looks like with narrow vortex at the bottom. that s when the tornado s strongest winds are at the end of this tornado. looks like this one you can hear the hail. this is working. you can hear the hail. it s hard to say whether that one particularly touched down. we have one injured you can see on the report. we re in the heart of severe weather season. not over yet. something that s a danger, known as the silent killer. you may not think heat is as dangerous as a tornado. people die every year from heat related injuries, illnesses than we see in severe weather. keep in mind heat is dangerous. high temperatures in the 90s for many areas, that s 10 degrees above normal. however,
the president s plan calls for an end to combat operations in afghanistan next year and a withdraw by the end of the 2014. the president says afghanistan s president hamid karzai is onboard. both oof us recognize that we still have a lot of work to do and there will be great challenges ahead. the loss of life continues in afghanistan. there will be hard days ahead, but we re confident that we re on the right track and what this summit reflects is the world is behind this strategy that we ve laid out. the big hurdle now to cross is the cost. the country doesn t have all the cash it needs. nato secretary general is optimistic that other countries will pitch in to help meet the roughly $4 billion price tag. the obama campaign headquarters, just outside the nato summit in chicago. look at this. protesters on one side, police on the other, pushing back and forth. this was on sunday. several officers were injured. today, the superintendent of police defends his officers action