typically they see temperatures this time of year in the low 70 s. tuesday showers and storms in the forecast. back inside. steve: thank you very much. 89 doesn t sound that hot to us after we ve had the high temperatures, but unfortunately they don t have a lot of air conditioning over there. so it s really warm.efore the tp of the hour. more major cutbacks on the horizon on benefits for our american troops. why is the government going after our heroes? pete hegseth here next to weigh in. gretchen: we ve all heard fish stories before, but this one a fish so big it kicked over that boat. we ll be right back.
gretchen: 45 minutes after the top of the hour. if you re just joining us, quick headlines. sticker shock at the pump, gas prices jumped 12 cents in the past week. national average $3.67 this morning. triple a says increased summer demand and unrest in egypt are part of the reason for the spike. a fisherman in hawaii had to be rescued after a massive fish capsized his boat. he pulled in a 200 pound tuna but his boat couldn t handle the weight. the boat flipped over. he held on to the bottom until the coast guard arrived. his boat was later thrown back with the tuna still attached. didn t want to give up the catch. look at that rescue. brian: wow. first it was combat pay now clinics for our nation s heroes are slashing their hours thanks to the defense department budget cuts which is due to sequester. shouldn t our heroes come first? pete hegseth of concerned
friends back in may. the estranged wife of the driver claims she was arguing with him on the phone before the incident. the argument reportedly so loud the driver turned up the music so the passengers wouldn t hear. one of the survivors said she pounded on the window to get him to pull over when she saw smoke but he kept driving. he told police he thought she was asking if they could mostly cloudy cigarettes. steve: asking if they could smoke cigarettes. steve: this is an expensive mistake. oh man, the owner of that sailboat probably kicking himself. it happened in norway. the skipper thought his boat would slip under the draw bridge as it was coming down. it did not. luckily nobody was hurt. that is a quick look at your headlines. gretchen: to an extreme weather alert. monsoon like conditions causing flash floods in arizona. dozens of people had to be rescued. maria molina joins you now with more. good morning, maria.
log flume rolled backwards down a hill and flipped over. how does that happen? that s not supposed to happen. there s mechanisms in place that are supposed to prevent roll back, an anti-roll back system. it s not supposed to happen. especially the trapped under water part, that s never supposed to happen. but it did. i don t know enough about that. i mean that was a very large boat. a lot of people are still going to go to the amusement park the balance of the summer. what s the number one thing they should be concerned with? well, when we re talking about harnesses and having them secured properly, first you want to make sure that your back and your bottom are all the way back in the seat before you bring that harness down. because if you re sitting too far forward, you have the harness lock and then you sit back and then you ve got way too much space between you and the harness. and if you feel like you re not in there securely, let the operator know. oh, you need to ye