we don t want to think that it s better than a default, but in a way it is. reporter: it s less severe. a downgrade affects your reputation. the world thinks a little less of you. there would be financial consequences to that. i don t know what they would be, maybe higher interest rates. the consequences politically would be severe for president obama because it would be on his watch. for the first time i think in 100 years that mayor what today was downgraded. and he would have to take some responsibility for this downgrade because of his enormous spending which has played a part in this debt mess. bill: 100 years. reporter: i believe so. bill: it s crunch time, stuart, thank you. alisyn: things are changing by the hour but here is where we
edge this country s. five days after the massacre, we know there are undercover armed policemen on patrol. we also know that breivek amassed six tons of fertilizer, according to his manifesto. the police are suggesting to us that there is a certain amount of that fertilizer which is not accounted for in the explosives found on the island or the bomb here in oslo. they say it is possible that that missing amount of fertilizer could be enough to produce a bomb. so definitely a very, very significant part of their investigation. now, breivek s lawyer yesterday gave some insight into his client s mental state saying this whole case does suggest that he is insane, that breivek himself was surprised that he was able to get away with as much as he did on the island, that police hadn t stopped him any earlier, and he was taking some sort of drug before his attack to sort of keep him steady during that horrific massacre. and as you can see behind me, as lowans, norwegians continue to
thanks, peter. yeah. shannon: new york is the sixth and largest state to allow same sex marriage. some couples couldn t wait to say their vows. couples across the state opted for midnight weddings. mayor jennings performed weddings 12:o1 in the common counsel s chambers. same sex marriage was legalized in new york last month. it was supposed to be a bipartisan solution to our debt mess but the gang of six s debt solution it s not even been formalized into any kind of vote just yet. we will talk to senator mike crap it s crepe governor rick perry is moving in some key states. take a look how close is he to running and the latest polling coming up.
for midnight weddings. mayor jennings performed weddings 12:o1 in the common counsel s chambers. same sex marriage was legalized in new york last month. it was supposed to be a bipartisan solution to our debt mess but the gang of six s debt solution it s not even been formalized into any kind of vote just yet. we will talk to senator mike crap it s crepe governor rick perry is moving in some key states. take a look how close is he to running and the latest polling coming up.
frustrated. it s 100 and some degrees heat index outside, and i can understand people getting worked up about this sort of thing. more on politics in a moment. i want to start with a street level view of what has to be considered an emergency. justin bruno heads up the office of emergency management. he is kind enough to step outside and tell us what he has been up today. thank you for making the time and braving the heat. is your city in emergency mode right now? we absolutely are. we have temperatures we have never seen before. heat indexes will be 105 to 115, which are record numbers. the power grid is significant, and you mentioned that in your earlier comments. we do expect to see more power demand than ever before in new york city. we have activated our emergency operation center, a situation room. we have agencies present, and one thing we do here is we are always in close touch with power edison, which is you on power provider, and we have them in all the time, an