the center of a lot of political activity for republicans over the last few days. president obama is keeping the spotlight on this day. he s here getting ready to come into iowa from minnesota. it s the second stop of his three-day three-state bus tour in the midwest. talking to voters about jobs, the economy and the debt crisis facing the united states. also on his agenda, a one-on-one interview with me tomorrow. much more on that tomorrow. we re standing by, though, for the president s town hall meeting here in the next hour. we ll have live coverage. right now, though, i m joined ey brianna keeler. i catched the town hall meeting. he s getting more feisty in lashing back at the republicans. that s right. he really stepped up the rhetoric. he s really lambasting the paralyzing political climate in washington and really blaming republicans specifically looking back to the bruising debt ceiling battle. of course as he s facing a lot of criticisms from republicans on jobs, w
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
negotiations to continue. key elements of the republican establishment are trying to nudge the hard line conservatives to a compromise. defaulting on our debt is not an option. it has real, immediate, and potentially catastrophic consequences. the ratings agency standard and poor s sent a team to capitol hill saying not raising the debt ceiling would stain america s credit rating and drive up interest costs for everyone. many house conservatives, though, aren t ready to give up and some of them won t budge. they say if there s any new taxes in this deal at the end, they would rather have the first default in american history. in our new cnn/orc poll gives us a fresh sense of what you think. 34% of americans say any deal to raise the debt ceiling should include only spending cuts. but nearly two thirds, 64%, say the deal should include a mix, spending cuts and tax increases. that s what president obama wants and here s a little more proof he at the moment has the upper han
right now on cnn, what is going on in rochester, new york? i m not deserving what they re doing, and they re arrested me. i don t understand what s going on. i did nothing. i did nothing. all right. that s not good being arrested for videotaping an arrest from her own front yard. i ll talk with a local lawmaker who says he s been the target of police retaliation. plus, we investigate deeper. the outburst you see there probably won t help this woman s case. she s accused of attacking her husband. caught on tape, attacking the judge sentencing her. we re going to talk to the officer who grabbed her. and i want you to meet mama jazz and her very unique fingernail style. her longest nail, 26 inches. the one her thumb. we ll visit her house to see how she goes about her daily life. and she ll be here to answer in questions for me. i m don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. a lost news to get you caught a lot of news to get you caught up on so let s do it.