that s one football field, jose, one foot deep of water. on the fifth of july, we had an amazing event here. farmers in the central valley bought 3200 acre feet. $7 million of water and they outbid the city of santa barbara. you know it is a crisis. and it s scary. it doesn t seem to get any better. no. and let me remind the viewers, drought gets wild fires. since the first of january, we ve had 3,000 fires in california. $209 million. last week we blew $14 million and we ve asked president obama for $615 million emergency funding and it gets worse! since 2000, every three consecutive dry winters spell
than allow the army to continue to rule. bill: leland vittert live in jerusalem with what many happening today. martha: the latest eruptions in the egyptian revolution got started sticks weeks ago when the military pushed mohammed morsi from power. on the fifth of july morsi supporters were wounded when they tried to march to the military barracks where he was being held. now clashes between soldiers and demonstrators. both sides blame the other for starting the fight. on july 27, 65 morsi support or were reportedly killed in clashes with the police. two days later the largest scale sit-ins began. egypt s military signaled a crackdown on what would come.
i m filling the thrill of the grill because you know i likes to chill. actually, mr. chairman, i believe it s the fifth of july. and the party don t stop till six in the morning. oh, no. we d miss him, wouldn t we in some ways? michael steele? yeah. just for the comedic effect. all right. 20 minutes past the hour. wall street journal. front page shows general david petraeus visiting a bakery in kabul. houston chronicle, tar balls from bp wash ashore in texas. at this point, every state along the gulf of mexico has been touched by oil from the deepwater horizon spill. washington post, two months after a tense meeting at the white house, israeli prime minister netanyahu and president obama are set to meet today with the deceptively simple mission, getting their picture taken together.
good monday morning, and thanks very much for joining us for the most news in the morning. it s it s fifth of july. not officially the holiday but people are taking it off today. oh, yeah. about as cool except for us. we re here to bring you the news. about as cool as it s going to get. going to be hot today s we ll talk about that in a moment. right now the east coast bracing for what many meteorologists say is going to be a six-day heat wave. boston, raleigh, triple digit temperatures all week long, plus another cyclone forming in the caribbean. a full yaup date from the weather center. and trying to win back the house and the senate. trying to line up against their party leader saying we may not be able to win in afghanistan, and that afghanistan is president obama s war. michael steele, can he get himself out of this one? live in washington this morning. along the gulf, thousands of
a moment ago, which is, you know, he would be very tempted to say, yes, the economy is wonderful, as he said yesterday, the pandemic is better, which he did say. but another less seasoned political leader might say everything is great. everyone relax. the tough thing for a leader is to do both of those things, because he knows if there is a downturn in the economy and that can always happen, terrible inflation might happen. you might have a variant that makes this vista look a little less bright than it does on the fifth of july 2021. then next year he has to run a midterm election which every republican commercial will put those words up saying he was too optimistic, let down our guard, almost like george w. bush with mission accomplished. michael beschloss, thank you