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.
hospital. 23,000 forced to flee when a dam gives way in northeastern germany along the swollen elba river. flooding rivers forcing some 1,200 people in hungary to clear out but good defenses along the danube river appear to have held in budapest. at least 19 people have died in the flooding. in switzerland heavy rains caused mud flows including one that washed over train tracks as a train was passing by. we re told the tracks are now out of commission for at least a week. a group of mishermen off the coast of alaska got more than they bargained for. oh, oh! oh my god! are you kidding me? are you kidding me? no. that s a killer whale going after the halibut they were trying to reel in. you don t see that every day. no doubt they ll have fish stories to tale. they re mammals, whales are not fish. my 7-year-old would correct
lemmon. this is not good for the president of syria. one of his most senior officials has defected and now he s talking. nawaf was the syrian ambassador to iraq. not anymore, he fled his post and fled to another country and is supporting the rebels trying to throw out president bashar al assad. translator: the regime in syria is a totalitarian regime and dictatorship. there is only one person who gives the orders. one person who is the president. fares talked to cnn from his secure location in qatar. the syrian capital damascus has witnessed the most intense fighting yet today according to activists. the opposition said 57 people have been killed across the country. activists also have a message for president obama. they say the time for action is now regardless of how it might impact the election. translator: with regard to america specifically, we would like to say to president obama that waiting for election to make a move on syria is unacceptable for syrians. it i
there was heavy shelling in several places, at least 35 people killed today. yesterday more than 200 died. opposition activists say regime forces are firing at people from low flying helicopters and syrian state tv claims at least three civilians and a security officer were killed in a suicide truck bombing. the syrian opposition wants kofi annan removed saying he has failed to broker a peace plan. a u.s. official tells cnn syria is believed to be moving some of its chemical weapons. why? it is unclear, the answer that is, but the question is causing significant concerns here in the u.s. and abroad. here is barbara starr. a new worry about how far al-assad will go to keep his grip on power. the u.s. now believes the syrian regime has moved some of its chemical weapons in recent days. as the fighting continues, u.s. officials will only say the weapons are still under the control of assad forces but a former cia director says make no mistake, the u.s. is urgently trying to ga
this morning the olympic committee responds. newsroom begins right now. good morning. happy friday 13th. i m carol costello. we begin this hour with a very bad day for the nation s biggest banks. jpmorgan chase and its ceo jamie dimon are opening their books and telling us just how much money the firm lost in a bunch of risky trades. the blunder stunned the financial world and fueled more debate on whether banking regulations are tough enough. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange and has been listening to a jpmorgan conference call this morning. alison, what have you heard? if you re totalling up the losses so far this year from those trading losses from the risky trades, what it adds up to is $5.8 billion. that s almost triple what was originally thought. but jamie dimon said they could get bigger by another $1.7 billion. keep in mind just because the trades were discovered and announced to everybody, you know, they can t just suddenly be stopped. so what has