apparently, the information that congressman carter is gathering is that the attack wasn t a direct attack at fort hood because he just simply wasn t familiar with the army post itself. remember, fort hood is the largest military installation in the country, it spans some 350 square miles. it s also important that we keep in mind this was all foiled by an alert gun store employee who noticed what he described as strange behavior, and he reported that to authorities. the local officials who i m speaking to and people who work in and around this post say they are extremely lucky because of that. listen here. every american has to with aware that these kinds of people are around, they re just as vigilant as the most vigilant of us, and they re looking for opportunities. reporter: that was retired sergeant howard ray who was at fort hood and helped wounded soldiers during the november 5, 2009, shooting at the post. his concern and that of many
direct attack at fort hood because he just simply wasn t familiar with the army post itself. remember, fort hood is the largest military installation in the country, it spans some 350 square miles. it s also important that we keep in mind this was all foiled by an alert gun store employee who noticed what he described as strange behavior, and he reported that to authorities. the local officials who i m speaking to and people who work in and around this post say they are extremely lucky because of that. listen here. every american has to with aware that these kinds of people are around, they re just as vigilant as the most vigilant of us, and they re looking for opportunities. reporter: that was retired sergeant howard ray who was at fort hood and helped wounded soldiers during the november 5, 2009, shooting at the post. his concern and that of many others moving forward, jenna, is who or what is next.
could and meanwhile, we want to give you stats of july. this is the hottest july we have had in d.c. and we had records at all three airports today and they were 99 for d.c., everyone in for dulles and bwi with inspect. the last time we were this hot was august 17th, 1997, when we got up to 105 degrees. and today, that 104 is in the record books and it s been a july full of 100 degrees days, three so far and that is a lot, our 12th day in a row and we re going to keep adding to that and feels like it s an unusual july, it has and last july was hot and tied for hottest july ever and this is the hottest and with some keep of crazy drop in the temperature and, unfortunately, we don t see that in the cards and take yet easy out there. we re going to look for cooler weather when gary joins us with the full forecast later. all right, thank you very much, sue palka and. the heat will force d.c. trash collection crews early to the street another week. they ll begin the collection
on the second quarter. another important headline came out about the first quarter, the first three months of the year. that number was revised downward to just .4 of a percent, just barely in positive territory. consumers are certainly cutting back, sales of big ticket items like cars and appliances tumbling more than 4%, and that s really effecting our economic growth. we re going to be talking more about this throughout the show today. so that s our first headline but one of many as we start off this friday morning. hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. jon: and i m jon scott. dramatic new developments in that debt standoff in washington, and we are all over them. president obama speaking just moments ago urging republicans and democrats to reach some kind of compromise. he s warning the u.s. will lose its top credit rating if it falls into an unprecedented default. jenna: and it could lose that rating anyway. that s something we ve been hearing a lot this week, that despite som
first three months of the year. that number was revised downward to just .4 of a percent, just barely in positive territory. consumers are certainly cutting back, sales of big ticket items like cars and appliances tumbling more than 4%, and that s really effecting our economic growth. we re going to be talking more about this throughout the show today. so that s our first headline but one of many as we start off this friday morning. hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. jon: and i m jon scott. dramatic new developments in that debt standoff in washington, and we are all over them. president obama speaking just moments ago urging republicans and democrats to reach some kind of compromise. he s warning the u.s. will lose its top credit rating if it falls into an unprecedented default. jenna: and it could lose that rating anyway. that s something we ve been hearing a lot this week, that despite some of the decisions made in d.c., we could still see a downgrade. now, the political stan