i will talk to one woman who spent 50 years in a polygamist family and is now speaking out against it. good morning, everyone, i m randi kay. it is 5:00 on the west coast and 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. my car said it was 112 in atlanta and it is going to be hotter, and the same today with excessive heat warnings issued for 19 states which is complicating the efforts to get the power back on for millions who lost electricity in storms over the past two days. many cities have cooling centers open to help people get a break from the heat. as for the strong storms are being blamed for 12 deaths now, and have left a path of downed trees and damaged homes and millions are waiting for the power to come back on, by it could be days before that happens. cnn s athena jones is live in springfield, virginia, for us, and athena, welcome, and how is the cleanup going? good morning, randi. well sh well, the cleanup is going in spits and starts. you can see the debris out here in the m
certainly about fair punishment. nick valencia has more now. nick? a local official in california is free on bond this weekend after being charged with felony child abuse. video of imperial valley official anthony sanchez allegedly shows him repeatedly hitting his 10-year-old stepson with a belt during a game of catch in their backyard. a neighbor who shot the video alerted police and after they viewed the pictures, charged sanchez with a felony. sanchez s attorney told cnn his client posted a $100,000 bond on friday, shortly after turning himself in, he was released from imperial county jail. the attorney ryan childers tells cnn that the video is hard to watch , but he says he does not agree his client s actions warranted the felony charge, which is the most serious child abuse charge available to law enforcement. he called sanchez a model citizen who has served nearly two terms as the elected director of the influential agency that regulates irrigation in california s i
herself. rough weather damaged her boat and today the japanese coast guard picked her up. she s save but disappointed. she s trying to bike and paddle around the world solo. she s already gone 11,000 miles since last april. i m fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. president obama today firing back at accusation that is his administration deliberately leaked classified information about a cyber attack on iran. the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. it s wrong, and people i think need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. the president also hammered away at congress urging lawmakers to pass a jobs plan to boost the economy. republicans were quick to respond to the president aassessment of the u.s. job market. we just listened to the president say that the private sector was doing fine. my question would be to the preside
mattresses. some senators agree. they re ought to be a law. our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby s bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. cnn s dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn t realize as a new mom and many others might not is that chemicals simply are not regulated, and we don t know a lot about the chemicals that are out there. as you mention in everything. at this press conference these lawmakers and activists made clear that there are 80,000 known chemicals, martin. only 200 have been tested and only 4 have been taken off the market. i want to bring in a couple of the moms who came here from far
non-white roles. we see it in films like the dick dater but it s nothing new. remember mookie rooney playing an asian. a controversial practice as old as hollywood itself. here s how this so called cease-fire looks in parts of syria. government forces continue to launch attacks against their own people in many cities, and opposition group says 22 people were killed today alone. there are areas where rebels are not in complete control. ivan watson has a look. reporter: the journey to syria starts with a brisk walk through olive groves. that s how you get into syria, through a hole in the fence. this is a country of rich rolling farmland that s in open revolt. in many towns the rebels are now in complete control. in one village, a rebel occupies the desk where the police chief used to sit. the rebels claim they forced out the security officers from this police station nearly two months ago and since then they have been using it as a mini barracks for sleeping, also storing