the auto bailout and investing in clean energy and those sorts of things. you can expect pawlenty and jindal to talk about the fact that the unemployment rate ticked up last month. remember, richard, this bus trip falls on the same day that we re going to be getting the june jobs report. right. all eyes are on that report. you can talk to any analyst and they say the main issue of this election is still the economy. of course, we spent a lot of time talking about the supreme court cases last week. it s still the economy that analysts believe will determine the outcome of this race. by the way, president obama won ohio and pennsylvania back in 2008 and those states now still very much in play. richard? right there in the rust belt as the labor report does come out. we ll see what sort of reaction happens on friday. kristen welker at the white house, thank you so much. thanks, richard. talk to you later. mitt romney is off the campaign trail but not on vacation from
this is more than 1 million people are still without power from indiana to virginia. more than 300,000 are blacked out in ohio alone. can you imagine sitting, sweltering in this heat without a.c. folks are frustrated. they told me seven days, who can wait seven days. for more on what to expect, we turn to the weather channel s heather tesch. well, it s going to be hot and my husband was one of those people suffering in the heat as he was on a business trip with a hotel and no air-conditioning. it s been difficult for people. and we ve got more hot weather to come. you think of fourth of july and hot weather, but this is a little over the top. first of all, i want to show you where we do have some heat, watches and warnings out here, advisories. it s not just the temperatures, but when you look at the heat index for a lot of these areas, you know, we are going to be looking at them upwards to about 115. so it is going to be extremely hot in some of these areas. and that
fun outside. unless you re submerged in the wat water, it s going to be awfully uncomfortable. we ll talk more about the triple digits in the days to come because we ve got more of it into the weekend. heather tesch, thank you. sorry. developing news right now, pakistan announcing it is reopening the nato supply routes to afghanistan. the taliban saying it is shocked at the move. and warns that it would attack any vehicles carrying supplies for foreign forces in afghanistan. nbc s chief pentagon correspondent joining me now. mick, are officials a the this point saying whether the routes were reopened after an apology over the border attack? or are they admitting that just yet? well, i haven t heard any u.s. officials say what secretary of state hillary clinton said was an apology. in fact, one senior u.s. official said only you in the media are calling this an apology. but secretary of state clinton did say that the u.s. is sorry for the fact that a u.s. air strike mi
raging wildfire heading to the air force academy. these pictures of the waldo canyon fire taken of the academy last night. burning more than 10 acres of the campus so far. it s moving at a rate of three to four football fields an hour. it s destroyed about 300 homes but firefighters say the smoke, flames still too thick to actually get an accurate count. debby, talking about storm debby leaving florida a soppy mess this morning. this once tropical storm dumping 30 inches of rain before heading out to sea, washing out lots of roads. neighborhoods still look like lakes in many cases. in some places, the water might not recede until sometime next week. it looks like j.p. morgan chase could lose a lot more cash from the trading debacle than originally thought now. new york times reporting that the banking giant could be out now $9 billion. that s a whole lot more than the $2 billion c.e.o. jamie dimon predicted a few weeks ago. we ll know more when they release the second quart
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