north dakota, warning 11,000 residents they must evacuate immediately because of imminent flooding. water from the river is beginning to overflow the levees there. janice dean is keeping an eye on it from the extreme weather center. jd? they were warned about this river. i know we have video. folks have been sandbagging in anticipation of this river coming over its dikes and as jon, mentioned. thousands of residents in this region of north dakota. minot, have to evacuate immediately. they were early told 6:00 is the deadline. now it appears that water from the river is overflowing the dikes protecting the entire city. this is an ongoing problem obviously across the northern plains and the midwest and these poor people have to evacuate immediately. can you just imagine, if you lived in this small town? our hearts and prayers go out to all the folks in minot. we ll bring you the very
called on day 25 of this case. they were set to take a break. the judge has already said we are going to see a half day because he has something else previously scheduled. normally they are at lunch break but they are going over it with these witnesses who talk about taking every pair of shoes after casey anthony s closet, that s the mom on trial for her life in her daughter s death, she looked at 22 pairs of shoes to see if there was any trace of soil that would match the site where the child s body was found, and one of the witnesses saying that there was kite a bit of soil sample that they could take from at least three pair of shoes. we have not heard yet this morning whether or not there was a match between that and the area where little caylee was found. i m all over it as news breaks from that courtroom i ll bring it to you. jon and jen a. jon: thanks. hello to you once again. we hope you re going a great
by 2035. to have any affect on the frightening trajectory congress needs to act now and that cold reality is what the debt talks are about. for comparison keep in mind that greece, which is being ripped apart by its debt, cutting public spending, cutting government pensions and unemployment soaring it was only about 145% gdp to debt ratio last year, that is not the direction the u.s. wants to go. jon. jon: those are some pretty alarming numbers. thanks. jenna: we have new information on a terrifying near collision at kennedy airport right here in new york city. julie bandaras has been working the story live in the newsroom now. reporter: the the jet was cleared for take off and as it was speeding down the runway it was forced to come to a screeching halt to avoid running
thank you. jon: a defense witness in the casey anthony trial testifying in morning there was no evidence of decomposition in casey anthony s car trunk. the trial is ending early today because of a scheduling matter, and now prosecutors are looking into some, well, strangely coincidental new evidence. they say this woman, a former inmate at the same jail as casey anthony, april whelan had a toddler who drowned in the grandparents swimming pool in 2007. that is very similar to little caylee drowning in their swimming pool and the grandfather covered up the evidence. we have meg swig her and joey jackson. does she testify in this case. i don t think she is going on
for flooding across the missouri river and in towards the mississippi river. this is an ongoing story that we ll be following all summer long, jon scott. we ll bring you very latest. just terrible news from minot, north dakota, this morning. jon: a lot of snow still left to melt up in the rockies and that is a big part of the problem. we had winter weather advisory yesterday, jon scott in the first day of summer. jon: yeah. jd thanks. good to see you. jenna: well, they say nothing is certain in life but death and taxes right? always gives you a warm fuzzy feeling when you hear that. when the economy on life-support is raising tax as good thing or a death blow? that brings us to part 3 of our new series on ten ways to save the economy. doug mckelway is live in washington with number three. doug, this is a big debate when it comes to economists. they re very divided over this issue. it is hard to reach a middle ground. either you believe in raising taxes or you don t.