control the damage. obviously i stepped in it. but again, i go i have my moment of humor with it and press on. if perry can have his moment of hume, i guess maybe we can, too. i m not sure if you re a monty python fan but i am. watching perry reminded me a lot of this he said he s not dead. yes, he is. i m not. he isn t? he will be soon, he s very ill. i m getting bet. no, you re not, you ll be stone dead in a moment. sorry, guys. my experience tell me voters sometimes have a different verdict than the pundits. bill clinton s circumstance ka early 1992 or clinton s lewinsk. be careful in listening to pundits. for perry a twitter verse and blogosphere rush to say the debacle would be the end of an already-struggling candidacy. it s three agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see. five. commerce, education epa. epa, there you go. no. seriously. is epa? no,
court is facing a big decision about the biggest retailer in the world, the supreme court could soon decide, perhaps as early as tomorrow, whether to take up an appeal from walmart. on a lawsuit that alleges the retail giant discriminated against women in pay and promotion with one-and-a-half million female employees involved in the class action case and could be the biggest job bias lawsuit in world history, and that would be enormous implications. let s take it to our legal panel, mercedes colwin, and paul cowan, professor of media law at seton hall university, good to see you both. is it possible a single lawsuit involving a landful of women in northern california can somehow turn itself into a huge class-action lawsuit, involving 1.5 million women and 3400 stores? outrageous the lower court did actually that. and they certified this class, and, frankly, if you look at the
julia both roaring across the atlant atlantic. closer to land, hurricane karl now moving over the gulf of mexico. chief meteorologist rick is live in the fox extreme weather center. rick, where are these three headed? yeah, in different directions. start with karl because it s the most immediate one here. this is karl right now and it s strengthening. fortunately, it doesn t have a whole lot more time over water. if it did, it would strengthen a lot. it looks like it potentially could go through some rapid intenseification, probably right around 24 hours from now making landful at vera cruz. igor and julia. julia not looking that impressive. this storm, though, is a monster. still a category 3. likely getting up to a category 4. you see both igor and julia making this right-hand turn, only real area is bermuda p potentially in the path of this
what is going to happen once it gets in the gulf of mexico. sometimes these storms can turn up towards texas. but not this one, stay south of texas and become a category one hurricane on its second landful in mexico some time friday night into saturday morning. now we ll show you the computer models because they re all pretty much in agreement. i don t feel there is any chance of this storm heading to texas. galveston southward and corpus christi can breathe a sigh of relief. this is the image i ve never seen before two category 4 hurricanes literally bumping up next to each other out in the middle of the atlantic. julia is not a problem. julia will shift well out into the open water and the storm we re going to have to watch is igor and approach bermuda as we go into the weekend. very big in size and intensity and produce a lot of big waves and those will arrive in the east coast. up until this weekend when the waves come, a beautiful forecast out there, tamron. no problems forecast w
become a hurricane and pack a little bit of a bunch punch t is going to affect the operations with the gulf oil spill, even if it stays as far west as the current course sets us at. nbc meteorologist bill karens is tracking this for us. bill, give us two updates. number one, what is the forecast for the recovery area and two, how much of u.s. landfall is this thing going to hit? looks like the northern half of the storm should hit southern texas very hard, especially south padre island area. we will wait and see when it will become a hurricane. that is the next step. the storm only has 36 thundershowers intense fishing as strong as it is going to get, then make landful. you can see the plane there the hurricane hunters flying currently, live data coming in through the storm, a 67-mile-an-hour wind gust, looks like a tropical storm for a while long other, as far as the forecast path it is going to take it up to the texas/new mexico border. the northern half of the storm is the stronge