right. you re right. oh. well, maybe a birthday gift for a former president, george h.w. bush turns 90 today. the bush clan is gathering at the family compound in maine to mark the major milestone and at the bush library in texas, they re holding a crazy socks party in honor of the president s penchant for fancy footwear. i love that. i love getting the socks picture on his birthday. i hope they tweet that out. big happy birthday to him. let s take a look at the weather. some heavy rain and thunderstorms will hit the east coast from maine to florida. strong storms from texas to kentucky. showers around the great lakes and in the northwest. expect hot temperatures in the 90s across most of the south. summerlike sizzling triple digits in the southwest. elsewhere mostly mild, 70s and low 80s. okay. here s a video you really have to see to believe. it happened last month during a swamp tour in louisiana. i want to watch the video. that s the guide. he jumped into the water. h
i ve given you a beautiful weekend. hope you appreciated it. today we ll have another gorgeous day. mid to upper 70s from new england through the mid-atlantic. we don t have many of these days left. the humidity will increase into tomorrow. what a great day. low 80s, maybe 84 in hartford. middle of the country that s where all the bad weather is. we ve been tracking in oklahoma. tulsa, you re just about done. here s the forecast for your monday, for your travel needs. airports, kansas city, chicago, minneapolis, also down there in florida, your typical afternoon storms today. but it s really tuesday. if we re going to have one big day of bad weather, it s going to be tuesday. and the concern is a severe weather outbreak. the area of red is what we call a moderate risk of severe storms. we could see a few strong tornadoes and damaging winds. we re talking omaha, kansas city
70s, low 80s and 90s had no problem with the name. that s for ben. the political games being played are ridiculous. the fact is that 49% of native american kids were not graduating in 2010. only 10% of those were graduating in four years. the senate is focused on the name of the redskins. that s the biggest problem. the name of the washington redskins is about 100then i on issues today. what is the league likely to do? gudel spoke on this and didn t seem to find a problem but that wasn t a letter from half of the united states senate. well, i don t think the league is going to do anything. in fact, the folks that i have spoken to throughout the league across the board are more irritate that congress with an 8% approval is waiting into this. the one thing sports fans hate and universal, they hate when
you don t see any distinction between what is in somebody s head and heart? do you think the team owner of the redskins is a racist man? no, i m not saying he s a racist man. let s imagine that the name itself was a good, because that s been argued right? it started as a good, but now it s something bad. it s proven to effect the psychology of native american kids. so we re not calling people bad. we re reminding people this is a slur and the reason we re having to remind people is because when it comes to native americans, things like halloween and thanksgiving and playing american indian is fun. now, with the web, we get to say hey, we re here. we didn t die. let s tell you that the redskins is bad. uh-huh, but ben, the problem, though, the most recent survey of native americans themselves, which is 2004, showed that something like 90% of them had no problem with the name and 90% of the american people in all surveys consistently in the high 70s, low 80s and 90s had no
the hospitals. paramedics treated dozens of others at the scene for minor injuries. here s a look at the weather. rain and snow showers in the pacific northwest. the gulf coast and south florida will get rain. the great lakes region will get more snow. windy and warm in southern california with highs in the 70s and low 80s. the south highs in the 50s and 60s. temperatures will rise today. and potential meltdown with 50s expected. the east will range from the 20s to 40s. more than a million out-of-work americans are ending their near on an especially bleak note. benefits run out tomorrow for people unemployed for more than 26 weeks. an emergency program had been sending checks since the recession in 2008 congress did not renew the program. new jersey will be hardest hit. 90,000 people will lose benefits. encouraging news about unemployment, though, are sending markets into record territory again. this morning, the dow industrial average set another record yesterday as did the s&