tonight or tomorrow morning. with winds topping 65 miles an hour, as you can imagine, people all along the texas coast are getting ready. but believe it or not it is not expected to put a dent in the historic drdrght. parts of the state are 15 inches short of their average rainfall and matt gutman shows how bad it is. reporter: these soybean plants would normally be chest high. instead the tracks in the soil here are about waist deep. well, just how much rain will don dump on south texas and what path will it take. accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is track the storm. we re looking at the infrared images, the bright oranges mark that the storm is slowly strengthening as it s moving mortgagewestward and concentric pattern. landfall is expected around corpus christi. as we head towowd nightfall, not really expect to be much of a windsto windstorm. winds sustained 50, 65 miles per ur as it does make landfall. more of a good thing. extreme drought across much of texa
preparing for what happens if the august 2nd deadline comes and goes with no deal for the country to borrow more money. welcome to america live everyone. i m alisyn camerota in for megyn kelly. just last night house leaders pulled the plug on a vote for john boehner s debt proposal. right now a revamped bill is making its way around congress with the possibility of a vote sometime this afternoon. president obama is now pushing for a deal, warning the u.s. is almost out of time. he also had this to say about speaker boehner s plan. right now the house of representatives is still trying to pass a bill that a majority of republicans and democrats in the senate have already said they won t vote for. this plan would force us to relive this crisis in just a few short moments, holding our economy captive to washington politics once again. in other words, it does not solve the problem and it has no chance of becoming law. what happens the day after august 2nd? well neil cavuto,
texas coast tonight or tomorrow morning with winds topping 65 miles an hour. as you can imagine, people are along the texas coast are getting ready. but believe it or not, it is not expected to put a dent in the historic drought. parts of the state are 15 inches short of their average r rnfall abc s matt gutman shows us how bad it is. reporter: these soybean plants would normally be about chest high this time of year. instead, the tracks in the soil here are about waist deep. well, just how much rain will don dump on south texas and what paththill it take? accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is tracking the storm. we re looking at the infrared satellite imagery here. we see the bright oranges, that marking that this storm is slowly strengthening as it s moving northwestward in a concentric pattern. landfall is expected around corpus christi. as we head toward nightfall, not really expect to be much of a windstorm. winds sustained 50, 65 miles per hour as it does ma
story with us today, july 29th, we ll share his remarkal sto aa story with us today, july 29th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. tgif, matt. i m ann curry. good morning. the clock is ticking. the crisis is no clearer today than several months ago. both house republicans and senate democrats will meet this morning after speaker john boehner failed to find enough votes within his own party to push his plan through the house. so, are lawmakers wasting too much time on a bill that perhaps has no chance of passing in the first place? we re live on capitol hill with the latest on that coming up in just a couple of minutes. we ve got another very disturbing story. a chilling plot to kill u.s. soldiers foiled near ft. hood in texas and investigators say the alleged attack was eminent and a fellow soldier was behind it. we re going to live there for a report. have you heard there s anoth
muster enough votes to pass the vote. danielle knottingham joins us again. it was the second day they couldn t find enough votes to take action on their own legislation and now it has everyone here on capitol hill wondering what s going to happen next. house republicans will meet this morning to plot their next move in the debt ceiling showdown. we re going to keep working this thing until we find a way to pay the nation s bills and pay listen our means. reporter: last night, gop leaders were forced to call off a vote on speaker john boehner s plan. the proposal would raise the debt ceiling for six months and slash more than $900 billion in spending but some tea party members want deeper cuts. i simply cannot raise the debt ceiling if we re not going to fundamentally change the way we do business. reporter: lawmakers have four days before the government runs out of cash. house minority leader nancy pelosi blamed the gop for the holdup. republicans have taken us to