and good morning to you. boy, the temperatures, top story again. wow. sizzling heat, and most of the country right now is dealing with triple digits or at least feeling like triple digits. as we ve been saying, not just uncomfortable, dangerous and deadly. welcome. friday, july 22nd. let s get right to it. intensely hot against across a huge portion of the country. it started in the midwest, it s come heeft. washington, the high, 103 today but it s going to feel like 115 with the humidity. triple digit temperatures are expected across the mid-atlantic, up and down the east coast and into the ohio valley and as many as 2,000 related deaths now reported. utilities around the country are bracing, asking you to conserve energy as people crank the ac. in new york, the power company said that store owners who leave their doors open could be fined. wow. trying to stay cool. match fn you re a polar bear in this heat? animals in the detroit zoo were treated to popsicles with
murdoch s protege rebekah brooks to show up tomorrow to answer questions. despite her arrest over the weekend, her spokesman says she will be there. she s denying she knew her reporters hacked phones for scoops while she was the newspaper s editor. rupert murdoch, chairman of news corp, and his son james are expected to testify alongside brooks tomorrow. they will appear before parliament s media committee. a heatwave hitting the middle of u.s. extremely high humidity makes it feel as hot as 117 degrees in some places. that heat is creeping east. brutal. i probably lost 10 pounds today. it s crazy. we are sweltering, and we re just asking for some relief here. houston is hot as blazes. stay put. stay cool. there s been a change of u.s. command in afghanistan today as well. general david petraeus leaving to become the cia director handed command of the afghan war to marine general john allen. allen served as a deputy at u.s. central command in tampa before getting that
good morning. it is thursday, july 14th. this is your a.m. wakeup call. here s break is news. we just learned that british police have made an arrest in that scandalous phone hacking case that brought down that is bringing down parts of rupert murdoch s news empire. i ll get you more on that in just a moment. i wish i could say there s big news about the debt ceiling talks. i can t tell you that. there s more drama than dealing going on in d.c. right now. a fifth round of talks is set for today. but yesterday didn t go so well. house republicans called for a short-term extension and house majority leader eric cantor says this is what the president said in response. quote, don t call my bluff, eric. and then he walked out a few minutes later. president obama said all along he d veto any short-term measure. ed administration says failure to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by august 2nd could trigger a partial default on the part of the united states. thanks to that de