mention because they were afraid to be associated with obamacare. that s how vulnerable it is. okay. we have to leave it there. i will make predictions here. one is that ted cruz will never stop talking. secondly, he will not succeed. there will be no government shutdown. third, he will be the new sarah palin. and the tea party will have emerged glorious again to take on its own party. ben thank you both so much. not to be outdone hillary clinton took a shot today. if they want to shut the government down, that s on their head and their responsibility. if they go even further which is deeply distressing, and for the first time lead our country into default on our obligations, that s not just partisan
right now it s still rather hot outside. wolf, you re lucky you re indoors because it feels like 107 degrees in washington, d.c. atlantic city, 104. and 103 in new york. it s only going to get hotter as we go through the afternoon. now, there going to be some relief on the way. and it s going to arrive in parts of the midwest today. tonight. because we do have that frontal system that emily was talking about. that s going to drop temperatures down for areas like chicago as well as grand rapids then that front makes its way over toward the east throughout the weekend. here s what we re going to look at for today. with that front, we have a severe weather threat for areas including parts of the midwest, parts of new england. saturday, you ll see relief. unfortunately, strong storms moving into areas like pittsburgh. for washington, d.c., hot today. high of 95. much warmer when you add in humidity. 95 on saturday. finally, wolf, you guys will be able to come out and play. the temperatures
over the last few days to tell them that our hearts and prayers are with them. none of us can imagine what they ve had to go through, what their children have had to go through, because of the threats of christopher dorner. and i just want to thank the members of the los angeles police department who put their lives on the line every single day. thank you very much. we re live. i ll say now in spanish [ speaking spanish ] okay, we re listening to mayor villaraigosa talking about he expressed condolences to the families of the deputies who were shot today, especially to the family of that s of course antonio villaraigosa, the mayor of los angeles. we re going to go right now to john yang, who is our nbc
we have less than 45% compliance. people out there can go and get a shot today. your physician or pharmacy has a flu shot. it takes about two or three weeks before it s effective and by then the season will be really peeking. since they got it right this year and matched the strain. the strain that is causing all this havoc is 75 to 80% of the tphrao eu ou flu out there. bill: it takes two to three weeks for the flu shot to be effective in your body. reporter: absolutely. you re saying that this year s match matches the strain that is out here. we have a member of our staff who has been in bed for the past week. what she is saying, what the doctors are telling you that you guess every tkwraoer, not you in particular but the cdc trying to figure out what strain will be the worst. and they missed. reporter: they guess every year. they look down in south america and asia, they see what the prevailing straeurpbs during our summer, their winter. this year they got it right, they did n
disappearance. in 2001 a judge declared patz dead and held a convicted child molester responsible. susan candiotti is responsible right now in new york. she ll be joining us in about two minutes from now. john edwards fraud trial begins tomorrow in north carolina. the former presidential candidate is accused of breaking campaign finance laws by allegedly using nearly $1 million to cover up a sexual affair with filmmaker rielle hunter. he denies any wrongdoing. still unclear whether george zimmerman will be released from jail. he has to come up with 10% of the $150,000 bond. zimmerman is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. chuck colson, a major figure from the watergate scandal, has died. colson was the first of richard nixon s aides to be convicted, and sent to prison for seven months. he had been the president s special counsel. but was also known as nixon s hatchet man. after leaving prison in the mid-1970s, colson founded