down the nation s spinal column last night and today when the republican nominee threatened that this little democratic process you ve got here, it s nice, it s fine, but he doesn t necessarily plan on abiding by its decision when it comes to the presidency. given that shock that s just been administered to this sit te system, i want you to watch this. this is david souter. he will not make you feel better about what the republican party has done. but it s comfort to know that there was a reason to see this whole thing coming. this is justice david souter in new hampshire four years ago. i think some of the aspects of current american government that people on both sides find frustrating are in partly a function of the inability of people to understand how government can and should
think about what a solar flare is is to think about what the sun is made of, hydrogen and helium. we think of it as a big ball of gas and does release energy. sometimes you get concentrated energy at solar flares. you can see a couple of those in one day. as far as the weather goes, you re going to be wishing you had a little bit of heat across parts of the northeast. we re waking up to widespread frost advisors advisors advisories across the region. during the afternoon you will remain below average, low 60 s in new york city, 67 for your high temperature in cleveland. much warmer as you head farther west. in minneapolis you re going to reach a high temperature at 93 degrees. look at north pla it te. close to 100 degrees in parts of the north central. steve, tkpwre khrepb and brian. steve, gretchen and brian. gretchen: nascar is a
temperatures. just 75 miles from the coast, a dangerous wildfire is raging. and as kristen dahlgren reports, it s just one of many in the west that s burning out of control. reporter: this was terry and virginia s home. that was our kitchen and this is our living room. reporter: forced to evacuate on their wedding anniversary, by the time they got back, their marriage was one of the few things they had left. is it daunting to think about starting over? well, we didn t have insurance. so that was not a good they think. reporter: down the road, their neighbor, mary, is sifting through her broken memories. there s mom s and those are grandma s bowls. reporter: her house was saved in the nick of time and somehow the horses she was forced to leave behind in the rush to evacuate survived. my pony was right here and you can see the fire just a it te into his pen. reporter: there are miracles
from underneath our kids and grand kids and now we re saying there s something wrong with the people that want to get back to the thing that built this country rather than thing that tore it down. i tell you, senator, article 1, section 8, i should know this but i don t. it s the enumerated powers with be what the founders gave us as the authority under which we can work. the constitution is loaded with nos. it s not loaded with yes, sirs. it te we ve expanded the federal government outside the range, outside the range of what our founders ever thought the federal government would have a hand in. you can t go anywhere that the federal government doesn t have involvement and wrongly so, because quite frankly, even though we re well intentioned, we re not very good at doing these things. senator sam stein s in washington. he has a question for you.
smarter you are, the better educated you are, the more money you make. and that s happening across the developed and underdeveloped world. these are big forces, globalization, the information revolution. these are big huge forces. presidents do not control them. you can do things. there s still an argument for tax fairness. make that argument. you re right. but you re not going to fix the tidaled forces of the global economy by moving the top tax rate from 39% to 35% or the other way around. you can feel better about yourself, and at end of date you can say i m doing something to try to make the world more fair. but, mike, this goes back to the postwar world. a lot of soldiers come home after world war ii. they fill up factories. union membership grows to 33%, 34%, 35%. the middle class grows, and it te continues to grow until the early 1970s and we realize that the steel factories are moving to japan.