region or through texas. it s all going to be rain over new mexico during the day today. our problems in our country will deal with severe storms. we don t have a big threat, but about one million people at risk today. just outside of denver, just down towards oklahoma city and wichita, and for oklahoma city, it will be a late night event for you. let s track this cold front over the next couple of days. the storms pop up around 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. then midnight, they head down to oklahoma city. then we do it again on friday as the cold front cools you off in chicago. not going to feel like a summer weekend in the great lakes with the cool temperatures. friday storms through the ohio valley, and then, unfortunately, for all our friends in the mid-atlantic and up in the northeast, saturday that line of storms coming over i-95 saturday afternoon. not the best late beach afternoon or evening in areas of the northeast and there s no signs of any heat to come too. it looks pretty cool through
in on the holiday. but let s talk chris christie. absolutely unapologetic, the new jersey governor, once a republican star, caught on camera relaxing in the sun on a state-run beach that he himself closed because of this budget battle with new jersey lawmakers. he didn t close beaches on just any summer weekend, keep in mind. this is the fourth of july. perhaps the summer s biggest celebration, and social media criticism exploded. here is how chris christie dismissed it. sitting there with a baseball hat and shorts and a t-shirt, talking to my wife and talking to our guests. i don t apologize for it. i don t back away from it. and i think my poll numbers show that i don t care about political optics. now if they had flown that plane over that beach and i was sitting next to a 25-year-old blonde in that beach chair next to me, that s a story. that s a sound byte of the day. michael singleton is with us.
that randy realizes how close he came to losing his life. when i saw the video, it kind of brought things back into perspective. and realized how lucky i was. in all actuality i should have gone over that bridge or burned up in the truck. the weight of 40,000 pounds of frozen chicken is most likely what stopped the truck from going over the edge. randy pierce survives his brush with death, but not every driver is quite so lucky. a tanker truck explosion brings a bridge of concrete and steel crashing to the ground. this looks like a terrible collapse of this roadway. as you can see, the fire is still burning. july 24th, 1998. it s friday afternoon and interstate 40 is jammed with travelers racing to get an early start on the summer weekend.
the atlantic, some people thought he was crazy. well, after charles lindbergh actually succeeded, many considered his achievement a miracle. his spirit of st. louis is now on display at the smithsonian, but you can see a near perfect replica actually fly each summer weekend at the old rhine beck aerodrome in upstate new york. a tribute to the pilot and the flying machine he used to shrink our world. the roaring 20s. flappers with short skirts and bob haircuts symboliziing a time of rapid economic growth in the booming united states. on the ground, henry ford led the charge with his model t, the automobile for the common man was born as a revolutionary idea that quickly became a necessity.
it s only after it s all over that randy realizes how close he came to losing his life. when i saw the video, it kind of brought things back into perspective. and realized how lucky i was. in all actuality i should have gone over that bridge or burned up in the truck. the weight of 40,000 pounds of frozen chicken is most likely what stopped the truck from going over the edge. randy pierce survives his brush with death, but not every driver is quite so lucky. a tanker truck explosion brings a bridge of concrete and steel crashing to the ground. this looks like a terrible collapse of this roadway. as you can see, the fire is still burning. july 24th, 1998. it s friday afternoon and interstate 40 is jammed with travelers racing to get an early start on the summer weekend.