caught doing that, right? i m back in houston, which is easily one of the ugliest bases. it s all the old dudes and grannies and maybe a handful of cute chicks. someone is telling us about their endeavors. we don t need to hear that. ou wonder why southwest airlines has a bad reputation. bill: southwest airlines suspended him, sent him to sensitivity training. what s that you do these days! he apologized to the controllers and tothe mayor of houston, texas. we love houston, by the way. heather: and you ve never been caught doing that, right, on a mic! bill: not yet! ain t no cure for the summertime blues. it may be summer, but fewer people, maybe including that flight attendant, may not be enjoying it. a new report showing more and more americans, they are
latest. as for the potential of flooding and severe weather we have a slow moving system across the midwest and cold front with it bringing potential for showers and thunderstorms. some of these could be severe, potentially severe especially in the afternoon hours. we get the daytime heating. anywhere from the ohio river valley mid-atlantic back through the gulf coast states, that s where we could see the hail, strong wind and potential for tornados. the other big story? the incredible heat. we re already into day one of the summertime blues and look at some of these temperatures. incredible heat across phoenix and tucson, well over 100 and 110 degrees. we also have heat advisories if you believe it, they re used to this kind of heat, but excessive heat advisories for parts of southwest california in towards arizona. these are where we re dealing with wildfires. so the heat is not going to be helpful in containment of these wildfires. of course the flooding, back to the flooding story.
criticism. interesting thing is that senator coburn started that particular bit right there by saying, yes, i agree, the stimulus did do some good. you know, so if you really want to blame politics as gibbs did, well, coburn played both sides of the fence there. he said yeah, i do believe the stimulus worked but let s pay attention to the waste, too, and i think many americans would like to know what exactly that waste is. especially in these economic tim times. sure. that was the whole intent of recovery.gov where joe biden was going to keep an eye on things. mr. biden should have left both eyes open, there was some trouble. specifically trying to create or save 3 million jobs that the administration still says but can t point to job growth. impossible metric to prove unfortunately for them. senator coburn will be joining us 7:45 eastern time for more on summertime blues. president obama will try to drum up support with labor leaders ahead of the november elections.
blues thanks to the president s poorly mismanaged stimulus plan. coburn and mccain have released a report that lists 100 of the most ridiculous projects funded by the stimulus. the report is called summertime blues. it describes how careless the government has been spending billions of your hard earned tack dollars. tonight we highlight a few. in the great state of washington, home of mount st. helen s more than half a million spent to replace windows on a visitor center there. there s one itsy-bitsy problem. the site receiving the funds is currently closed and no reopen date has been set. we move on to pittsburgh, upwards of 62 million dollars are being spent on what is described in the report as a tunnel to nowhere kudoes to governor rendell who has come out and publicly criticized the project. next, national park in florida houses one of florida s
new york times called welcome to the recovery because good news, america, we are in recovery. really? ok, we know they re having a six-week summer of recovery to the administration is but yesterday, a couple of u.s. senators, mccain and coburn released a document with a list of 100 projects from the stimulus program that just was a waste. absolutely a waste. they called it summertime blues at least for all of us taxpayers who have given our sweat and tears to money to the government and here s wra it ended up. let s take a look at some of them. for service to replace windows in a closed visitors center at mount saint helen s. dance software to learn how to dance. $762,000 went to that. all right. brian would need that. i don t know about your dancing skills are but he would need that. how about this? $6 $62 million. it wasn t a bridge to nowhere.