people died during a brutal heat wave this summer. but the reason has more to do with the way they are cooling off. the victims are drowning as they escape the heat in the river. russian officials say many adult victims had been drinking and many of the children weren t being watched at all. it s the kind of image that makes your heart skip a beat on overturned school bus in the middle of a highway. it happened this morning in kansas. 27 kids coming home from church camp were on board. nine taken to a hospital for treatment, one by helicopter. no word on what caused this accident. a debate among black leaders over the tea party movement. the naacp sees racism in signs like these from some tea party movement rallies. ones that tell the president to go back to kenya or depict him as an african witch doctor. tuesday the group called on the tea party movement to denounce
bendable straws for her speech. sarah palin will be headlining a big tea party rally today in boston. the group has staged many rallies across the country to protest taxes and government spending. but this one is being held in the city where the original boston tea party occurred more than two centuries ago. cnn political producer shannon travis is in boston and, shannon, you have been to a number of these tea party movement rallies. how is this one different or similar from all the rest? reporter: well, i can tell you it s the same. it s similar in that the crowd is pumped. crowd is pretty small right now. people are still filing in. they re waiting for sarah palin, who s like a darling of the movement. so it s similar to all the other rallies i ve been to in that the people are pumped, they re anticipating, waiting for sarah palin to come. it s different in that it s smaller right now. we would have expected ed a f people said they expected a few