heat index has been between 110 and 120. some of the smaller cities in texas don t have much relief. they have been between 108 and 112 degrees. this prompted the state of texas to open up cooling centers. now, these can be ymcas or libraries that really give people a little relief during the day where they can get some air-conditioning and all of this has been testing the texas grid. ercot, the operator of the texas grid, has said that people need to conserve energy and we want to do our part, poppy. we are going to try to make chocolate fondue today. we ve got some chocolate here and also some strawberries. it s not that hot yet, but, poppy, i think we are going to be able to achieve this with the texas heat. rosa flores with the live shot of the morning. why am i not surprised? i bet it s going to be super
so a number of texas don t emit all of the facts. okay. but that s okay. i m askingfacts. you not to adm the facts. so we have all thesefact corporations let me give yo a list here. here s the whole list. tesla, appl nationally, - they re world headquarters of r&d, their business headquartersean: bus out of you. and how many jobs are created in the list i gave and hows th d jobs left with them? how many jobs? i keep it. no, but you need to know nono e. it was insignificant, inconsequential. we create solar companies every- single day. more billionaires. i m scrolling these. i? te no. but one half of america s $1 billion valued companies1 are . the state of california. this state economy thisd the nation 3.1%1% in the last decade, 2.1% nationwide. i ve been hearing this nonsense for half a centurye literally half a century, but they ve only allowed us in recent years. we create how man many hay wi created, how many new ipos, how many new opportunities, how manypod ne jobs were
were purchased legally through private gun sales, which in texas don t require federal background checks. we ve learned the gunman also posted rambling sexist and anti-semitic miss sieves on a russian social media website and screen shots showing the busiest time at the allen premium outlet mall. the account appears to show he staked out the venue before the shooings. to me it looks like he targeted the location rather than a specific group of people. he was very random in the people he killed. it didn t matter the age, race or sex. he just shot people. reporter: the victims include 22-year-old christian lacour, 32-year-old elio and three members of the cho family, cindy and ku song. you don t know who else is next. meanwhile, brave bystanders who rushed to help are speaking out
mcconnell did not yield any breakthrough. in fact, it was much worse than that in the words of kevin mccarthy himself. the speaker said there was no progress at that meeting. going into the meeting, the president and democratic leaders had pushed mccarthy to simply raise the national debt limit. that s at $31.5 billion, allow the united states to continue borrowing to pay its bills, but don t attach any spending cuts. mccarthy has rejected that portion for some time, has called for direct calls with the white house. the house has rejected the calls. the gop passed a slew of spending cuts attached to raising the debt limit for one year. that s something that democrats say is dead on arrival. so where do they go from here? it is unclear whether they will be able to get an agreement to avert the first ever debt default in american history, something that could have drastic economic consequences. the leaders do plan to meet on friday. and in the interim, the staff
saw no clear progress. so both sides digging their heels in. but president biden seems confident that default on this country s debt will be avoided. does he have a plan that doesn t involve negotiating spending cuts with republicans? because that appears to be the only way out of this? someone needs to blink, don t they? how will the two sides avoid the catastrophic consequences of default? it s not clear that they will, rosemary. mitch mcconnell says we re not going to default. it s not clear that kevin mccarthy agrees. in fact, according to chuck schumer, mccarthy would not make that commitment today in the meeting. joe biden was the vice president in 2011 when barack obama took the opposite course. when he agreed to negotiate with republicans over the deficit tied to a debt ceiling increase. obama saw them as two separate processes. a republican saw them as one process. and that was such a catastrophic experience, brought the country so near default, led to a