out of control high winds, dry air creating the perfect firestorm in texas. hundreds of homes and a church that stood for 100 years, gone. as people pray for rain on this american morning. and good morning to you. so glad you re with us on this tuesday, april 19th. they are dealing with quite a mess in texas. they say every county in the state except for two has some fire, sort of wildfire burning. 98% started by a human, some sort of a spark. doesn t take much, dry tender. not a lot of good weather or rainy weather in store for them. also ahead this hour, america s dire money warning. the markets nose dive after a top credit agency says the u.s. may not be able to pay off all of its debts, fearing gridlock until election day 2012. also another air traffic controller suspended. this one wasn t sleeping.
sleeping during someone else s speech. talk about the pot calling the kettle boring. here it s amazing during the barack obama speech and he s a great speaker. imagine if al gore or john kerry would be speaking? biden would be in a coma right now. mike: if the president s vision for the economy puts his own vice-president asleep, maybe we ought to find a more dynamic vision. we asked the vice-president if it was so boring it put him to sleep. he denied that the speech was a dozer, in light of recent polls indicating the president might not win a second term, he needed to find a backup career for when his term ended. he said he he wasn t sleeping, he was simply trying out for a now job, as an air traffic controller. if you re depressed with washington, i went it a broadway show called
well, the republicans didn t pass a health care bill like this, that is factually true. the more relevant truth is that this president has spent the last year giving speeches like the one he gave today to no effect. here we are approaching the middle of march with a self-imposed deadline with the end of march to get this through, and there still aren t the votes, not from republicans, but from democrats on the hill. they re not behind this president s health care plan and that, again, is despite millions of words from this white house on this subject. will another speech make the difference? it s hard to see how it could. jane: just for the record, i know he wasn t sleeping, he was looking at these blackberries that no, i was reading the president s speech. jane: okay, good! doing homework, even better. john boehner just put out a statement saying that the president this morning is heavy on snake oil and light on reality in this sales pitch as he called it. is he going to be able
that time line begins with a dose of valium also known as diazepam at 1:30 a.m., which didn t work. then at 2:00 a.m., he gave jackson an anxiety drug called lorazepam, but jackson was still awake. at 3:00 a.m., a sedative called med dazz. still nothing. at 5:00 a.m., more of the anxiety drug, then 7:30 a.m., more of the sedative. but jackson still wasn t sleeping and murray said his famous patient was specifically asking for propofol. some nine hours after jackson first went to bed at 10:40 a.m., dr. murray gave in and administered 25 milligrams of propofol, a fairly small dose, to jackson through an i.v. drip. but investigators say dr. murray s story doesn t add up, that the l.a. county coroner s office found concentrations of propofol in jackson s blood that suggested he gave a lot more propofol to jackson than the doctor has
kwik stop to get some smokes. i went on doing what i was doing, and i came home. i thought he was sleeping. i tried to wake him up but he wasn t sleeping. he was gone. at 4:40 p.m., nicholas colber was dead. what would surprise many friends and stephanie colber is what killed her son sold to him at a convenience store. he bought the drug for about $25. nicholas had smoked synthetic marijuana, also known as spice. his autopsy report says it all. synthetic cannabinoid toxicity. rapid heartbeat and seizures. i m so surprised at how many people have not heard of this. it boggles my mind. mostly made in asia, spice is sold at convenience stores and