16 people have already died since thursday when triple digit temperatures unleashed the deadly storms leaving millions without power. you see all of these states in yellow? these are the states suffering in ohio, 425,000 customers without power as of 10:00 last night. same story in virginia, same story in maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are waiting, waiting for that electricity to flip back on. there is still really no let up in sight this morning. 20 states under heat advisories and there's a state of emergency in maryland, ohio, west virginia and virginia. athena jones is live this mother. what's the situation, it sounds dire. >> reporter: it is, we're standing at an intersection where a traffic signal just got the power back not too long ago. there are several i can see down the road that don't have power. that's a big issue as people head back to work on this monday morning. we did get an update. the utility companies say the workers are out in full force working around the clock. they've got teams from 12 states and as far away as quebec, helping to get the pow are restored. the latest from pepco, a few miles north of d.c., they have 229,000 people without power and dominion in virginia, which at one point, a main provider there, 1 million customers without power are down to 247,000. so progress is being made but that's little consolation to people who still don't have power when they are dealing with high temperatures, it's supposed to be 95 and up today here. not counting the heat index. the companies say if the weather cooperates, that is to say there aren't more storms that come through and create more problems, they should be able to get everyone's power back on by the end of the week. of course, it's only monday. >> make sure you and your crew stays hydrated as well, athena jones in maryland. colorado, whole other story there, battling extreme heat and deadly wildfires. this morning it looks like firefighters, they are finally gaining the upper hand with the waldo canyon fire, now 55% contained. the focus now is on the evacueeses. evacuation orders have been lifted for all but 3,000 people. sadly, many of them will return to absolute devastation. one fire victim posted this heart-wrenching video of the place she called for 18 years. >> my house. probably on the -- oh, my god. smoke in the air, so bad. let me see if i can pull up through here. this hill was on fire a second ago. there's flames. this is my [ bleep ] oh, my god. >> that is tough to listen to. rob marciano, i know you're talking a lot of people in colorado springs who are thankful they have their lives but lost everything else. that containment number is much higher than last time we talked last week. >> reporter: yeah, and you know, we had record breaking high temperatures again here in colorado and yesterday red flag warnings with gusty winds, firefighters were worried but 55% containment on this thing but the damage is done. almost 18,000 acres as you know, over 340 homes completely destroyed. the most destructive wildfire in colorado history. now the victims are allowed to go back and look. they are doing it in kara vans of personal vehicles. at one point they were going to put them on buses but probably a more humane way to do it in privacy of your own vehicle. this is what folks had to come back to. and sun up now coming on colorado front range, revealing the charred landscape here, brook. it's been an emotional week as you can imagine from shock to sadness, to frustration of not being able to go back to their homes to sadness once again of seeing what's left of their homes. down from 32,000 evacueeses to 3,000 and a lot of those -- a lot of those won't go back at home because they'll have to rebuild or move somewhere else, sadly. >> can't imagine all of them being on one big bus, as least they can, the more humane way of seeing what they lost individually, rob marciano, awful stuff you have to cover. we appreciate you in colorado springs, colorado. in maryland, more than 200,000 people are without electricity and there's a major cleanup operation under way right now. want to bring in the mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings-blake. her city has extended a code red heat alert through tomorrow. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> tell me what you're doing for folks in the baltimore area to keep them from suffering heat exhaustion, heat stroke. it's supposed to be triple digits for the next couple of days. >> we're dealing with two weather emergencies, certainly the derecho, weird storm that no one knows what it is, but the heat is the majorening and that's where we anticipate being vulnerable with heat deaths. we've been giving out ice an asking city residents to check on vulnerable neighbors, those without power and they know don't have air conditioning. check on them, living in isolation, to check and really come together neighbor to neighbor. >> i read you spent your sunday, correct me if i'm wrong, handing out ice blocks to people who i know don't have the ac and in terms of major intersections, have lived in the d.c., baltimore area. i know morning commutes aren't fun, especially adding insult to injury with the fact that the lights aren't working. talk to me about what you're doing, are you bringing in police officers to make sure they get through the intersections a-okay? >> we have generators out at many intersections and where we aren't able to have rate generators, we have police officers. we don't want to contribute to that by having the intersections being blocked. obey the traffic signals, please be mindful of the officers at the crosswalks and we're going to get through this. it is rough, it is rough especially with the heat on top of not having power but i believe we're going to get through it. >> i read a quote from your governor saying, you got this hurricane punch without the two, three, four days of heads up and you could be seeing more thunderstorms. are you getting, mayor, getting more federal help or federal help period? >> we have been in touch with fema to make sure we are all on the same page. we're tracking our spending. if we do qualify for federal assistance, we have all of the receipts to make sure we are tallying up the cost -- >> if you do, so you haven't yet? >> right. >> okay, what is your biggest worry going forward? >> the biggest worry is the heat-related deaths. that is where we are vulnerable. so many people, about a quarter of the citizens are still without power. and when we have citizens that we know are 65 and older and living in isolation, those are vulnerable population, we're really trying to get the word out. we're going to go back out with ice and opening additional cooling centers with air conditioning so people have options, we need to make sure we're checking on each other. >> we appreciate it. good luck to you. >> thank you. >> let's see what else is going on in the news. zoraida, good morning. >> mexico's old guard returning to power after a 12-year absence. an official preliminary vote count of the institutional revolutionary party winning the election but leftist candidate is refusing to concede defeat. nieto's party controlled mexico for more than -- years, until the election in 2000. new york state supreme court will intervene in the congressional race between charlie rangel and his challenger. there will be a hearing this afternoon. rangel has already declared victory and his opponent conceded but now it seems votes in dozens of districts vanished. the latest count shows rangel's lead has dwindled to 802 votes, with more than 3,000 still uncounted. new evidence shows three former penn state officials may have covered up a 2001 incident involving former coach jerry sandusky and a young boy in a shower. this is according to e-mail, cnn hag going through between former university president, graham spanier and gary schultz and tim curley, after graduate assistant mike mcqueary reported the incident to them, spanier decided to not tell authorities and instead told curley, the onlydownside for us is if the message isn't heard and acted upon and we become vulnerable for not having reported it. but that can be assessed down the road. curley and schultz face perjury and also accused of failing to properly reporting suspected child abuse. the only abortion clinic still operating in mississippi can stay open for now. a new law in the state took effect yesterday requiring a abortion providers to be certified ob-gyn practitioners with privileges at local hospitals. a federal judge issued a restraining order that keeps the clinic's doors openal least until a hearing on july 11th. that graduate student from georgia who lost her hands, left leg and her right foot to flesh eating bacteria is leaving the hospital today and she is headed to a rehab center. amy copeland's father says his daughter will get inpatient treatment and work on her graduate these sis in psychologist at the same time, i'm not kidding. she hopes to graduate from the university of west virginia in december. good luck to her. our runaway victory, defending champion spain trounced italy, 4-nil. that was sunday in kiev, spain got out to an early lead and never looked back. spain becomes the first country to win three major tournaments in a row, consecutive victories and 2008 european champion son and 2010 world cup and now the championship. >> michael phelps could be headed for another eight gold medals at the summer games. 100 meter fly last night with a world leading time of 51.14 seconds, that means he is qualified for five individual races and likely to be selected for three relayteams. he says this is going to be his last olympic games. get ready to see and hear a lot about this gal, missy franklin, she blue away the field in the 200, swimming the fastest time, 2:6.12 seconds, four individual and three expected relay. she will be the first woman to do that in a single games and missy, just 17 years old, high school senior in the fall. >> amazing. i was in london recently for the diamond jubilee, that place is one big party, between the diamond jubilee and the london olympic games. >> now we've told you who to watch. >> thank you very much. i love the olympics, so exciting. still ahead, republicans are fighting for the upper hand in the health care debate. will voters and not the u.s. supreme court have the final word come november. doctor and republican congressman tom price will join me live with the gop's new line of attack. our get real, listen to this, are facebook and twitter making young girls more aggressive these days. you're watching "starting point" on a monday morning. the postal service is critical to our economy, delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet the house is considering a bill to close thousands of offices, slash service and layoff over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. house bill 2309 is not the answer. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so pick your favorite spot on the gulf... and come on down. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. welcome back, i'm alson kosik with your headlines, the lawsuit centered on whether apple or pro view, a chinese computer monitor company, owned the rights to the ipad name in china. the settlement means apple can move forward in sales in its second biggest market. a leap second added to the clock has been causing technical glitches for popular websites like four square and yelp and gawker. the leap second if you didn't notice was added saturday to keep the coordinated universal time clock in alignment with the earth's rotation. we're watching stocks set for a mixed open today. dow futures are up. unemployment in the eurozone hit 11.1% in may. in china, manufacturing is slowing down, the concern for wall street is how all of that will affect the u.s. you know what, brook, one day it's a good day, another day it's -- we have 200-point gain on friday and who knows what today will bring. >> that's what we were talking about 4:00 on friday, changes on a dime, doesn't it alison kosik. >> it does. >> blan keting the sunday shows insisting that the supreme court's decision thursday will not stop their efforts to bring down a law, but when pressed on what the party would replace it with, they were kind of vague and instead answering the question by turning the focus back on the law itself. >> let me say the single best thing we can do for the american health care system is to get rid of obama care. >> preserve any of these programs or does everything go? >> we will vote to repeal the entire law i believe on july 11th. what's frustrating about this, when obama care was being deliberated, we were offering patient center solutions -- we can have a health care system in america where america has affordable access to health insurance, including people with preexisting conditions without a government takeover. >> tom price is a republican from georgia, also a doctor and also the chairman of the republican policy committee, congressman price, good morning to you. >> good to be with you, thank you. >> let's talk about the public. do you think the public is ready to move on? i'm sure you've gotten many letters and e-mails from your constituents since thursday. what are they telling you? >> just what they are saying on wednesday, they think this law is the wrong direction. regardless of his constitutionality, it's the wrong policy for the country. as a physician i know they believe that because they are concerned about the relationship that they have with their physician, this doesn't work for patients or doctors or employers, already small businesses are saying they are not going to be able to hire because of this law. doesn't work for states. you've got a lot of states opting out. it clearly doesn't work for the federal government from a financial standpoint. we need to repeal the law and move in a positive direction that gets folks covered and sofltz the insurance challenges and we can save hundreds of billions of dollars all without putting washington in charge. >> let me jump back to what you're saying, americans are saying we're going in wrong direction. it appears the approval numbers are up. according to this gallup poll, 46% agree with the supreme court's decision, 46% don't. more interestingly, among independents, 45% now agree, 42% disagree. as i mentioned, those approval numbers are up since thursday. do those numbers, sir, do they suggest that the public is ready to move on from this? >> i think what the american people will say, if the supreme court rules its constitutional, then it's constitutional. the fact it's constitutional, doesn't mean it's the right policy for the country. i had a conference call last night with doctors from around the country who are so terribly concerned about this law because they know it will limit their ability to care for their patients. that's the bottom line. if doctors aren't able to provide the kind of care they've been trained and through their experience give to their patients, then this is the wrong law and that's exactly what we believe will occur and what the doctors of the land understand. >> the r word we've been hearing from republicans, repeal, july 11th, it really is strictly symbolic, you don't have a majority in the senate and don't have a republican sitting in the walk. here's what's phil gringry told us this friday. >> one issue over the next four months, repeal obama. once we do that, then indeed if we have a majority? the senate, we maintain that majority in the house of representatives and we have the 45th president of the united states, mitt romney, then we can indeed repeal this bill and do it by reconciliation since it's a tax issue now as justice roberts has redefined the law. >> so, let's say you and your republican colleagues get your way and repeal this law. you know as a doctor there are multiple parts to this law that people really like, including preexisting conditions, coverage for that, allowing kids to stay on their parents insurance and reducing medicare, the doughnut hole for prescription drugs. how do you then congressman, you repeal the law, yet you keep the parts that people like. how do you do that? >> again, they are wonderful solutions, first you've got to repeal it because the premise for the president's law of the land is that washington knows best about your health care. again, that's harming the ability for physicians to treat patients, it's also harming the ability for small businesses to hire out there. not just bad for health care, it's bad for the economy. now the proposals that we put on the table will get virtually every single american covered but covered with the kind of health coverage and insurance they want for themselves and for their family, not that the government wants for them. affordable and preexisting are relatively easy to solve. you allow individuals to take -- to own their coverage regardless of who's paying for it so it goes with them if they change their job. >> how do you maintain that with regard to the preexisting conditions. you have to have healthy folks paying the premiums so the people with the preexisting conditions are covered. >> if you look at whose troubled by the problem of preexisting illnesses and industries, it's smokes in the individual and small group market. the easiest way is with robust pooling mechanisms for millions of americans so they can pull together and get the purchasing power of millions. you make it so every single american can have the kind of health coverage they want not what the government wants for them. it's a critical distinction. >> i want to get to this question because it's really -- we're all fascinated and some people surprised the role of chief justice john roberts and the whole decision. i want to read two op-eds from the "washington post." chief justice john roberts last week did something that inpolarized washington, may turn out to be more important than saving obamacare, compromise can be consistent with principle. the chief justice is a genius, all of a sudden he's a chess master, battle loser but war winner, daniel webster for our times, now that we've had more time to take in chief justice roberts reasoning, we have a better summary politician. congressman price, which is it, politician or symbol of bipartisanship? >> i think historians will be able to answer that better than i. what i will tell you -- >> no, if i may, which is it to you in your opinion? >> i think the chief justice was wrong on this but that's not for me to say. the court has ruled and i respect that ruling but i think what the chief justice says, he said it himself, not the role of the court to protect the citizens from their political decisions. he threw it right back in the american people's lap and appropriately so. this is a policy decision. whether or not it's constitutional and it's been now ruled constitutional, doesn't mean it's the right policy and now we've got to go to the people and say, do you want washington involved in your lives in this manner, or do you believe -- >> i understand so you won't give me whether he's a politician or man of bipartis bipartisansh bipartisanship? you won't give it to me. >> i don't think that's 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