that attack came as norway is dealing with a home-grown terror plot linked to al-qaeda. greg burke is streaming live for us from rome with the very latest on this. >> reporter: hi, martha. that's right. you know, more and more news just keeps coming out, the latest is that which you mentioned which certainly does make it look like things were coordinated here. as many as five people shot at a youth camp or a youth meeting, sort of a summer camp thing just outside of oslo. also some reports of suspicious packages, one at a tv station, also at the train station. what we do know for sure, a bomb -- a very powerful one or perhaps more -- going off just a few hours ago. at least two dead, at least 15 injured, although those numbers could rise as there are also reports of people being trapped. that's how powerful this bomb was. the prime minister is unhurt, although bomb went off very close to his office right in downtown oslo on market street. you can see from the amount of glass scattered around those streets how much damage it would and could have done. now, it looks like a car bomb although police have not yet confirmed that, in fact, they have not yet confirmed if it was one or more bombs. reasons why this could be happening in oslo. charges were filed last week against an iraqi cleric in norway. he said he would kill norwegians if they tried to deport him. also they had a cartoon incident that the muslims took offense at in norway. two other reasons possible, norway involved in both afghanistan and in libya. now, martha, you know, how quickly we forget the train bombings in madrid, the bus and the metro bombings in london. but if you're living in europe, you just get the feeling today like here we go again. martha? martha: here we go again. greg, thank you very much. we'll get more on that from greg burke, also ambassador john bolton is enroute to our washington bureau. we expect to have him with us live moments from now and his take on that. that'll be about five minutes from now, so stay tuned for that. in the meantime, we have got this extreme weather going on in the united states. an epic heat wave that is baking a huge portion of this country. in fact, roughly half of all americans are coping with temperatures that are in the near triple digits right now. record breaking tops reported in the kansas -- temperatures reported in kansas all the way across to new york city. and it is not just unpleasant, it is dangerous in many places. at least 22 people have died related to this heat, and can there are new warnings that that number could be rising today. trace gallagher's following all this from our west coast newsroom, and he's got the very latest for us. hi there, trace. >> reporter: hey there, martha, we're talking about more than a million scare miles of the united states -- square miles of the united states, 27 states under extreme heat advisories, and man, this thing is getting bigger. waves move out, this is more of a heat dome where that heat bubble is just kind of sitting over much of the united states. the biggest danger, of course, is a lack of power. hard to stay cool when there's no ice or air-conditioning. most of the hot states are now breaking records for electricity usage. the midwest is planning some rolling blackouts, intermittent interruptions of power. but the northeast could get unschedule r scheduled brownouts, and experts are telling everyone to have a plan b if your power goes out. if camden, new jersey, concert fans were overcome by the blistering conditions there. dozens of fans had to be treated for heat exposure, dehydration. that also goes for the rest of these states affected. hospitals are seeing many, many more patients, are being hit by heat-related illnesses. along the southwest border, the border patrol is reporting finding more bodies of illegal immigrants who have simply become overcome by the heat, dehydration. and now what the border patrol is doing? they're actually sending out rescue units along the border to see if they can pick up any of these illegals who were trapped in the scorching desert. in new york city, the temperatures and the tempers are flaring. right? in the subways you know how hot it gets down there. two women fighting for one seat. i want you to watch the women fight, won woman sprays the other with pep beer spray, and keep an eye on the baby carriage in this. play it. >> [bleep] [bleep] >> baby, baby! >> crazy. >> hey, baby! the baby! >> reporter: the fight goes on, martha. they keep saying, hey, the baby. those two women go at each other, the baby carriage has rolled off of the subway onto the train platform, and the mother is still fighting. this fight went on for about two and a half minutes, it was finally broken up. the mother and her baby left. that woman, kind of a profanity-laced, you know, directive toward the woman who was walking off the subway. martha: i don't even know what to say. what do you say? >> reporter: yeah. that's how hot it is. martha: unbelievable. trace, that was something. thank you very much. all right, so glad to hear that she got the baby carriage and settled the dispute somewhat on the train. so that's how the stick by weather is impacting at least some people. so you can get the latest on all these temperatures and where they, what they're like out there. find out how to stay cool, all that is right on our web site at foxnews.com, check that out in the meantime. and then we have this for you. another fox news alert this afternoon, and this one on the critical debt negotiations that are playing out right now on capitol hill. this is crunch time, folks, for real today. today, in fact, is president obama's self-imposed deadline that lawmakers must reach a deal on taking a machete to this ballooning deficit in terms of getting this debt ceiling raised. so far we've got a little bit of movement, but certainly no sign of an agreement at this point. but there's a lot of new people who are talking to each other in this thing, and earlier today the president held a town hall meeting and and said that the situation in his mind is very serious. >> the challenge i have in these negotiations is whether i like it or not, i've got to get the debt ceiling limit raised. i just want to make sure that everybody understands, um, defaulting is not an option. martha: all right. we've heard those words before, but the fact that we heard them today may tell us something. let's bring in chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. chris s the president, you know, he's had interviews with npr, today he was in maryland at this university. is the president signaling that he may be getting close to agreeing to a deal that would raise this debt ceiling and that would have no tax hikes in it? >> reporter: well, he'll have to give his base something. he can't expect them to walk into this without even a symbolic tax increase. but, yes, obviously, what's happening now is the president is trying to soften the blow for his supporters being in a deep blue, very liberal state like maryland, being on a college campus be, rallying supporters in if a campaign-style event and, as you said, going on national public radio. these are all efforts on the president's part to reach out to liberals and say, look, i don't want to do a deal like this, but i have no choice so please understand me as i have to do this. martha: all right. we've got another piece of sound we want to play for everybody in relation to this. >> in order for us to solve the debt deficit problems, we've got to cut spending that we don't need, we have to eliminate programs that may not be working, we've got to make some tough decisions around things like defense spending as well as domestic spending. martha: you know, a couple other things, chris, that have been developing, and one is this news that there may be talks going on between the mcconnell backers of that plan and the gang of six folks that maybe they could get together. the question is if they did, what would we get out of that, and would they be able to pass that? >> reporter: if you're in washington and you have an impossible situation, a good horse to bet on is mitch mcconnell, the minority leader in the senate. he's got a plan on offer that, basically, trades the president a debt ceiling increase for a year of political pain, that the president gets his increase, but he has to revisit it multiple times through the year. what senator mcconnell is offering the president is, look, attach anything you want as a future condition. you can make it the gang of six that is about a $4 trillion plan, you can do this plan that boehner, house speaker john boehner and the president are talking about, or you can just do the house majority leader eric cantor plan which is a $1.5 trillion straight cut for a $1.5 trillion increase in the debt limit. he doesn't care, but what he's saying is i'm going to make this hurt for the president over the coming year, and we're going to get out of this deal intact. martha: yeah. a lot of folks who don't like that deal out there, but some believe it's the only way to go. john boehner just did a special order speech, and in the it he says, look, the gop has acted, we passed cut, cap and balance in the house, we know that didn't fly in the senate. he says barack obama talks about being the adult in the room, but where is his plan? >> reporter: yeah. one starts to think that perhaps speaker boehner's property stations to rush limbaugh and others yesterday about there being no deal were sincere because what he said on the floor today was not the kind of language you use closing in this on a deal. he said this weekend would be a very hot weekend in the washington, he wasn't just talking about the temperature, and it's true. this is his last chance with obama to put something together that they can make part of the final discussion next week. martha: yeah. we're going to show some of that tape of john boehner in a very unusual speech on the floor called a special order speech. chris stirewalt, thank you so much. a lot moving today. all right, today's vote a disappointment for the tea party-backed lawmakers. coming up, we're going to take a closer look at the latest push against the group that's coming from the left. now, many are accusing the tea party of being dangerous, of being out of touch, of even being self-destructive. so is this a fair assessment of this group that has completely arrived on the political spectrum considering that voters elected them to do exactly what they're doing right now? they promised they would hold the line on spending, that's what they're doing. not getting a big reaction from that in the mainstream media. we're going to have a fair and balanced debate on that moments from now. and we continue to keep one eye on this story, awful breaking news coming in the from norway after that bombs -- bombing earlier. now reports that a gunman went into a youth camp, and the wires are saying that a number of people have been shot in this incident. ambassador john bolton joins us now in three minutes on that story as an investigation is now underway following another deadly bus crash on our nation's roads as well. one person is dead, dozens more are injured, and we may be joined moments from now by the soldier who helped to save lives at this scene. he became a first responder. this is an incredible story, and we're trying to get a conversation with him going. we'll keep you posted on that. also an ohio policeman under fire for a rant that was caught on his dash cam. did this officer overreact? 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>> well, this is a very un-norwegian act, so the odds of it coming from someone other than a native norwegian, i think, are extremely high, and it is a classic terrorist effort, and it's going to have a dramatic impact on norway. there have been speculations because the famous muhammad cartoons were published there, because of this cleric who's under deportation proceedings. so without anyone taking responsibility for it or any definitive evidence, we can't say for be sure, but it sure looks like islamic terrorism. martha: just want to mention, we're just getting this piece of information from sky news, and it says that one man has been arrested on the island of lutoya, i hope i'm pronouncing that correctly n the shooting there. the norwegian prime minister was due to attend that political youth camp on the island tomorrow and address the attendees who we're told they range in the age from 16 to 30 who attend this. they also say that five people, they can now confirm according to sky, have been shot in this. we don't know how serious those injuries are as of yet, but that's the very latest, ambassador be bolton, that we're hearing. >> right. there is a substantial immigrant population from the middle east in the particular in norway, and like most of the european countries, they don't have a tradition of integrating immigrants into the society. no melting pot in norway. and be so the differences between the previous norwegians and the immigrants have been a source of tension, as they have been throughout much of europe. martha: yeah. we're looking at these scenes, and there was a car that was found on its side that looks like it may have been the car that was used in a car bomb blast. but it is the typical sort of, you know, result because all the windows up the whole front of the building have been blown out, and we know that two people were kill inside this attack and we're just, basically, waiting to get more information or see if any group claims responsibility here. ambassador bolton, we thank you very much for getting there quickly and giving us your immediate response to all of this. we appreciate it. >> sure. thank you. martha: all right. and we brought you a story earlier this week about a marine who was killed when he was thrown from a roller coaster in upstate new york. this was just a horrible story. he had lost his legs in iraq, but he and his family decided that hld be okay for him to go on this roller coaster. he wanted to be part of this adventure at that amusement park. we just have this breaking moments ago. new york state officials say the operator error was, indeed, to blame for that fall, so breaking news on that story. we'll bring you more details on that just ahead. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? 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