Winds reaching 100 miles per hour. At least 25,000 people have lost power. The rest of the east coast trying to figure out if it will affect the summers biggest holiday. Justin ross harris will stand trial for leaving a 22monthold son cooper in a hot car. The detective telling the judge the father had been texting nude photographs while the little one was dying. The common term called sething. One of the fighters caught fire. Under water, the coscosta concordi concordia. They expect to move it next month. Recreate the famous picture. Whoo. Its getting hot in here. The usda said it found direct link between a chicken brought to foster farms that made hundreds sick. A hiker got stranded. All that. Busted for embezzling. He apologizes and if you are not getting your mail, maybe its because of this, your delivery guy. The postal worker caught tossing packages into the bushes. And all that matters. A fourth of julys holiday edition. Her teeth are like razors. Her jaw is like a vice grip. Her eyes well, theyre just eyes but theyre very angry. Last year Joey Chestnut hit a record of eating 69 hot dogs with buns. His parents must be whats the word proud. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose, norah odonnell, and gayle king are all off. But, hey, were here. Along with margaret brennan. Happy fourth of july. Happy fourth of july. Happy to celebrate it with you. As america celebrates its 28th birthday, arthur crashed along the shore. Arthur will race up the east coast staying jeff offshore. Our correspondents are stationed along the Atlantic Coast this morning. Begin with Susan Mcginnis in nags head, North Carolina, near the eye of the storm. Susan, good morning. Reporter good morning. Thousands of people are waking up here across the outer banks this july 4th to survey the damage after hurricane arthur slammed in here, made landfall late last night. Overnight arthur swept through eastern North Carolina, strengthening into a category 2 hurricane. It is a devastating mix. Winds gusting over 100 miles per hour, and torrential rains are pummeling the outer banks. Late last night officials were tracking the storm, not expecting arthur to change course, putting thousands more in its destructive path. So most people that have been concerned have been directly on the coast. Now we have concerns about people inland who may be impacted by potential flooding and rivers going over their banks. Reporter more than two dozen county are in a state of emergency. With a threat of serious floodi flooding, thousands have been forced to leave. Many are set up in shelters waiting for the storm to pass. We didnt know what was going to happen on the beach. We didnt want to take any chances so we figured wed just came here. As hurricane arthur is battling along the coast, people are encouraged to stay inside. This is a serious storm. Please, be safe, be smart and enjoy the wonderful fourth of july Holiday Weekend. Reporter it may be hard to believe, anthony, but Officials Say it will be a beautiful weekend. Some reward. Thanks, susan. People on the outer banks have seen hurricanes before, but never on the fourth of july. Reporter good morning from kill devil hills. Were still seeing some very strong wind gusts here. You can see the angry ocean bheenld me, but conditions have been improving. Weve been battered for the past few hours but as arthur moves offshore, things are starting to improve. The big concern, during the daylight well be better able to assess the damage there. People were surprised at how quickly the storm came through. People were enjoyed the sun set. They hope to be later on today and then get on with their weekend. Colin, thank. New pictures from the International Space station show the size of this well organized storm. It will affect the weekend weather for tens of millions of people. Chief meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz is tracking arthur. Eric, good morning. Where is this headed . Good morning. Steaming off to the north and east its picking up with wind gusts over 100 miles per hour. The pressure is down to. 973. Not expecting any more intensification but its will hold its own as it quickly moves off to the north and east. About due east of the Atlantic City and as we work toward tonight making a close pass with new england. By saturday morning its well off to the north and east making landfall toward the canadian mariti maritime. In terms of the winds theyre pulling away from the North Carolina coastline but Tropical Force Winds will come across cape cod and nantucket tonight and the other thing to deal with, anthony, is the flash flooding concerns and heavy rain especially up here in the boston a area. Now to the georgia father who left his son in a hot car. Justin remains in jail. They laid out evidence that they say proves the death was no accident. As Mark Strassmann reports, part of their case is that harris was living a double life. Reporter Dustin Ross Harris said it was terrible mistake when he left his 22monthold son cooper inside a suv. While his son died his father was exchanging lewd photos and photos with six women including a teenage girl. The conversation, what nature would they be . The most common term, sexting. Reporter he made internet searches on parents without children and how to survive in prison. The day cooper died, she showed up at his regular day care to be told the boy was never dropped off. And in front of several witnesses all of a sudden she states ross must have left him in the car. Reporter detective stoddard said neither parent showed much emotion. He talked about losing his job. He said, aisle lose my job, how will beget through this. Then what. She sat down and said, did you say too much. Reporter during the testimony he seemed genuinely upset. He said, oh, my god, my son is dead, my son is dead. The results were terrible, awful, and that mans going to have to live with those for the rest of his life as is his wife, his family, as is the community. But that dont make it a crime. Reporter but the murder charge will stand and harris could pace the death penalty. For cbs this morning, Mark Strassmann, atlanta. Such a troubling story. Were also following clashes in jerusalem near a religious site sacred to jews, muslims, and christians. This is after a murder of a palestinian teenager whose funeral is being held today. Alex ortiz is on the mount of olives where the violence is growing. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The riots are already starting to spread now that the friday prayer is over. Its the third day of a violent up rest and with the trial for the murder of a teenager is schedule cooled, theyre expecting the worst theyre expecting further unrest. The family said this grainy cctv footage the morning mohammed was abducted appears to show the moment he was taken. The car pulled up outside his house, two figures get out and the car speeds away. The body was burned so badly it needed dna identification. Authorities are still investigating the murder. Mohammeds cousin showed the room he shared with his brothers. His backpack ready for school. Until wednesday he took the lower bufrpg. She told us his death has also immobilized the palestinian community. Its anger. This is the word i can say. Its anger. Everyone has that feeling inside. Why . Why mohammed . Why are you doing this to us . Reporter the recent killings of children has been the latest spark for the violence. There are long simmering tensions and mohammeds cousin told us hes the latest victim in an Endless Round of violence. Anthony . This morning the chairman believes iraqs future is bleak if it doesnt come up with a political solution to end the fighting. General Martin Dempsey also said the u. S. Would launch an assault against insurgents only if they became a threat to america. But he insists for now u. S. Troops in iraq will not get involved in the fighting. The advisers are categorically not involved in combat operations. Theyre literally assessing. Thats their task. If the assessment comes back and reveals it would be beneficial to this effort and ours to put the advisers in a different role, i will first cop sult with the secretary. Well consult with the president and move ahead. He believes they can hold back baghdad but not get back the rest of the country. Documents released by the Veterans House Committee shows more than 2. 8 million were paid to officials for their performance last year. Some of the money went to the executives in charge to the same facilities now under investigation over claims of falsifying records dealing with wait time. Wyatt andrews is in washington where lawmakers are following the money trail. Wyatt, good morning. Good morning. Here is that list. Seven pages, single spasd. Most of them were earned under the rules but theyre questioning why 20 of the awards may have gone to executives connected to mismanagement or supervised hospital. A bonus of more than 9,000 went to sharon helman, the direct f of the facility in phoenix where 18 died. Her bonus has been rescind. Almost 9,000 went to susan bowers despite two whistle blowing investigations 8,200 went to cynthia mccormack. We went in and found those who were at there. In phoenix debbie allen believes her husband mel allen died from Bladder Cancer after waiting eight months for care. Now theyre covering up the coverup which is really a disgusting thing to do. For money, you know, for bonuses. We could not reach sharon helman. Susan bowers said her bonuses were based on the many positive things ive done while i was there. Cynthia mccormack referred us to the headquarters and said she got her bonus based on the Information Available at the time. We had suspected for a long time that bonuses were given out like candy, that they were an entitlement. The v. A. Has suspended their senior Level Bonuses for this yeek. Over the last month, theyve contacted 140,000 to get them care but over 46,000 remain on the waitlist for care. When trading resumes on monday, the dows expected to open above 17,000 for the first time. That, thanks to a surge after yesterdays betterthanexpected employent report. The economy added 288,000 jobs in june. I was the fifth straight month in gains above 200,000. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 1 . The lowest since 2008. President obama trumpeted the numbers thursday. It gives you a sense that the economy has built momentum, that we are making progress. Weve now seen over 110,000 jobs over the past two months. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Is the economy momentum building . Yeah, it is. You have to celebrate every bit you get, especially after that long cold winter we had both economically and physically this year. When you hear of the idea of momentum it leads to the long termunemployment question. Why arent they benefitting . Were seeing those numbers for. Its a tough job market and weve done a lot love studies and we know the following. If youve been out of work a long time you get discriminated against. Two, youre less skilled, you dont know the new skills or tech neekss and youre losing the shin. Under these jobs numbers which youre encouraged, we still have no substantial wage growth. Its about 2 above inflation. Yeah. The average american got a whop 1g . 38 raise across. Its clear they may have been under whelmed. Thats beginning to weigh on people. Thats how you dig out coming out of 2008 but its good news but not like people are feeling it. I think when some people read it or see it on your cbs this morning, some of the folks see it as a taunt. A lot of effects lent behind here. And thigh say they want to see it. Thank you. Thank you. A hiker is free this morning after being stuck on a cluf. Bigad shaban shows us the dramatic rescue. 11 30. Reporter a sevenmember rescue team all volunteers helicoptered in to make the daring rescue. Reporter more than a hundred feet above the rocks, a stranded hiker waited for more than an hour to be rescued. Hes sitting on about a threefoot ledge or so. 32yearold miles mcdonagh was lowered out of the helicopter to grab the hiker. Hes made over 20 other cliffside rescues but this was the most difficult. The mission lasted about 30 minutes and ended with the hiker and the rest of the rescue team back on ground with no injuries. Ahead on cbs this morning, an ambulance driver falls asleep on the job and crashes. This morning, why announcer this National Weather report sponsored by macys. Our coverage of hurricane arthur continues. 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It will be a patriotic fourth in philly at 10 00 oclock this morning, Vice President joe biden will participate in the celebration of freedom, at independence hall. There are also ice cream socials, and ringing of the liberty bell. And then it all wraps up with tonights concert on the parkway, featuring nicky minaj, Jennifer Hudson, and phillies own the roots. Lets get the weather for it all with katie over in the weather center. I have to say, gets better with time. If it is a little bit of waiting game for us out, there as we are of course still tracking hurricane arthur, not it mention, that weaver cold front thats yet to cross. So almost a little squeeze play. Heavy rain bands, out err most ones every arthur, rolling into our south and east most counties down toward the shore points. So that lingering rain is with us. It will start to turn breeze which time, high of 82, we drop to refreshing 62 tonight. As the breeze kicks in from the northwest, and just starts it cool down nicely. Mid to upper 80s tomorrow, sunday, beautiful barbequing days, so you may want to think about postponing if you want to get in on that sunday shine, ukee, back to you. Another update at 7 55, up next on cbs this morning, senior va executives getting bonuses s while veterans waited for treatment. Were on the beach boys helped the boston pops celebrate the fourth of july early. They moved up their concert and Fireworks Show due to hurricane ar through. But after the fire works police told tens of thousands of spectators to get out fast due to an approaching thunderstorm. Minlds later heavy winds hit the city knocking down treeins and dampening spirits. Angry waves are crashing ashore in nags head this morning. The storm hit land with 100mileanhour winds. Much of the east coast faces a day of heavy rain. Jen bernstein of our philadelphia station kyw is in ocean city, new jersey. Jen, good morning. Reporter good morning. Here in ocean city, its not your pictureperfect beach day. We have heavy, heavy rain right now. If you look over at the beach we have danger signs that say the beach is closed. You can see how rough it is. The hurricane is expected to stay off of the shore all of the day and not hit it over here, but we do know were expecting this heavy rain to continue and surf. Waves are forecast to be as high as 16 feet today. Dangerous rip currents will last through the weekend. Authorities are warning beachgoers to take extra caution when entering the water. Theres also fears that large waves could cause significant beach emotion and sand dunes are not built up this early in the summer. Margaret . Jen, thank you. President obama swears in 25 new state extends in a white house ceremony on independent day. It takes on added symbolism with the president trying to go it aloned on immigration reform. More than a thousand were sworn in at turner field on thursday. The New York Times says gas prices drops ahead of the hild reason. The average price of regular is 3. 66 a gallon. Gas remains at its highest price for this time of year since 2008 because of the ongoing crisis in iraq. Usa today says 100,000 pounds of chicken is being recalled. The government says the chicken is linked to an outbreak of s a salmonel salmonella. So far 2,500 have been sickened but there there havent been any deaths. Cnet says uberis allowed to operate. Plans to take uberto court have been put on hold until uberdrivers are heard. American highways will be packed. Aaa predicts 41 mihmion of us will travel 50 miles away from home. 85 of those is not. Jeff pegues looks at the toll from Drowsy Driving. Reporter this ambulance driver in california is struggling to stay awake. Hes transporting a patient but he barely can keep his eyes open. He veers off the road and slams into a disabled vehicle. In last month according to court documents,