iraq and won the lottery. more details on this thursday, august 3rd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >> good morning. welcome to "the early show" on this wednesday, august 3rd, 2011. i i'm chris wragge. >> and i'm erica hill. good to be back. >> good to have you back. we're continuing to follow this peacock precariously perched on this perch here in new york city. we have biuilt two hours around the peacock. it hasn't moved. did you just see that in. >> that happened just before we went on the air. it is true. it escaped from the central park zoo, flew the coop as it were. talk about getting a lot of people excited, a lot of crowds gathering below the apartment building. we'll bring you more on the pictures, a light moment. >> everybody has been watching the peacock here on fifth avenue, about 18 hours ago and moments ago, boom. hopefully it gets back up. the brutal heat wave another triple day, another day of triple-digit heat over a huge area. because of the dome of heat blamed for at least two dozen deaths. in texas conditions are the worst they've ever seen and football practice is under siege. marysol castro is in dallas to get a firsthand look at the heat. it is oppressive. good morning. >> reporter: good morning chris and everyone at home. high school football is religion. it is 89 degrees and that is the low, if you can believe it. triple-digit heat has become the norm this summer across texas and adrcross much of the nation heartland and responsible for some two dozen deaths and the heat is far from over. for 32 consecutive days, dallas, texas, has been baking under triple-digit temperatures, a heat wave this part of the country hasn't seen since 1980. at least 12 people have died in the dallas area and at one local hospital heat-related emergency room visits have doubled. the state's energy agency warned customers the power grid is entering the first stages of an energy emergency. texas has already broken its all-time peak electricity record twice this week. the grid's current capacity is approximately 67,000 megawatts. tuesday peaked at 67,929 and today could go beyond 68,100 megawatts. if that trend persists, rolling blackouts could add to the misery. in texas, football is as big as the lone star state itself but the season just around the corner, players routinely practice twice a day in scorching august temperatures. >> we consistently monitor the heat. >> reporter: but school officials like athletic director rene putter take precautions to keep students safe. >> every day we weigh the athletes before practice and at the end of practice when it. if they lose a percentage of their body weight the next day we hold them out of practice as a precaution. >> reporter: in plano they lost a coach. 55-year-old wade mcklain collapsed and died during the season's first practice. >> his son actually told me he said "when i go, i hope i go from the football field because th this is what i loved the moment." >> reporter: a preliminary autopsy found heat exposure and heart condition caused the death. >> reporter: it was so warm officials were giving out free air conditioners for those folks who couldn't can ford it. >> good to see the football players practicing before sun-up. the weather and the heat is a huge issue but now emily is now forcing its way up the east coast. >> reporter: absolutely, chris. august is when the tropics really start to churn so tropical storm emily is about 144 miles off the coast of puerto rico, packing 50-mile-per-hour winds, moving at a steady clip, moving at 14 miles per hour, in a northerly direction towards hispaniola. it could affects south florida by saturday f we look at the rain right now we're expecting anywhere from two to six inches of rain in and around south florida. as you know tropical storms are per snickety. wall street had a terrible tuesday, the sell-off took it to the worst streak in almost three years. this morning investors are still worried even after congress beat tuesday's deadline for extending the debt ceiling. first cbs business and economics analyst rebecca jarvis. why did they not embrace this bill? >> reporter: wall street is concerned about it not being passed and the concern the united states faces, first of all weak job growth. you don't really have job growth in this country. you have a weak housing market and consumer so constrained by both that jobs market as well as the housing market and the uncertainty overall in the economy that that consumer is not going out and spending, so here on wall street the idea was we approach this debt limit debate with a question mark, but the overall question mark that we got to this debate with, was the economy, and the economy is just not in a good place right now, and now people are questioning whether we face a double-dip recession and that's really what drove stocks lower yesterday. >> one of the big issues in the u.s., we are a consumer driven economy. consumers really cautious, not spending as much at this point and that's obviously also weighing. >> yeah, that's absolutely weighing and consumers are really getting their fiscal house in order because of all of the question marks that are out there. 5.4% is good on the one hand, consumers are better off, they're being smarter with their money but that's bad, because when consumers don't spend, all of the sudden it has a ripple effect on jobs and the overall economy. >> rebecca jarvis on wall street this morning, thanks. the jobs issue is the biggest of many challenges facing president obama as we head into this election year. bill plante joins us with a look at the president's latest strategy. >> reporter: all first-term presidents are focused on re-election but with unemployment above 9% and with an economy that's barely moving president obama faces very high hurdles. >> the central economic challenge is a weak economy. >> reporter: economist robert shapiro says the president needs to create conditions for stronger growth. >> that growth will generate jobs and that will generate consumer spending and that will generate business investment. >> reporter: growth has been hard to come by, but the president says he intends to keep on pushing. >> the fight for what the american people care most about, new jobs, higher wages, and faster economic growth. >> reporter: mr. obama says he'll ask congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, pass two free trade agreements and put construction workers back on the job, repairing the nation's infrastructure. >> there's no reason for congress not to send me those bills so i can sign them into law right away as soon as they get back from recess. >> i hope he's not holding his breath. >> reporter: political scientist larry saboteau says not likely. >> it isn't going to happen. brifl privately the obama white house understands that. it's going to take a lot of good luck. presidents are either lucky or they rnt aren't. >> reporter: the president's message will be unrelenting, jobs, jobs, jobs. it shows how slow the recovery continues to be. >> if the economy looks anything like it does today, barack obama is very likely to be a one-term president. but if the economy looks better to americans by november 2012, then obama has a reasonable shot at a second term. >> reporter: so whether or not congress is willing to listen, the president will definitely be asking for jobs programs, and he'll be hoping that the people who were for him last time, including all those independent voters, are listening. erica? >> bill plante at the white house this morning, thanks. now here's chris. to egypt, former president hosni mubarak has been in seclusion since he was forced out of office six months ago. elizabeth palmer is in cairo with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. it's been a real cliffhanger until the last second. there were rumors swirling that president hosni mubarak would be too ill to come in court. he's been in hospital at a resort in sharm el sheikh. the hundreds gathered here outside the courtroom didn't believe until the last second until they saw it with their own eyes. former president hosni mubarak wheeled into court on a gurney to face charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters in egypt's uprising earlier this year. mubarak was forced out of office on february 11th, after millions of egyptians took to the street and took over cairo's tral tahrir square. the army stood by the people but more than 800 were shot or beaten to death by government thugs. mubarak joins his two sons and several other government officials in a barred cage normal procedure under criminal proceedings but unthinkable for a former strong man president in the arab world. asked by the judge whether he understood the charges against him, mubarak said yes, he did, and he pleaded not guilty. outside the court, a crowd of several hundred people had gathered just after dawn. as they waited in the crushing heat, fights broke out between pro and anti-mubarak factions until riot police flooded in to separate them. at last, a helicopter flew overhead, signaling mubarak really was on his way to this makeshift courtroom in a suburban police academy. the minute he appeared on the big public video screen, the crowd grew still, mesmerized by a spectacle they simply never dreamed they would actually see. now the session has just ended but the court did, we saw some scrappy exchanges between the judge and the lawyers. this is justice but it's also grand theater and all of egypt, in fact, almost everybody in the arab world is absolutely glued to the television until this thing is over. chris? >> lots of people watching. cbs's elizabeth palmer in cairo, thanks. i want to turn to jeff glor standing by at the news desk with a check of the headlines. >> good morning to you and everyone at home as well. the cleanup continues in south florida this morning after a tornado touched down last night. a woman in broward county captured this on video as it rolled through her neighborhood. it did damage several homes in south florida but no one was hurt. in washington a man is behind bars after jumping over the white house fence. the 41-year-old was quickly captured yesterday. he faces charges of unlawful entry and contempt of court or disobeying a previous order to stay away from the white house. washington is displaying its national strategy to prevent violent extremism and violent attacks. the strategy is short on specifics calling for local and community-based solutions to rooting out radicals. the federal government will act in a support role. the plan aims to fight terrorism in all forms but says al qaeda is the biggest threat. a hiker in oregon who had been missing for three days has been rescued. 28-year-old pa lasalante was air lifted from safety, she had fallen down a cliff after being separated from her boyfriend saturday. if you ever happen to be driving in lithuania, be careful where you park. the mayor hates illegally parked cars and to show how much he hates illegally parked cars this is what he says he'll do to you if you park illegally, roll over your vehicle with a tank. that's him crushing a mercedes in a no parking zone. this appears staged for the video but he says he got his point across. watch out. >> if they did that in new york city that would go over very well. >> for the big boot. we'll check in with marysol, speaking of rolling her way through, rolling her way through texas is marysol castro. good morning, how is the weather? >> reporter: that's right, good morning jeff and everyone at home. as we've been told by school official, despite two-day practices, every 20 minutes the athletes get a water break. that's what they're doing. severe weather, new jersey, virginia, under the greatest risk for tornado, pea-sized hail, wind gusts that could top 75 miles per hour and rain one to two inches in portions. atlantic city and pittsburgh you get the brunt of it >> thanks so much. that's a look at the latest weather. back over to chris and erica in new york. >> good morning, no cheerleading from the sideline. don't want you reliving the glory days. >> that's coming up in the 8:00 hour. still ahead this morning a new report spells out how government incompetence forced jaycee dugard to spend 18 years in a kidnapping hell. we'll bring you that information. also airman on the lucky streak winning the lottery after his safe return from iraq. plus the peacock makes a colorful escape, going from the central park zoo to the high rent district and now where? 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