amelia earhart vanished. we'll introduce you to one man who knows exactly where she disappeared. first, as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. this storm packed a hurricane wallop without hurricane warnings. >> deadly summer storms leave millions of americans in the dark. >> nearly 3 million people remain without power to fend for themselves in the middle of an historic heat wave. >> 20 states are under heat advisories. >> it is brutal. it's hot. >> at least 17 deaths are being blamed on the storms. >> horrible. i'm still shaking. >> roberts, i'm told by my sources, changed his views. he withstood a month long campaign by the conservative justices to bring him back to the fold. >> the house has already voted some 30 times to repeal this law. what's one more going do? >> we're going to do it one more time. >> when the mexican presidential election. new face of the party that governed for seven decades. >> friends of andy were openly coming to his aid after a vicious chimp attack in south africa. >> it's a new resort opened up in san jose. you're going to get very, very dirty. >> we all dig these. that's what it's all about. i seen it on internet. i had to check it out. >> after the actress filed for divorce from tom cruise. >> katie holmes reportedly believes she's being followed. >> it's hard. >> it is. >> all that. >> [ laughter ] >> have some fun. why not? >> absolutely. >> and all that matters. >> tiger woods surpasses jack nicklaus' all-time pga wins list. >> another victory for tiger. 74th career win. >> on "cbs this morning." >> maybe it's the heat because new jersey governor chris christie is sure sounding hot and bothered these days. >> did i say on topic. are you stupid? on topic. on topic. on topic. on topic. next question. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." more than 2 million people in the eastern u.s. are waking up to another day of no power and high heat. one more round of powerful storms rolled through the mid-atlantic region overnight ending a weekend of extreme weather which now is blamed for at least 17 deaths. three of those were reported on sunday after a sudden storm hit north carolina. even where it wasn't raining, there was record breaking heat all weekend. nearly 30 cities recording 100 degrees or higher on sunday. over the weekend, nashville, tennessee and columbia, south carolina both hit 109 degrees, setting all-time records. areas from indiana to virginia really got the worst of the weekend weather. a violent storm system formed around chicago on friday and then moved east packing winds up to 90 miles an hour. three days later, there are still widespread outages in virginia, maryland, washington, d.c., ohio, west virginia, new jersey and indiana. power officials say some areas may be without electricity for several more days and there are more storm watches up this morning in the deep south and also along the ohio valley. >> federal offices in washington will be open today, but nonessential workers will be allowed to stay home. in maryland, the governor's also giving state workers the option of staying home. sharl sharyl attkisson is in maryland. >> good morning, jeff and erica. we're at a neighborhood nowhere close to getting its power back on because you can see the giant tree that's fallen on the power lines here and nobody has touched it apparently since thursday night. according to the power company, it will be friday night late before most of the affected people have their power turned back on. throughout the d.c. metro area, hundreds of thousands of people are facing a third day of sweltering heat with no electricity. >> we are out of power, absolutely and out of air conditioning especially. >> gary hines charged his computer and cell phone at a sports bar in fairfax, virginia sunday. it could be days before his power is fully restored. he's more worried about his neighbor's son. >> we have a neighbor whose son has bad asthma and he has a respirator sort of thing that he has to use at night. they're running it off a generator now. who knows how long that will last. >> across the region, residents did whatever they could to deal with the inconvenience. cramming malls, stocking up on ice and in some spots waiting in long lines for gas. >> we went to one gas station, we thought oh, this is great. with you it was -- there wasn't any power. >> a violent weather system swept in without warning and traveled about 600 miles in hours packing hurricane-force winds. >> the truth is, when a catastrophic event like this hits and when you have 70 mile an hour winds and heavy rains, there are going to be outages. >> pep coe region president graham says his crews are working around the clock to restore service to the d.c. and maryland area starting with critical facilities like hospitals and nursing homes. that's not stopping maryland's governor from keeping up the pressure. >> nobody will have their boot further up their backside than i will to make sure that we get there. >> a remark that didn't sit well with graham. >> does it make me work harder or make my company work harder? we're already working hard. >> and getting help from power crews from as far away as oklahoma and canada. >> now the neighbors have told us this is actually a cul-de-sac being blocked by the trees and living back there are some elderly people as well as a family with a disabled family member who haven't been able to get out since thursday. we've seen people go back there and check on them. the main power company, pep coe, will invest $910 million in infrastructure improvements over the next five years. much of that spent on trimming trees. jeff and erica? >> sharyl attkisson thank you. we have more information about the supreme court ruling upholding president obama's health care law. the court was initially set to reject the key individual mandate and possibly the entire law. then apparently chief justice john roberts changed his position. >> it is rare for in kind of information to come out of the supreme court. jan crawford is in washington with the new details you will hear only on "cbs this morning." so, as jeff mentioned about chief justice roberts, changing his mind, what happened jan? >> that's what everyone is trying to understand and figure out and the conservative justices according to my sources are saying they're unsatisfied with his explanation for why he shifted his views. initially, as jeff explained, he was with the conservatives to strike down the mandate. that was the heart of this law. my sources tell me this morning that he wasn't prepared to go quite as far as the other conservatives and strike down the entire law. they believe the entire thing had to go. he was just going to carve out kind of one part of it. the key part of it. at any rate, as this kind of continued, he then started to change his mind, see new provisions in the constitution where this law could actually be saved. he then formed this alliance with the liberal justices providing the key fifth vote to uphold the president's signature achievement and then, erica, what's so fascinating, these inside dynamics is that he withstood this furious campaign by the conservatives to bring him back on board. but he stood firm, the president's health care law survived. >> jan, you wrote a book on the supreme court. you know that it's typically waterproof twh it comes to leaks. i'm wondering how unusual is it and are you surprised all this is coming out so quickly? >> i am. i am. typically, these things can take if not months, years, at least weeks. last time there was a huge leak controversial slip in a case was back in 1992 when justice kennedy, a moderate refused to overturn a woman's right to a borpgs. that leaked out after a month or so to people close to the case. in this case, there are so many people inside that courtroom, secretaries, law clerks, chambers aides, the justices themselves who know about this unusual shift and many of whom are quite upset about it. in these circumstances, sometimes people are willing to try to explain what happened. they also believe there were leaks before roberts switched his vote to try to put pressure on him. that is also upsetting a lot of people because they believe there were earlier leaks in this case to influence the kmechief justice. >> fascinating information in the article you filed. jan, thank you. the fallout from the supreme court decision continued over the weekend in washington. speaker of the house john boehner vowed to repeal the law during an interview with norah o'donnell on face the nation. >> the house already voted some 30 times to repeal or defund this law. what's one more going to do? >> one more time. >> what's the point? >> we want to show people we are resolved to get rid of this. >> why not work with it rather than repeal the whole thing? >> no, no. this has to be ripped out by its roots. this is government taking over the entire health insurance industry. the american people do not want to go down this path. >> with us now, major garrett, white house correspondent for national journal. good morning. >> good to be with you. >> good to have you with us. we heard speaker boehner this has to be ripped out by its roots. is this risky for republicans to be focusing on this? >> they do not believe so. they believe tea party supporters demand this rejection of the health care law and they believe independent and swing voters will be persuaded if they're unhappy about the economy, one thing that's holding the economy down is this. bl that's true or not. they're going to try to make the case. >> it's one thing republicans hammering this, it's another mitt romney what he passed in 2006. >> talk about it's pli indicated. his history in massachusetts. if he has a signature it's the health care law. those that wrote it in the white house, some say our model was the massachusetts health care law itself with an individual mandate, with a penalty or a tax higher, more con fiscal ka torrey, that's a conservative word. >> large word on a monday morning, major. >> than the president's penalty or tax to impose that individual mandate. romney has to explain as mitch mcconnell the senate republican leader, he has to speak for himself. don't ask every republican to carry mitt romney's extensively and heavy baggage and mandate. >> democrats, interestingly, want to distance themselves from this and move forward. >> yes. in hockey, if a goalie makes a great save, it's a beauty and you keep on with the game. what the supreme court did for president obama is a kick save. they didn't lose the law, but they protected with a tax and new line -- democrats will say, what the country cares about is whether anything substantially changes. it carries on with its implementation. let's talk about the political focus which is the economy. republicans will try to tie them together. democats would like very much as i wrote in national journal last week to move on and move on rapidly. >> as part of that, is that because of the word tax? >> not just that. tax doesn't help. but the law itself, until it's fully implemented, at least democrats believe this and the white house, will not become -- one thing learned by the white house, to its dismay, it's been unpopular. in two years it will be really popular. it has not moved. there's been static movement in the polls on this law for two years. the country heard about it for two years and still net net, don't like the larger thing. the stuff that jan talked about with the supreme court, the warping of sfuginstitutions bec of this heavy freight may be a drag politically. >> on the subject of taxes, there are growing reports from both sides that the bush tax cuts, they may let them expire at the end of the year. does that happen? >> right now, anything regarding the end of the year is possible. everything is an abstraction and everything is theoretical. nobody knows who is going to win. everything depends who wins. if they hold the house, win the senate and elect mitt romney. if the president wins and democrats hold the senate or get the house, or combination of that, the president will set his own course. i can't see a scenario right now where the bush tax cuts expire without something coming right after it. right after it part is the difficult park. legislating tax reform is extremely difficult. it will take months and months. i don't think the economy and wall street and small businesses is interested in washington telling them you won't have tax cuts. you'll have tax uncertainty. everything right now is theoretical. >> major garrett, nice to see you. now to the stubborn western wildfires. a firefighting plane went down in south dakota last night. three people were rescued and being treated at a hospital. colorado springs firefighters have gained ground on the fire that destroyed 350 homes. on sunday, hundreds of evacuees were allowed to look at the damage. anna werner is in colorado spring. anna, good morning. >> good morning, jeff and erica. one of the neighborhoods hardest hit was a subdivision called mountain shadows. many of the homes there were simply incinerated. when you see the fire that descended on that neighborhood, you can understand why for many residents who went back there was nothing left in what is now the most destructive fire in colorado history. 11 active wildfires continue to burn more than 165,000 acres across the state. some of those fires started seven weeks ago. one of the worst, the waldo canyon fire in colorado springs. >> i was standing right up in that area. >> wayne shot this video of the fire as it approached the mountain shadows neighborhood. >> i could see the fire come over the top of the ridge and within a period of about six minutes, it went from the top of the ridge almost down to the neighborhood. >> on sunday, residents finally saw what was left of their neighborhood. >> victor malone and joanne moved her just a year ago. >> this was a bird feeder we got from the realtor. ashes to ashes. >> they had seen an aerial photo earlier in the week and knew the house was gone. but even still. >> it was hard. it was hard. >> i mean, you think about it and then it just kind of takes your breath away. you're like wow, it looks as bad as in the picture, even worse. >> 14 homes stood on their street. now there are none. joanne found a treasured gift from her mother who passed away in 2007. a coconut greater made of iron that survived the heat. >> i'm so happy we found it. >> where the piano had been, there was victor's trumpet. >> that's a keeper. >> hot? >> hot, yeah. >> but the wooden grandfather clocks and the family chest from the 1840s are gone. turned to white ash with the rest. >> you can't believe it. there are no words really that can describe it other than it was -- it gets you. it really does. >> joanne and victor say they plan to rebuild and that many of their neighbors plan to rebuild as well. they're going to have to wait. even though this fire is 55% contained, it's still burning it still presents a potential danger to other neighborhoods. jeff and erica, back to you. >> anna werner, thank you. there is major news out of mexico in morning. the long time ruling party that was thrown out of power 12 years ago is ready to take over again. the initial vote count shows presidential candidate pena knee a toe won sunday's three-way election with 38% of the vote. his party controlled the government for 71 years before losing power in 2000. bill whitaker is in mexico city this morning. bill, how significant is this shakeup? >> reporter: good morning, jeff. this is very significant. the people of mexico booted out the institutional revolutionary party 12 years ago for being corrupt and high-handed and they were sick and tired of them after being in power for so many years. after 12 years with this party out of power, this country has been on an economic and social roller coaster. and people here are just sort of weary of all the ups and downs, especially the war on drugs here that has taken so many lives. after 12 years, the pri is not looking so bad to them anymore. they voted them back into office. >> bill, let's talk about that drug war for a second with the outgoing president supported so vigorously. what does this change mean for that? >> reporter: well, that's really up up in the air right now. the people will tell you that security ending this violence is the number one priority. through this campaign, the candidates rarely talked about it. and when they did, they said things like, well, we're going to stop the violence. we're going to put an end to this war. no one ever came up with any specifics. i think right now the people are just hoping that whoever comes into power can stop all of this violence. as i said, with the pri having been in power for 71 years, they're hoping that they can bring some stability to this country once again. >> bill whitaker in mexico city. bill, thank you. time for a look at some of the headlines around the globe. the guardian says the chairman of britain's bank resigned. barclay was fined for trying to rake interest rates. he apologized and said "the buck stops me." the washington post looks at tiger woods winning the at&t national. he's the first golfer to win three pga tournaments this year. he's now second on the all-time tournament list passing jack nicklaus with 74 career victories. woods is also on top of the pga money list for the first time in nearly three years. usa today reports retailers are seeing a spending fizzle. 21% of americans don't plan to celebrate independence day according to a poll from visa. compared to 18% last year. the l.a. times says a runoff will settle a third place tie in the dash. it comes nine days after the famous photo finish. the winner will qualify to run the 100 meters at the london olympics. >> no coin toss. george w. bush's presidential library is beginning the monumental task of sorting through 200 million e-mails from the first complete presidency in the internet age. experts warn that could take up to a thousand years to properly archive every last e-mail from this national weather report sponsored by cit. thank you cards. army sergeant robert bails is charged with killing 16 civilians in afghanistan. his wife says he would never do that. this morning, we'll ask what she's hearing from her husband in her first live tv interview. sources say al qaeda has a plan to blow up an american jetliner in mid-flight maybe before the olympics. they believe the bomber is a norwegian man who could be hard to catch. john miller looks at the effort to find him ahead on "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by hershey's. hershey's makes it asa more. you make it special. that brings people together. hershey's makes it a s'more... you make it special. pure hershey's. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback signup for 5% cashback at gas stations through september. it pays to discover. 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