nascar drivers are questioning their safety after a 20 car pile-up at one of nascar s most famous tracks. why one driver calls it bloodthirsty. the obama campaign launching a counteroffensive to a speech that hasn t happened yet. reckless. immaturish. that s what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney s gaffe-filled july tour of england, israel and poland. that s what you call a prebuttal. prebuttal. newsroom starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning to you. happy monday. i m carol costello. that s where we begin on the campaign trail. president obama is raising cash. mitt romney is raising concerns. this morning he s ripping the administration s handling of the middle east and its many recent flash points like the fatal terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. romney is trying to polish his own spotty record on foreign affairs and he faces some public doubts. according to to a cnn/orc poll 52% of americans believe obama is b
nascar s most famous tracks. why one driver calls it bloodthirsty. the obama campaign launching a counteroffensive to a speech th hasn t happened yet. reckless. immaturish. that s what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney s gaffe-filled july tour of england, israel and poland. that s what you call a prebuttal. prebuttal. newsroom starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning to you. happy monday. i m carol costello. that s where we begin on the campaign trail. president obama is raising cash. mitt romney is raising concerns. this morning he s ripping the administration s handling of the middle east and its many recent flash points like the fatal terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. romney is trying to polish his own spotty record on foreign affairs and he faces some public doubts. according to to a cnn/orc poll 52% of americans believe obama is better at handling foreign affairs. 45% say romney. cnn national political corre
congress on your corner event. she is the youngest victim of the six people who died. we also did get a statement from mark kelly. he is the husband of former congressman gabrielle giffords. here s what he says. he says, quote, gabby and i are satisfied with this plea agreement. avoiding a trial will help us and we hope the entire southern arizona community to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives. that was really tough to watch them grapple with that. thank you. reporter: much. coming up at 6:30 eastern we ll talk to retired army colonel bill badger. he helped disarm and bring down loughner even after he took a bullet. the gunman who killed six people at a sikh temple in a milwaukee suburb left no obvious clues about his motives. fbi teams have gathered some evidence from the home of wade michael page. oak creek s police chief says this case is unusual because mass murderers typically leave some sort of clue. obvious letters or something else abo
berman. nice to have you. i m zoraida sambolin. up first, the shooting rampage in tucson, arizona, takes a dramatic step this morning. jared lee loughner now facing a lifetime in prison after pleading guilty to a shooting that killed six people and almost killed a former member of congress, gabrielle giffords. under the plea deal loughner will be sentenced to life in prison with no parole but will avoid the death penalty. the u.s. attorney prosecuting the case says loughner s mental state was a big factor in this decision. the doctors who have treated and observed mr. loughner since the shooting agree that he suffered from a severe mental illness. that is severe schizophrenia. at the time of the shooting and before the shooting. the fragility of his continued competency to stand trial was taken into account. we re live in tu san. we re used to seeing loughner s picture we just showed on the screen. you saw him in the courtroom yesterday. how did he look to you? report
of the vegetation abnormality. you can see from st. louis to indianapolis. you know, it s really important to know that the intense heat waves and, of course, the lack of rain do go hand in hand and are not mutually exclusive. they work completely with each other. one certainly exacerbates the other. we ve had incredible heat waves places like washington, d.c. we ll go down for sure in july. the warmest july we ve ever seen. here s the outlook. this is the biggest problem. as we look toward the months ahead for september, see the brown showing. the tendency to continue to be drier than normal. and drought begets drought. intense heat begets the intense heat. it all is really a big cycle. once you get in it it s really hard to get out of. this is the precip outlook as we head through september. drier than average in the northwest. but you can see a few chances for wetter. but as an aggregate, equal chances of it being average. because it s so hot, and look at this, temperature