jim spellman. he s standing outside the theater. we can see the neon sign behind you. let s talk first about this video. i know it s black and white. what more can you tell us? yeah, police describe this whole apartment as being designed to kill. all rigged up to a trip wire at the front door. it took them almost two days before they could figure out how to dismantle this safely, ult the matly using water to render inoperable this control box. fortunately there wasn t a timer to it because they needed that much time to sort out how to do it. when they were finally able to render it safe, they took them to the country and detonated them. the fire ball in the middle of the field was huge, devastating to ponder the impact should a first responder or police officer gone through that door. about the investigation, jim, what s the latest? i thought seeing the suspect in court yesterday and seeing all of his facial i guess i would call them ticks or just he looked weird and
it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. this is cnn breaking news. we begin this morning with breaking news. we have learned that president obama is holding a big event at the white house rose garden later today to resurrect the battle over the bush tax cuts. he will be surrounded by working class americans while he calls on congress to extend tax cuts for everyone, making $250,000 a year or less. republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone, the wealthy included. the white house will be very busy framing the tax cut debate this week with events planned in new hampshire, nevada, colorado and florida. republicans as i mentioned want the tax cuts extended for all americans, even the wealthiest. at 7:00 eastern on starting point we ll talk about that position with tennessee republican congresswoman marsha blackburn. we have been warning you and now the time has come. hundreds of thousands of people are going to wake up this morning and computers will be dark. no web service.
entire professional career covering her as an olympian. that s an amazing story to cover. good morning to you. thank you for being with us. hi, everybody, nice to have you with us. we re bring you the news from a to z, it s 5:00 eastern. let s get right to it, shall we? this is unbelievable, unrelenting, unforgiving, it is a heat wave, and it is devastating from k.c. to d.c. and it s going to continue today too, tomorrow, as well. all the way through the july 4th holiday. in some places, it s going to feel like 115 degrees, particularly in parts of the midwest today. and for millions of people without power, sorry to report this, there is not a whole lot of relief coming your way. at least 19 people now have died in the last week after deadly storms swept through the nation. about 1.7 million people still haven t gotten any power. this is days after the storms went through. many expect possibly it s going to take until friday to get their power restored. take a look at th
drugs. mike green berg and mike golic, thanks for being with me. thank you. why do you think the jury did not convict him? why not? ultimately i think the only real witness that mattered in all of this was brian mcnamee and in and as far as unimpressive witnesses he may go to the top. this is something mike golic could have torn apart on the witness stand. it worked out well for roger clemens that way. his reputation is permanently damaged, don t you think? there s no doubt about it. it is the court of public opinion, i don t think is going to change much on him as far as their thoughts of him using performance enhancing drugs and the ultimate test will be the hall of fame. the writers have kind of made the decision if you re touched with peds, you re not getting into the hall of fame. i completely disagree with that train of thought. if you have numbers to be in the hall of fame, you should be in the hall of fame. if you want another way to talk about that that s