hours from now. good evening, everyone. i m don lemon. let s get you up to speed. tonight, more american troops dead in afghanistan. six u.s. service members killed in just one explosion today. it was a bomb that went off in eastern afghanistan on a roadside. two other nato troops, we don t know their nationalities, were killed in separate attacks over the weekend. that bigger than life image, and that unmistakable booming voice. a hollywood legend died today. you hold it right there. this war was not started for your private gratification and you can be damn sure this army isn t being run for your personal convenience either. ernest borgnine got super famous when he starred in mchale s navy in the 1960s. borgnine died today in a los angeles hospital. he won an oscar in 1955. remember the classic film marty? mr. borgnine was 95 years old. egypt s military is deciding how to handle a defiant move by the country s new president. mohamed morsi is calling parliament b
tax on everybody and that s biting more than it should. at what point, at what point do the democrats learn that? the manner in which they have a really serious framing problem that consistently have that and it s allowing the republicans to get away without just really articulating what should be dismissed i think you re wrong this week because what ended up happening was the story of the week was obama care a tax, mitt romney is flip-flopping on the tax. so, i think that actually from just purely political perspeckive they played that pretty well. more on that after this break. maybe it s time to recharge the human battery. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all night long. the revolutionary recharge sleep system from beautyrest. it s you, fully charged. get a free set of sheets when you buy a select beautyrest mattress.
his legacy, birthday, and, of course, his music. it is sunday, july 8. good morning, everyone, i m randi kaye. we start with another day of record temperatures across the country. the triple-digit highs being blamed for at least 30 deaths across seven states. the extreme heat has also led to power problems. more than 300,000 people were without electricity and, more importantly, air conditioning. some relief may be on the way. a cold front is moving down from the great lakes, heading south. a warning the front could bring with it some strong storms with hail, lightning, and damaging winds. extreme heat and more possible storms, of course, seem to be on the way. meteorologist sarah dillinger joins me now. where and when is this cold front going to hit? well, the good news is, we ve seen this drop through chicago already. your temperatures are going to be back into the 80s today. as we looked at the map of the heat advisories, we re already seeing a big chunk of the count
is it the 1%, or is it the middle class? we have a debate. a fascinating debate between two 1%ers. finally, thanks for the memories. a somewhat beautiful ballet by 50-ton ballerinas. but first, here s my take. many liberals now believe that the affordable care act, sometimes called obamacare, is unpopular only because most americans don t understand it. there s some truth to this. studies show that the core provisions of the bill are more popular than the bill itself. but there s also a reason rooted in reality why many americans worry about obamacare. its cost. remember, most americans have health care. what they worry about is the cost of insuring 20 million to 30 million more people. and unless the meteoric rise of health care costs is slowed, a big expansion of coverage might well remain unpopular no matter how it is explained. now, how is that going to happen? well, republican alternatives to obamacare such as they are do have a strategy to control costs. get consu