it will bring some relief to the north of it. the northeast that s been so brutal, if you re in a subway in new york city today, it was miserable. humidity will be dropping. i ll tell you what, across the south, it looks like at least maybe the next week or two weeks, temperatures will be well above average. the air is so hot. so sticky and humid. nasty. we like to complain about the weather. in three months, you know, we ll be complaining about the snow. pick your poison. well, right now, it s thank you, rick. tonight we hear from the man who police say murdered eight of his co-workers in the week before he killed himself. connecticut state police have released a 911 call from that guy omar thornton who made this call in the middle of his killing spree at the beer distributorship in connecticut on tuesday. thornton starts off by giving the operator his name and calling himself the shooter over in manchester. them he tells the operator why he did it. the reason why i shot the
anything like that, and to see this happen just totally out of the blue. omar thornton s own family is hard pressed to explain how he killed eight people and then himself. security cameras caught him stealing beer from the warehouse where he worked. the racism claim? teamsters officials say thornton never filed a complaint, either with the union or a government agency. and you can imagine it s hardly business as usual today at that beer distributorship. bosses, workers and family members of the eight victims forced to move ahead. cnn s alison kosik is there in manchester, connecticut. how are they dealing with this? of course, it s a difficult morning for them. this is what residents are waking up to, the headline, workplace terror. it gives you an idea what those employees must have been going through behind me in the warehouse yesterday, around 7:00 in the morning. today, of course, company officials and employees at this warehouse will be meeting at a local union to start this
an employee at a beer distributorship in connecticut, shot and killed eight co-workers before turning the gun on himself tuesday. now, the town of manchester is in grief. and many are asking why this happened. here is american landscape coverage from wtnh in new haven. hi, everybody. thanks for joining us today. i m sonia baghdady. and i m darren kramer. an emotional day for the state today. police say omar thornton opened fire at hartford distributors where he worked around 7:30 this morning. he killed eight people. then, turned the gun on himself. two others were wounded. our team coverage begins with news 8 jamie muro, live in manchester, with what took place today. jamie? reporter: sonia, good evening. still a small police presence here on chapel road. hartford distributors, the
bill: on the markets right now, we have a pretty good indicator, about an hour ago, about what s happening with the jobs front, the private sector apparently hired a few more workers in the month of july than what was expected. they expected to add 40,000 new hire, they added 42,000. so it s 2000 better than expected. we ll take it, right? i mean, come on! how many days we been sitting here saying come on, let s do it america. the private sector apparently showed a little growth. so perhaps a reaction on wall street. up 31 points now, early day in trading. martha: we have disturbing new details about the man who went on a shooting rampage at his workplace in connecticut. according to one witness, omar thornton was, quote, as cold as ice when he shot and killed eight of his coworkers before he turned that gun on himself. thornton worked at a beer
the following: three dead, including the shooter. we re told the shooter had a shotgun. it s very difficult to verify details. we re in touch with the police. we talked with a local reporter on scene, and eyewitnesses. we re pieceing this story together as it develops. manchester, connecticut, a beer distributorship. back there live in a moment when we get more details in america s newsroom . martha: we have a big decision to talk about in the fight against president obama s sweeping health care law. a federal judge ruled that virginia s lawsuit against the u.s. government with regard to health care reform can indeed go forward. now, the state attorney general, ken cuccinelli, tells fox & friends this morning that the health care law simply is unconstitutional. listen to this: the court yesterday said that this legislation goes farther than anything ever has under the commerce clause and it goes farther than anything ever has under the taxing power. so we are out beyond the outer li