orioles, the baseball great s team for 21 seasons. ripken s mom told a neighbor attacker didn t seem to know who the son was. he just wanted her car and her money. police say he forced her into this car at gunpoint, made her wear a blindfold and bound her hands. officers found her inside her car some 24 hours later they tell us, not far from her home, she was not hurt according to police. investigators are now offering a $2,000 reward for information that helps catch the attacker. the white house says it has no tolerance for the leaking of sensitive national security information but one former massachusetts governor mitt romney s advisors, one of his advisors now says the leak did indeed come from the administration. here we go again. the white house response coming up. plus, baseball and softball are out of the olympics this year. and they join a long list of former olympic sports. like tug of war. a look back at other olympic rejects. and coming up, a live look at the olympic park in
very high temperatures we are going to be dealing with for the next couple of days again. looks like all the way to the weekend. temps in the triple digits so hot in chicago that a new york times report today saying that a couple of nuclear plants in chicago have had to temporarily shut down because the cooling ponds have either dried up or they are too hot to do any cooling. shepard: problem, wow. we have got severe storm coming right now stretching from cincinnati to connecticut. it could effect some 32 million people word of a possible twister in new york state. couple minutes new york city populated area is about to get slammed. we have been talking about it all day long. probably a storm bring 60 to 70 miles per hour winds. he will myra area possibly saw tornado. take a look at the weather. big area dealing with these storms. the worst of it is going to hit places like philadelphia in towards new york city, up around hartford and providence, shep. we are talking about new yo
destroying corn and soybean crops. something we could all be paying for at the supermarket this time next year. e chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is in the studio with us. so hot the last couple weeks that heat and no rain at all has caused it to really expand. take a look at the latest drought monitor. this coming out today by the folks from nooa. some sort of a drought. 80% of the country in at least dry conditions but almost half now at least severe drought. think about that. half the country in severe drought at this point. and the bulls eye of that is right across parts of the central plains. take a look at these images right here. this is the mississippi river, shepard. wow. one year ago that we were talking about the major flooding, historical crests. shepard: i was there. on the mississippi river. now we are talking about barges can t get upstream in some cases because the drought is so bad. go back to the weather maps real quickly. just want to show you.
other competitions that included events like shin kicking. in 1600 there were some really really competitive shin kickers out there. and wheelbarrow racing. those never became olyut somehon fighting did no people actually shot. it was a dummy. different countries had their own person doing the duling pistol. and now baseball and softball have joined dueling pistols as former olympic event. continues debate as old as the games themselves about which sports should be included. i think it s a very subjective thing what makes a sport. what makes a ohio state buckeyes makes for great arguments in the bar room. governing bodies and formalized processes to have to come in and present the case hay look, across the globe, all these different
city right about now. take a look at the tower cam right outside our building here and everything is about to change. that is facing north. if you look just to the west these storms are right on our shoulder. we are going to be talking about a lot of power outages by tomorrow morning and the temps, shep, are going to remain very high tomorrow. again around the 90-degree mark and not having any air conditioner for a lot of people. shepard: all the local airports are ground holds right now. nothing is moving. rick, thank you. the olympic torch wound on london s most famous land marks. a day before light the call drop for the summer games. carrying the flame over the millennium brick right through trafalgar square and right past the family of a buckingham palace. feature many of the favorites like basketball, jamb gymnastics and swimming. this year no baseball or softball. organizers said they included not to include those sports due to a lack of interest and countries failing to send