this until the the cotton s picked and the beans and the kernels are counted. smart phones make calls, send e-mails and now you can set them to stun. it is going too far? hello, everyone, i m poppy harlow in tonight for don lemon. let s get you up to speed on the day r day s biggest stories. in syria, a senior government official with 34 years of service now says he s on the side of the rebel uprising. he was syria s ambassador to iraq, and he s the highest ranking diplomat to defect. he says he can t be part of a dictatorship any longer. you ll hear him his in his own words in just a moment. plus, i just spoke with the long-time american ambassador to syria. his reaction, our conversation coming up. an egyptian official says two americans kidnapped on the sinai peninsula are unharmed and well fed. their families want to know when they will be freed. the son of the reverend michel louis spoke to randi kaye about how the ordeal is taking a toll on the pastor s wife. it
bird flu over the years. we started hearing warnings that a deadly new disease, we paid attention. it all started with this dill general doctor noticing something unusual. young patients were coming into his hospital and dying very quickly. within 24 hours. he wrote a letter of warning describing a terrifying picture, a disease that he had never seen before that was nearly 100% lethal. we decided to go to the hospital. it is in the center of the city. with the majority have these cases under the age of 3, were seriously ill and many of them had died within 24 hours of admission. that s pretty frightening for people to hear. there s a lot of diseases in this part of the world. many parts of the world. to kill that quickly. the back drop is important. the hospital treats thousands of children suffering from dengue fever, every week. this is a part of world where bird flu and sars originated. a new picture for us. i ve never seen this in cambodia before. he is the head o
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good mornings, everyone, i m randi kaye and thank you for starting the morning with us. we begin this hour with the h t heat. it has been so bad that 30 deaths across the united states are blame hed on the heat wave. we get more from melissa rainy. reporter: saturday brought another day of blistering heat and in some areas that is more triple temperatures. people are looking for relief wherever they can find it. it feels great. it feels so wonderful. it beats the heat for sure. reporter: in chicago, the heat buckled roadways and some residents gave up and fled the city. in chicago, it was 105 and felt like 112, so we came up here to escape the heat. reporter: but a cold front is expect ed expected in the coming days. looking forward to the 80 degree weather and even 89 sounds great. reporter: forecasters say that cooler air will move across the upper midwest and into the great lakes and the northeast which brings some comfor
records across the country. but the weather was still deadly last night the small po town of cuba. a new mother riding out the storm in her car in a food store in a parking lot was killed when debris crashed through her wind field and hit her in the chest. buildings and cars were up-ended around the small town. six nato troops were killed today when the roadside bomb blew up in the eastern side of the country. in word yet on the nationality of the troops killed. the attacks come as secretary of state hillary clinton is meeting with diplomats in tokyo discussing afghanistan s future and the shape of the international force going forward. you re about to see a woman shot to death, executed in public. it is also in afghanistan. someone recorded this public killing after woman wearing a burka. we won t show you the moment of her death but man with an automatic rifle shoots her at least nine times while men gather around and cheer. afghan officials believe the woman was part a