and good morning, everyone. george is still on a little break and we re delighted to have david muir back with us. great week with you, robin. we re enjoying it. also glad to have the shuttle back on solid ground. applause breaking out at mission control. the crew is off the shuttle in cape canaveral. robin, as you know, returning home after that 13-day mission, the 135th shuttle journey and of course this morning we mark the final one for the program that began more than 30 years ago. the end of an era. when they get off that shuttle, it s hot down here. scscching. temperatures all across the country. sam outside here in times square, almost 80 degrees, sam. when you hear the temperatures it s 80 degrees but the humidity is 87%hich is like a steam room. the duration is just as impressive as temperatures. we ve got 18 days in ray row in dallas at or above 100 degrees and warmest july in 34 years in chicago. today s headline, ad more people to the big heat. emerg
and good morning, everyone. george is still on a little break. and we re delighted to have david muir back with us. great week with you, robin. we re enjoying it. and we re also glad to have the shuttle back on solid ground. applause breaking out at mission control. the crew is off the shuttle in cape canaveral. robin, as you know, they re returning home after that 13-day mission, the 135th shuttle journey. and of course, this morning we mark the final one for the program that began more than 30 years ago. the end of an era. and we ll have more on the milestone in just a moment. when they get off that shuttle, it s hot down here. scorching temperatures all across the country. sam outside here in times square. already almost 80 degrees, sam? yeah. robin, when you hear the temperatures, you think it s just summertime. it s 79 degrees in times square right now. but the humidity is 87%, which is like a steam room. the duration is just as impressive as temperatures.
keep the government from defaulting. early this afternoon bulletins went out via the new york times and the wall street journal that president obama and house speaker john boehner were close to an agreement on debt reduction on a deal there, but the white house is shooting those stories down. listen up. the breaking news report that you all probably received is incorrect. there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. the fact is that there is no progress to report, but we continue to work on getting the most significant deficit reduction package possible. you can see that is a flat-out denial from the white house, but keep in mind we had two major news operations reporting pretty much the same thing this a deal was in reach. let s go to kate balduan joining us live from capitol hill. kate, what are your sources saying up there about this? reporter: a couple of things on this. you heard there from the president s spokesman jay carney. we ve, of course, been asking ab
District get pink slips, nearly 2,000 of them. but first, hot on the web today and one of the most searched for stories right now, a tragedy for the reality show the deadliest catch. one of its cast members is dead. homer, alaska, police found justin tennyson dead in a hotel room. the medical examiner has not announced a time of death. have you seen this annoying ad that seems to go on and on forever? i mean, did you do a double take because you thought maybe kim kardashian had moved from pushing sketchers to old navy jeans? actually, it s melissa molinaro, a kim k. look-alike, and reportedly she costs for a less than the original. she s seen her own sky skyrocket. now yahoo! has seen a 16,000% increase in searches for melissa m. kim k. better watch her back. finally, this kid has a