the bed feels so good right now. i know you don't want to get up. kilometer on. i'll get you ready. i'll get your brain ready, you get yourself ready. i'm robin meade. here's what's going on. we have identified a motive. a motive is robbery, but we believe there are other motives that will be developed. >> police just arrested another couple in the murder of the couple who adopted children. here's a flying nightmare. a one-foot hole appeared on this plane in midair, and the airline has no idea how this happened. plus this man was picked up by a swollen river, and the next thing he knew, he was headed right to the waterfall.

first in our top story, another arrest in the murder of the florida couple. he's the fourth suspect in custody. officials believe six to eight people were involved. take a look at new surveillance video of two of the suspects. one man that has not been identified yet. investigators say robbery was the motive but not the only motive. >> we expect more arrests to become imminent in this case. these seem to take on a life of their own at some point, and, again, we're very proud to announce that we hope to bring all of the suspects that we have identified early on in this case to justice very, very shortly. >> well, the victims byrd and melanie billings were well off and used their money to adopt and care for special needs kids. police believe that some of them saw the intruders. fortunately none of the children was hurt. investigators are working on

enhancing video of the cameras at the couple's home and they say what they're seeing is already killing. correspondent richard lui has more on how things may have played out. that's in about 15 minutes. a third of the fleet is being checked after a hole was found. the flight was on its way from baltimore to nashville yesterday. at 30,000 feet it had to land in charleston, west virginia, when a hole the size of a football appeared in the cabin. the cabin lost pressure. no one was hurt. >> there was a loud pop. no one knew what it was. looking up at the ceiling if you will, that's where we noticed one of the ceiling tiles were being sucked into, if you will, or against the fuselage. >> a louds now, the masks dropped. everybody proceeded to put the

masks on. >> yeah. while they were screaming, i'm sewer. a spokeswoman said they have not figured out what caused the hole in the jet. here come the questions. judge sotomayor enters day two of her confirmation hearing today. she gave her opening yesterday. she pledged her oath to the law. she said her personal ideas would not influence her decisions. >> in my 17 years on the bench, i have witnessed the human consequences of my decisions. those decisions have not been made to serve the interest of any one litigant, but always to serve the larger interests of impartial justice. my personal and professional experiences help me to listen and understand with the law always commanding the result in every case. >> i will not vote for and no

senator should vote for an individual nominated by any present who is not committed to fairness and impartiality to every person who appears before them. >> unless you have a complete meltdown you're going to get confirmed. and i don't think you will. >> words of competence there. one topic came up yaend will no doubt come up began is a speech where she said a white latina could reach better conclusions than a man. while you were sleeping an earthquake hit. it's a magnitude 3.2. in l.a. that's nothing. they just shrug it off. there was no sign of any damage. no flights were delayed. the fiscal year isn't even finish and iraq has racked up a deaf sichlt more than a trillion dollars. you know, i don't even know what

that is, a trillion. >> yeah. >> i mean you know wait is but how do you even measure that? >> do you remember -- i think it was a senator who brought up this sample. i'm going to try to dig up that tape. he said if you counted every second that geez lived it still wouldn't be a trillion seconds. anyway, i'm going to dig it up. it's a huge amount and what we're talking about in terms of the deficit is it's the gap between what the government is spending and what it's taking in. on one hand, what it's taking in, revenues sharply down. residents, businesses struggling. on the other hand spending way up. we have it to bolster the economy through what some people call the great recession or financial crisis. it's the first time we ever had the deficit hit a trillion in this nine months of the year so far, and it is something we're going to have to be responsible for in the future. more than double last year.

and you know the white house says it's going to go even higher. it's going to go to $1.8 trillion because we know there's more spending that's going to have to be done to get the economy back on its feet. >> thank you. when i think trillion, i like to think of the shape of a triangle diamond. all right. we could know what killed michael jackson within the next week. a coroner's office in l.a. says some toxicology reports to figure out what substances were in jackson's body are already in. he says the remaining results are expected in early this week or next week. and it's claimed that he took large amounts of prescription drugs. meanwhile an interview with la toya jackson talks with larry king last night. she told him about a particularly touching moment involving jackson's daughter. >> she said to paris on the monday before the memorial service they had an opening

viewing of the casket. the little girl -- the boys didn't want to go. paris said, yes, i want to go and see daddy began and the most point yanlt thing is paris brought this little heart necklace, a heart with two parts and she put it around daddy's wrist and she put hers around her neck and said i ee going wear this for the rest of my life. >> that's so touching. she said la toya was told he would never be buried at neverland. nasa had to call off the launch last night. if it goes on thursday, nasa says it will have to cut u out a space walk. check out this video of a wildfire that burned 400 acres near l.a. let's see. fire officials say it's about halfway contained. the smoke, though, forced officials to close two lanes of i-5 in l.a. county yesterday.

yeah, the traffic was backed up for miles, and i suppose that's even more so than regular. the fire also burned some power lines. some firefighters worked in nearly 100-degree heat to contain that fire. it's just one of those morning where everywhere we turn we have interesting storying today. i want to see if weather can match. everywhere we go, we've got all kinds of things to talk about. what about you? >> we do. we have heat, thunderstorms, the all-star baseball game going on tonight. >> that's right. the president is going to throw out the pitch. >> that's right. i think he's going to announce a couple of innings too. >> he'll be in the radio booth. >> no prompter. >> i have a story about the president and the teleprompter. it's good. you've got to stay for that one. >> here's the heat, same spot as it was yesterday. oklahoma, kansas, texas, and another shot of heat coming in across the desert southwest in phoenix. that's what it looks like there. as for thunderstorms, look at

kansas city. a squall line moving on through. so far they have not seen any severe thunderstorm warnings. you can see the heavy downpours across the eastern part of your state, rolling over toward the east. same with northern missouri. down farther, a little bit rain overhead in the thunderstorm that went over a little bit. it stretches back toward mississippi and then down through florida. end result, more thunderstorms for you. tampa, canaveral too. heat index, 105 to 110. you have the heat warnings out there. lower part to kansas and then you head over to the west, another heat warning for you. high, 113. you missed record by 113. the record was 114. the record today, phoenix is 116. areas around karks napa, for instance, 100.

more on that in a half hour. okay. you know, a day at the pool turned into allegations of racial discrimination. you heard the story. now we learn what the club plans to do. pó

let's salute the troops right now. today's troop is for a couple stationed together in iraq. private first class scott woods and private first class rebecca woods married in the army. scott's mom sent in the pictures and says they've only been gone for two months but it fees like forever. i bet it does. if you have somebody in the service, why don't you salute them. go to cnn.com/robin. a swim club could be sued for discrimination and a

attorney for the day camp wants the entire board to resign. remember, the karp says it was kicked out because they are mostly minorities. the club said it was overcrowded and now they want them back. a teenager was not watching where she was going and she got a cruel lesson in gravity. now her mom is angry and not at her daughter. you would not know the name cit, but hundreds of thousands of businesses rely on it for crucial lending and now it's at serious risk of going around watts another government bailout. there's a name. our money expert jennifer westhoven is here to tell us more about this bank. >> good morning. thanks, robin. what you want to know is how many people have their jobs on the line with this bank because otherwise, you know, why would we want to be payer for this. cit lends to about a million

small and medium-sized businesses. so many of those businesses have failed in this economy. now cit itself is on the edge and some experts say if it collapses, that could set off a wave worth thousands of more of these small- and medium-sized businesses fold. there's a lot of jobs on the line potentially. the government hasn't decided what it's going to do. cit, look, it's huge but not like bear stearns. nobody's say aing the entire financial system could go down but it's going to be a big drag on the economy that's already down. the question is where does the government draw the line. we talked about christmas starti

starting. but how about back-to-school shopping. >> some thing people will be shopping at drugstores other than office supply stores. later we'll get numbers on how people have been spending its retail numbers for june this morn. robin, back to you. thank you. people have arrest add fourth suspect in the murders of a florida couple but they say that as many as four others could still be out there, and we're learning that two of the men in custody may have been on the victims' property in the past. @

police caught an escaped inmate walking by a home. they broke out of an indiana prison on sunday. the mayor thinks that smith and another escapee got lost and passed by his home. a security guard chased them down. another two are still on the run. more now on our top story. police expect more arrests as early as today in the murders of a florida couple known for adopting children with special needs. they already have four men in custody. richard lui, the sheriff describes this crime as chilling. what do we know about what went

down? >> and also very sad. surveillance shows two men dressed like ninja bursting into the home of byrd and melanie billings. you can see two coming in through the back. three others went in through the front door. the sheriff said they were inside in less than four minutes. >> it leaves me to believe this was a very well planned and methodical operation. >> you know what, richard? police are saying as many as aid suspects could have been involved and four have been arrested. what do we know about those guyssome. >> gary lamont sumner is the latest to be arrested. police pulling him over in a routine traffic stop last night. he was seen in a picture at a walmart store a few days

earlier. law enforcement officials telling cnn that wayne coldiron and leonard patrick gonzalez. >> stephanie: had done odd jobs on the property in the past. >> coming up in about 15 minutes richard is going to have more on the victims and how the parents were able to care for all the children who had special needs. well, we have more info today on the murder of a former boxing legend, arturo gadie. tell me a little bit about this story. i mean this is really -- sounds like a sensational crime, sensational as a story and a marriage. what went wrong? >> i know. it's kind of a bizarre scenario. police are saying how could a small 23-year-old woman be able to strangle a 37-year-old man. now police say she was able to

strangle him with her purr strap because he was drunk and asleep at the time. now rodriguez's lawyer maintains her innocence but they say it's impossible for a third person to be involved because there was no sign of a forced entry. kids, eat your vegetable. last night's derby was won by a vegetarian, a 260-pound vegetarian, but a vegetarian nonetheless. prince fielder stopped eating meat because his wife is a veg. if that's not an endorsement to eat those brussel sprouts, i don't know what is. >> as we told you, president obama will be throwing out the first pitch and he'll be up in the booth. david letterman had something to say about that. >> >> president obama will be at the game. he's be in the broadcast both. he's be in the broadcast booth working the all-star game.

people say, oh, that's cute. let me tell you something. you know the economy is bad when the president has to take a second gig. that's not a good sign. >> and lastly more than 500 athletes are expected to compete this week in the national veterans wheelchair games. the ee vemgt is in its 19 years. it runs through saturday. monday they had opening ceremonies where they played some basketball. they'll be playing rugby, swimming, track, and weight-lifting. we'll have it all weeklong. that's it for now. some of the things we're watching. the house oversight committee will look into a deadly metro rail collision in d.c. the collision killed nine people last month and injured more than 70. president obama will be laying out a plan on how the community can help with the economy. he'll be speaking at 1:30 at eastern. >> ryan seacrest will be getting

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custody for the killings of a florida couple known for adopting special needs children, but investigators say six to eight people were involved in the home invasion. none of the nine children in the home was hurt. they are now staying with extended family. southwest airlines is inspecting 200 of its planes after a hole was found. the football-sized hole appeared yesterday during a flight from nashville to baltimore. the plane landed safely in charleston, west virginia. they don't know what caused the hole in the jet. two u.s. marines were killed in what military call a hostile incident. they say it happened in the

helmand province yesterday.ñ also a civilian helicopter crashed today. they don't know why but they say the fighters shot it down. a family practice doctor from alabama could become the country's next surgeon general. benjamin has spent most of her career helping poor patients along alabama's gulf coast. good morning. i'm robin meade. morning, sunshine. good to have you with us today. jumping right back into the stories. judge sotomayor will be in the rare position of answering questions instead of asking them. day two of her confirmation hearing starts in about three hours. she gave her opening statement yesterday and pledged fidelity to the law. jeffrey toobin of our sister cnn said she is a shoo-in. >> there are 12 democrats, seven republicans on the committee. you just do the math. there hasn't been a democrat

who's even suggested voting against her. i just don't see how she can lose. >> look for questions today about a ruling against white firefighters who say they were victims of discrimination. sotomayor and foel appellate judges ruled against them. supreme court overturned it. also we'll probably see questions on property, gun rights, and abortion. we could see another arrest today in the killings of a florida couple of special needs kids. that is free diction of the sheriff who's leading the investigation. yesterday a fourth suspect was taken into custody. gary sumner was charged with murder. even investigators are still struggling with why anyone would target this family. >> we have identified a motive. a motive is robbery. but there are other motives, we believe, that will develop. >> well, nine of the victims' children were at the home during the attack, and none of them were hurt. at one point the couple hat had 17 children. how do you care for them.

>> when you look at that picture, your heart goes out. their house has nine bedrooms with security cameras all around so the billings could keep an eye on their kids. their adopted chirp had special needs of all kinds including some who came from homes where they were sexually and physically abused. three of their kids died over the year. as for how they made a living, the sheriff said they were well to do. they owned several businesses in the community including a finance company and a car dealership. >> so the murderers have obviously shaken the town where this family lived. as you said their heart goes out to everyone. >> in fact the paper says billings murders liam the community in shock. they used to feel comfortable leaving their doors unlocked. now they say many are concerned about their safety. >> it changes every community when you have such a violent act as this. hand gun sales go up, alarm systems go up, people form

neighborhood watches. yes, there's a spike. there's always a spike. >> there's a area west of pensacola. it's full of farms. there are more churches than convenience stores. you'll see signs on the street, farm fresh eggs. it's a tight-knit community. even though people didn't know personally of them, they knew of them. >> a family that large, u i'm sure everyone knew of them. a teenager fell down a manhole while she was texting and her family may sue the city. she was looking at her phone when she fell and landed in sewage. she said city construction workers helped her out. they left the manhole to go get cones to mark it off. the girl's mom wants to know why it was left open. >> it could have been worse. it could have been a lot worse. i could have lost my baby if she would have fell an inch over. >> well, new york officials say that they're investigating.

>> holy cow. jfdamln. just fell down a manhole last night. >> you're too funny. what happened? >> i have no idea. that story is quite a tale. what's up? let me show you what's going on. thunderstorms again this morning. same deal. you have a low jet stream cranking on in. it picks up with intensity this afternoon, a cold frontal boundary. you can see the thunderstorm line north of the city itself. it's not severe right now but a lot of lightning in the sky. heavy downpours out there too. possibility of small heal out there early this morning but you're looking at heavy rain pulling away from little rock.

opening up the picturing you can see what it looks like. cold front off of florida and the coast so it's drier for you. tennessee down into georgia and the carolinas too. taking you live to atlanta, here's what it looks like. traveling down here, decent day. heavy rain pulling on through this morning. nothing but sunshine. temperatures climbing into the upper 80s and still relatively dry. the humidity just not around here, which is going to feel pretty good. where is the heat though? let me show you the temperatures. 80 in abilene, 85 in dallas. they'll get down right before sunrise. not much of a break from the temperatures which you'll see today, 105 to 106. goes all the way into phoenix, 110. there's the heat, robin. more on that in a little bit. kevin bacon would be so proud. people are fighting to get a dancing van off the books. yes, there's a dancing van. a decades of ordinance makes it

illegal to dance after 2:00 a.m. okay. after 2:00 a.m. it was reinforced until the group wanted to have an after hours dance. they apreefbed getting rid of it. >> there ee not going to be an outpouring of people dancing after 2:00 a.m. that's not the case. it's more symbolic that we can now remove the laws that have been on the books for such a long time that makes des moines look like a 19th century city. >> the final vote is next month. i i'm sorry. i'm looking at the video wondering what year it was shot looking at some of the fashion. i think it was from when the movie came out. have you been saving up to get the newest version of microsoft office? you may be able to hold on to your money. find out how to get the new software for free.

you know the police say the wife of a former boxing legend strangled him to death. if that happened, how was she able to do it? you're talking about a strong man and a petite woman. >> he only retired a come years ago so he was in great shape, about 150 pounds. lawyers say she was far too small and frail to have done this. they say the 23-year-old former exotic dancer was able to strangle him with her purse strap because he was asleep. police say gatti was drinking and passed out when rodrigues attacked him. she was alone. >> she is accused of that but she said she didn't do that. >> that's correct. >> that was her story

previously, that she didn't know how it happened, that it happened while she was out. >> right. and she's sticking with that story. >> thank you, rafer. the reporter who interviewed la toya about her brother's death has more. she told a london paper she suspects michael was murdered. she tells lair are king said that michael was surrounded by people who took advantage of him. >> michael was isolated from his family. the family tried to intervene. they knew that he was in trouble. they tried to stage an intervention, and every time they tried to get close to that house, they were prevented. joe jackson went to the front door on many occasions, she told me. he went to the front gate. they wouldn't let him in. when la toya called the house, she couldn't speak to her brother. this is all very suspicious. >> well l.a.'s mayor now says the city will pay for the services related to michael jab's memorial. the citi council is expected to

take up that issue today. police, traffic control cost more than $4 million onand they called the website asking for donations ridiculous. the site closed on monday but it's not known if the $35,000 raised is going to be returned to the people who donated it. bernie madoff is on the move. the disgraced financier headed south. jennifer westhoven is here to tell you where he's going. good morning. >> he's right here. he's in town, robin. bernie madoff is in jail in atlanta this morning for his multi-million dollar ponzi scheme, and, in fact, cnn is reporting that it's the same prison where charles ponzi himself did time. madoff was transferred from new york. he's eventually going to end up in a prison in north carolina. you may remember that madoff asked that he do his time in a jail in new york, otisville,

which is known for having a really good jewish spiritual support system. there's a lot of prayer and services for example, so maybe he was hoping for that. but, again, reports say he's in atlanta and headed to north carolina. the war between microsoft and google, well that could turn out to be a great thing for you. the newest version of microsoft office, it's going to be free and available online next year. so word, excel, power point, all free to you. that used to cost 200 bucks for the package. google had been offering similar programs for free on the web, microsoft wanting to bigfoot that, make sure you stay with them. but their war is to your benefit. >> sounds like it. fear of people are hitting the bottle before hitting the road but the same cannot be said for driving under the influence of drugs. some startling new numbers.

the space shuttle launch was scrapped for the third day.

didn't meteorologist bob van dillen say that was going to happen? they're going to try tomorrow night. >> same old deal. have a frontal boundary, thunderstorms in the forecast. >> if it goes tomorrow they'll have to dock from the station earlier than planned to make room for a russia ship later on. if it goes thursday, yes or no, bob? no, he says. nasa will have to cut out a space walk. >> i say yes tomorrow, no, thursday. people tested positive from some kind of drug. it says the most common drug detected is marijuana followed by cocaine and methamphetamine. on the flip side fewer people are driving drunk, alcohol news. well, according to separate studies, they accounted for about 2% of all drivers in 2007. two minnesota men have been indicted on charges that say they supported terrorism. they're accused of recruiting immigrants in the minneapolis area to go fight with islamic

mill tamts in their home country. as many as 20 young somali men have disappear and they're believed to be fighting in somalia. a lawyer says one of his suspects will plead not guilty. it's not like i'm trying to keep bob with few words. bob, flyers, good yes or no. >> good. back to you. it's going to be a decent day. you're talking about thunderstorms always on the afternoon in the summertime. we're going to see them today but they're going to evade all the major cities. good news here. let me show you sabre flight explorer. the volume is starting to get up there. about 2,000 jets up. kind of early to see that kind of number. how about the delays? still early. boston, orlando, tampa, kansas, minneapolis, 30 minutes to an hour. notice the major cities, pretty much clear. more on that, robin, in a bit. >> all right. thank you. two days, major league all-star game will feature a

special visit from the president. but drivers in st. louis may not be very happy about it. well, of course. when the president goes there's got go a motorcade and safety measures. >> they're not actually releasing the numbers but they're talking about, and i quote, an army of police and federal officials, federal agents both inside and outside busch stadium. fans going inside the game are going to be screened with metal detect ters. but get. this interstate 64 is going to be closed down at 8:00 central, so rush hour traffic is going to be a nightmare in the gateway city tonight but the players are excited. they say they cannot wait to meet the president and the president is going to be honoring a tradition that goes a long way back, that's throwing out the first pitch. there's calvin coolidge, franklin ross velt, dwight eisenhower. he'll be joining nixon, kennedy,

and ford. clinton was the first one to successfully reach the catcher. talk about putting your cause on your back, he'll switch from number one to number three to promote his humanitarian efforts in darfur. he was involved in a documentary that follows his trip. he's going to be giving his number away to a new forward. today's viral video takes some of the greatest rants in sports history. check it out. >> this ought to be good. ♪ in my opinion that -- 670,000 people have watched the so far on youtube and we've dug it up for you. there it is. the there's jim moor saying play-offs. you know what the problem is? i can't hear the rants from the music. >> we need to mix it then.

the music is good. playoffs. play-offs. >> thank you. nice to have you back. coupons are going high tech. that's good news in a bad economy. hln money expert clark howard tells you about new technology that promises to help save money and trees. >> my 9-year-old loves going to self-service registers in the supermarket or discount store and scanning things with bar codes. it's like she's having a field day when she gets to ring the stuff up. don't you wish every customer felt that way, mr. or ms. merchant? the bar code has really not changed much in a long, long, long time. until now. you're going to see over the next year or two, some ultraweirdo bar codes start appearing on food items. all kinds of good things about this, including things where you will get automatic coupons. if you buy this item with this item, instead of having to pull the coupon out, once the

register reads both items it will give you the special coupon price, and how about this? the bar code will tell you if an item is expired, and if it already is, it won't let you buy it in the supermarket. nice safety feature. i'm clark howard. for more ways to protect your wallet, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> clark will teach to you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. catch him at noon eastern on saturday and sundays. right here on hln. ryan seacrest will get $450 mi -- $45 million to keep hosting "american idol." this tripled the almost $5 million a year he was getting to host "idol." a texas politician is happy to see the sun come up every

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well, good morning, sunshine. you are sitting there. spend a little time with us. we'll get your brain ready. i'm robin meade. here's what's going on. four men are charged in the murder of a couple who adopted more than a dozen children and police say some of the suspects were dressed like ninjas. then -- >> the task of the judge is not to make law, it is to apply the law. supreme court nominee, sonia so sotomayor had her turn at the mike. but today senators will get a chance to grill her. plus this man got carried away by a swolen river, and next thing he knew, he was headed toward a waterfall.

gary sumner is charged with murder, the fourth suspect in custody in the killing of a florida couple. authorities believe six to eight people were involved. take a look at this new surveillance photo. one man who has not been identified yet. investigators say robbery was a motive, but not the only motive. >> we expect more arrests to be imminent in this case. these seem to take a life on their own at some point and we're proud to announce we hope to bring all of the suspects we have identified early on in this case to justice very, very shortly. >> well, the victims, byrd and melanie billings were well off, and used their money to adopt and care for special needs children. nine kids home during the home invasion. police believe some of them saw the intruders. none was hurt and they are now staying with family. investigators are working on enhanced video from cameras at the couple's home and what they

have seen is chilling. correspondent richard lui has more and how things will play out. and a third southwest airlines fleet is being checked after a hole in one plane forced an emergency landing. at 30,000 feet, a plane had to land when a hole the size of a football appeared in the cabin. the cabin lost pressure, but no one was hurt. >> nobody really knew what it was. we had the feeling, if you will, that's where we noticed all of the ceiling tiles were being sucked to or against the fuselage. there was a loud noise of air -- air being sucked out. the masks dropped. everybody proceeded to put the masks back. >> wow. a spokeswoman for southwest says they have not figured out what

caused the hole. a pennsylvania swim club accused of discrimination could be sued for discrimination and an attorney for the day camp wants the entire board to resign. the camp was kicked out because it is mostly minoritieses. the club says the pool was overcrowded and has invited them back. the club will not go. the city will pay for services related to michael jackson's memorial. the city council is expected to take up the issue today. police, traffic control and other services, cost $1.4 million. and the mayor called a website asking for donations ridiculous. the site closed on friday. but it's not known if the $35,000 raised will be returned to donors. the space shuttle launch was scrapped for the third straight day because of storms. if it goes tomorrow, "endeavour" will have to undock earlier than

planned to make room for a russian ship. and if it goes thursday, it will have to cut out a space walk. president obama is getting tough on health care reform. he reportedly told the senate finance chairman that he wants legislation ready by the end of the week. >> we are going to get this done. inaction is not an option. for naysayers and cynics that think this is not going to happen, don't bet against us. we are going to make this happen. house lawmakers release a bill today. they expect a vote to august there is little consensus on how to pay for the overhaul. you know what? this man survived a plunge from a waterfall at least 20 feet tall. he fell while trying to walk across the waterfall. okay. on a creek just north of atlanta yesterday. the creek was swollen after rains over the weekend. crews used roped and a rescue

basket to get him out. he hurt his back, but injuries are not life threatening. okay. you know, we have some really interesting stories coming up. you have to stay around for. for one, say you are the leader of the free world and your prompter goes -- what do you do? bob, what do you have interesting? >> a lot of things weatherwise that are weather related. the mlb all-star game is tonight. st. louis, a decent day. 89 degrees. a couple scattered showers and thunderstorms. i think the game will be unaffected. i'm hoping so. we have a shot of thunderstorms coming in. thunderstorms this morning, basically from kansas city up toward the north. look at the flashing going on. real time lightning data. you can see it coming on in. everything drifting to the east at 20 to 25 miles an hour. heavy rain for the morning and all ahead of the bigger system in towards canada. and believe that, upper level high pressure region over texas. that means extremely hot

temperatures for you, even for this time of year. 105 to 106 for areas around dallas. and thunderstorms coming around. kansas city toward minnesota. rain up there. a decent shield of rain around central iowa, and toward little rock. out of arkansas. you're beginning dry out a bit. later today, more thunderstorms develop, but the heaviest rain is moving on in toward mississippi and drying out for you around alabama, through georgia. into the carolinas, so a drier day today than what you had yesterday. temperatures, already starting in the mid 80s. 84, never really just below that this morning. 75 in austin. 79 in abilene. 76 in wichita. temperatures will jump up quickly. dry air always heats up fast. temperatures feeling like 105 to 110. and take you up toward new york city. another nice day. traveling to the northeast today, lots of sunshine. there's the tilted camera looking at manhattan.

83 and dry. 87 down towards d.c. not really that bad. relative humidy low. more in a half hour. >> thank you. michael jackson's death may not be a mystery for long. doctors are wrapping up tests and close to revealing results.

you know, we could know what killed michael jackson within a week. a coroner's official in l.a. says some toxicology results to figure out if there were substances in jackson's body are already in. he says the remaining results are expected later this week or early next. authorities are looking into claims that jackson took large amounts of prescription drugs. you know what? while you were sleeping an

earthquake hit l.a. last night. centered under the runways at l.a.x. a magnitude 3.2. in l.a., they just kind of shrug that off. they looked around, didn't see signs of damage, no flights even delayed. yep, it's all about comparisons. it is time right now for a salute to the troops. today's salute is to a couple stationed in iraq. rebecca wood and scott wood met and married in the army. scott's mom says they have only been gone for two months, but it feels like forever. i'm sure it does. maybe you have somebody in the service. why don't you go ahead and salute them. we'll help you. cnn.com/robin. a new billboard is making people raise their voices, point fingers and call each other names. >> don't align that man who lived and died to save all people to the democratic or republican party. he's bigger than politics.

>> new for you in 40 minutes who put up a billboard claiming that the reverend martin luther king jr. was a republican. you may not know the name c.i.t., but hundreds of thousands of businesses rely on it for crucial lending. it's at serious risk of going under and wants a bailout. our money expert, jennifer westhoven is hear to tell us about it. >> this is one of the next big things you are hearing about on talk radio. c.i.t. lends to a million small and medium-sized businesses. so many of them have failed, it's on the edge now, and it wants more government money. it has $2 million of your money. what some experts are saying is if it collapses, it's not like it's bear stearns or washington mutual where it will rock the economy to its core, but it could set off a wave where there are so many businesses that count on c.i.t., where those

businesses fold and that's a lot of jobs that are on the line. so they are talking to the treasury about what they can do to borrow more money. treasury hasn't said anything yet. u. it's a big question. where does the government draw the line? and if the government helps banks like citibank and huge companies, shouldn't they be looking out for small companies as well? back to school. started at many stores. you may have seen the signs, some of the promotions, but as you can imagine it looks pretty weak. back to school is crucial for retail companies this is their second busiest season of the year after christmas and forecasts are spend willing be down 8% for kids in grade school and down 4% for kids in college. the reason it's a little better for kids in college is because they are doing dorm shopping. they have to buy a lot of stuff there and get more expensive electronics like computers. we'll get more real details when we get retail sales numbers.

i know it's shopping. we don't necessarily -- everybody trying to save money right now, but shopping and spending is the lifeblood of the economy. it is about 66% of economic activity. robin. bob -- i'm right here too. >> hey, what's up, jennifer. >> i was looking at robin. she's prettier. >> here's the deal. you are going to know. >> she usually takes a break. >> at 13 minutes past the hour, i am supposed to take a bathroom break. i forgot. here i am. >> and they finish with a brand new sponge. if you're traveling out today, a good day. the coasts look good, both east and west. thunderstorms in the middle part of the country. thunderstorms around kansas city right now. no delay yet. here is what we're calling for for the rest of the day. everybody should see delays of less than an hour. orlando, tampa, thunderstorms, kansas city, minneapolis, same thing. 30 minutes to an hour.

more in a bit. new info on the death of arturo gatti. here is rafer. >> this story broke when i was away, an incredibly shocking one. police are saying gatti's wife strangled him to death with her purse strap. accused lawyers say that is impossible. she's too small. why police say she was able to do it.

more now on our top story. police expect more arrests as early as today in the deaths of a florida couple known for the adoption of special needs kids them already have four men in custody. the sheriff describes the crime as chilling. any time you talk about a murder, it's chilling, but what do we know about what happened? >> listen to this, surveillance video we have show two groups of men dressed like ninjas bursting into the home of byrd and melanie billings. you see two suspects coming from a wooded area in the back in this video and three others entering the front door. the sheriff says they were inside less than four minutes. he describes the crime as well plan methodical. they apparently made mistakes too. at least three suspects rode in an easily identifiable red van on the right side there. neighbors spotted that van and called in tips, they even tried to paint it later on we hear.

not necessarily bullet proof in terms what they did. >> from that time it looks like it's broad daylight. police are saying too as many as eight suspects were involved. maybe that explains the big van what do we know about that? >> here is a look at the four men in custody. gary lamont sumner, the latest to be arrested. police pulled him over in a routine traffic stop last night. he's one of the men in this picture here, buying dark clothing at a florida walmart store days before the murder. hence the looking like ninjas and two of the suspects were day laborers in the pensacola area as well. law enforcement telling wayne thomas coldiron had done odd jobs on the billings' property in the past. >> so they would know their way around at least, be familiar. richard, thank you. police caught an escaped inmate walking by the chicago mayor's vacation home. convicted murderer charles smith and two other felons broke out

of an indiana prison on sunday. they think smith and another escapee got lost and happened to pass by his michigan home. his security detail spotted them and chased smith down. two others are still on the run. 18 people, including a baby, went to the hospital after a semi truck slammed into their bus. the bus flipped and caught fire. officials say the bus driver was making a u-turn when it was rear ended by the semi. president obama did not let a shattered teleprompter slip him up during a speech. >> we took swift and aggressive action during the first months of my administration to pull our economy -- sorry about that, guys. >> and on he went. the prompter screen crashed to the floor while the president was talking about his economic stimulus plan yesterday. but he kept going, using his notes and a second screen.

month info on the murder of former boxing legend arturo gatti. police are pointing the finger at his wife. >> and her lawyer is saying there is no way that a 37-year-old woman would be able to strangle a boxer in his prime. they say amanda rodriguez strangled him with the purse strap while he was drunk and asleep. rodriguez acted alone. because there was no sign of any forced entry. they she is still in jail. kids, here is why you need to eat your vegetables. last night's home run derby was run by vegetarian prince fielder. he stopped eating meat last year because his wife is a vegetarian this is nice. a 500-foot home run. longest of the night. 260 pounds and a vemg tgetarian.

he's your brussels sprouts kids. and david letterman chimed in about the president's visit to st. louis. >> president obama will be at the game. in the broadcast booth. he's going to be working in the broadcast booth during the all-star game. everybody says that's cute. let me tell you something. you know the economy is bad when the president has to take a second gig. that's not a good sign. >> i think the announcer joe buck will then be president for a while. more than 500 athletes competing in the national veterans wheelchair event games this week. this is in its 19th year, sponsored by the u.s. department of veterans affairs. runs through saturday in spokane, washington. they played wheelchair basketball. they will play rugby, swimming, track and weight lifting. we'll bring it to you all week long. robin. >> good luck to those competitors. a texas senator is getting say thank you to the family of a

teenager who gave him a live. senator mario gallegos' surgery was two years ago. the 16-year-old died of a heart condition. the meeting was a tearful moment for him. >> when you talk about your own life and the life of your loved one, it's a personal thing. i just wanted you to know that. >> the senator is urging more people to sign up for organ donation. you know, it's like a scene right out of "footloose." there is a law on the books in iowa that restricts dancing. people there aren't putting up with anymore. ♪ got to cut loose, footloose s kick off your sunday shoes ♪ ♪ jack get back come on before we crack ♪

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a fourth suspect is in custody in the murder of a florida couple known for adopting special needs children, but investigators say six to eight people were involved in the home invasion. check out some of the video here. none of the nine kids in the home were hurt. they are now staying with extended family, but the video appears to show people dressed up ninja style coming into the home. southwest airlines suspecting 200 planes after a hole in one of its jets forced an emergency landing. the football sized hole appeared yesterday during a flight from nashville to baltimore. the plane landed safely in charleston, west virginia. airline officials don't know what cause the hole in the jet. check out this video of a wildfire that burned 400 acres near l.a.

it's about halfway contained. the smoke forced officials to close two lanes of i-5. traffic backed up for miles. maybe more so than normal. the fire also burned power lines. a family crisis doctor from alabama could be the next surgeon general. president obama chose dr. regina benjamin. she has to be confirmed by the senate. she has spent most of her career helping poor patients along the gulf coast. we have a lot of interesting stories today. i'm interested in you. hope you're doing well. i'm robin meade. more on our top story. police have four suspects in custody in the murder of a florida couple. correspondent richard lui, at one point, the victims had 17 children. do we know how they were able to care for them? and we'll get into the finer points of this case. >> exactly. big family here and good question. their house had nine bedrooms. big house. had security cameras all around so the billings could keep an

eye on their kids. some of the kids came from homes where they were physically and sexually abused. the sheriff said they were well to do, owned several businesses in the community, including a finance company and used car dealership. >> that might explain why there were security cameras to begin with outside the home that caught suspects walking toward the house. >> exactly. >> the murders have shaken the small town where the family lived. >> before the murders, the sheriff says people in the community felt comfortable, left doors unlocked. now, many are concerned about their safety. >> it changes every community when you have such a violent act such as this. handgun sales go up, alarm systems are sold. people form neighborhood watches. so, yes, there's a spike. there's always a spike. >> this happened in a community called beulah, a rural area west of pensacola, near the alabama state line. if you were to drive down one of the roads, would you probably

say hand-drawn signs that say farm fresh eggs. it's full of farms, nor churches and convenience stores in that area. tight-knit community. even those that didn't know the victims, they knew of them. >> especially a family that large. vice president dick cheney is said to be getting a bum wrap that he hid a secret counterterrorism program from congress. some democrats are accusing cheney of breaking the law. he's not responded to reports. judge sonia sotomayor is in the rare position of answering questions rather than asking. she gave her opening statement yesterday and pledged fidelity to the law. legal analyst jeffrey toobin of our sister network cnn says

she's a shoo-in. 60 democrats and 40 republicans in the senate. you do the math there vaechbt be hasn't been a democrat that suggested voting against her. i don't see how she can loose. >> you can listen for questions on property and gun rights. and abortion today. those are all possibilities. 34 minutes past the hour. okay. in the south, it's been very, very sticky who is getting the storm? let's start out with meteorologist bob van dillen. doesn't have to be the south. >> no, it will end up through the plains states. usually in the summertime, you get two waves of storms during the day. one in the pre-dawn hours and one late in the afternoon. we'll find this to be the case this afternoon. low level jet stream, active the longest part of the day. this is getting this up going now is right before sunrise.

and as the sun is coming up, these storms ought to die down a bit. decent rain north of kansas city. heavy rain outside of minneapolis and that will give you delays at the airport first part of the day. kansas city, a thunderstorm line right overhead. lightning out there. real time data, falling up toward kansas city. each one of these producing a little lightning. heavy rain for the morning. that will slide in towards basically eastern missouri. and it falls apart later this morning and redeveloped this afternoon. down across little rock, dry now. look at the thunderstorm south of arkansas. drifting toward the southeast. that falls apart too. you take the picture out a bit. and the front is right around florida. if you live around tampa, towards orlando, more thunderstorms develop this afternoon. and you dry out nicely toward atlanta.ñ you get towards dallas, extremely hot again and advisories out there, i'll have it for the next half hour. live to the nation's capital.

here is what it looks like in washington, d.c. white house looking real nice. 87 degrees. if this is your day to travel up toward washington, d.c., what a good week. low humidity and highs in the 80s. the mall starting to get going already as well. we'll talk to you more in a bit. have you been saving up for the newest version of microsoft office? hold on to your money. you will soon be able to get the new software for free.

the reporter who interviewed la toya jackson about her brother's death is revealing more of their conversation. yesterday, we talked about la toya telling a london newspaper

that she suspects michael jackson was murdered caroline graham of "the daily mail" did the interview. la toya talked about michael being surrounded by people who took advantage of him. >> michael was isolated from his family. the family tried to intervene. they knew he was in trouble. they tried to stage an intervention, and every time they tried to get close to the house, they were prevented. joe jackson went to the front door on many indications. they wouldn't let him in. when la toya called the house, she couldn't speak to her brother this is all very suspicious. >> the report every also said that la toya told her jackson would not be buried at neverland. you know, police say the wife of a former boxing legend strangled him to death. her lawyers say it's physically impossible. here is rafer with more of what they are saying. >> new developments. police say she killed him when

he was asleep. now, the big question is, ar turto gatti, the boxer we are talking about, only retired a few years ago, in his prime and attorneys for his wife say she's too small and frail to have done it. police say she strangled him with his purse strap when he passed out after drinking. they say there was no sign of forced entry and rodriguez acted alone. we showed you the purse strap they say was the murder weapon. >> thank you, rafer. gays and lesbians are one step closer to being officially welcomed to add episcopalian clergy. they voted for allowing gays and lesbians into the ministry. it could be approved on friday. back in 2003, the episcopalian church allowed its first openly gay bishop. it caused an uproar and has not happened since. the u.s. has already wracked

up a record deficit. more than $1 trillion, with a "t." jennifer westhoven will explain how much is that? >> this is money you, me, american children, our grandchildren, maybe their children, are going to be paying this back. to give you a sense of the sheer size of it, if you spend $1 million, every single day, since the day that you were born, you still wouldn't have $1 trillion. that is the taste of how big it is. a stack of $100 bills, not $1, a stack of $100 bills to get to a trillion, would you need 144 mt. rushmores stacked on top of each other. the deficit, of course, is the gap between what the government takes in and what it spend. and its massive spending to bolster the economy is what has blossomed this deficit. bernie madoff in jail, turns

out in the same prison where charles ponzi, the inventor of the ponzi scheme himself did time. madoff, now prison 61727054, will eventually end up in a federal prison in north carolina. madoff had asked to do time in new york to be closer to his family. the war between microsoft and google could turn out to be a great thing for you. i love it when business wars work out for you. the newest version of microsoft office will be available for you for free. and online. this is something that would have cost you $200 a couple years ago, $100 recently. word, excel, power point, all coming to you for free. google was trying similar beta programs and theirs were free, microsoft wants to make sure you do not migrate to google. most companies use microsoft office. a teenager not looking where

she was going. walking down the street, texting when she got a cruel lesson in gravity. her mom is angry, but it's not at her daughter for not paying attention.

okay. 44 minutes past the hour. today's major league all-star game will feature a special visit from the president. drivers in st. louis may not be very happy about that. wherever the president goes there, will be security. >> oh, my goodness. the measures they are taking, they are not releasing numbers, but they say there will be an "army" of federal officers outside and inside busch stadium. a beautiful shot that is. the big issue, interstate 64, which goes right through the city, will be closed for the game, which is at 7:00 central. that means rush hour traffic will be a nightmare in the gateway city. the players are incredibly excited and cannot wait to meet the president and the president is honoring a tradition that goes a long way back, throwing out the first pitch.

calvin coolidge, franklin roosevelt. dwight eisenhower threw out eight pitches. most of them threw from the stands. clinton was one of the first to to it from the mound and then george w. threw out five first pitches. the rockets star tracy mcgrady is going to switch from number 1 to number 3 to promote humanitarian efforts in darfur. he was involved in a documentary called "three points." he's donated more than $75,000 to humanitarian projects in darfur. big news, because players are generally protective of numbers. to guf a number up for something like this, is kind of a big deal. today's viral video takes some of the great rants in sports history and can cleverly mixes them. >> the playoffs, the playoffs. >> that's jim mora doing the

famous playoffs. 670,000 people have watched this so far on youtube and we dug it up for you. i just never get tired of watching jim mora do that. >> all the major temper tan items. all right. about one in every six people driving at night on the weekends tested positive from some kind of drug, from a new government study. the most common drug detected is pot, followed by cocaine and then methamphetamine. on the flipside, fewer people are driving drunk according to a separate study. they accounted for 2% of all drivers in 2007. two minnesota men have been indicted on charges they supported terrorism them are accused of recruiting somali immigrants in the minneapolis area to go fight with islamic militants in their home country. as many as 20 young somali men in the twin cities have disappeared and are believed to be fighting in some ala a lawyer for one of the suspects says his client will plead not guilty.

the little paper coupon that you sit there and cut out, it has gone high tech. good news in a bad economy. hln money expert clark howard tells you about new technology that promises to help you save money and help save trees. >> my 9-year-old loves going to self-service registers in the supermarket or discount store and scanning things with the bar code. it's like she's having a field day when she gets to ring the stuff up. don't you wish every customer felt that way mr. or ms. merchant? the bar code has not really changed much in a long, long, long time until now. you will see over the next year or two, some ultraweirdo bar codes start appearing on food items. there will be all kinds of good things about this, including things where you will get automatic coupons. where if you buy this item with this item, instead of having to pull a coupon out, once the

registers reads both of those items it will give you the special coupon price. and how about this? the bar code will tell if you an item is expired, and if it already is, it won't let you buy it in the supermarket. nice safety feature. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to protect your wallet, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> clark will teach to you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. check him at noon eastern on saturday and sunday, right here on hln. a teenager was sitting there texting. and while she was texting, she fell down a man hole and her family may sue the city of new york. the 15-year-old was looking at her phone when she fell and landed in sewage. city construction workers helped her out. they had left the manhole open to get cones to go mark it off. the girl's mom wants to know why it was left open in the first place. >> it could have been worse.

it could have been a lot worse. i could have lost my baby if she would have fell an new york off investigating. a california teen is almost done with his attempt to sail around the world alone. 17-year-old zack sunderland is trying to become the youngest person to do that. he arrived at san diego 13 months after he started his trip. he has about 100 miles to go to his final destination near l.a. and he's hoping to get get there on sunday. 10 to the hour. hello, travelers. bob says -- i don't know how often he says it. good day to travel! >> yeah. it is going to be a decent day. both coasts look good, east and west. but in the middle of the country from minneapolis down towards probably kansas city, you're going to get some thunderstorms. this is what it looks like in minneapolis. gray skies out there, light rain immediately off towards your west across central minnesota. that works in through later this morning. poor visibility. much a delay out of that. more thunderstorms this

afternoon. 3,112 airplanes up, just about two minutes ago. so how about the delays for the day? everybody should see less than an hour delay, but you'll see a little bit of a wind today, 20 to 25 miles per hour, boston logan, 30 minute delay. orlan orlando, thunderstorms, kansas city and minneapolis, 30-minute delay. but really, that's all you're going to find, robin. so, yeah, you're right. good day to travel. more in about a half hour. >> all right. thank you. just having a discussion with the producers, because we have already some stories we're watching in the planner. the house oversight committee will look into a deadly metro rail collision in washington, d.c. that collision killed nine people last month, and injured more than 70. president obama will lay out a plan for how community colleges could help the economy. he's going to speak in michigan around 3:30 eastern. you're going to see political bill boards all of the time, right? well, this one stating that the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. was republican is making a lot of people angry. who put it up, and why?

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morning! hello, hello. welcome to the show. it's tuesday, i'm robin meade, and here's what's going on for you. >> we have identified a motive, a motive is robbery. but there are other motives we believe that will develop. >> police just arrested another suspect in the murder of a couple who adopted more than a dozen special needs kids. and they're telling other suspects, you won't hide much longer. here is a flying nightmare. a 1-foot hole appeared on this plane in mid air, and the airline has no idea how it got there. plus, this man was picked up by a swollen river, and the next thing he knew, he was headed for a waterfall. first, though, we could see another arrest today in the killings of a florida couple. that is the prediction of the sheriff who is leading the

investigation. yesterday, a fourth suspect was taken into custody, gary sumner is charged with murder. officials believe that in all, six to eight people were involved. now, the house had security cameras, and i want you to look here. these pictures show the suspects moving in. and they seem to be dressed in dark clothing. investigators don't believe that robbery was the only motive. >> we expect more arrests to be imminent in this case. these seem to take on a life of their own at some point, and again, we're very proud to announce that we hope to bring all of the suspects that we have identified early on in this case to justice very, very shortly. >> the victims, bird and melanie billings were well off and used their money to adopt and care for special needs kids. nine kids were home during the home invasion, and police believe that some of them saw the intruders. none was hurt, and they're now staying with family. investigators are working on enhanced video from those cameras at the family's home.

they say that what they've already seen is chilling, and correspondent richard lui has more now on how they -- things may have played out. that's coming in about ten minutes. >> a hole in a southwest airlines jet forced an emergency landing and now a third of its fleet is being checked. the flight was on its way to baltimore from nashville yesterday, and it had to land in charleston, west virginia. after a football-sized hole appeared in the cabin. yeah, the cabin lost pressure. nobody was hurt. >> we were seated about two rose ba rows back from the wing, and four rows back, you heard this loud rush, and your ears popped, and we looked back, and you could tell that part of the -- the inside was trying to pull out. and it was crazy. and then oxygen masks dropped and of course i put mine on, as i was instructed to, and then put it on my kids. and so it was -- it was just crazy, though. but you're doing -- especially as a parent, you're doing a lot of talking, and calming. and that kind of thing.

and how you've never gone through this before. >> right. a spokeswoman for southwest says that they haven't figured out what caused the hole in the jet. here come the questions. judge sonia sotomayor and her day two of her supreme court nomination hearings at 9:30 a.m. eastern. now, she gave her opening statement yesterday. sotomayor pledged fidelity to the law, and she also said that her personal or political views would not influence her decisions as some republicans have claimed. and they're expected to ask how the role of empathy would play out in her decisions. these are such stretched charges against her. when judge alito talked about his italian background influencing him, when judge thomas talked about justice thomas talked about how prejudice had affected him and would affect him, they didn't raise a peep. of course everyone's background affects them. how could we not? we don't want nine justices with ice water running through their

veins. >> the whole judges take is to be impersonal, to not allow empathy or emotions or anything else to get in the way of law. now, at the end of her opening remarks, she said that she would apply that particular standard. but in her speeches around the country, and in some of the cases she has written, there was some indication that maybe she has not done that in the past. >> well, one topic that came up yesterday, and no doubt is going to come up again, is a speech where she once said that a wise la tina could reach better conclusions than a white man. we could know what killed michael jackson within a week. a coroner's official in l.a. says that some toxicology results to figure out if there were substances in his body are already in. now, he says the remaining results are expected later this week, or early next week. authorities are looking into claims that jackson took large amounts of prescription drugs. meanwhile, a reporter who interviewed latoya jackson also talked on larry king last night

about michael's children in the days before the memorial. she told them about a touching moment involving jackson's daughter. >> she said that paris, on the monday before the memorial service, they had an open viewing of the casket. >> oh, they did. >> and the little girl -- the boys didn't want to go, but paris said yes, i want to go and see daddy again. and the most poignant thing she said is that paris brought this little heart necklace with a heart in two parts. and that she said she put it around michael's -- her daddy's wrist, and that she put it around her neck and said i'm going to wear this now for the rest of my life. >> that is touching. the reporter also said that latoya told her jackson would not be buried at neverland. the space shuttle launch was scrapped for the third straight day because of storms. nasa is going to try again tomorrow night. and if it goes tomorrow, "endeavour" is going to have to undock early early than planned to make way for a russian ship this month. thursday, nasa says it's going to have to cut out a space walk.

a group of african-american and latino kids who were asked to leave a private swim club outside philly now say they will not go back there. attorneys for their day camp say they will sue the swim club. the valley swim club insists the kids were turned away because of overcrowding conditions and not because of their race. know, this man survived a plunge from a waterfall at least 20 feet tall. he said he fell trying to walk across the water fall on a creek. just north of atlanta yesterday. the creek was swollen, though, after rain. well, crews used ropes and a rescue basket to get him out. he did hurt his back. officials say the injuries are not life-threatening six minutes after the hour today. who has a rainy start on a tuesday morning? here is meteorologist bob van dillen. >> the rain, the heat already, too. we're talking about temperatures in phoenix around 90. so it's a tough start already. look at some of the other temperatures coming for the afternoon. heat index today, 105 to 110,

eastern oklahoma, parts of kansas. all of the yellow-shaded areas, those are heat advisories and temperatures 100 to 105. in phoenix, you missed a record high yesterday by 1 degree. the record yesterday was 114, got to 113 today. record about 116, so i think you'll fall shy of that, too. spots in red, that's a good chunk of southern california, western parts of arizona and near phoenix. as for the severe thunderstorms, we're going to get some of that action today. right now, it's just decent rain arched kansas city, but the frontal boundary still in place, watch for the daytime heating. thunderstorms today, a couple tornadoes possible in the upper midwest. minnesota in towards iowa, parts of the dakotas and even eastern nebraska, including omaha. you're going to get some powerful thunderstorms, especially later this afternoon. as for the action right now, zoom towards kansas city, and a sneak at the radar picture. the line breezing through the city, now falling apart just a touch around central missouri. but more rain out there for you around arkansas. pull the picture out a bit and the dry air trying to get in

towards atlanta and push in towards florida, but the front is still there, so tampa in towards orlando. thunderstorms for you once again this afternoon. and we could see a couple of stray showers and storms late tonight, around st. louis. may affect the mlb all-star game. let's hope not, but the forecast does have a couple storms in there for you. let me take you to the west. lax airport in los angeles. had an earthquake overnight last night. 3.2. people felt it, but no damage under the runway. but i'll tell you, robin, if lax is a rockin ', don't you come knockin '. >> they didn't have any flight delays, even. >> no, and it was directly underneath the landing pad or landing strip. >> 3.2, nothing. >> i know it. all right, thank you. >> all right. police have arrested a fourth suspect now in the murders of a florida couple. but they say that as many as four others could still be out there. and we're learning that two of the men in custody may have been on the victim's property in the past.

we salute the troops. today's salute is to a couple stationed together in iraq. private first class skood woods and private first class rebecca woods met and married in the army. scott's mom sent in the pictures, and is she says, yeah, they have been gone for two months, but it feels like forever! i bet it does. if you have somebody in the service, why don't you salute them? go to cnn.com/robin. more on our top story. police expect more arrests as early as today the in the murders of a florida couple known for adopting children who have special needs. they already have four men in custody. correspondent richard lui, the sheriff describes the crime as chilling. so what are we learning about what went down? >> yeah, robin, looking at local reports. and what he said, robin, is that it looks like this operation was well planned, done with military precision. this surveillance video we have right here shows a group of men dressed like ninjas coming from a wooded area there in the back

there of the home. now, you see here in this video, three others came in through the front. the sheriff says they were inside less than four minutes. but apparently they made some mistakes, robin. authorities say at least three suspects rode in an easily identifiable van you see there, neighbors spotting that van and calling in tips. >> yeah, that's easily spottable. >> yeah. >> you know, police are saying as many as eight suspects could be involved. so what do we know about them? >> well, robin, here's a look at the four men already in custody. two of them reportedly worked as day laborers in the pensacola area. law enforcement officials tell us wane thomas calderon and patrick thomas had done odd jobs in the past. and we're learning that gonzalez's son ran a program that taught self defense to kids. >> how about that for irony? also reports that gonzalez jr. was convicted of robbery, forgery and other crimes, robin,

in the '90s. >> one of these guys taught self defense to children? >> to children. that's the irony there. >> and then the police are saying that this murderer -- these murders happened in front of some of the kids. >> that's right. >> thank you. check out this video of a wild fire that burned 400 acres near l.a. fire sishls say it's about halfway contained, but the smoke was a big problem and forced officials to close two lanes of i-5. traffic was backed up, probably even more so than normal. the fire also burned some power lines, about 500 firefighters worked in nearly 100-degree heat to contain that. so that was not comfortable. some kids in washington state got to meet their new best friends on four legs. news for you in the next hour, these puppies are going to take on a big job. you may not know the name cit. but hundreds of thousands of businesses rely on it for crucial lending. now, it's at serious risk of going under. geez. and it wants a government

bailout. our money expert jennifer westhoven is here to tell you more. why do the rest of us care? >> you're going to see it in the headlines. here's why. it lends to medium, small size businesses. this company is on the edge, because so many companies have failed. but if cit fails, even more of its companies potentially could fold. that's a lot of jobs that could be on the line here. so experts are worried, not that it would take down the whole economy, but that it could mean many jobs get cut off. the treasury in talks with cit, we don't know what's going to happen. some say, look, the government has got to draw a line, you know, at what point are they just going to say look, we can't help everybody, but other people will say, look, this is a huge burden on an economy that already has a very high unemployment rate. and what, are they going to help the big guys but not the small guys? we'll see. back to school is starting at many stores. you're probably going to see some of the sale signs coming soon. as you can imagine, though, it's expected to be weak. that's going to be tough on the retailers.

and remember, this is their second biggest shopping season of the year after christmas sales. spending is expected to drop 8% for kids in grade schools, and 4% for kids in college. turns out, college spending is a lot more, because you don't just have the books and supplies, you've also got a whole dorm room you've got to take care of and electronics. and in about 15 minutes, we're going to get the latest read on how spending is doing, which is crucial to the economy. are people still going to walmart, are they going to discount places, are they saving? what are they doing? we'll have the answers. >> a day at the pool turned into allegations of racial discrimination. we have learned what the day camp that was asked to leave a private swim club plans to do now.

president obama is getting tough on health care reform. he reportedly told the senate finance chairman he wants legislation ready in that committee by the end of the week. this week! >> we are going to get this done. inaction is not an option. and for those nay sayers and sinnics who think that this is not going to happen, don't bet against us. we are going to make this thing

happen. >> house lawmakers released their bill today. they expect the vote by august. but there is little consensus on how do you pay for an overhaul which could cost $1 trillion over ten years? we have more information now on the murder of former boxing legend, arturo gatti. here is rafer with more on that. and the thing that the wife's defense people are saying is, how is that physically possible that she could have done it. >> right. they're saying she is too small. and that's why the oh story -- it broke while i was away, robin and rocked me. now police are saying that arturo gatti's wife amanda strangled him to death with her purse strap while he was in anticipate sloochlt that is in defense of rodriguez's attorney saying there is no way a small woman like her could overtake a boxer two years. rodriguez is still in police custody. police also say that rodriguez acted alone and there was no sign of forced entry. that was the murder weapon, the purse strap we just showed you

there, according to police. and kids, this is why you eat your vegetables. a 260-pound vejtarian won last night's home derby. hit the most and the longest home run of the night, over 500 feet. he does like pasta. he does admit to eating a lot of pasta. he stopped eating meat last year, because his wife is a vej, and that seemed to hurt his swing. as we told you, president obama is going to take an appearance at tonight's all-star game. here he is with the phillies this year. david letterman had something to say about it. >> president obama will actually be at the game. he'll be in the broadcast booth. he's going to be working in the broadcast booth during the all-star game. everybody says, oh, that's cute. but let me tell you something. you know the economy is bad when the president has to take a second gig. that's not a good sign. the audience liked that one. >> it was funny. and lastly, the national veterans' wheelchair games begin this week. more than 500 athletes from all

over the world will compete in sports like wheelchair basketball monday, rugby, swimming, track and weight lifting all week long. the event is in its 19th year, sponsored by the u.s. department of veterans' affairs. a great, great thing. and let me clarify, his wife is a vegetarian, being a former vejtarian, the slang term, he's a vej. and i gained a lot of weight, because i was eating a lot of pasta! so i'm just -- so that was the slang term. you're a vej. oh, you're a vej. so i tried to clarify that. >> inside information. that's cool. i didn't know. i did not know that. thank you. >> all right. gained a lot of weight. i did! i gained like 12 pounds. got up to 145. i mean, very svelt. guy has got to run around in the shower to get wet. traveling today, a nice day to get utility, out, because the volume is low. here's is what it looks like on

sabre flight explorer. not much going on. and if you head towards the big city of atlanta, looks good here. usually see thunderstorms popping up in the afternoon. not so yet. look at the sky, up to 8 degrees, ought to be dry for most of afternoon. no problems here. what about other delays? here's what it looks like, everybody should be less than an hour, boston, gusty winds, ar n orlan orlando, tampa, kansas city and minneapolis, 30 minutes to an hour. more in a little bit. >> just laughing, rafer became karn i have rouse because of vanity. a california teenager is almost done with his attempt to sail around the world alone. 17-year-old zack sunderland is trying to become the youngest person to do that. he arrived in san diego 13 months after he started his trip. he has 100 miles to go to his final destination here l.a. and hoping to get there thursday. a speech by president obama almost came to a crashing stop. he kept going smooth, even after

his teleprompter fell on the floor and shattered. you've got to see how it all went down.

a fourth suspect is in custody for the killings of a fl couple known for adopting special needs kids. but investigators say that six to eight people were involved in the home invasion. none of the nine kids at the home at the time was hurt. they are now staying with extended family. we're about an hour away from judge sonia sotomayor's supreme court nomination hearing. day two will focus on questions from the senators. expect to hear about sotomayor's early statements that a wise latina could make a better legal decision than a white man. and whether she agrees empathy is necessary two u.s. marines were killed in what the military calls a hostile incident in southern afghanistan. a military spokesperson says it happened in the helmin province yesterday where a major anti

taliban operation is under way. also, a civilian helicopter crashed there today. the associated press says six people on board were killed, and one child on the ground. those are just a few of the headlines that's going on today. i'm robin meade, morning sunshine! we actually have a bunch of interesting stories. we're going to start with this one. more on our top story. police hope surveillance video will give them more clues about the murder of a florida couple. richard lui, at one point, the victims had 17 kids. how do you care for that many children? i know not all home at the same time, i imagine. >> they had a big home, security cameras all around so the billings could keep an eye on their kids. their adoptive children had special needs of all kinds, including some who came from homes where they were sexually and physically abused. as for how the family made a living, they owned several businesses in the community, including a finance company and a used car dealership, and robin, the sheriff says they were well to do. >> the murders have obviously shaken the small community where

the family lived. i mean, no matter what your income is, you still feel unsafe, i'm sure. >> it certainly has -- a close any community, too, robin. before the murders, the sheriff says people felt comfortable leaving their doors unlocked, and now many are concerned simply about their safety. >> it changes every community when you have such a violent act as this. handgun sales go up. alarm systems are sold. people form neighborhood watches. so, yes, there's a spike. there's always a spike. >> this happened in a community called buelah, a rural area west of pensacola near the alabama state line. it's full of farms. if you were to drive down the road, would you see hand-written signs that say farm fresh eggs. more churches than convenience stores. and even those who didn't know the victims personally, they were so close, they knew of them. >> sure, a family that big, absolutely. richard, thank you. former intelligence officials say that dick cheney is getting a bum wrap over a secret counterterrorism program.

last month, cia director leon panetta said they told the agency to hold information about the operation from congress. but two former intelligence officials say that there is no requirement to brief lawmakers on a program that had not been implemented. panetta terminated the program. stories that we are watching right now in the morning express planner at 2:00 a.m. p.m. eastern, the house oversight committee will look into a deadly rail collision in washington, d.c. the collision killed nine people last month, and injured more than 70. president obama will lay out a plan for how community colleges can help the economy. going to speak in michigan around 3:30 p.m. eastern. ♪ cot got to cut loose, foot loose ♪ >> kevin bacon would be so proud. where is rafer when i need a dance break. people are fighting to get a dancing ban off the books in des moines, illinois. a law makes it illegal to dance after 2:00 a.m., don't you be

shaking and moving and shim shimmying. last night, the council voted to tentatively get rid of the dance ban. the final vote is expected last month. >> your rock and roll -- >> whipper snapper, you. >> your bottle games and make-out parties, and ruining everything for the old people. >> in their defense, it was a ban only after 2:00 a.m. >> i know. >> and i best it was intended for public places, but i guess it applied everywhere. >> kids and their weird dances, never danced a jitterbug like that when i was young. good morning, robin. just like those club pictures. here's what it looks like temperature-wise. 83 in dallas. temperatures haven't dropped that far overnight. 77 in abilene. look at arizona. right now, it's 90 in phoenix. the higher elevation is still around flag staff, about 7,000 feet. looking at 51 degrees. so obviously mountains again. that's where you get the cooler temperatures coming in. what about the highs for the

day? check this stuff out. again, it's going to be hot. high pressure dominating over the southwest that includes texas at 104 and dallas, 99 in houston today. 113 in phoenix. the record is 116. you missed it by a degree yesterday. you hit 113 yesterday afternoon. las vegas between 105 and 108. so with the heat, obviously comes the heat advisories. here's what we're calling for today. right around central plain states, oklahoma city right now, a heat advisory. looking at a heat index of 100 to 105, that's what it's going to feel like on your skin. you get the heat index of 110, tulsa and parts of kansas, including wichita, very hot. heat warnings in phoenix, 110 to 114, without the humidity, obviously the desert and the rain showers and thunderstorms develop, too. one batch going through across missouri. a slight chance of severe thunderstorms overnight tonight and this evening. notice it does include st. louis. might see a break-away shower for the mlb all-star game. hopefully it steers away from the field. most of the rain north of kansas

city driving toward northern missouri, drying out temporarily around topeca, and you see the line toward central missouri now. a couple storms near southern parts of arkansas. the cold front around florida will channel in the thunderstorms later today, orlando on in towards tampa. how about some good weather. take you to the great lakes, detroit. this is what it looks like up there. mid 70s your high temperature. blue skies. beautiful weather from detroit all the way over toward chicago, first part off efel the day. nice weather in new york, and might want to clean that camera off. did we pull this camera out of the closet? look at the cob web. >> some days the bugs. >> cob wednesday all over, but that's detroit looking real nice, robin. a pennsylvania swim club accused of racism could be sued for discrimination. an attorney for a day camp which was asked to leave also wants the entire club board to resign. remember, the camp said it was kicked out because the kids are

mostly minorities. the club says the pool was overcrowded and invited them back. the camp has decided it's not going to go back. we just got new numbers about your retail sales for month of june. they are up for the month. jennifer westhoven, are you surprised? >> well, this is two months in a row, so that's pretty good. it's signs that spending is stabilizing. it's certainly not picking up at this point, robin, and nobody expects that to happen until the job market gets better. but sales were up 6/10 of a percent in the latest months. a lot of analysts are saying it's price cuts that brought the shoppers back. one of the interesting things i saw, robin, some ceos are saying that middle to upper income consumers for the first time are trying places like roth stores and tj maxx to get the stuff they're used to for less money. so very interesting to see how people are changing their habits to try and still get what they need, but, you know, really overall, we are seeing people save for the first time. but this is also very good news for anybody who works for a store, right, because the stores

getting stable business. >> jennifer, it means you're going to have competition. >> that's right. >> you have to beat jennifer to the products. just call ryan seacrest the $45 million man. $45 million! a hollywood reporter says that's reportedly how much seacrest will get to keep hosting "american idol" for the next three years is all. seacrest's new deal supposedly triples how much he was making to host "idol" each year. a new bill board is making people raise their concerns or raise their voices, point their fingers and call each other names. don't align that man who lived and died to save all people to a certain republic in our democratic party. he's bigger than politics! >> who put out the bill board claiming that the reverend martin luther king jr. was a republican?

♪ how many people have you seen walking down the street -- i'm guilty, i do it in the hallways here all of the time, texting away and you don't hardly see the person walking in front of you, much less where you're going. well, a teenager medical down a manhole while she was texting and a family may sue new york city. the 15-year-old was looking at the phone when she fell and landed in sewage. she said that city construction workers were helping her out. they say that they left the manhole to get cones to mark it off. the girl's mom wants to know why it was left open in the first place. new york officials are investigating. a new billboard stating martin luther king jr. was a republican is causing tempers to flare in houston. the group says they can support their claim and that is fosters a good political dialogue.

>> my comment for doing that. and it's a conversation we'll continue to have, because we're not backing off. >> the party of tom did elanedee party of rush limbaugh, the party of sean hannity, the party of michael savage would not be the party of dr. martin luther king jr. >> at least one activist says dr. king was not a par of any political party. you know, the fiscal year isn't even finished yet. the united states has already racked up a record deficit, more than a trillion dollars, that's with a.t. jennifer westhoven is here with more on what that is. trillion, other than the cut of a indictment. >> we're talking about a trillion dollars that you, me, our children, grandchildren, are going to be paying back for years. just to give you a sense of how big a trillion is, this is a clip you might have heard a couple months ago. here's senator. take a listen. >> you started spending the day that jesus was born and spent a

million dollars every single day, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion dollars. >> now, the deficit, of course, is the gap between what the government spends and what it takes in, and it's been on a massive spending tear to try and bolster the economy through this great recession we have been having. some people call it the great recession and the financial crisis. the war between microsoft and google might turn out to be great for you. the newest version of microsoft office for 2010 is going to be free, and it's going to be available online. that should make things easy and cheap. so word, excel, powerpoint, all free. i mean, this is software that used to cost you 200 bucks a couple years ago, 100 bucks last year. what happened is google started offering similar programs of its own for free on the web. microsoft does not want you using those, so they are going to offer this for free. very interesting to see. microsoft wants to make sure google doesn't get on its turf. meanwhile, it's getting squarely on google's turf with the new

binge that it's come out with lately, the new search engine. robin back to you. >> thanks. police say the wife of a former boxing legend strangled him to death, but if that's true, how could she have done it. how is it physically possible? at least that's what her defense folks are saying. here's rafer with what officials are saying. good morning. >> yeah, that's right, good morning to you, robin. and this is a story that real shocked a lot of people. arturo gatti was a legend in the boxing world. and now police say that gatti's wife, amanda rodriguez used her purse strap to strangle him to death, and he was asleep at the time. now, this contradicts attorneys for amanda rodriguez saying that it was impossible, that she was too small. well, police say that gatti had been drinking and then fell asleep when she used her purse strap to do it. they also said there was no sign of any forced entry and that rodriguez acted alone. in other news, tonight's all-star game is getting a special appearance by president obama, but hear why his visit may have some drivers feeling a

little road rage.

really interesting here. of the reporter who interviewed latoya jackson with her brother's did he go is revealing more of their conversation. yesterday we talked about latoya telling a london newspaper that she suspects michael jackson was murdered. well, carolyn graham of the daily mail did the interview, and she told larry king that latoya was talking about michael being surrounded by people who she says took advantage of him. >> michael is isolated from his family. the familiy tried to intervene. they knew he was in trouble. they tried to state an intervention, and every time they tried to get close to that house, they were prevented. joe jackson went to the front door on many occasions, he told me, to the front gates. they wouldn't let him in. when latoya went to the house, she kuk couldn't speak to her brother. >> the city will pay for the services related to michael jackson's memorial. the city council is expected to take up the issue today. remember, police traffic control and other services cost $1.4

million. the mayor called a website, asking for donations ridiculous. the site closed on friday, and now it's not known if a $35,000 raised will be returned to the donors. today's major league all-star game is going to feature a special visit from the president. okay. that's going to be fun to watch. but the drivers in st. louis may not have any fun at all. hi, rafer. >> good morning, robin. the game is at 7:00, so they're closing down part of interstate 64 at 5:00. >> o golly. >> we're talking right dead in the center of the city, right around bush stadium, so yes, traffic will be a bit of a nightmare. but there is also going to be an army of police and federal officers both inside and outside the park. fans are going to have to go through metal detectors. a lot of the players, though, say they're excited to meet the president. he's going to be honoring a tradition that goes a long way back and that is throwing out the first pitch.

calvin coolidge, and dwight eisenhower, and the president will only be the fourth to throw out the first pitch in an all-star game, joining kennedy, nixon and ford. george w. threw out the first pitch last year. >> and talk about putting your cause on your back. tracy mcgrady will switch from his number 1 to number 3 this season to promote humanitarian efforts in darfur. mcgrady was involved in a documentary called three points which follows his trip to the war-torn region in 2007. darfur. today's video takes some of the greatest rapts in sports history and cleff early mixes them together. check it out. ♪ that was allen iverson and jim moore's rant. 670,000 people have watched this so far.

and we dug it up for you on youtube. playoffs. youtube. playoffs, robin. >> thank you. you know, coupons are going high tech. that is good news in a bad economy. clark howard talks about a new technology that promises to save money and trees. >> my 9-year-old loves going to self-service registers in the super store and scanning things with a bar code, it's like she's having a field day when she gets to ring the stuff up. don't you wish that every customer felt that way? and the bar code has really not changed much in a long, long time until now. you're going to see over the next year or two some ultra weird bar codes start appearing on food items. there are going to be all kinds of good things about this, including where you will get automatic coupons where if you

buy this item with this item, instead of having to pull out a coupon, it will give you the special coupon price. and how about this? the bar code will tell you if an item is already earns expired and if its, it won't let you buy the item. i'm clark howard. for more information, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> spend less and save more, clark clark howard on the weekends. i'll clean the pool if you clean the windows.

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new windex outdoor all-in-one. a streak-free shine in half the time. s.c. johnson, a family company. the show is starting. how are you doing? it's 9:00 in the morning, eastern time, of course. i'm robin meade and here is what is going on today. a new arrest in a couple that adopts special needs kids. it's going to be a long day for sonia sotomayor. what are the key questions that she will face during her confirmation hearing? and a teen that fell down a manhole while taxing exting. we could see another arrest in the killings of a florida couple.

now, yesterday a fourth suspect was taken into custody. gary sumner is charged with murder and officials believe in all six to eight people were involved. the house had security cameras and this shows the suspects moving in and the police don't believe that robbery was the only motive. >> we expect more arrests to be imminent in this case. these seem to take on a life of their own and we hope to bring all of the suspects that we've identified into custody very shortly. >> nine kids were home during the home invasion and police believe some of them saw the intruders. none were hurt and they are now staying with family. investigators are working on enhancing the video from at the couple's home. what they are seeing is just

chilling and richard has more on how things may have played out in 15 minutes. a southwest jet forced a landing. after a football size hole appeared in the cabin, thankfully nobody was hurt. >> about four rows back you heard this large rush and your ears popped and you could tell that part of the and the oxygen masks were on and i put one on and one on my kids. it's crazy. as your parents you're doing a lot of talking and calming and that kind of thing and how you've never gone through this before. >> yeah, i bet.

>> as sonia sotomayor gave her opening statement yesterday, she pledged to the law and her political and personal views would not influence her decisions as some republicans have claimed and she was asked how empathy would play out in her decisions. >> these are such stretched charges against her. when judge alito talked about his italian background and we don't want nine justices with ice water running through their veins. >> to not allow empathy or

opinions and she said she would apply that to the law and some of the speeches that she's given has indicated that she has not done that in the past. >> one topic that came up yesterday and no doubt will come up again is a speech where she said a wise latina could reach better conclusions than a white man. you know, we just got numbers about the retail sales being up for the month. what does that mean for the economy? >> hi. thanks, robin. it's another sign that the economy is getting a little bit better compared to last month. people are saying that it tells that when people see the signs for the discounts, they are coming into the store. the bottom line, though, is, you're not going to see these numbers get a lot better until employment gets better. the sales in june rose 6%

compared to the month before and what some say for the first time they saw richer americans actually making real changes to their habits and are even willing to try some place different, which, as robin mentioned before, is bad news because there's a lot more competition. >> more competition in that store. don't even cross her. a group of mainly african-american and latino kids asked to leave a swim club say they will not go back there. attorneys say that they will sue the swim club, the valley swim club. they say that kids were turned away because of the crowded conditions and not their race. a magnitude earthquake of 3.2 in l.a. they are just like, whatever. an airport supervisor said they

were looking around and there were no damage. so onward. check out this video of a wildfire that burned near 400 acres in l.a. fire officials say it's about halfway contained. this forced officials to close two lanes of i-5 in l.a. county yesterday. traffic was backed up for miles and the fire also burned power lines. about 500 firefighters worked in nearly 100 degree heat to contain that thing. six minutes after the hour, we still have really high temperatures in a lot of areas. let's find out. >> robin, really quick, i've got to tell you, i have half the marathon on sunday. you can read on our blog but we do it in july because usually it's 79 degrees around race time. today, napa, 100. >> so you're going to lose 15 pounds running the race. >> you won't be able to tell but, yes. these are the heat indexes 105

to 110. that includes paulson, too. high pressure with the sinking air, you get the high temperatures coming into phoenix, too. 110 to 114. the average is 107. the record more phoenix, 115. just missed the record yesterday. it was about 114. the record was 115. that's what it looks like out there. here is the weather change. if you're planning to travel on out, we'll get things popping across the northern plain states. also, notice st. louis. showers and thunderstorms. you might see a couple of those come in later today. what about minneapolis? light rain showers around the region in minnesota. light showers coming in. there are gray skies in minneapolis. high today, 75, 77.

another quick look at the radar picture, you can see right around secentral missouri and falling apart by wisconsin. more of that coming up in half an hour. >> is it a scary thought, when you're driving around on weekend nights, you feel like no one else is awake. don't you look around and think, i wonder how with it everyone else is? because about one in every six people driving at night on the weekends tested positive for some kind of drug. it says the most common drug detected is pot followed by cocaine and methamphetamine. now, on the flip side, believe it or not, fewer people are driving drunk, alcohol. according to a separate study they accounted for about 2% of all drivers in 2007. investigators are wrapping up tests to see if michael jackson took dangerous amounts of prescription drugs and critical new info about what killed him could be available

very soon.

good morning. time to salute our troops. private first-class rebecca woods and scott met in the army. scott's mom sent us the picture. she says they've been gone for two months and it seems like forever. if you know somebody in the service, it would be our honor for you to salute them. a couple came home and found all of their tvs to be stolen. the people behind the big clue that could help police track them down. that's new in the next 30 minutes. we could know what killed michael jackson within a week. a coroner official says that toxicology results will figure out if the substances in his body are already in and later

results next week. meanwhile, a reporter who interviewed la toya jackson talked to a particularly touching moment involving jackson's daughter. >> she said the memorial service they had an open viewing and the little boys didn't want to go and paris said, yes, i want to go see daddy again and she said that paris bought this little heart necklace and she said that she put it around her daddy's wrist and that she put it around her neck and said i'm going to wear this for the rest of my life. >> a reporter also said that jackson said that he would not be buriedland. >> hundreds of thousands of businesses rely on fears of it

going under. why do you care about it? >> because they medium and small businesses, so many of those companies have failed. if cit fails, many of those companies could collapse. there may be many companies in your world that you know who get their money and get loans from cit. and if those companies go under, that could be a lot more job losses that we're talking about. so what to do? that is the big question for the government. it's a huge company and there's nothing like bear stearns or washington mutual. it's not going to shape the economy to it is core. at a time of a very high unemployment rate, the government has got to figure out what to do. the other question that comes up, are they going to help the big guys, like city band back,

and not the small buy guys. and bernie madoff in jail at the same prison where charles eventually end up at a federal prison in north carolina. >> i bet you're doing better than bernie madoff did. >> look at the guy. good morning, everybody. let me show you what is happening. a pretty decent day. the d.c. area looking good. a look at new york city, those are the major cities that you could find a delay in the afternoon. not today, though. look at this. a beautiful shot at the capital. a lot of blue skies. temperatures of 87 today. dry conditions. that's going to be true for most of the cities across the east. down across florida, orlando, tampa, thunderstorms popping up there. also watch for delays around boston. that's because of the wind and a

couple thunderstorms near k.c. and minneapolis, too. more on that in a little bit. >> all right. you know texting while your driving is obviously dangerous. texting while you're walking. one teenager found out the hard way.

there has been a fourth arrest in the case of the florida couple that was murdered. >> surveillance video that we have shows two groups of men dressed like ninjas bursting into the home. you can see two suspects coming from the back of the house and then two others entering the front door. the sheriff says that they were inside less than four minutes. he describes the crime as well planned and methodical but they

apparently made some mistakes. at least three suspects rode in an easily describable vehicle. neighbors were able to describe it. so not fool-proof in terms of what they did. >> it looks from that tape that it's broad daylight. as many as eight suspects were involved, police say. what do we know about that? >> robin, here's a look at the four men that are in custody. police pulled over gary sumner during a routine traffic stop. he's one of the men in this picture here buying dawearing dk clothing. law enforcement officials telling cnn that wayne had done

work on their home previously. you've seen this before, when only this time she fell and landed in sewage. she said that city construction workers helped her out. they left the manhole to get cones to mark it off. the girl's mom wants to know why it was left opened in the first place. >> it could have been worse. it could have been a lot worse. i could have lost my baby if she would have fell an inch over. >> officials are investigating. we are getting more information about the murder of former boxing star arturo gatti. >> good morning, robin. police say that gatti's wife strangled him to death with her purse strap. her defense has been that she's too small and couldn't have done it. but police are saying that amanda rodrigues killed him

while he was drunk and sleeping. police say that she acted alone and she maintains her innocence. kids, this is why you eat your vegetables. a 265-pound vegetarian hit the longest home run ever, 500 feet. he stopped eating meat last year because his wife have a vegetarian. as we told you, president obama is going to make an appearance at the all-star game. david letterman chimed in about the visit. >> president obama will actually be at the game. he'll be in the broadcast booth. he's going to be working in the broadcast booth during the all-star game. everybody says, that's cute. but let me tell you something. you know the economy is bad when the president has to take a second gig. that's not a good sign.

>> and, lastly, the national veteran's wheelchair games began this week. more than 500 athletes from all over the world competing in basketball. they will be competing in rugby, track, and weight lifting. this goes through until saturday. just a great, great thing that they do every year. >> competitors, absolutely. the space shuttle launch was scrapped for the first straight day because of the weather. nasa will try again tomorrow night. if it goes on thursday, nasa says, they will have to cut out the spacewalk. a surfer received an organ donation that probably saved his life and got a chance to say thank you. there were tears all over the place.

[ music ] >> welcome to comcast local edition, i'm donna richardson, and my guest this hour is christine bergmark who is the executive director of the southern maryland agricultural development commission. welcome, christine, it's good to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> that's a big mouthful, and i know that you're working on an extremely exciting program, bi-local challenge. >> it is an initial that we launched two years ago, and essentially what it is is the last full week of july we ask everyone across the state of maryland and beyond to take a pledge, and the pledge is eat something or drink from a farm every day during that week. >> oh.

so where do we get the information about where to find the farms or how do we sign up for this pledge? >> well, there's a website. it's www.by-local-challenge.com that website will give you all sorts of information why to buy local and where to buy local and it connects you to other statewide initiatives that are going on at the same time. if you go to the website, we've added a count. people used to say, where do i sign up? normally you have to go buy, eat something from a local farm. this year we decided to add a counter to the website. when you are' counted, you can receive a certificate with your name on it that you can put up in your office or your home or wherever. >> which is very, very important. it's reduces your carbon foot print because you're driving hopefully a shorter distance, you have access to local

products that are available, and also it helps the farmers. >> well, and in fact, our theme this year is healthy plate, healthy planet. all kinds of benefits to buying local, benefits for you, healthy, nutrition, it's fresh, and preserving our farms survive, we keep clean water, we keep clean air, we reduce the carbon footprints from things traveling 1500 miles, and it tastes good. >> exactly. now for those people who may not cook, how can they be a part of this? >> yeah, sometimes people say, well, i hate to cook. that's okay. you can go to a store or to a restaurant that features local farm products, and there are more and more restaurants every year, some of them are on our website, and you can click throughout to find out who they are,. >> what kind of items can we acquire localfully. >> during the last week of july,

there is so much product available. there's sweet corn, blackberries, all kinds of tomatoes and melons are in season, and of course, there's always wine, cheese, eggs, meatss. >> so we do have a wide variety of things we can get. say that i go and i go to a local farmer's market and purchase something, what is a vegetable that i'm not quite familiar with, how did i find a recipe. >> excellent question. there are recipes on our website. people can post their own recipes of their own events and own blogs by why they buy local. some of the things i wanted to mention is the economic benefits. we talked about the planet, we talked about the fact that it tastes good, and it's fun, but there's also the benefit of

supporting our farms, and if every household in the state mucofmaryland were to buy just 2 worth of products for 8 weeks, basically the summer season that, would put $200 million straight back into the pockets of our farmers. that would do a lot to keep our farmers thriving. >> which is so important. i know we have less than 30 seconds, but you have some partners that you wouldn't typically think of who have now joined in. >> yes. hospitals are joining in this year. fact, they're looking to do a competition to see how many people they can get involved. >> have you exciting. christine, thank you very much for coming in today. >> thank you. >> my guest today has been christine bergmark with the southern agricultural commission. if you're interested in what comcast is doing in your area, go to on demand and click get local. for comcast local edition, i'm donna richardson.

the new york stock exchange is opened for business. it's up today and a better than expected earnings report has investors excited. a fourth suspect is now in custody for the killings of a florida couple known for adopting special needs kids. but investigators say that six to eight people were involved in this home invasion. look at this tape here. none of the nine kids in the home were hurt. they are now staying with extended family. southwest airlines is expecting aboutexpect inspecting its planes after a football-sized hole appeared. the plane landed safely in charleston, west virginia. airline officials don't know what caused the hole in the jet.

that's kind of scary. a family practice doctor from alabama could be the next surgeon general. regina benjamin still has to be confirmed by the senate. that's just a few of the stories that we're covering for you today. how are you feeling? are you just waking up? where have you been. i'm robin meade. president obama -- here are live pictures of sonia sotomayor starting a second day of questioning. she was very relaxed and gave her opening statement yesterday and pledged fidelity to the law. legal analyst jeffrey toobin says that she is a shoe-in. >> there are 12 democrats and 7 republicans on the committee, 60 democrats and 40 republicans in the senate. you just do the math. there hasn't been a democrat that has even suggested voting against her. i just don't see how she can

lose. >> well, republicans have been asking her if she would try to change the law instead of applying the law. she said she won't. also, today listen for questions about property rights and gun and abortion. a man plunged from a rock and fell 20 feet. the creek was swollen after rain. crews used ropes and a rescue bucket to get him out. he hurt his back but it's not life threatening. police caught a convicted murderer charles smith and two other felons that broke out of a prison. they think that she got lost and happened to walk by. his security cameras caught them. that city will pay for services related to michael jackson's

memorial. the city council is expected to take up the issue today. police, traffic control, and over services cost $1.4 million. the mayor called the website asking for donations ridiculous. it's not known if a $35,000 raised will be returned to donors. governor obama did not let a shattered teleprompter stop him. >> we took aggressive action -- whoa. sorry about that, guys. >> the teleprompter fell to the ground while he was talking about his stimulus plan today. oh, yeah, there was a second screen on the other side. let me show you how it works, generally when i'm talking to you, when you're

doing a speech, there are two teleprompters. see, see. >> it just couldn't take it. it's like, just forget it. 33 minutes past the hour. do we have good flying today? we have a good day to fly. does that mean that the weather is good everywhere? come on, not so. >> not in the summertime. it's hard to get away without a thunderstorm moving on by. for the middle part of the country, yes, you are getting the action right now. and usually you get it in two waves. one in the predawn hour and then the other one in the of a noofr. the waves developing until central missouri. we're going to see showers at the first part of the day. hopefully for the mlb it will be cleared out. hopefully it doesn't show down the game at all. towards iowa, kansas city drying out. a nice wave went through earlier this morning. the line goes through arkansas and then it develops into more

thunderstorms just off the gulf coast. that's going to build back in towards tampa and orlando later this morning. you drive from the state line all the way to the carolinas and also all the way in towards maine. for the east coast, it looks good. it's going to be hot. the upper level low right over the four corners. sinking air means a lot of depression nal heating. 110 to 115 more phoenix. in the northern rockies, montana, moving off towards the east if that happens later on today, daytime heating and a cold front down to the south. watch out for showers and thunderstorms. some of this could be on the strong side. here's what it looks like in atlanta, 89 degrees and the humidity levels are relatively low. usually you walk in here and you're a sopping mess. today, not so much. today, 89. more on that in just a bit. >> thanks. the stocks on wall street are coming off the best one-day

gains in nearly six weeks. will we continue to look upward? stephanie elam, it looks like that now. >> reporter: we quickly turned things around before coming to you and strong earnings from goldman sachs lifted the bell on monday. the actual results actually exceeded those expectations. almost $3.5 billion in the last quarter, goldman has come back strong in the last quarter in 2008. retail sales rose for the second straight month in june. mostly from higher gas prices. results were disappointing in other categories. survey shows that this will curve spending. retail management consultants say that falling more than 7% from a year ago, speaking of seasons, why not skip ahead to the holiday season. toys r us is launching a promotion online and in stores next week. this runs from july 19th to the

25th and gives customer as chance to stock up early and stash away until december. i haven't been able to even think about christmas. >> i know. but stores are trying to take advantage of people going retro and using lay away programs. i wonder if that's their thinking there at toys "r" us. >> they have been coming back. you're right. >> all right. thank you. criminals intentionally leave clues. but oklahoma investigators are sure that they one man didn't pleen to leave behind what he left behind.

it shouldn't be too hard to find this burglar. this couple came home to find their tvs, computer, and jewelry missing. but they did find somebody's cell phone. it was a suspect's cell phone. and on it, a picture of himself. >> how dumb can you be? >> usually a person perpetrating a crime leaves some type of evidence behind but it's usually not a picture of themselves. this one is rather unique in that way. >> well, however, police are still trying to track down whoever that person is. just minutes ago, supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor started day two of confirmation hearings. richard lui? >> that's correct. big fireworks as well. she's expected to be the target of tough questioning today and already sitting down and ready

for the tough questions. first off, patrick leahy and jeff sessions as it started yesterday and then the iraqi national soccer team playing the first game in baghdad since before the war. you'll have to see what happened after the game was over. we'll have a report on that. and also an investigation into the emergency landing on southwest airlines. robin, you'll hear reactions from passengers after a football sized hole appeared. >> it must have been like in between the screens i'll put on the oxygen mask? >> exactly. >> that's what i would do. >> right. coupons are going high tech. hln expert clark howard will talk about a new technology that will save money and trees. >> my 9-year-old loves going to self-service registers in the

supermarket scanning things with bar codes, it's like she's having a field and the bar code has not changed for a long time until now. you're going to see over the next year or two ultra weird bar codes start appearing on food items. there are going to be all kinds of things about this, including where you will get automatic coupons where if you buy this item with this item instead of having to pull a coupon out, once the register reads both of those items, it will be a special coupon price. and how about this? the bar code will tell you if an item is expired and if it already is, it won't let you buy it in the supermarket. a nice safety feature. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to protect your wallet, go to

cnn.com/clarkhoward. if you don't know -- spend less and save more. two minnesota men have been indicted on charges that they supported terrorism for recruiting somali immigrants in the minneapolis area a lawyer for one of the suspects says that his client will lead not guilty. a wife of a former boxing legend strangled her husband to death. she says physically there's no way that she could have done this. good morning, rafer. >> amana, police say, strangled

gatti while he was sleeping after he had been drinking. they also say there was no sign of any forced entry and that he acted alone. she is still in police custody. robin? >> thanks for the follow-up there. somebody took the name sin city a little too far and now the you won't believe what he said.

off with their head. that's what the mayor of las vegas said after vandals caused graphite. the sign has been in movies and ads and is officially recognized in historic landmarks. i hope he was being fa seesh shous when he said off with their head.

a report filed with the federal election committee yesterday shows that the political action committee raised more than $700,000 and then an estimated 200,000 pour pored in. she says it shows that she has overwhelming grassroots support. today's major league all-star game will feature a president. st. louis may not be all that happy about it. they will be happy once they get to the ballpark but it's how they are getting there. >> even if they aren't going, the bush stadium is in the middle of the city. so i-64, for security reasons, will be closed at 5:00. that's in the middle of rush hour. yes, getting out of the city will be a nightmare and if you're going to the game -- they haven't given specific numbers but police and federal agents

will be in and around the field. it's going to be a tradition that goes a long way back. that is the president throwing out the first pitch. there's dwight eisenhower attended eight games where he threw out the first pitch. they used to throw it out from the stand. >> yes. >> and then bill clinton started throwing it from the mound. and talk about putting your cars on your back, mcgrady will promote his humanitarian efforts in darfur. he's donated 75 grand to humanitarian projects in darfur and it's a big deal when a player agrees to give up his or her number. and some of the greatest sports history clips. check it out.

>> yes, that's so funny. >> and that was iverson's rant and 670,000 people watched this and we dug it up for you on youtube. >> oh, no, that's on there too, huh? >> embarrassing. let me show you a live picture of president obama's pick for the supreme court. judge sonia sotomayor is starting her second day here of her confirmation hearing and this is the second day of getting questioned. we'll keep updating you on this here. good day to fly. i cannot remember the last time

i heard bob say that. >> there's no doubt good day to. usually summertime, get those thunderstorms that develop in the afternoon, and we're going to see that again, but they ought to steer away from the major cities. towards the big apple, nice day. temperatures into the low 80s as a high with low humidity. across the river, newark, a 30 to 45-minute delay because of taxing. i've been on that runway so many times, you are now 25th for takeoff. terrible. boston, atlanta, tampa, kc, minneapolis, short delays. gusty winds in boston, storms nor the rest. more details in about half an hour. a california teenager is almost done with his attempt to sail around the world alone. zack sumterland is trying to become the youngest person to do that. she has about 100 miles to go to his final destination here l.a.

good luck and congrats to him. he's hoping to get there on thursday. no, you've not just traveled back in time 100 years. check out all the beautiful model t.s. last month they began a cross-country race in new york and they're closing in on the finish line in seattle. >> we're just passionate about model ts. it was an adventure, the opportunity of a lifetime and we took it. >> the teams have covereded almost 4,000 miles. obviously, running into car trouble every now and then. those old model ts top out at about 35 miles per hour. just a little wind in your hair. you see political billboards all the time depending on the season. this one stating that the reverend martin luther king jr. was a republican is making a lot of people angry. who put it up and why?