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Correspondent mike emanuel has that story. hes live for us tonight. >> good evening. three-year investigation done by the house oversight committee shows countrywide financial gave out discounted loans to advance the business and lobbying goals. the report says documents and testimony obtained by the committee to show v.i.p. loan program was a tool used by countrywide to build good will with lawmakers and other individuals positioned to benefit the company. among the v.i.p. customers mentioned i...

market and the top is machinery. this is according to the u.s. china business council. ohio is, obviously, a crucial swing state but its not the only one with the story. look at pennsylvania. the next stop on president obamas tour, china is pennsylvanias second biggest export market. 3.5 billion dollars a cheer come from china to pennsylvania. chemicals and machinery and minerals are the reason. virginia, another swing state. china is number two in exports. colorado, another swing, its...

electricity back until sunday and the temperatures are so hot. to get a good perspective on the scope of the outages check out these before and after aerial images of washington, d.c. relief by nasa, right photo significantly darker following that deadly storm that killed 26 people. looking for a loan? well, it helps if youre a member of congress. and a new report shows the former countrywide financial corporation gave discounted housing loans to top lawmakers in order to gain influenc...

parade yesterday and tried to get back in step with the party. >> the supreme court has spoken. while i agreed with the dissent, that is taken over by the fact that the majority of the court said its a tax and therefore is it a tax. they have spoken. there is no way around that. >> romney is often accused of hypocrisy for opposing mandate and penalty as part of healthcare when he implemented both in massachusetts. he found the defense from the very chief justice whose overall decision ...

evolving narrative on the campaign trail. chief political correspondent carl cameron has details. >> exactly a week after the supreme court ruled, the individual mandate on obamacare constitutional as a tax, unconstitutional as a penalty, the president pronounced it permanent. >> ill work with anybody who wants to work with me to continue to improve our healthcare system and our healthcare laws. the law i passed is here to stay. >> while the president agrees with the overall decision, ...

member of congress. the shocking report out overnight about a loans for votes investigation. youll hear about it. >> this lifeguard rescued a drowning swimmer and was fired because of it. why? he stepped out of his zone! well talk to him live and find out really what is he going to do now? "fox & friends" starts right now. >> hello, everybody. >> ready for a brand new week? >> i feel like its a monday. >> did you get any sleep last night? >> i went to the fireworks. i went with my frie...

youve got five lanes going into two causing this back-up in an uncommon direction. what happened according to the chp, sometimes around 2:00, there was a high speed chase, chp officer started going after someone who was going at a high rate of speed they got to the s-curve, i dont know if the s-curve played a role in this but there was a crash. the officer got out of his vehicle and did we are told by an officer did fire his weapon did not hit the person who was in that other vehicle t...

seeking relief from the scorching temperatures, at what turns out to be exactly the wrong time of day. because statistically 9:00 p.m. to 2 a.m. are the most murderous hours in this citys poorest neighborhoods where gangs thrive. jenz ludwig runs the university of chicago crime lab. >> crime is, unfortunately, very concentrated in lowest income neighborhoods in the city. those in the neighborhoo neighborhood-- those are the neighborhoods where people are least likely to have air condit...

>> good evening, scott is off tonight. im anthony mason. the sun is showing no mercy. the mercury soared again today in the central and eastern united states with temperatures in the 90s and over 100. the weather service put out a heat warning for much of the region including illinois. the temperature in chicago hit 103. breaking a record that had stood for more than a century. and the heat wave may be aggravating a crime wave. there were 22 more shootings in chicago overnight, five of...

a live look outside. this is the beltway at burning avenue. things are moving find in both directions. this is dulaney valley road. things are looking good. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> we are approaching the one week marks since a severe storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of b.g.e. customers. >> fewer than 10% of those customers are without power. that is down nearly 108,000 since wednesday morning. more than 90% of those customers now have their power. b.g...