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thanks so much. just hours from now, eight presidential candidates will square off in tampa, florida. rick perry the front-runner and also the main target of his fellow republicans. and perry may have made the bulls-eye even bigger by attacking social security, a program considered sacred by millions of older americans. jim accosta is in tampa. and lets begin with word of a new endorsement were hearing about this morning. >> reporter: thats right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark...

what could be the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. good morning to you all. thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. im t.j. holmes. we do need to start with a debate that was supposed to be over already. we are less than three days from a possible u.s. default. this clock is still ticking and a deal is not done. we are expecting a lot of action on capitol hill today. both houses in session, but whether theres going to be any real progress, thats anybodys gue...

thats more than were killed by hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, and floods combined. cnn meteorologist chad meyers joins us. its more than the heat. >> its more than humidity. if you set your steam roam at a gym at 105. that feels like 200 degrees. even though its 105, it feels so much hotter because your body cannot perspire, and it cannot cool itself down. a sauna is 160 or 170, but it feels cooler because the air is dry. now, this is a 10-year average, 170 people die of heat-relate...

read the wall street if you go see fox movies, harper collins, if you watch american idol, youre a rupert murdoch customer. the murdochs both father and son have their work cut out for them. >> they have two different things in their testimony tomorrow. they got acknowledge responsibility. they have to say that what is completely obvious is that this wasnt abe ration, it was apparently thousands of people who were hacked and the idea they didnt know is propest rous. at the some time, t...

grilled and lambasteds by british law makers and now a whistleblower in the growing phone hackl scandal reportedly is dead. and a 77-year-old man defends his home and family from an intruder with a gun. stand by for the dramatic story. thats even more compelling because -- get this -- hes a member of the united states congress. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the u.s. defaulting on its debt for the first time in history? we cant state it enough, this has enormous cons...

york. glad youre with outside this monday. its july 18th. a lot going on. nice to see you as well. >> nice to see you. christines still off, i guess. two more casualties in the uk hacking scandal leaving rupert murdocks empire reeling this morning. rebekah brooks arrested. reported friday she had resi resigned. shes been released on bail. its not clear if shell testify tomorrow. last night in a shock move that has left scotland yard for accepting almost $20,000 in hospitality from a ...

we begin with the resignation of a key executive in the rupert murdoch media empire. rebekah brooks is out. many people were outraged when brooks kept her job after the newspaper was shut down for scandalous reporting tactics. and as brooks steps down, the investigations ramp up. the fbi now investigating the murdoch empire right here in the united states. lawmakers demanding the probe amid reports that murdochs journalists hacked the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. sus...

Suspected would be tried in new york city. that decision was reversed in april it is alleged he came up with this plan in 1996 according to the e-mail we obtained and he got permission and approval from bin laden who financed the attacks. and fox learned there are eight charges monday to the five accused and the conspiracy charge is wide ranging, and 167 individual acts are alleged by prosecutors. >>shepard: will they be arraigned before 9/11 of this year? >>reporter: not necessarily. this is re...

Has some last-minute ideas. good to see you. how are you? >> im we will. thanks for having me. >> you say file an extension if if you cant meet mondays deadline, and i have to tell you i got caught with this last year. i owed money, and then after i filed the extension i had a big fine. >> thats a problem. if youre late with filing the your tax return, please file an extensi extension, even if you have taxes that are due, you still have to file an extension. its very simple. if you dont do it, t...

Tell you something differently. they say it has to do with spending. heres house speaker john boehner. >> theres only one reason that we do not have an agreement as yet, and that issue is spending. were close to a resolution on the policy issues, but i think the american people deserve to know when will the white house and when will senate democrats get serious about cutting spending? >> heres the clock ticks, were less than 12 hours heading into a government shutdown. you have democrats and rep...