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already for so many people. so its unbelievable. we just dont know. were at a point where there is a lot of concern because it is so uncertain. and people are following it, theyre talking about it. >> and theyll be doing that for the next two hours. hope fly well have something by the beginning of next week. live from studio 7, want to get you up to speed for this friday, july 29th. were will thalmost out of time. those words from president obama. the deadline for raising the country...

marketsite. "american morning" starts right now. >> no vote on the debt plan again. im christine romans. as the u.s. economy lurches closer to a financial crisis, the political crisis continues. house speaker john boehner calls off a vote, unable to convince hardline conservatives in his party to sign on to his plan. >> im kiran chetry. more than 90% of texas is now in extreme drought. the state could sure use a lot of rain and now tropical storm don is expected to make landfall along ...

tonight or tomorrow morning. with winds topping 65 miles an hour, as you can imagine, people all along the texas coast are getting ready. >> but believe it or not it is not expected to put a dent in the historic drdrght. parts of the state are 15 inches short of their average rainfall and matt gutman shows how bad it is. >> reporter: these soybean plants would normally be chest high. instead the tracks in the soil here are about waist deep. >> well, just how much rain will don dump on ...

texas coast tonight or tomorrow morning with winds topping 65 miles an hour. as you can imagine, people are along the texas coast are getting ready. >> but believe it or not, it is not expected to put a dent in the historic drought. parts of the state are 15 inches short of their average r rnfall abcs matt gutman shows us how bad it is. >> reporter: these soybean plants would normally be about chest high this time of year. instead, the tracks in the soil here are about waist deep. >> w...

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delayed. police in texas say a muslim american soldier confessed to plotting an attack on ft. hood just two years after a muslim officer shot to death 13 people on that same base. tropical storm don could hit the south texas coast tonight and drought-stricken farmers are welcoming the prospect of up to 7 inches of rain. we begin with that sobering reality check on the debt crisis and just how daunting the challenge has become. in less than four days, the federal government could ru...

alone last week and he kept his plans to himself for about a decade. their concern now is that his attacks could inspire others. and some major developments in the sexual assault trial of polygamist leader warren jeffs. jeffs fired his high-powered defense team. hes now representing himself in a case which could land him in prison for life. jeffs told the judge his now former lawyers could not represent what he called a pure defense. >> one might view this as him saying that this is ...

really arent too terribly far apart and the deal can be done by the august 2nd, tuesday deadline. lets listen to the president, this is when he spoke around 10:30 this morning. lets listen. >> good morning, everybody. i want to speak about the ongoing and increasingly urgent efforts to avoid default and reduce our deficit. right now, the house of representatives is still trying to pass a bill that the majority of republicans and democrats in the senate have already said they wont vote ...

the course of the next decade, so were keeping an eye on that as always, but first lets get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted police about this suspicious purchase. fbi agents then went on to abdos hotel room where they found these bomb-making materi...

is a large amount of bomb-making material near ft. hood. barbara starr is all over the story and will join nus a few minutes. first, debt debate but no deal. it all comes down to numbers. i dont mean 13-digit numbers with dollar signs in front of them. i mean this number. take a look here. five days until the treasury says it will run out of borrowed money. five hours, give or take, until the house votes on the so-called boehner plan, and it needs 217 votes to pass, and its a slam dunk...