Republicans without qualifiers, we kind of looked the other way when this group was doing its own thing. I think the Government Shutdown was the straw that broke the camels back. Senate. They the money againsting me. That opened the floodgates. Then all the other one started piling on and asking the same questions. Last few weeks there has from theiful silence more a survey part of the party. Everyone is involved. Seeink you are going to more of a concerted effort financially, structurally, in the media, and it is a way of not just eating defined by one very vocal group not just being defined by one vocal group. They go out in the cold and rain. Lot to get me to protest these days. I think this has been good. On your first question about obamacare, the best thing to happen to obamacare was the Government Shutdown. Who waser asking a guy about two and a half weeks in when we finally started talking about the website and all the problems remember there were glitches. When can we start ca
just ahead. first to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. president obama is expected to call for a new focus on american competitiveness in his state of the union address tonight. white house officials say the speech will include a range of ideas from increasing the number of u.s. exports to improving the nation s education system. along with the focus on the economy, democratic officials say the president will challenge members of both parties to avoid political gridlock in the next two years. that s something that s already on the mind of lawmakers as some in congress will sit across the aisle. they will across that aisle and sit together for the first time. at his white house briefing yesterday, press secretary gibbs hinted that the president will talk about gun rights in his speech tonight. i don t doubt that as a result of the impact of the or the issues of what happened in tucson that there will be a number of proposals that this white house
you re really doing is choosing when you were get health care and who will pay for it. if you go without insurance, if you choose to do that, what you re saying is you ll choose to pay for it later out of your own pocket or quite possibly have the rest of the public pay for it. if you re uninsured, you may not be able to afford your care. they re saying the decision to go without health insurance is, in fact, a form of economic activity and can be regulated by congress. now, this was the case that was brought by a virginia attorney general, but there are other health care cases that are going to challenge the health care law out there, right? right. the biggest is in florida where 20 state attorney generals and governs are challenging it. that s the one that is going to lead the pack once the ruling comes out there. when you say lead the pack, that kind of makes us think a little bit that there is more coming down the road in terms of appeals. eventually, does this wind
line of succession to the presidency. much more still ahead on fox 5 morning news. good morning. thank you for waking up with us on this monday morning, june 28th, 2010. i m gurvir dhindsa. i steve chenevey. nice start to the day. it s uncomfortable outside. 82. a lot of humidity. temperatures expected to be back in the mid-90s today after record highs this weekend, you get the idea. not a great start. we will talk temperatures. we are 82 at reagan national. and check it out. 83 ocean city. these temperatures are absolutely amazing for 6:00 a.m. 82 in hagerstown. 81 winchester. cool spot dulles airport. nice place to cool down. you get the idea here. plenty of humidity as well. i m trying to find a bright spot in the forecast. the cold front out to the west will bring us much needed rain shower or thunderstorm activity later today. then really cool us down into the middle of the week. keep our finer s crossed we get showers out of the frontal system. let s cross our finge
acoustic switch, whicis not required in the u.s.. should it be? we do not things up, because we had three triggering systems for the blowout preventer and then a manual intervention. this acoustic devices essentially another triggering device. it would have to be looked at through the investigation to see a fact that at some positive redundancy into the system. i do not know but i do not believe that it would have made a difference. do you think that u.s. regulations should be reformed to require this as a backup? even if it would not have helped in this situation? i think the regulation should be looked at. anything that would make this a lower probability in safer should be looked into. there has been reports that the battery on a blowout preventer was dead. have you confirmed that to be the case? a blowout preventer on the rig in the riser and all of the equipmt are the property of transocean. i am not familiar with the condition of the batteries. obviously the i