>> in this country, a new debt ceiling compromise seems to be getting traction in washington. six senators, three republicans, and three democrats are offering a plan to cut the nation's debt by about $3.7 trillion over the next decade. it includes spending cuts and about a trillion dollars in new tax revenue. republicans have insisted on deep cuts and no tax increases before they'll agree to raise the country's borrowing limit. that debt ceiling deds line is now just 13 days away. minnesota's three-week government shutdown is over. democratic governor park dayton signed a budget bill today. he and republican lawmakers finally agreed to use accounting gimmicks to close the state's $5 billion shortfall. republicans refused to raise taxes. the shutdown left 22,000 state workers without a paycheck. and memphis public schools may not open august 8th as scheduled because of a budget fight. the school board says no classes till the city pace $55 million. the board says the city owes that much in tax revenue for upcoming school year. the board claims the city has shortchanged schools for years. >> someone has to assume responsibility. for the collective education of the children in the city of memphis. and i don't think that city council can be exempt from that responsibility. >> i'm all in support of us having assurances and money in the bank. but i think that 55 was just an unreasonable amount to expect at this particular time. >> and france is raising the prospects of moammar gadhafi staying in libya on two conditions. french foreign minister alain jupe says gadhafi would have to give up power and agree to keep out of libyan politics. until now nato nations including the united states insisted he must leave the country. human rights activists say syrian troops gunned down perhaps as many as ten people during a funeral for protesters tuesdays in the city. mourners scattered when gunfire erupted. residents tell reuters troops and armored vehicles have moved into every neighborhood in homs. syrian forces have been trying to crush the uprising since it began in march. american airlines is acquiring a bunch of new planes. the company says it has ordered 460 jets from boeing and airbus. this is the. first time in two decades europe's airbus has sold planes to the airline. american says the $20 billion deal will create the youngest and most fuel efficient airline in the u.s. excessive heat warnings, watches or advisories are posted across 32 states today. that dome of hot air parked over the center of the country is only going to grow. intense heats will spread out of the midwest and invad the eastern seaboard today. extraordinarily high humidity will make temperatures feel like 120 degrees in many cities. okay. so here's your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the debt talks. today's question -- what's the solution to the political stalemate in the kara costello has more. >> you're scratching your head over that one, aren't you? >> it's not an easy one. >> the never ending debt ceiling debate, you know the players, obama, canter, boehner, biden, the gang of six, the tea party. generally seeking you don't like them much, not necessarilily because republicans don't want to raise taxes or most democrats wants to protect entitlements but because they can't get it the together as in compromise and "let's make a deal" and americans are sick of it. according to an abc news "washington post" poll fully 80% of voters, 80%, are now dissatisfied or angry about the way the federal government is working. lawmakers are aware of how you feel. really, they are. what are they doing about it? calling each other names. democrats rolled out a video campaign citing reagan's long ago plea to raise the debt ceiling as an adult moment. >> the united states has a special responsibility to itself and the world to meet its obligations. it means we have a well-earned reputation for reliability and credibility, two things that set us apart from the much of the world. >> there, that's an adult moment. you see what the democrats are going for, don't you? some republicans are much more direct. congressman allan west sent an e-mail to debbie wasserman schultz. here's the e-mail. west called wasserman the most vial unprofessional and despicable member of the u.s. house of representatives. why? because they disagree over the republican-backed cut, cap and balance bill. and you thought things were going to get better after the midterm elections when voters voted out so many incumbents. so the talkback question today, when it comes to the debt ceiling, what is the solution to the political stalemate? facebook.com/carol cnn, facebook.com/carol cnn. i'll read some of your comments later this hour. >> that's the trillion dollar question. thanks so much. we'll check back with you. here's a rundown of the stories we're covering right now. britain's prime minister goes toe to toe with parliament over the hacking scandal and the big fat truth about your favorite guilty pleasures and restaurant calorie counts. then a republican senator in the gang of six talks compromise and civility. how his group found common ground in the debt ceiling talks. and later, does the death of borders bookstore signal the beginning of the end for all bookstores? 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[ male announcer ] want to pump up your gas mileage? come to meineke for our free fuel-efficiency check and you'll say...my money. my choice. my meineke. british prime minister david cameron was on the defensive in firing back at members of the parliament this morning. they're critical of his close ties to top figures in the phone hacking scandal that has rocked his country. the prime minister's former communications director was once editor of the tabloid at the center of the scandal. >> of course, i regret and i am extremely sorry about the fury it has caused with 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed, i would not have the offered him the job and i expect that he won't have taken it. but you don't make decisions in hindsight. it's not about hindsight, mr. speaker. it's not about whether mr. coulson lied to him. it is about all the information and warnings that the prime minister ignored. he was warned. and he preferred to ignore the warnings. >> that exchange in today's parliament tritt session followed yesterday's appearance by rupert murdoch. he testified before a parliament tritt committee. the billionaire businessman denied any prior knowledge of phone hacking in his massive media empire. let's go straight to london now as senior international correspondent dan rivers joins us. dan, let's begin with the prime minister. cameron's grilling today. he's accuses of having been a little too cozy with murdoch and his executives. is the prime minister's job on the line here? s>> reporter: i don't think it s at the moment yet. until and unless there are more evidences produced by the opposition labor party that could prove, for example, that david cameron was talking to news international murdoch's company here about the bskyb takeover, something that he should not have been talking to him about. we know he had various conversations with rebekah brooks, the chief executive but we're told that they were appropriate but don't know what the content is yet. i don't want to get too bogged down in the detail. the short answer is not at the moment. i don't think anyone's talking about him being in a perilous position yet. this is slowly incrementally getting closer and closer to downing street's door. it is very, very awkward for the prime minister. it's taken up a lot of his time and put him in a difficult position. i think he's desperately hoping after today's combative exchanges in the house of commons behind me, this will be a line drawn under it. it will then go back to the police inquiry. this lot the politicians will be off on their summer holidays and i would think david cameron will be hoping this will be off his initial sort of entree for the summer and he can concentrate on other things. >> let's revisit rupert murdoch's testimony. refusing to take any responsibility for this phone hacking scandal. take a quick peek. >> do you accept that ultimately, you are responsible for this whole fiasco? >> no. >> you're not responsible? who is responsibleable? >> the people that i trusted to run it and then maybe the people they trusted. >> so what has been the overall reaction there? >> well, i was in the room with ruppert and james murdoch. it was excruciating at times the pregnant silences, the pregnant pawses that will toed the specific questions from politicians thrown to rupert murdoch and suddenly there would just be nothing. we talk about a characteristic trademark of rupert murdoch, but when you hear it in the flesh, it was pretty uncomfortable. and i think the general impression that was given off by rupert murdoch was of a man who was not on top of the detail of all this. he was not -- did not have a grip of his company, has not got a grip of this crisis. he appeared badly briefed and badly prepared. and his son james was constantly trying to leap in and help him out with a specific questions which were constantly delivered to rupert murdoch because it's rupert, the father, who is responsible for corporate governs of news corporation. i don't think it was a great day for the murdochs but they got through it, and as you see, their share price is now recovering, perhaps shareholders thinking they're through the worst of it. >> what's next now? you had the testimony before parliament. you hear trt prime minister today and then there's the separate police investigation. why does this testimony before parliament even matter? where does it go? >> well, i think that the next thing that's going to happen is this police inquiry is going to continue to roll on through the summer and that we could see more arrests. we could see more evidence coming out. we might get more interesting details about whose phones were hacked, about which individuals in news international are alleged to have been responsible. don't forget also, that a lot of these people that have been arrested like rebekah brooks and so on haven't actually been indicted or charges yet, just arrested and released on police bail. we may get developments on that front, as well. it's fascinating stuff but a long way to go yet. >> appreciate that. dan rivers from london. time now for a look at some of the other stories we're following. police in montgomery, alabama have made the biggest cash seizure on record. they pulled over an 18-wheeler after the driver made an illegal lane change and found more than $1 million hidden in the cargo. if it turns out the money was being used for something illegal, police can keep 80% of it for crime fighting. and this is pretty hard to believe. but it did. in california, a tiny but very powerful crime fighter is named paco, the chihuahua. he's the talk of the town after chasing armed robbers as you see right here in this surveillance tape, chasing them out of the shop in altadena. he nipped at their ankles, chasing them right across the street. and then on to ohio where heavy rains flooded roads and neighborhoods. parts of the state got as much as four inches in just a short time. the storms left tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power. so while the country's midsection doesn't need floods, it could sure use some rain to try and cool things down and intense heat wave is on locking in to 30 states. jacqui jeras with us now. it is an unbearableable summer. >> down right deadly. about 13 people have died in the midwest now, unfortunately, you can coupled to the heat. the heat index yesterday in parts of minnesota up to 129 degrees. so yeah. >> for any state but especially for minnesota. >> they're not used to that kind of heat. take a look at this animation from noaa. it helps to put things into perspective. this starts on july 13th and watch as that heat just grows and expands across the midwest. really intensifies across the southern plain states, then slowly starts to shift its way off toward the east. that last image you just saw there showed you the heat finally beginning to move out of the upper midwest. that's going to happen by tomorrow. in the meantime, take a look at this. feels like 95 in minneapolis already. it's 10:00 in the morning here. 90 in fargo, north dakota. 93 in cedar rapids. 97 in chicago. here all those advisories that we've been talking about in the nation's midsection, but now we're going to see changes. all this heat starts to the shift eastward. we'll watch for relief in the upper midwest by tomorrow. the northeastern corridor feels the brunt for the latter part of the week. 141 million people under advisories, a million square miles across the country. that's so many people impacts by the heat. all anybody's talking about. >> drink a lot of water and stay cool as you can. i'm trying, i'm trying. thanks so much. i know you're not counting calories but a whole lot of people are. don't count those numbers on the restaurants' websites apparently. you may be getting more than you bargained for. more calories that is. 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[ male announcer ] so don't blame it on aging. talk to your doctor and go to isitlowt.com to find out more. so you're watching what you eat. so you check the calorie counts on the restaurant websites, right? well, guess what, house see may not be what you get. or vice versa. researchers at tufts university say they were shocked how inaccurate the information was on the restaurant web sites. the story from elizabeth cohen, senior medical correspondent. >> this woman is on a secret mission and it has to do with what's in this bag. she's a nutritious researcher and restaurants don't know she's checking up on them. back at her lab at tufts university, urban grinds up the food, turns it into a powder and analyzes it to find out how many calories there are. >> the sample we're going to take to actually put in the calorie meter needs to be a representative sample of the entire dish. >>sley found one in five restaurant dishes has at least 100 cal iries for than what the restaurant says it does. that means when you look on the restaurant's website, you can't always believe what you read. >> one food had more than 1,000 calories more than it was supposed to. it was just shocking. >> urban and her colleague susan roberts wrote up findings in this week's journal of the american medical association. >> it's enormous. it shouldn't happen. >> several restaurants had dishes with a calorie count in the lab higher than what was on the restaurant's website including kip potely mexican grill where a bury the tote bowl had 249 more. the chicken and gokey soup from olive garden had 246 more calories and a chicken dish from boston market, 215 more calories. >> restaurants have got a lot to answer for. >> the national restaurant association points out on ample, the counts given by the restaurants are accurate. chipotle and observely garden told us their dishes are cooked from krach kra which means calories may vary. roberts says those extra calories add up. >> if you have 100 calories more than you think every day, that's something like 10 or 15 pounds you gain over the course of a year. >> and unless you have a lab, you'd never know why. >> elizabeth cohen joining us now. this makes me feel terrible because i think i'm helping myself out by getting a salad in particular. but that could be wrong, too. >> right, the salads were the ones most prone to be wrong. for example, this side salad from outback steakhouse with bleu cheese dressing tufts as a it was about 600 calories off. >> because of the bleu cheese? that's what i always ask for. >> that could be why. take a look at you got your bacon bits and your cheese and there's quite a bit in there. outback says tufts might have goofed and ordered the entree salad. tufts says it was the side salad and it was wrong. >> what do we do when we go out to eat. >> three little words, on the side. for this salad, if you ordered the dressing on the side and if you ordered the cheese and bacon on the side, you can make sure that you're not sort of at someone's whim. what if someone throws an extra handful of bacon bits and cheese? that's a lot more calories. >> they're in a hurry back there. >> be an empowered eater. >> i like that. elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. i'll still order the salads though. >> just onside. here's a look at today's news stories. choose the story you want to see next hour. he calls himself the godfather of china's growing hacking world and claims to have shut down the white house website. now he describes why he's training a new wave of hackers to hit other sites around the world. then second, it's a new way to pay for something without bills. coins or even credit cards called bit coin. a virtual currency that the doesn't abide by the rules of a bank or government. and then third, a closer look at a girls' soccer team well before the u.s. women's world cup run. meet the team nominatenated by "sports illustrated" as the sports team of the year in 2008. and i hear the ultimate goal. you can vote by texting 22360. text 1 for chinese hacker, 2 for bit coin currency or 3 for girls soccer goal. the winning story airs next hour. all right. a compromise debt-reducing plan may be gaining momentum from the so-called gang of six. i'll go one-on-one with a member of the gang to talk about the plan. we inspect your air filter, cabin filter. there's bugs, leaves, lint, crud. you'll be breathing that. i do believe it's part of a locust. make sure your alignments good. your brakes are good. you've got all sorts different things that you check off. your fluid levels. pretty much everything you could need. it gets done. it gets done quickly. and it gets done correctly. the works fuel saver package, just $29.95 or less after rebate. only at your ford dealer. you're a doctor. you're a car doctor. maybe a car doctor. the stories we're working on. up next, t