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morning pressing the candidate. shark attack. cape cod on alert this morning. a man bitten on both legs just 75 feet from shore. onlookers say a large dorsal fin broke the surface just before. plus this. the drought is spreading across the midwest. there is no rain in the forecast, and it is hot. just how bad will the corn crop be? farmers won't know until they harvest the corn. but what is certain, food prices are rising for you. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. and good morning. thank you for joining us. it carol costello. we begin with a teenaged chinese supergirl who at age...

gains. they claim this video shows a police station they took over. cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this video, however. opening statements got under way today in the drew peterson trial. now, he is the former chicago area police officer accused of murdering his third wife, she was found dead in the bathtub in 2004. her death was treated as an accident. but peterson came under scrutiny when his fourth wife stacy disappeared. the trial is expected to last about a month. now to what is going on in the olympics. okay. we got a spoiler alert, though. so put your t...

A drop in unemployment rates. in my home state of kansas, .8%. new mexico, 1%. oklahoma 1.4% and it goes on and on. >> let's focus on a few of them because we have their pictures. there's a few that you might know that have had some success when it comes to unemployment even if their popularity is not through the roof, these numbers will bring the popularity up. ask mitch daniels. >> 10.9% to 8.5% and scott walker, of course, in wisconsin. john kasich in ohio. niki haley in north carolina and rick scott in florida. >> we understand that the -- meanwhile, the unemployment in states that elected...

The people who have dropped out. it only counts the people who have been actively looking for work. so when you factor in the dropouts, that's 10.9% and the labor force participation rate, the number of people who are working in the labor force would have stayed the same in 2009. so the question is, when you see the unemployment rate of 8.2%, you may say, hey, the president's stimulus plan is working, but you do a deep dive and look at the rate, it doesn't look so great. >> greta: so the unemployment rate is squishy, for lack of a better term, if you included those, is there -- has anyone done...

That concentrated risk for mainly very damaging winds, but certainly, isolated tornadoes, not out of the question, and this is very widespread as we head towards the mid atlantic, including d.c. and pittsburgh where we could see the threat for large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes and that threat is going to continue into tomorrow and the oophnight hours as well, harris, as we head through tomorrow. these are the regions we'll watch for the potential of severe wherever late in the day and into the night. yes this, is the time for severe weather and people need to be an alert. harri...