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there's a major sticking point, republicans digging in against any tax hikes. >> there was never any agreement to allow tax rates to go up, in any discussion i've ever had with the white house. not once. bill: democrats pushing for those new taxes to bring down the debt. republicans calling for deeper spending cuts. the president calls for a deal by july 22. that's ten days from now. that way, congress has time to pass it before the august 2nd deadline. that's when many in the administration argue that we will start defaulting on some of our bills. stuart varney, fox business network...

region. we are starting off with high humidity in place too. out of the mountains, though, it is a bit cooler, in the 60s there. look at the highs expected later this afternoon from new york city all the way down to miami. it's going to be well into the 90s. in fact, even near 100 in the mid-atlantic states across maryland, virginia, as well as the carolinas. it will be near 100 degrees this afternoon. maybe even the low hundreds in southern virginia and parts of central, north, and south carolina. and right in washington, we ought to be near 99. 99 is the record high for the date se...

78 degrees. 5:00 a.m. and 78 degrees. the sun isn't even up yet, and we're seeing these kinds of temperatures. gives you an idea of what we're going to be dealing with later on today. we've got a heat advisory taking effect at noon today. it will stay in effect until 8:00 tonight. we could break records today. 99 degrees, that is a possibility. and this is dangerous heat. so you don't want to mess around with this. dress appropriately, make sure that you're hydrated. if you can stay inside where it's air conditioned, that's a great place to be. if you have any kind of health conditio...

billion worth of social security checks are supposed to go out. they will almost certainly, definitely, go out. then on august the 15th we have to pay an interest bill of $30 billion on debt that's already outstanding. that will almost certainly be paid. and so on and so on and so on. but sooner or later somebody will not get the check that they are expecting. and that will be called a technical default. different from a mainline default, but a technical default nonetheless. martha: it sounds something like families or businesses when things get tight, and they say, okay, we absolute...

the weather center with our first forecast. tom? >> yeah, pat, already, it's near 90 degrees throughout much of the region. we've had the sky go mostly sunny after some morning clouds swept away, and now it's 89 at reagan national. and we are near 90 throughout most of the region, except right near the bay, wind off the water. ocean city, though, is at 90 degrees, and it's near 90 throughout most of virginia and maryland, as well as the eastern shore. out in the mountains, though, it's cooler there. out in western maryland and the high spots in west virginia are in the 70s to near 80...