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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. he's 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 my battle and i want to represent myself. >> he made his decision. i think he'll do as good as he c...

parts of the central shenandoah valley, they've dipped into low to mid-60s this morning. a few passing showers and thunder showers north/northeast of washington, but those are beginning to dissipate, and we just have a few clouds coming through now. as the day progresses, hazy sunshine and temperatures by noontime mid-90s. it's going to be near 100 degrees by midafternoon. this friday we got to 102 at reagan national. i don't think it's going to get quite as hot there today. we may be near the record by midafternoon. it will feel like 100 to 105 when you factor in the humidity. and t...

great to see you this morning. thursday, july 28. this is "american morning." advice teen out. we know yesterday a little stuffy. >> she sounded. >> it she is getting better hopefully at home today. a lot going on. >> imagine what our lead story is now? it's the debt. the republicans are scrambling to line up house votes to stave off a potential first ever default of u.s. debt. the deadline, you know, this, august 2 now less than five days away. the house is expected to vote on speaker bane are's plan sometime today and it comes after the house speaker laid into the republican rank a...

good morning. great to see you this morning. thursday, july 28. this is "american morning." advice teen out. we know yesterday a little stuffy. >> she sounded. >> it she is getting better hopefully at home today. a lot going on. >> imagine what our lead story is now? it's the debt. the republicans are scrambling to line up house votes to stave off a potential first ever default of u.s. debt. the deadline, you know, this, august 2 now less than five days away. the house is expected to vote on speaker bane are's plan sometime today and it comes after the house speaker laid into the rep...

crosshairs, they need rain. >> this is the tropical storm don whipping up 40-mile-an-hour winds but it is expected to strengthen in warm waters. >> by tomorrow afternoon it should be packing 65-mile-an-hour winds and is expected to make landfall near corpus christi. that could mean up to 6 inches of rain from brownsville, san antonio, austin and houston. with 75% of texas now baking in exceptional drought that drenching rain will actually help but it's not likely to actually break the drought. on top of that ranchers have to contend with grasp hoppers, hordes of them eating up whatev...