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good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. cuba, the gulf coast and florida are bracing for a brush with tropical storm isaac. preparations for the oncoming storm are already under way in cuba, which is isaac's next target. crews have been piling up sandbags and barricading homes, and we are already getting a firsthand look at what the powerful storm can do. isaac's gale force winds and pounding rains have been battering fragile haiti for hours now. power has been out on the southern coast, homes are damaged, trees uprooted, but the big...

while ago, but some of the folks around here living in the houses around here say they're still without power and they're still concerned. one gentleman i spoke with said that he's going to have to move his sister who just had a serious operation to a location that actually has working air conditioning so that she can survive this day where we expect the numbers to reach really high. i can tell you a few other things anecdotally. people told us they weren't able to sleep last night with the power out. some jurisdictions are having problems with 911 calling systems, like in fairfax, v...

dangerous situation for those suffering through record-breaking heat. triple digit temperatures are making life absolutely miserable for about 100 million americans this weekend. that's about a third of our population. here's a look at today's predicted highs across the united states. let's go first to cnn's reporter live in atlanta in a cooling center where the heat is expected, nick, to hit 106 degrees. that makes me think back to the record here in atlanta in 2007. let's talk about how dangerous this is and what officials are doing. i know there are officials in missouri investiga...

women watching us on the armed forces network. a big thank you to you as well. we're just hours before tonight's debt reduction talks at the white house. live pictures there this morning. the ambitious hopes for a large-scale deal have been dashed. the apparent sticking point? taxes, here is how house speaker, john boehner, sees it as democrat and republican leader prepare for tonight's showdown. quote, despite good-faith efforts to find common ground, the white house will not pursue debt reductions without tax hikes. i believe the best approach may be to focus on producing smaller...

the republican candidate for new york governor is denying he hates gay people. remarks about homosexuality and whether it's a valid way of life. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room. powerful explosives found, in all places, a cemetery in new york city. it's raising lots of questions right now about who put it there and what they might have planned for the explosives. let's go right to our senior correspondent, allan chernoff. in new york, what are we learning? >> very bizarre story. eight bricks of military grade explosives found in a very small cemetery in the east villa...