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All of our energy problems. but we know, for example, the low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency. we know that if we design our schools, homes, hospitals more efficiently that as a country we could probably cut our power usage by 20%, 25%, 30%, with existing technologies, and without lowering our standard of living. and, by the way, we can put a whole bunch of folks to work doing it right now. we could gather up a whole bunch of young people here in this community, train them for insulation, for energy efficient construction, and redo a whole bunch of buildings and institutions right here and ...

Well. you know how hot it is? >> how hot is it, rick? >> go ahead. >> how hot is it? >> it's so hot, the pill gruesome nuclear power plant had to reduce its power output because the heat wave heat up the water in cape cod bay so it was too warm to cool the reactor. the bay water was too warm to cool the reactor at the nuclear power plant so they had to reduce the power outage there. apparently things are cooling down up north and they're able to get back to full power there. of course, across the city, we have seen a lot of'em in fountains fountain -- people in fountains and pools. it's been r...

Jumping in fountains and pools doing whatever they can to try to escape these ridiculous, stifling temperatures of 99 degrees with a heat index of 108. in fact the governor asked everyone to cut back on the power usage. they're concerned about widespread outages and brownouts. they're expecting a record demand on the power grid because of everyone using their air conditioning to try to get out of the heat. there are some businesses though, doing well. as you might imagine, air conditioner sales are up 40% across the region in major cities like baltimore, boston, new york, philadelphia. ice sal...

>> thank you, jennifer. do these homeowners have a case? guys, tamara, so, i can see where homeowners are very, very concerned if you show certain times a day, the power usage is higher, it has to be that someone is home and when it drops, i am a bad guy and i know when to problem the house. >> i don't think it is necessarily a bad guy look at behavior but it is the fact as she said, your guest, the patterns are, rather, they are reviewed every, four different values every 15 minutes. four different values. it is not just bad guys that are looking but a pattern the city is were watching. they ...

streak, tiger woods returns to the pga tour. in less than five hours he tees off in the bridgestone invitational. congress celebrated its long overdue deal on the debt crisis by racing out of town for summer recess. lost in that cloud of dust, funding for the faa and thousands of workers who now can't be paid. >> personally, this is devastating. i've spent -- i spend most of my day trying to figure out what -- what can i not ay, what can i pay, where can i get extra cash. we're pretty much going to burn through all of our savings within a monday. athena jones is on capitol hill. ...