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Spots between dallas and oklahoma city will get more than 2 inches of rain this afternoon. scattered storms across the rest of the south. also some heavy rain in much of the upper midwest. plan on mid-80 degree temperatures on the east and west coasts. as well as the midwest. phoenix the hot spot, soaring into the triple digits. >> new details this morning about that anthrax scare. the u.s. military sending live anthrax spores via fedex. at least 26 people are taking antibiotics after possible exposure to anthrax. it was mistakenly sent to 18 labs in nine states and to an army base in south ko...

>> it's so heart breaking. spots between dallas and oklahoma city will get more than 2 inches of rain this afternoon. scattered storms across the rest of the south. also some heavy rain in much of the upper midwest plan on mid 80 degree temperatures on the east and west coasts. as well as the midwest. phoenix the hot spot, soaring into the triple digits. >> new details this morning about that anthrax scare. the u.s. military sending live anthrax spores via fedex. at least 26 people are taking antibiotics after possible exposure to anthrax. it was mistakenly sent to 18 labs in nine states and t...

Basketball. the president even answered a tweet regarding the firing of tom thibodeau. he said love him and think he did a great job. sorry to see him go. expect he will be snatched up soon by another team. now to southern california where mysterious balls of tar are washing ashore. some are the size of footballs and feel like putty. six miles of shoreline have been cloegzed south of los angeles. >> we spend a huge amount of time out here. it's heart breaking. >> officials don't know where the tar balls are coming from. some wonder if they're part of an offshore platform leak. coming up the on...

Cubic yards of the oily substances. we are following this. miguel, who's the soonest the beaches can reopen? >> they were hoping to reopen the beaches this morning. they're holding a press conference to figure out. we have been told that the beaches could stay shut down for several days. those tar balls are roughly the size of a baseball or as big as a football. so certainly an environmental issue that folks are watching closely. there haven't been more reports of more tar washing ashore recently but there is still debris out on the beaches. >> this is the different beach clean up than the oil...

Nearly seven miles of los angeles area beaches were closed today after a wave of tar balls washed ashore yesterday morning. the biggest chunks were the size of footballs. it's not unusual to find some tar along the beaches there. there are some natural seeps on the ocean floor. you about it's not usually this much tar. the source of these tar balls was described today in the local press as a mystery and it's being investigated, but there is the matter of the major oil spill that happened last week on the california coast near santa barbara when the oil pipeline burst and dumped out what the pi...