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Billions spent on stadiums. some concern the city is not ready. i think the u.s. is against ghana in a few days from now. so stand by. patti ann: after the unprecedented primary loss of house majority leader eric conner to. two professors at the same college are campaigning for that house seat. randolph macon college in ashland, virginia, what are the student saying. >> reporter: randolph macon is a beautiful campus but it's small. 1,300 student.

Administration is letting the defense department and secretary hagel take the blame. do you agree with that? and if so, why? >> well, first of all, i think there's always room for courage at the pentagon for people to stand up and say no when they things are wrong. -- think things are wrong. i believe the white house is trying to control the pentagon with some of the generals and secretaries over there, and that's getting us in difficult situations across the globe. you covered some of them today, but whether you look at the russian, the chinese, the north koreans or the iranians or you look a...

Professor trammell has so far raised less than $5,000. patti ann: does the school have any special plans with these professors before the election? >> reporter: ashland, virginia calls themselves the center of the universe because of where they are on the map of the commonwealth. but they are the center of the political universe and the school president says he plans to take advantage of that. >> we talked about hosting a debate here. i think this would and most natural place to do that and we'll be extending that invitation formally to both political camps in the very near future. >> reporter...

Watches out here for maryland, parts of southern pennsylvania, west virginia and northern virginia. so this is the zone out here that we saw heavy rain yesterday and more rain forecast for today and even into tomorrow. and temperature wise, patti ann, i do want to point this out. it's very extreme. in texas we're seeing those temperatures climbing already, 110 degrees in delery owe. we have a number of heat advisories. factor in that humidity, and it's going the feel hotter than that. patti ann: maria molina in the weather center, thanks. bill: new york rangers keeping their stanley cup hopes ...

This marries up completely with our original reporting that there were intercepts or electronic communications to leadership up as al-qaeda in north aqim saying this was a successful assault. the tact that this was known, again, almost immediately, is part of this growing body of evidence that the intelligence community knew one thing, that it was a direct assault by terrorists, and then there was this disconnect with a political explanation, bill. bill: good reporting this, catherine this washington. 6 past. patti ann: well, a terrifying ordeal on the high seas. a huge fishing boat goes up in...