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Trace Gallagher just wrote us an email commenting on the L.A. building explosion. Here is his take on the disaster:
I’ve seen a hundred natural gas explosions over the years, but never one where a person was hurled from the building and wedged beneath the axle of a car. Wow!
Wow indeed .. thanks Trace, and keep checking back for more updates!
Our Insider’s wanted to see the FULL MEMO of the immigration amnesty text floating aorund. Well, we got it … check it out:
The Insider caught up with FNC producer Brooks Blanton:
Mark Rodgers and his family usually spend a week each summer near Destin, Florida. But this year they are spending their annual beach vacation on the Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Rodgers says pictures of tar balls on the sand and oil patches closing waters to swimming these past few months caused them to avoid the Gulf Coast.
The beaches along the Atlantic Coast are a bit more crowded this year. Hotels in Myrtle Beach, SC say many of their guests say they cancelled vacations on the Gulf of Mexico because of the oil spill.
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President Obama: “Now this morning we learned that our economy grew by 2.4 percent in the second quarter of the year. So, that means it’s now been growing again for one full year. Our economy is growing again instead of shrinking.”
“Independent estimates suggest that more than 1 million jobs could have been lost if Chrysler and GM had liquidated. In the middle of a deep recession that would have been a brutal irreversible shock.”
“The hard truth is this industry lost a lot of jobs in recent years, some of those jobs aren’t coming back partly because automakers have become so much more efficient than they used to be, this is a lean, mean operation, so there are people who still lost their jobs, haven’t been hired back, and it wasn’t their fault, mistakes were made in managing the company that weren’t theirs.”
Did you tune in to hear the president’s thoughts? If so, what’d you think … and are you on the same page as the Commander in Chief when it comes to the quotes above?
Jon Scott just gave us an update on the explosion:
-A roof collapsed after a explosion at a welding business on the 900 block of East 59th Street in South Los Angeles.
-Two people have been injured.
-Search-and-rescue dogs were called to find any other victims.
-Fire officials say a suspected natural gas explosion rocked a large South Los Angeles commercial building and hurled people into the street, wedging at least one man beneath a parked car.
-Fire Capt. Steve Ruda says the violent explosion shook the two-story building housing a welding operation at 6:15 a.m. Friday and much of the structure collapsed. There were victims in the street when 100 firefighters arrived.
-The explosion blew three people into the street. At least one person was pinned under the axle of a car.
-They are hospitalized in unknown condition.
-The fire was extinguished in 25 minutes and teams were searching the collapsed structure for possible victims. Ruda says search dogs were being sent in because the splintered wreckage of the building posed a danger to firefighters.
Stay tuned for more…
So, what actually happened with the squashed bill giving aid to 9/11 first responders and why were Rep. Anthony Weiner and Rep. Peter King arguing over it?: Our Insiders wanted to know what was in it and why it was killed, here is what our Brainroom came up with:
Funding
The bill creates a World Trade Center Health Program Fund to fund the new program. It requires that New York contribute 10% of the cost of the program, and requires that the remaining 90% of the funding be deposited from the federal Treasury into the new fund. The funding would be available for the new health program without specific congressional appropriations.Specifically, it requires that the following amounts, representing the federal share of 90% of total funding, be deposited into the fund:
* $71 million in the last quarter of FY 2011;
* $318 million in FY 2012;
* $354 million in FY 2013;
* $382 million in FY 2014;
* $431 million in FY 2015;
* $481 million in FY 2016;
* $537 million in FY 2017;
* $601 million in FY 2018;
* $173 million in FY 2019; and
* Up to an additional $499 million in FY 2019 and up to $743 million in FY 2020.
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Jenna Lee just interviewed a doctor reporting a new study suggesting that any soda or drink sweetened with artificial sugar could heighten a pregnant woman’s risk of having her baby prematurely. One diet soda could raise the risk to 37% and having four or more could raise to the risk to 88%! So, what about drinking regular soda? Nope… that just isn’t healthy. So what to do? Water, water, water … but if you want to indulge a little bit, that’s OK.
With all of these studies floating around, what dietary restrictions does one stick to? Any mom’s out there, how did you make it through your pregnancy? Share your stories here!
Coming up in 30 minutes, President Obama is due to speak from the Chrysler plant in Detroit on the current state of the auto industry. Watch the president’s remarks LIVE on Fox News Channel and stay with the Insider for highlights from his speech!
