FRENCH SOLDIER STABBED IN THE THROAT OUTSIDE OF PARIS *

MILITARY SPOX SAYS THE STABBING OCCURRED ON SAT IN THE FRENCH COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF LA DEFENSE *

THE SOLDIER'S INJURIES ARE CONSIDERED NON-LIFE THREATENING *

STABBING COMES JUST DAYS AFTER A BRITISH SOLDIER WAS KILLED IN A LONDON STREET DURING A SUSPECTED TERROR ATTACK *

ONE PERSON KILLED IN HEAVY FLOODING THAT HAS PROMPTED HIGH-WATER RESCUES IN THE SAN ANTONIO AREA *

SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPT SPOX SAYS A 29-YR-OLD WOMAN WAS TRAPPED IN HER CAR AND WAS SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD WATERS AFTER CLIMBING ONTO THE ROOF *

THE FIRE DEPT HAS CONDUCTED MORE THAN 235 WATER-RELATED RESCUES *

WATER IS UP TO FOUR FEET HIGH IN SOME HOMES *

SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT RECORDED ALMOST 10 INCHES OF RAIN BY SAT AFTERNOON *

THREE MORE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN THE KILLING OF AN OFF-DUTY SOLDIER IN LONDON *

SCOTLAND YARD SAYS COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICERS ARRESTED TWO MEN, 24 AND 28, AT A RESIDENCE IN LONDON *

A THIRD 21-YR-OLD MAN WAS ARRESTED SEPARATELY ON A STREET IN THE CITY *

FOUR OTHERS ARE ALREADY DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF 25-YR-OLD SOLDIER LEE RIGBY, WHO WAS STABBED TO DEATH WHILE WALKING OUTSIDE THE ROYAL ARTILLERY BARRACKS IN SOUTH LONDON WED *

17 KILLED, 24 OTHERS WOUNDED IN EASTERN INDIA AFTER SUSPECTED MAOIST REBELS LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON A CONVOY OF CARS CARRYING LOCAL LDRS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE COUNTRY'S RULING CONGRESS *

ASSAILANTS SET OFF A LANDMINE AND THEN OPENED FIRE ON THE LINE OF CARS *

TWO STATE PARTY LEADERS AND FIVE POLICE OFFICERS WERE AMONG THOSE KILLED *

POLICE IDENTIFIED ONE OF THOSE KILLED AS MAHENDRA KARMA, A CONGRESS LEADER WHO FOUNDED A LOCAL MILITIA IN HIS STATE TO COMBAT THE MAOIST REBELS *

GAS PRICES ONLY ABOUT A PENNY HIGHER THAN A YR AGO, PETROLEUM ANALYSTS AT GASBUDDY.COM SAY *

THE WEBSITE PLACES ESTIMATES FOR THE NATL AVG AT $3.66 PER GALLON, 17 CENTS HIGHER THAN A MONTH AGO *

BUT ANALYST GREGG LASKOSKI SAYS A HOLIDAY WKND DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN HIGHER GAS PRICES *

LASKOSKI SAYS PRICES TEND TO RISE IN SPRING, STAGNATE IN SUMMER AND THEN BEGIN TO FALL IN OCT *

FRENCH AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER THERE IS A LINK TO THAT ATTACK *

NTSB INVESTIGATING A CARGO TRAIN COLLISION IN SOUTHEAST MO *

AUTHORITIES SAY A HIGHWAY OVERPASS COLLAPSED WHEN RAIL CARS SLAMMED INTO ONE OF THE BRIDGE'S PILLARS AFTER THE COLLISION *

THE CRASH DERAILED DOZENS OF TRAINS, ALL CARRYING FREIGHT *

SEVEN PEOPLE WERE INJURED, THOUGH NONE SERIOUSLY *

NEWS COMES A LITTLE MORE THAN A WK AFTER A COMMUTER TRAIN IN CT HEADED FOR NYC DERAILED AND HIT A WESTBOUND TRAIN *

RESCUERS CONTINUE SEARCH FOR THE PILOT OF THE ANGEL FLIGHT THAT CRASHED IN UPSTATE NY FRI NIGHT, KILLING TWO PASSENGERS *

INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED A POND SAT WHERE THE PLANE WAS FOUND SUBMERGED IN EPHRATAH, WEST OF ALBANY, AS WELL AS NEARBY WOODS *

FAA SAYS THE PLANE LEFT BEDFORD, MA, AND WAS HEADED TO ROME, NY *

ANGEL FLIGHT IS A NONPROFIT GROUP THAT ARRANGES FREE AIR TRANSPORTATION FOR SICK PATIENTS FROM VOLUNTEER PILOTS *

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This shows you how frustrated everyone is…

Below is a very interesting note from my FNC colleague Trish Turner. It shows how frustrated everyone on Capitol Hill is about this debt ceiling and how it is being handled …

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Sen Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

It’s rare she gets exercised about things around here, so this is a pretty significant, scathing criticism of the Administration, and to a lesser degree congressional leaders. She said she was so frustrated, she lost her cool yesterday w/ OMB Director Jack Lew.

AND — she makes clear, she needs to know a revenue number NOW, not later, “or there is no deal.”

FEINSTEIN
“I don’t know what the deal is…
“It’s very frustrating. Sen Boxer and I represent a very big state…I would venture a guess b/n Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits… possibly 20 million or more people are dependent on these programs for their survival. We need to know what the cuts are…”

“We have to know some specificity. That’s why I have thought Reid-McConnell is the only way to do it if you wrap into that…the Gang product.”

Q: Admin giving away the farm?
“With me there is very big frustration. I like to know what I’m doing. It’s very frustrating.”

“That’s the beauty of Reid-McConnell – it gives us the opportunity to know what we are doing.”

Q: Weekend work? Or will u find out some detail of the deal?
“I would assume they have to move over the weekend, they have to introduce something…that everyone will have to stand up and salute. But I don’t know.”

Q: WH frustrating u?
“We had Jack Lew in yesterday, and we didn’t even know a deal was going on. We found out from the newspapers, and you guys aren’t always right.”

“I represent a huge state where huge numbers of people are dependent on us.

Feinstein notes major corps in Calif are laying off. She’s “very concerned.”

Q: Revenues a deal breaker? Have to be included now?
“Yes. I think so.”

***Q: U have to have a #?
**”Yes, u have to know revs will be part of it, in other words “X amount are revenues,” or there’s no deal.”***

**Q: Frustrations are high?
****”I’ve never seen frustrations higher. I don’t lose my cool, but I lost it yesterday in the caucus.”
Q: With Lew?
Yes

“We always knew what was going on (w/ Bush, Clinton)…none of that (information) is available to us now, and that’s not good…It doesn’t help you build a team.”

Q: And to be clear, you’re frustrated by what exactly?
“Not being able to get a straight answer from Jack Lew – are discussions going on or not?”

“And then u pick up the papers…It’s very frustrating.”

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Trish Turner
Fox News Channel
Senior Capitol Hill Producer









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