[Acosta:] Kiran, if you're up to no good.
[Chetry:] What? You direct that at me?
[Acosta:] You might want some scary animals to protect your lair, maybe sharks with lasers on their heads like Dr. Evil and Austin Powers.
[Unidentified Male:] I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with freaking laser beams attached to their heads. Now, evidently, my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can't be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here.
[Acosta:] They were ill tempered sea bass. But anyway, these aren't spy villains. This is just a lot of setup for some bear video. These are Canadians with an illegal pot farm. The cops didn't find laser headed sharks. They found bears, yes, black bears guarding the crops. The amount of police tell the Vancouver Sun, the bears were actually quite gentle, and the bad guys were feeding them dog food to keep them around.
[Chetry:] I love that the police are posing with the black bears after a huge bust of an illegal marijuana farm. That's great.
[Acosta:] What better to guard your pot farm with than black bears? I mean, honestly, you know. The laser beams attached to their heads would have been an improvement.
[Chetry:] I can't get over these pictures. They're posing and grinning. Obviously, the bears aren't that scary if the cops feel comfortable doing that.
[Acosta:] It's different in Canada.
[Chetry:] Yes. Rock on. Forty-eight minutes past the hour. We get a check of this morning's weather headlines. Rob Marciano in the Extreme Weather Center. You were chuckling. Were you chuckling harder at the throwback movie clip or the?
[Rob Marciano, Ams Meteorologist:] That was funny, but I think the answer, let's think about bears guarding a pot farm, very chill, eating.
[Acosta:] That's true.
[Marciano:] Were they really guarding the farm?
[Acosta:] Yes. Apparently, some twinkie wrappers were found at the scene.
[Marciano:] Yes. I think more than just dog food possibly.
[Acosta:] Right.
[Marciano:] Good morning, guys. Listen, across the northeast, we got a little bit of air quality alert not too bad in Philadelphia and in D.C. No storms there. But in the New York City and Boston metros, you might see some delays because of wind. Low clouds in Atlanta, Chicago, and Minneapolis. That's going to be the prep for severe weather. Pop-up thunderstorms in Houston. If you travel to San Francisco, they got a bit of marine layer there. More than just a marine layer, heavy rain yesterday across parts of the Carolinas. Albemarle got 6.47. Cheraw got 4.52. And even Lake Charles, Louisiana, my old stomping grounds, almost 2 inches of rainfall there. This is all part of the system that made its way through Tennessee. We were concerned yesterday about the Cumberland River getting up and over flood stage. It did not happen overnight. So, that's good news. We're not looking for more rain there today, but most of it is moving offshore. This is a severe weather threat today as this line moves a little bit closer towards Iowa and Chicago. Iowa doesn't need any more rain obviously because of the very, very wet summer they've had. So, they don't need that. Heat indexes are on the rise here. 105 to 115 in places like Dallas, Houston, and this is all expanding. It's going to get hot, I think, in areas across the midsection of the country over the weekend. So, summer not quite done yet. 101 in Dallas. They can't buy a cool day even in the 90s. So, that's the latest from the weather department. Back up to you. Twinkie sounds pretty good right now, and all I've been drinking is coffee.
[Chetry:] Yikes. You need a couple of pop-tarts.
[Acosta:] Any brown bears floating around in the weather studio?
[Marciano:] No. All is quiet and calm on this Friday.
[Acosta:] That's good.
[Chetry:] Thanks, Rob.
[Acosta:] Thanks, Rob.
[Marciano:] See you, guys.
[Chetry:] This morning's top stories just a couple of minutes away, including fugitives caught. A couple that has been on the run accused of murder now in custody.
[Acosta:] Where are those pictures?
[Chetry:] Yes. The chase happened last night. These are the pictures from the arrest. It sounds like something out of a movie. We're going to hear about the race to get them before they got to their weapons.
[Acosta:] And he still says it ain't so. Roger Clemens facing charges of lying to Congress about his steroid use. Could one of the greatest pitchers ever be headed to prison?
[Chetry:] And powerful addictive drugs. No prescriptions needed, no questions asked, just click and you get them in the mail. How the feds say they busted major players in the online drug trade. Those stories and more coming up in just ten minutes.