Tom Miller sits down with Jim Chilsen, Communications Director for the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) to discuss electricity rates and how they are affected by both summer heat, and electricity providers.

US Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) joins The Morning Newswatch.

Annette McMichael, Communications Director for Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment (S.A.F.E.) joins The Morning Newswatch to discuss the appeals process for an injunction on fracking that was denied in Madison County Circuit Court.