USA vs Belgium Live Stream Free, Start Time: Watch World Cup 2014 Last 16 Soccer Online (ESPN TV Schedule)

USA vs Belgium takes place on Tuesday as Jurgen Klinsmann's men look to cause a huge upset and progress to the World Cup 2014 quarter-finals. This Last 16 tie will be a fiercely contested affair, and although Belgium will be favorites to win this one, the United States have done fantastically well to progress from the so-called "Group of Death" and they will not be overwhelmed by the task at hand. The game will start at 4 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the ESPN network, or online through free live stream (details below).

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Clint Dempsey of the U.S. celebrates after scoring their first goal during their 2014 World Cup Group G soccer match against Ghana at the Dunas arena in Natal June 16, 2014.

In team news, the United States will have Jozy Altidore back after two matches out with a hamstring injury. However, manager Jurgen Klinsmann may opt for an unchanged side.

Belgium meanwhile have a number of defensive injuries, with Vincent Kompany and Thomas Vermaelen both doubtful for today's big game. Laurent Ciman and Anthony Vanden Borre have both also been ruled out of the Last 16 tie, where as midfielder Steven Defour is suspended for today's game having been sent off against South Korea in Belgium's final group game.

The United States will be looking to win today to reach the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2002. Belgium though will be looking to make the last 8 for the first time since way back in 1986.

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Belgium's national team head coach Marc Wilmots (R) watches his players during a training session at Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte June 16, 2014.

Belgium have been hotly tipped as the dark horses of this year's World Cup. Although they are not being touted among the favorites for the title, they have a host of talent and top players in their squad, and on their day they would be a test for any team in the competition.

But despite being favorites for today's game, Belgium head coach Marc Wilmots understands that the United States will be difficult to defeat, and he says that his team are ready for war.

He has said ahead of the game, "Physically they are very strong, we are preparing for a war."

He has spoken of the need for his team to raise their game even more: "I am convinced that our level is going to be better. We are fresh and now we have reached the second round, we can play freely."

Meanwhile, USA manager Jurgen Klinsmann has said ahead of the game, "We have enough confidence now going into this game - a very special one, a knockout game. We have absolutely no fear at all. We feel like we are in a position now to challenge. We believe we have built a foundation in our team that we are able to beat them."

The United States' success so far has not gone unnoticed back home, and millions have been tuning in to watch their team navigate their way through the Group of Death – a group that included Germany, Portugal, as well as the USA's bogey team Ghana.

USA's Clint Dempsey has scored four goals in his nine World Cup appearances, and he needs just one more to equal Landon Donovan as the USA's all-time World Cup top scorer with five goals. USA fans will be hoping he can achieve that today, and if possible even surpass Donovan's total.

The USA against Belgium will kick off at 4 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the ESPN network. The game can also be watched online through free live stream by clicking here.

Severe Weather Hits Chicago Area

CHICAGO (CBS) – A line of severe thunderstorms hit the Chicago area Monday, causing power outages, flight cancellations and delays and other problems. By late Monday, a second wave of storms was expected.

A tornado warning was issued for Southwest Cook County and Northwest Will County late Monday.

The storm systems that came in from the west around 5 p.m. brought high winds, rain and lightning. At one point, a ground stop was issued for planes arriving at O’Hare Airport, where hundreds of flights were canceled. Both O’Hare and Midway experienced delays of up to two hours.

The White Sox-Angels game was washed out at U.S. Cellular Field (a doubleheader was scheduled for Tuesday with the Los Angeles Angels), and 23,000 customers of ComEd were without power across the Chicago region. Flooding was a concern for some areas.

West suburban Aurora clocked winds of 61 mph – tropical storm force – said CBS 2 Meteorologist Steve Baskerville, who predicted a second wave of storms to sweep through the area late Monday.

On the positive side, the storms were expected to cool off the hot and muggy conditions the Chicago area has seen the past few days, with temperatures dropping to the low 70s overnight.

After Tuesday, the high temperature might not get above 80 degrees the rest of the week, with a high of only about 73 on Tuesday, and lows in the low 60s or upper 50s each night this week.

Robert Downey Jr.'s son Indio arrested on drug charges

.-- Robert Downey Jr.'s son Indio is in trouble with the law.Indio Falconer Downey, 20, was arrested Sunday on drug possession charges. He's since been released on bail."Indio Downey was a passenger in a vehicle stopped around 2 p.m. Sunday," according to West Hollywood Sheriff's Station Sgt. Dave Valentine. "Downey was found to be in possession of what officers believed to be cocaine as well as a smoking pipe. Downey was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, and posted bail around 9 p.m. that same evening."

Robert Downey Jr.'s representative released a statement saying that

Downey was "grateful to the Sheriff's department for their intervention."

"Unfortunately there's a genetic component to addiction and Indio has likely inherited it," the rep said.

"Also, there is a lot of family support and understanding, and we're all determined to rally behind him and help him become the man he's capable of being. We're grateful to the Sheriff's department for their intervention, and believe Indio can be another recovery success story instead of a cautionary tale."

The elder Downey had several well-publicized issues with drug addiction in the 1990s. He went through treatment a number of times, including a year in the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, before finally getting clean in 2001.

Indio Downey is the son of Downey and his first wife, Deborah Falconer. Downey and Falconer divorced in 2004 after almost 12 years of marriage.

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Under The Dome Has A Villain Problem

Stephen King's mammoth 2009 novel Under the Dome features two killer antagonists. One is, well, the dome itself; the other is "Big Jim" Rennie, a bully of a local politician who seizes the dome's sudden appearance as a chance to affirm his fiefdom. Too bad only the inanimate bad guy made the transition to the small screen.

Season two of CBS' prime-time Under the Dome adaptation kicks off tonight. It's a killer premise: A giant dome magically drops from the sky, covering the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine; cut off from society, possibly for good, the predictable anarchic wackiness ensues. (Not as wacky as The Simpsons Movie, but wacky enough.) On the page, this is propulsive, pulpy stuff. On TV, it's an immensely silly mess.

Verily, season one was rife with problems. The townspeople's collective intelligence makes the wayward roving humans that populate The Walking Dead seem like a backwoods Mensa gathering—they go long stretches seeming to have forgotten the GIANT DOME that has trapped them in town. One whole episode out of 13 centered on a secret fight club/rave venue in an abandoned cement factory, a puzzling creation absent from the book and quickly bounced from the show. Sheesh, isn't the GIANT DOME enough of an issue?

I'd accuse the writers of spinning their wheels, were it not clear that the wheels fell off long ago. Still, nothing galls me like the treatment of the show's human villain, Big Jim. In King's hands, he's is a detestable force from the start. You plow through 1,000-odd pages (yes, the book is mammoth even by King's standards) as much to see him get his comeuppance as to finally figure out what the heck is up with the dome. He's selfish and manipulative, a parochial political nightmare. There is no gray to be found.

Turn on the TV, though, and, well, "soft" isn't quite the right word. Big Jim is still the villain—he lies, not to mention kills—but the show takes odd sidelines to round off his edges, at times showing him to be a mournful husband, caring father, and even worthy town leader. To be fair, it also shows him to be the exact opposite of all those things, but that inconsistent characterization plagues the entire show, not just its antagonist: The show's nominal hero, Dale "Barbie" Barbara (ugh, those names) gets an unnecessarily darker backstory for balance. King's novel is great entertainment without aspiring to be one of our Great Books; I don't think the television version aspires for greatness, either, but if the goal is some ridiculous fun, why even try to muddy the characters' waters?

As such, Under the Dome's first season played out as a half-assed Big Jim origin story—a long, ridiculous, and unnecessary origin story—for a character ready-made for evil scheming. Was this a flubbed attempt at pandering to our insatiable thirst for "Difficult Men" TV, where good guys and bad guys alike are slathered in shades of grey? Was the softening of Big Jim part of the plan all along, or was it the byproduct of casting the great Dean Norris, then just wrapping things up over at Breaking Bad? True, in that case, he took the one-note meathead caricature of Hank Schrader and morphed him over five seasons into one of the show's only good and likable characters. But there's a difference between turning a flat character into a round one and turning an unabashed bad guy into a gradual, somewhat ambiguous one. Sometimes it's okay for bad to just be bad.

This is not to say that the source material here should be held sacred—Under the Domespecifically or books in general. (Uncle Stevie himself has already suggested that the novel's disappointing ending won't be regurgitated here, and I'm all for it.) But too much of the book's pulpy, trashy fun is being ruined by all these muddled motivations. Still, we press on: As season one wrapped, Big Jim is running the town, and Barbie is in a noose set for a public execution, with Big Jim playing the hangman. Suddenly, the pink stars appear (I don't have time to explain, and it probably won't make any sense), and the dome flashes to bright white—another creation for the show, but at least one that works onscreen. Will it be a distraction that leads to Barbie's escape? Will it trigger a short-lived epiphany for an evil-at-the-moment Big Jim? Will it lead to some other unforeseeable whackadoo happening? If there's one thing going for this show, it's that even as a book-reader, I don't have the slightest clue, but on the flip side, I don't think the show's creators do, either.

Violent storms, possible derecho could strike Chicago region this evening

UPDATE, 4:45 p.m. ET (3:45 p.m. CT): The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a “Particularly Dangerous Situation Severe Thunderstorm Watch” for southeast Wisconsin, northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan until 9 p.m. central. This includes Chicago and Milwaukee.

Widespread damaging winds to 80 mph, large hail, and one or two tornadoes are possible in this area. SPC says the thunderstorm system is producing a derecho in eastern Iowa which is expected to sweep through this region around between roughly 6 and 9 p.m. central. Significant numbers of downed trees and power outages are likely to occur.

Area under particularly dangerous situation watch outlined in blue. Radar view shown captured at 3:35 p.m. CT

Original, post from 3:10 p.m. ET (2:10 p.m. CT): A complex of thunderstorms erupting over Iowa this afternoon may consolidate into a powerful squall line or derecho that rips through the Upper Midwest this evening.

Storm over Iowa as of 1:45 p.m. ET (NASA)

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) forecasts has highlighted a broad region as having a 45 percent chance of experiencing destructive winds (within 25 miles of any point) over 70 mph. Des Moines, Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago all lie within this zone of elevated risk, which affects almost 19 million people.

Risk of damaging winds. Hatched area indicates elevated likelihood of destructive winds over 70 mph. (NWS SPC)

“Numerous severe thunderstorms capable of large hail, tornadoes and swaths of damaging wind are expected today into tonight over much of the Corn Belt and Midwest,” SPC says.

GM recalls 7.6M more cars as costs balloon

General Motors recalled another 6.8 million vehicles on June 30 in the U.S. for ignition switch flaws. How GM's number compares with all recalls for U.S. vehicles in past decades:
General Motors announced six new safety recalls Monday — including its single largest this year — involving a total of about 7.55 million vehicles in the U.S.

The company also announced that it would increase its second-quarter charges to pay for recalls to $1.2 billion, up from the previous announced $700 million.

With the latest recalls, GM now has called back 25.68 million vehicles in the U.S. this year for safety-related repairs — a record for GM and, equal to more than two years of the company's total output. It's also close to the annual average total recalls for all automakers in recent years — though well of the industry's one-year recall record of 58.43 million vehicles in 1999.

The cavalcade has come as GM set about cleaning house on pending safety issue after the recalls for a deadly switch defect in February and March. GM is under a federal regulatory microscope because of those recalls, which are linked to 13 deaths.

"They are expanding (the recalls) now that there is more scrutiny" from safety authorities and Congress, says Sean Kane of Safety Research & Strategies. "Even after the recall barrage, however, there are many, many GM vehicles made over the years that have somehow dodged all the recalls.

Most of the vehicles in the latest announcement, more than 6.8 million in the U.S., are covered by a single new recall that extends the small-car ignition switch issue — "unintended ignition key rotation" that can shut off the engine while underway — to more midsize and full-size GM cars.

GM spokesman Alan Adler says although the latest recall's ignition switches met GM's specifications, there are fears that if they are bumped or jarred, they can pop into "accessory," disabling the car's airbags.

The company says it has identified seven crashes involving eight injuries and three fatalities that could be tied to the latest ignition-switch recall, although it adds there is "no conclusive evidence" of a link.

In the small cars, GM has been replacing ignition switches. In the latest batch, the fix will likely be a replacement key with a hole rather than a slot. Adler says owners of the vehicles are urged to drive only with a single key and nothing attached until they get the fix.

Models included in Monday's switch recall include the 1997 to 2005 Chevrolet Malibu, 1998 to 2002 Oldsmobile Intrigue, 1999 to 2004 Oldsmobile Alero; 1999 to 2005 Pontiac Grand Am; 2000 to 2005 Pontiac Grand Am; 2000 to 2005 Chevrolet Impala and Monte Carlo and 2004 to 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix. A separate U.S. recall covers 554,328 vehicles: the 2003 to 2014 Cadillac CTS and 2004 to 2006 Cadillac SRX.

Trading in GM stock was halted at 2:30 p.m. ET and resumed by 3 p.m., once the GM recall news and new charges were announced. The stock closed at $36.30, down 32 cents, or 0.87%, on the day.

Also on Monday, details of a compensation fund for victims of the small-car switch recalls were disclosed by fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg. He said GM has agreed to pay, without individual case or total fund limit, anyone Feinberg believes is entitled to compensation for death or injury. Feinberg noted that claims can be filed not only by people riding in any seat in the GM cars with the bad switches, but by pedestrians and people in other cars involved in wrecks with those GM cars.

Besides switch-related recalls, GM also announced recalls of:

181,984 SUVs to fix a glitch that could lead to electrical shorts in driver's doors that could disable power door locks and window switches. Included are 2005 to 2007 Buick Rainier, Chevrolet TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy, Isuzu Ascender, Saab 9-7x, 2006 Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT and GMC Envoy XL.
9,271 heavy-duty pickup trucks to fix a fuse issue that could lead to electrical overload, and possible fires. Being recalled is the 2007 to 2011 Chevrolet Silverado HD, GMC Sierra HD when equipped with an auxiliary battery.
2,990 smaller vehicles for insulation on engine blocks that can be damaged in cold weather. Included are the 2011 to 2014 Chevrolet Cruze, 2012 to 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, 2013 to 2014 Chevrolet Trax, Buick Encore and Verano.

106 cars for a joint fastener that may not have been tightened properly. Included are 2014 Chevrolet Camaro and Impala, Buick Regal and Cadillac XTS.