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good morning and welcome to "early start." im ali velshi. zoraida is off today. >> i like these hours. >> im eating a hot dog this morning. >> i love that about you, ali velshi. im ashleigh banfield. it is 5:01. its the holiday but this fourth of july is less about celebration and more about patience for many americans. and in some cases, even survival. because for six days now there have been many of your fellow countrymen with no power in this extraordinary heat wave. at least 20 peo...

Will be said and done by then but a close call. >> better than the macys parades with those animals when they deflate. bill, thank so you much. lets go to sports. maria sharapova gets her serve in. she lost the first set 6-4. she gets 108 miles per hour serve. maria sharapova claimed the win in three sets. this is the fifth time the womens side reached the final in wimbledon. huge win for germany. what was supposed to be an unprecedented race between two sprinters for the final spot ended with a...

16 people have already died since thursday when triple digit temperatures unleashed the deadly storms leaving millions without power. you see all of these states in yellow? these are the states suffering in ohio, 425,000 customers without power as of 10:00 last night. same story in virginia, same story in maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are waiting, waiting for that electricity to flip back on. there is still really no let up in sight this morning. 20 states under heat ...

and now in mississippi, a new court says that an abortion clinic is going to be allowed to stay open. we have george there, and tell us what has happened here. >> well, police officers were called here, because protesters were getting on the grass there, and they can stay on the public privat property, but it is not a private property, and it happens everyday this clinic is open. we can pan over to see happy independence day, yes, we are open, and a sign that this clinic will be open t...

99 in kansas city and back up into the triple digits in the city of denver, colorado, where were expecting a high temperature at 100 degrees. factor in the humidity and it feels even hotter. were already starting to see some very hot heat index values like in raleigh, north carolina, where right now if you head out the door, it feels like 108 degrees. 100 in atlanta. and 101 over in the city of memphis, tennessee, so once you start to see these kinds of temperatures and heat index values, it sta...

Parts of the center of the country and across the east coast with temperatures expected to reach the triple digits. in raleigh, north carolina, 103. 104 in columbia south carolina and 109 in savannah georgia. parts experiencing triple digit heat or upper 90s for the last several days and continuing to see that today with a high of 98 in kansas city. factor in the humidity and feels even worse. feels like 100 degrees this afternoon across the city of tulsa, oklahoma. 102 memphis. 108 in savannah,...

And mid atlantic, areas that were hit hard with storms, friday night that knocked out the power for those people that, unfortunately, are dealing with a heat wave and the heat wave expected to continue from the southwest to the east coast and heres a look at how hot it will get out there today. d.c., 100°, 104 in raleigh, north carolina and louisville, 102, 104 in atlanta, who, by the way, broke a record yesterday for the all-time record high temperature at 106°. factor in the humidity and it ...

Sure you stay safe. patti ann. >>? and the heatwave coming down from the plains to the east coast. triple digit temperatures prompting heat advisory and excessive heat warnings for about a third of the united states. maria molina is in our extreme weather center with more. >> hi, patti ann. triple digits from arizona to north carolina, an extremely hot day across the country with the large ridge of high pressure thats built in and the reason were seeing the heat across a large third of the count...

Dollars in disaster relief. >> we want to just say thank you to all of the folks who have been involved in this. were proud of you. we appreciate what you do each and every day. so for folks all around the country, i hope you are reminded ofç how important our fire departments are, our forest services, sometimes they dont get the credit that they deserve until your house is burning down. >> but theres a bigger question tonight about why these fires are worse than they have ever been before. ex...

focus. later, shocking new details in the jerry sandusky case. e-mails reveal the truth about who knew what, when. it is saturday, june 30th. good morning. glad you are with us. im randi kaye. with temperatures soaring in greece, new york, tempers are cooling. that is because the four middle school students abusing karen klein, their bus monitor are going to be punished. you remember the video, im sure. they enjoyed hurling insults in a steady stream of profanity at this grand math...