outside right now, meteorologist chuck bell. and we have been looking at the heat i hope detection throughout the afternoon, but not just the heat index. these temperatures are breaking records. yeah, no doubt about it, doug. we have been crushing records all day long today. the live report from out here on the front lawn at channel 4. we are down ten whole degrees in the last hour. at 4:00, we were 104. current temperature now, 94 degrees behind a little gust front that went on through. but, man, you re right. the heat index has remained very high. around the area right now, heat ind index values still hovering around 110 to 115 degrees, anywhere where the gust front hasn t made it through. 116 downtown, 120 in la plata. as far as records that have been broken, early this morning at national airport, we only dropped down to a low temperature of 83 degrees. that set a new record for a minimum temperature. the old record was 81, set back in the 1980s. 1987. and on the other