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, georgia. extremely hot and very uncomfortable. and 04 is what we expect it will feel like this afternoon in raleigh, north carolina. d.c., 101 the heat index this afternoon. as we head into tomorrow the area of high pressure will start to retreat further off toward the center plains. we will see a little bit of a relief like in d.c. where the heat index mark at 95. still very hot, though, and still expecting to feel like the triple digits across the plains. shannon, it is summer but this
large area of high pressure producing all of this heat and around it, shannon, we could be seeing some strong showers to thunderstorms firing up from montana into areas just south of the great lakes and into the southeast. same areas that were actually hit hard already with some of these storms that produced damaging winds friday night so again looking at that possibility for more severe weather. tough news for those folks along the storm damage line. thank you very much. fox news has live team coverage of the storm and its aftermath. elizabeth is live in west virginia and peter doocy is covering the cleanup live in virginia. shannon, virginia s governor bob mcdonald said we are now in the midst of the worst nonhurricane power outage as someone honks while they re driving by. here in maryland to governor martin o malley just said that the reason things are so bad here is because there was no time to prepare. we don t have the sound from martin o malley. he said normally
news headquarters live from the nation s capital starts right now. and we begin with this alert. states of emergency have been declared in four states and the district of columbia. it could be several more days before electricity is restored to the three million people now without power sweltering in oppressive heat. maria molina is monitoring heat wave from the fox extreme weather center and has more. good to see you. it could be several days before they get power back and several days before we start to see relief from the hot temperatures across parts of the southeast, mid atlantic, through the plains and looking at very hot temperatures across parts of the desert southwest but the area of the country that s really not used to seeing this kind of heat is the southeast and also parts of the plains. take a look at some of these high temperatures anticipated for today. 103 in the city of atlanta. yesterday, we broke the all time high temperature record that at 106 degrees.
court, and the core found probable cause. but that is for the the end of the matter for the attorney general s office and for the police department. we continue to pursue leads, we continue to interview witnesses. and what happened here, was as the investigation progressed, there was significant development among the witnesses, in terms of the interviews and what they were saying about what happened on that tragic day. and yesterday, we received fingerprints that absolutely cleared malique carter. now on the nigh of the shooting, dc police say there were ten people shot. four were killed, six were wounded. one was shot on galveston street. a 17-year-old. the rest were all shot on south capital street. at the time dc police say there were four people in the car in the rented van. they chased it downtown capital street into prince georges county. then back up where they were seen jumping out of that van. that is where malique carter was arrested. he was arrested inside therap
we re learning more about the suspect charged with trying to destroy a plane including a warning his father tried to send out just weeks before his son s alleged terror attempt. when we came down at newark airport one hour before, we couldn t use our toilets. barely a day after an attempted terror attack, airline passengers are describing what they are going through as new security measures are put in place. and in sports, urban meyer resigned as football coach of the university of florida. what gator fans are saying about this shocker. you re watching hln on this last sunday of 2009. so glad you re with us. i m susan hendricks. we want to get to our top story now. a 23-year-old man is charged with trying to destroy an airplane as it landed in detroit on christmas day. here he is. he s also charged with placing a destructive device on an aircraft. the charges were read to him yesterday at the university of michigan medical center in ann arbor where he is being treat