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When people watch for the elderly, people in nursing homes. >> prolonged periods of time because during a prolonged heat event, the morning low temperatures dont get below 80. so people that dont have air conditioning, that keep their windows hoping that their house cools off. and if the house is 8 5 all night and goes up to 105 in the afternoon because of the heat -- thats why the prolonged event is worse. >> if youre living in row homes, it bakes because its only front and back. thats it. well...

Demand is still high. >> 12,491 megawatts of demand. >> reporter: whats that mean? >> 12,500 million watts. one megawatt is enough to light a thousand homes. >> reporter: does that make you nervous? >> it does, yes. >> reporter: the operation here will run 24 hours a day until temperatures and demand begin to drop. in terms of demand, these cooler temperatures experiencing out here, at least here in new york for right now, will definitely help ease some of that demand. even so the folks there th...

What do you remember about that that moment? >> it was thanks giving day in 1999. i was having a turkey sandwich and got a call from the command center that said a boat from station four ft. lauderdale found a 5-year-old boy in an ini intertube. we knew a boat was missing with cuban migrants. they said he was cold, didnt speak english, and i thought he needed to come in and be seen by doctor. >> there he was being carried away on a stretcher. he captivated all of us. i remember because it hatche...

Time to do so? >> i was here the last 4th of july and there was more of a festive atmosphere. i was at the nato command center and there was barely a mention of 4th of july. i mentioned it and they said there are no vacation in a war zone. so a tempered mood more than the 4th of july festivities in the united states. >> brian: all right. connor powell on the job in afghanistan. thank you very much for your report. happy fourth. >> alyssa thomas, a 6-year-old girl has her name on the list of susp...

Insisting that the data used to prepare this report is in fact old and out of date and that the afghan security forces are improving at a much faster rate than this report gives them credit for. indeed, shepard, u.s. general david petraeus said just a few weeks ago that one of the few bright spots in afghanistan is the training that the afghan forces. thank you. shep? >> shepard: thank you. back to the oil disaster now. and the vice president made his first visit to the region since the crisis b...

Well be back here covering it for the weather channel. >> there is some other news in that region where the vice president joe biden is making his first trip to the gulf coast since the spill took place 72 days ago. the vice president is on his way to florida this afternoon after spending the day in louisiana. he toured the unified command center in new orleans where the response is being managed, vice president biden also visited a seafood restaurant being affected by the spill and had a closed...

The gulf today. we just got this video of the vice-president at the federal command center. thats where we find our own jonathan serrie with more. this is not good news about this storm. >> reporter: yeah, it certainly cant good news at all. in fact even here this morning at pensacola beach there was still heavy surf, much of it being a tebgted -- affected by weather patterns that are indirectly related to this topz storm to the south of us in the gulf. the vice-president is expected to visit he...

Kagan has been facing her first day of tough questioning as supreme court nominee. jeff sessions leading the critici criticism, arguing that kagan is too liberal. kagan says politics will not influence her decisions on the court. and in the gulf this hour, right now vice president joe biden meeting with residents in new orleans. he was greeted earlier at the airport by governor bobby jindal. before his briefing at the command center. he will then travel to pensacola beach, florida, this aftern...

Its mast in the indian ocean forcing her to make a distress call. >> keep going. keep going. lot more to go. >> reporter: the one thing i learned fast from captain york, the work never ends. theres that much of a shift when you have to wake up? >> you would wake up. >> how do you ever sleep? >> i dont know how the single sailors do it. i dont know how they do it. >> reporter: even with all her experience, computers, navigation and constant contact with the command center, many question the judgm...

And a report in the st. petersburg "times" says that despite warnings to use less toxic chemicals, bp is still spraying the same one. the other way bp is containing the oil is controlled burns. the company says its now up to 275 burns. between the cleanup effort and claims paid so far, bps total cost is $2.65 billion. tropical storm alex we told you already slowing down bps plans. and right now the coast guard and bp officials are huddled at the incident command center in louisiana planning fo...