cooling centers will be open in the northeast. some students may be sent home early due to the heat. our coverage continues with accu-weather meteorologist, jim dickey, good morning, jim. thank you, peggy, daniel. the heat arrives in the north northwest in a big way. humidity with it as well. we are expecting widespread 90s. and when you factor in that humidity, feeling warmer. take a look at some of the highs we re expecting across the northeast. 95 in new york city. we are at 90 in syracuse. 98 degrees in the nation s capital. the good news, there is some relief in sight. we will track a cold front moving its way across the nation. here on wednesday it is hung up across the great lakes, down through iowa, bringing severe weather there perhaps later in the day to chicago. you can see we have cooled down quite a bit behind. highs wednesday across the northern plains. 62 in bismarck, pierre, and 90s ahead of it in chicago. again, tracking the cold front. bringing heat relief. with i
gusty winds. hail around minneapolis, milwaukee, des moines. thunderstorms along the gulf coast. 90, new orleans, up to new york. chicago hits hot 94. indianapolis, 93. kansas city, 89. 97, phoenix. 80, sacramento. 65, seattle. this next story is a little bit gross. sort of. i side with you on that. you can say some restaurant patrons in san francisco are hopping mad this morning. oh, boy, that is they cannot get the grasshoppers at a favorite local mexican restaurant. they were one i can t even look at that. they were one of the most items on the menu then the health department said, no can do. then the health department stepped in said no can do. yeah, no more grasshoppers because the place, they have been buying them from in mexico isn t fda approved. duh? of course not. it s in mexico, people. the unhappy owner says he may just have to start raising his own delicious grasshoppers. and, by the way, he says they taste like, everybody altogether now, chicken. chicken
especially across the eastern two-thirds of the nation. since we turned the calendar to june 1, more than 1,000 records have fallen. a number fell tuesday as well. for example, minneapolis climbed to 103 smashing the record high there. the difference on our wednesday here, we watch the heat surge in the northeast. widespread 90s expected. we ll be at 95 degrees in new york city. climbing to 92 in pittsburgh. 90 on the nose, buffalo, syracuse. good news is, there is some relief on the way eventually. it will take its time getting hire. it s working in the northern plains on our wednesday. cold front will bring severe weather perhaps as far south as chicago. but still staying steamy out ahead of it. once again, 94 in chicago. peggy, daniel. had back to you. thank you, jim. in missouri inmates joined the battle to keep floodwaters from the small town of craig. they filled hundreds of sandbags and also heavy machines were brought in to build a second temporary levee. flooding expected