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.