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Highs from the 100s from the plains to the atlantic are as a result of air stalled over the midsection. >> typically we dont see it this hot so early in the season. we are talking about unprecedented temperatures for places like atlanta, st. louis seeing 100 degrees seven days in a row. that is something we dont normally see. >> reporter: if that werent enough, nearly a million people in 10 states in the district of columbia spent the 4th just like the founding fathers. no electricity, no air co...

Power lines, forced now to cancel their fireworks. and it was a tough day for small businesses on one of their busiest holidays. the food is going bad at this deli. >> today is holiday and all our customer are out today, so, we lose a lot of money. >> reporter: utility workers in ohio spent their holiday trying to get the power back. >> its insane, like, all the crews, all the cranes. >> reporter: but in the nations capital, crowds are already gathering at the mall for tonights big celebration. ...

Today, all had at least backup power, but four were still without air conditioning. even before the storm, the biggest power company in washington, pepco, was under intense scrutiny for a pattern of outages. now, widespread anger. >> i think people are fed up with power outages. and we need a game changer. >> reporter: but pepco insists the disaster was an act of god. >> we do take responsibility. we know there are things that had to be changed, and were making that effort. >> reporter: the heat...

Homes in seven states are still without power tonight, the region still reeling from last weekends violent storms. many could remain in the dark for the rest of the week. >> that is incredible. i want to bring in ginger zee now. you were telling me, you combine the heat with the humidity and the temperatures, what will we get for the 4th? >> heat is the most deadly for that very reason. for the 4 th of july, the hottest spot, anywhere from memphis, up to around chicago. thats where you find that...

Power, but trenberth says it probably made it worse. >> the environment in which all of the storms occur nowadays, all of the weather that occurs nowadays is simply different than it used to be 30 or more years ago because of climate change. >> reporter: not all scientists agree. climate change skeptics argue too much is being read into short-term data, and that extreme weather events usually even out over time and dont turn into major trends. but a large majority of climate scientists say clima...

Good evening. im natalie morales in for brian. we begin tonight with mother natures wrath from east to west. across half of the country temperatures continue in the triple digits and its not just the heat in the mid-atlantic region but the aftermath of fridays storms adding to the problems there. the death toll has now risen to 22. at the height of the storm over 5 million people were without power. now its down to 1.9 million and they could continue without it all week. our team has it covered....

Where hundreds of thousands remain without power. this entire region still recovering from fridays massive storm. >> frustrated. frustrated. highly frustrated. >> reporter: david rutland is still living without power in his washington d.c. home more than 48 hours after a powerful storm hit the region on friday knocking down power lines and trees and wreaking havoc just days before the 4th of july holiday. >> most of my neighbors have packed up and left somewhere. >> reporter: one of the millions...

A tree fell on his car killing him. trees a big problem. one big branch ripped off a trunk became a spear and pierced the roof of ira allens house ending up in a bedroom. was it a routine storm? >> no. >> reporter: that was something, wasnt it? >> well, i tried to go out to look at it and decided to come right back in. >> reporter: cars crushed and power lines pulled down. at the peak, 3 million people over a large swath of the midwest and mid-atlantic without electricity on one of the hottest d...

Tallied and the winner should have been announced yesterday. instead, egypts election commission said it needs time to investigate charges of fraud from both sides. that has brotherhood supporters in the square worried ruling generals are working behind the scenes to make sure their party doesnt win. just last week, the supreme court dissolved the parliament where the muslim brotherhood held the majority. today morsi urged the military to release the election results as soon as possible. and he ...

Called that "patently untrue." indeed today, in the distant skies above a besieged syrian town helicopters circled. while below, what the u.n. is calling for the first time, a full-blown civil war. and caught in the middle, children as young as 8 years old, and a new u.n. report says are victims of killing, maiming, torture, sexual violence by syrian forces and militias, even putting children atop tanks as human shields. but the detailed reports of grave human rights violations, the u.n. monitor...