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your weather expertise. we talked earlier and asked you how hot it had been in washington and you nailed it. >> yeah, 106 nd the hottest it had ever been and that was on july 20th, 1930. we wont get there today but well flirt with 100. here is the -- here are the current conditions being reported at reagan national. temperature right now 79 degrees. your humidity, we showed you that hazy picture, 84%. and there are no winds. the winds are calm. so the haze is just kind of hanging there...

>> shepard: that tops our news first witnesses from the coast anthony murder trial are describing the moments they found her daughters remains in the woods near anthonys house in central florida. first, we heard the 911 call that the utility company supervisors made after a worker stumbled across the skull. >> we found a human skull. >> oh my gosh. >> i know. we got -- is it a needle -- i want you to. >> one of my meter reader has supposedly found a spul that we believe is human. >> wh...

wife and that is, in part, the reason many of the staffers have seized on to abandon the candidate. they argue that there is a difference of opinion on the direction of the approach and the overall strategy of a presidential campaign. gingrich got in all kinds of trouble with conservatives several weeks ago when he criticized the ryan house-passed budget and suggested that paul ryans proposed medicare overhaul was unacceptable if his view. he has now walked that back but his decision t...

today. and the extreme heat could factor into that massive wildfire in arizona. theres a fear that flames could take down power transmission lines leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the midst of a heat wave. that, plus the latest on the battle to contain those wildfires. the unrelenting heat wave is showing no signs of letting up. take a look at the temperatures across the northeast right now. were looking at 90s from washington, d.c., to new york on to ...

best trained, the best equipped, and the strongest military in the world. >> nbcs kristen welker is live on the north lawn this morning. i think confirmation most would agree is not the problem here. its all about the things leon panetta will be inheriting, isnt it? >> reporter: it absolutely is, thomas. he is expected to be confirmed. he has about four decades of public service under his belt. he served as congressman, chief of staff to the clinton and of course as the current cia dir...

and thats just -- well take that. that will cool things down and really cool the streets down. tim in the outback. tim has a look at the temperatures weve seen around the area. >> the trend has obviously continued on through the week. we started this week off with temperatures above average. and now weve continued. and this saturday second day in a row that weve broken records. we started off sunday with a temperature of 83. and to give you perspective. we went to 86 monday. 90 on tues...

home. the kids were dismissed right after lunch because there was no air-conditioning in the building, it was too hot to be inside. and its not just uncomfortable, its dangerous too especially for the elderly. authorities are blaming the high temperatures for the deaths of five elderly people in tennessee, maryland and wisconsin. if you have an elderly neighbor who lives by themselves you might want to check in, stop and see if they are okay, see if they need anything. lots of places h...

good morning. >> wait. let the man say your name. >> i was so eager to get to this. if you are traveling with your blackberry, turn it off. this is unbelievable. >> lets fess up, george. we do it. >> absolutely. ill confess. im one of the guys, i cant believe that one blackberry, one cell phone, can make a difference. >> i know i changed my mind, after seeing brian ross report. and you will, too, i think. also, the crash test every driver needs to see. it has the center for auto safe...

good evening to you. we can all confess the truth tonight. a lot of us barely pay attention to those announcements at the start of an airplane flight. the ones ordering passengers to turn off electronic devices. cell phones, ipods. they tend to seem routine by now, an excess of caution. but tonight, an exclusive from brian ross who obtained confidential testing and evidence in the ways some planes are very vulnerable to those devices. and he is with us now. brian? >> reporter: good eve...

>> thats correct. >> so how are the winds going today? i mean, are the winds still your biggest enemy in trying to get this under control, and if so, whats being done to fight this? >> well, weve been able to handful really well, because yesterdays winds werent as bad as there is been, but today looks like we may have gusts up to 35 miles an hour. you have that with low dose of humidity, it makes it easier for it to move around. were expecting well have more movement this afternoon. un...