city. with this kind of heat, we want people to stay inside, to stay in air conditioning if at all possible. if you are not in an air conditioned space, find one. reporter: heat and humidity prompting the threat of tornadoes across parts of the midwest. heat waves like this becoming more common. spring nationwide start earlier and earlier. more troubling since the 1960s, the number of heat waves have stripled in the nation s largest city. the length of the heat wave season tripling as well. new york city s main supplier con ed on high alert after an outage knocked out power to the upper west side this week. and in madison, wisconsin, two electric substations catching fire, not the day for it. animals feeling the effect too,
people think this wall is kind of a stupid idea. it s a figmentment of his imagination and it s just a symbol. i want to turn to my colleague, jeff bennett, who has been pulling double and triple d duty at the white house. so bring us up to speed here. we have talked about the stalemate and the lack of urgency. where do things stand right now? any hope for a deal? well, i think what s interesting about this, is we have seen the president signal what he might accept in a deal. the president is backing off the notion he has to have a concrete wall. he s now suggesting that he d be open to a fence. there s a senior administration official who told us last night that the president would be open to negotiating with democrats over any kind of physical barrier along the border so long as some sort of barrier is included in an agreement that would reopen the government. for anybody who is watching who might think this is a silly
this musical with music by bono, the most expensive on broadway, $65 million. and the local affiliate wnbc spoke with patrick page who plays the green goblin about exactly what changed and what new safety precautions are in place. take a listen. all the people whose job it is to do that kind of thing who oversee the safety of our show and, in fact, every show on broadway have gone around and doubled, tripled, quadruple checked everything. that s mainly what s going to change. more eyes and ears of when they are about to do the stunts. cider spider-man flies across the stage. things that have never happened on broadway ever. when the spider-man stuntman does the act, usually there s a stage manager to check the safetymarness. now, there will be two of them. those are the kind of safety precautions and protocols they have added here. a double spotter there. jeff, because of all the hype and interest, have ticket sales