Triple Digit Mark News Today

This includes some of the most populated parts of our country along the eastern seaboard. check out these temperatures. those are not typos for d.c. the mercury on the thermometer will continue to climb and it will feel like 100 degrees in the big apple today as you step outside. thats when you factor in the humidity. more of the same, heat index across from kansas city to st. louis as well as wichita could easily top the triple digit mark. 102, your actual temperature for wichita. oklahoma city...

Eddie falco, and bill kristol. up next the political playbook. but first heres brittany with a clek of the forecast. >> these are the spring days weve been waiting for. if you take a look at philadelphia, 68 degrees. d.c., 71 with just a few clouds. for new york well stay in the low 60s for today. but a cold front is going to move closer to us. so thats going to bring us a few clouds into tonight. even the chance of showers as we head into tomorrow. but across the nation you can see its very qui...

Were see a few more clouds and by tomorrow a few showers. our highs for today, 58 degrees, 6 in new york. 71 in washington, d.c. across the nation, really quiet here. the only exception is minneapolis purposing into chicago where we do see a cold front thats going to continue tracking to the east. thats where our clouds and chance of showers by tomorrow will come from, but it is going to be a beautiful day, 63 degrees in new york, 73 in atlanta. take a look at phoenix, 98 degrees, pushing that t...

Positive territory today. the nikkei was the index that got the most attention, up almost 2%. japanese companies on the nikkei got a big boost from the yen which weakened to a level thats just hovering around the triple digit mark. the yen hit an intraday high to 99.89 yen to the u.s. dollar. this weakening is a reaction to the g-20 statement that came out on friday that gave the bank of japan a pass on its stimulus measures. they did say structural changes need to be made. the major earthquake ...

Some 10,000 others are still under mandatory evacuation orders. the u.s. forest service now says it could take weeks to fully contain those flames. >> arthel: extreme heat is paralyzing much of the south. highs this weekend are expected to stay well above the triple digit mark. >> rick: and the man at the center of the 1992 l.a. riots buried in the hollywood hills following a public memorial service today, rodney kings body was discovered earlier this month by his fiance at the bottom of their s...

Started shooting. the victims are wounded but are now in the hospital recovering. the gunman is still on the loose. in texas, tragedy at a construction site where a worker was killed after becoming trapped in theç collapse of a crane north of houston. the crane was hoisting the wall of a new store when the accident happened. the cause is under investigation. finally, in ohio, it is okay to envy these kids. look at them. they were able to beat the heat and have fun doing it after the mayor ...

Philadelphia, close to the triple digit mark. and here in new york, still comfortably into the 90s. so it is still dangerously hot in the city and beyond, shep. >> shepard: mid 80s for a low tonight as we test the power grid. all the lights in this building where we work, all 4 stories turned off in the common areas. the escalators turned off all over the city, i goods. >> con edison has been asking people to conservative electricity as much as they can. con edison being the citys electricity su...