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texas power grid operator to warn people to cut back on the ac or face possible blackouts. extreme heat also roasting southern europe with wildfires raging in france and spain and a worsening drought in italy and portugal. and in the uk, monday was the third hottest day on record and today promises to be even hotter. even china is experiencing a massive heatwave with dozens of cities announcing heat alerts. we have live reports from north america, asia and europe and our coverage begin...

plus, blazing temperatures in britain, prompting the first ever red extreme warning in the u.k. live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with lynda kinkaid. >> begin with the latest on more gun violence in the united states. another mass shooting in the u.s. state of indiana on sunday. it happened hours after texas officials released a scathing political report on the you valid school shooting that resulted in the deaths of 19 students and 2 teachers. three people were killed and...

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Of the mississippi valley. and today some cities face forecast highs above 110 degrees. lets get to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. how long is this heatwave going to last? >> takes long duration heatwave and important to know when it comes to heat, it is the top weather killer in the united states. it is not tornadoes, not hurricanes. they get a bit of attention, but it is all about heat. and when you are talking 108, 109, 110 degrees, yes records are falling, but these are temperatures that...

Kates a dangerous storm. dictates a dangerous storm. it moved tremendous amount of woert ahead of it. theres not enough time before it makes land fall within the next 28 hours that it will have energy displaced or reduced because of that. the cloud field associated with this from the coast near bermuda. 950 miles. you put it over places such as the western united states and san francisco. to denver. the area it would em compass. massive. and tremendous amount of energy. the water it displaced an...

Morehead and wilmington. all of this pushes inland as we go into the overnight hours of tonight and tomorrow morning. the number one weather killer is storm surge as it fails to move along and sits on the coast and continues to batter the region as it pumps water in the bays and inlets from the cape to hatteras region. 9 to 13 feet is what you are expecting. and nags head up to 2 to 4 feet in spots and working to charleston. few years around myrtle beach which is 4 to 6 feet. that gets water up ...

After it makes land fall into tomorrow morning a 50 mile amount of land is covered within 12 hours. four miles per hour progression after land fall friday afternoon. that is a big time story. the big part of the system. when you look at storms that travel at less than 5 miles per hour, they drop down 30 plus inches of rainfall. this will be significant player with the particular storm. a widespread swath here of area that will get 20 plus inches of rainfall. from wilmington and charleston. colum...

To move a vehicle downstream. some of the fatalities occurred with people trapped in vehicles. that is the number one weather killer, flash flooding. half of the fatalities occur with people trapped in vehicles. the landscape doesnt help. you look closely and the town of 2,900 people. here are hillsides and ravines and the gullys up to the city center. this is why this is the perfect storm with the destruction. >> pedram, thank you. lets look at what is coming up on "new day." chris cuomo join...

for you. good morning to you, welcome to "early start" on this monday morning. im zoraida sambolin. >> and im ashlee. >> its the kind of heat that makes it hard to breathe and it is still threatening millions of americans all the way from the midwest to the northeast this morning. >> about 16 people have now died from this heat since thursday when triple-digit temperatures unleashed killer storms that have now left millions of people without power this morning. its incredible, but look...

Grids to the limit, southwest the human body. nine people have died because of his heat wave across the south and midwest. our rob marciano is live in atlanta. hes in piedmont park, in fact, as people down there also trying stay cool. >> reporter: yes, they are, across much of the southeast, as a matter of fact. we said it yesterday, well say it again. believe it or not, the heat is the number one related weather killer. so just do what you got to do to stay cool. especially in the humidity. its...