good morning. new york city. there's the cnn billboard. 84 degrees. it's 6:48 in the morning. it's going to be 95 later on today. hot. but not as hot as it was yesterday by about 7 degrees. that's a nice bit of relief this morning. >> all of us will feel like blisters in the sun today. 49 minutes past the hour. let's get a check of the morning headlines. rob marciano in the extreme weather center. always an upside down world. we're way hotter than you guys are down south. >> sometimes that happens and you get a west or northwest wind across new york and philly areas and downsloping effect will cook you more. that's where the core is of the high pressure. that's where the hot air is. pleasant across the south. 105 a record in baltimore. these are measured in the shade and do not include humidity.