have to deep fry them. yeah, a lot of mixed weather today, still looking for flooding into the southwest, a lot of heat into the midwest and storms into the northeast. let's take them one by one. speaking of the heat, unbelievable amount of heat. look at des moines today, 103. this heat is not expected to go anywhere, look for it to stay another two days. farther east, severe weather around the great lakes, scattered showers in the northeast, and down to the southwest, flooding concerns. all that tropical moisture kind of fuelling, but does mean a chance of rain around yosemite where they need it, but too much rain leads to flash flooding, as well. >> all right, indra. thanks for that update. we're now at the top of the hour, which means it's time for hour, which means it's time for the top news. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com our sense of basic municiic