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the road system and gotten on planes. about a number of people, 3,000 people be have been evacuated by sea. and we do understand that the fire there is still raging out of control. it's been over 10% of the island. this is a very busy island. an island that's very popular with tourists. mainly at this time of year, a lot of hotels have been completely full. a number of flights have been coming in every day. just the logistics getting people out have been very difficult. greece has been going through a prolonged heat wave, all of last week, temperatures over 104 fahrenheit. this situation is likely to continue for most of this week as well. as you understand, the country is very much like a tinderbox right now. we hear of new fires breaking out all the time. there's been another large fire of the popular island of korfu as well. that broke out last night. and from what we've seen, authorities are planning evacuations there as well.
thursday. for phoenix, we broke a record, 23 days in phoenix. next 10 days, get into this weekend and monday and tuesday, 106 and 104 is great for them, they have been 110 for weeks on end. look at potential of severe storms firing up across the midwest and northeast. this is not severe weather outbreak. could see dangerous lightning and strong winds. keep a heads up. there is future track. pop-up thunderstorms could bring delay in the air. check with your air carrier and that will move to northeast for tuesday. not a whole lot happening on the map, which is great news and relief for areas across southeast and southernin plas.
>> carley: phoenix is breaking records. >> janice: to say 104 is relief is nutty. happy monday. >> ashley: biden administration climate crusade coming for your water heater. department of energy proposal require hot water heaters to meet fstandard to lower carbon dioxide emission to lower electricity bills, but could be more expensive to buy in the first place. cory mills joins us now. is this in the name of climate change? it seems like we are overregulated. >> well, it is absolutely we are over regulated, up-front cost in comparison to long-term savings is not a decision to be made by the government, should be made
degrees fahrenheit for days now and these temperatures are likely to continue for at least the next few days. the greek prime minister has already said that, you know, greece is at war with the fires. these are the words that he used. he has promised to try to compensate those who have suffered the most and this, of course, includes the people in islands like rhodes. rhodes is a very popular destination, one of greece's most popular tourist destinations which means now with 1,000 evacuations, the restauranteurs and everybody else on the island is also going to suffer. so far repatriations have been under way, a number of planes have been coming on just to bring people back home or to take tourists to other destinations to continue their holiday. the greek authorities are pointing out that in their opinion procedures are being followed, that people have been safe. we have not heard anything about
thompson in houston, where it felt like 110 degrees today. >> reporter: tonight the record heatwave growing more dangerous by the day 13 states from coast-to-coast under brutal heat advisori itrowing deadlier, too. steve curry died this week after trekking through death valley in 121 degrees his wife rema still in shock. >> he thought he was prepared for it. >> reporter: in miami officials on edge as tens of thousands flock to this weekend's rolling loud music festival amid a 42-day streak of a 100-plus-degree heat index. >> we just got in the gate y'all it was so hot. >> reporter: and in phoenix where it got above 110 for the third week in a row, water stations set up to combat dehydration. the misery now heading to the midwest and the plains dallas could hit 104 also in the bull's-eye, minneapolis expected to reach 99.
and the first voter here was a 94-year-old man who says that he always votes. i asked him how he will vote and he says i'll keep that to myself. so much is riding on this this day. and here at this polling station there are fans and bottles of water, it will go into the 90s farenheit, 35 centigrade here, but in the south of spanl, it will spain, 104 degrees farenheit. so the election officials are watching to see how the first ever election in the peak of the summer tourist season will affect turnout in terms of did people vote or not or did they go on vacation. there is a record number of absentee ballots, almost twice as many as the previous high, and most of those, more than 2 .4 million, were submitted. and those will be counted along with the regular ballots later this day. >> certainly adds to the complexity of the vote. and i'm glad you mentioned the weather because if you are standing in line outside, that
104-degree high after shattering yesterday's record. in arizona, phoenix reached a daily record for the fourth time this week at 118 degrees. today will likely be the 24th day in a row at 110 or hotter. and humid miami, today will be the hottest day of the year, and could break the record for the second day in a row. it could feel as hot as 109 degrees. extreme heat is also causing dire circumstances in our oceans. right now, the water in key west florida is 89 degrees. the above average temperatures are leaving coral reefs engraved danger. the reporter -- from our nbc station in south florida, has this report. >> a healthy coral reef looks like this. corals are sensitive, and with water temperatures soaring and south florida, researchers are worried that this will happen. see those white areas? that's called coral bleaching. right now, we're on track for corals to bleach the summer,
>> tonight two pregnant women stay texas national guard wouldn't give them water as they were trying to turn themselves in at the u.s.-mexico border. a woman said she was 6 months pregnant and was turned away repeatedly. this is just the latest saying that migrants are being treated badly. the claims that troopers had orders to push migrants back into the rio grand river despite the obvious risk of drowning. two border medics saying they witnessed a 4-year-old girl who passed out in the 104 degree heat and a woman trapped if razor wire having a miscarriage. these images are incredibly difficult to look at. these are the injuries from the razor along the border. we know that the governor of texas, greg abbott, has added additional razor wire along the border. it is assessing the situation but has not opened any kind of formal investigation.
for five minutes. >> thank you. good to have you here. i appreciate your courage and your willingness to testify. mr. shapley, i'm going to go to pages 18-20 of your testimony. mr. zeigler, i'm going to go to page 104 to 105 of yours to start with. while i'm going there, i'm going to ask this question. we heard about the 2014, 15, 16 tax things, trump, you know -- heard a lot about trump. in 2014 and 15 and 16 those tax years, donald trump wasn't elected. who was the vice president of the united states, if you know? >> joe biden was the vice president. >> i think that's right. when the statute of limitation ran on those 14 and 15 years, who was the president of the united states? when the statute expired.
what did you think? what do you think when you heard that? of relationship with joe biden and hunter biden and his business transactions when he's still in office. >> yes. i can't go beyond what you have quoted me and saying in my testimony. so i'll just leave it there. >> thank you. mr. zeigler, on page 104 of yours, you mentioned that mr. biden, hunter biden, attempted to obtain a business tax deduction on his return for hotel rooms that were used by his father, joe biden. tell us about that, please. >> so yeah, on his tax return, he deduct add hotel room for his dad, so joe biden. and we got the invoice from the hotel that showed the dad's name on it. >> so for that to be a valid business deduction, you -- he