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way eastward. out of the woods for now but bank on a steamy summer. >> alexandra, thank you and nice seeing you today. >> sure. >> well, cooler temperatures ahead as you just heard. that's good news for the people suffering through an entire week of triple digit temperatures with no air conditioning. cnn's emily schmidt joins us live from virginia. the entire d.c. area, maryland, virginia, the district extremely hard hit by these storms. how are people coping right now? >> you know, people are still talking about where were you when your power went back on and the sad reality is for ...

eastern part of the country where moammar gadhafi marginalized them for decades. they still feel that they are being sidelined by the central government here in tripoli and they want more representation and many of those pro federalists have called for a boycott all of the vote, although a good turnout of voters in most polling centers in benghazi there are reports on some of these polling centers and some acts of sabotage. we will learn more about this later on in the day. >> final question for you, how will the election of the transitional government work? >> well, what is going to...

it so i can cheat. 106 degrees. >> well, that was actually the forecast. >> oh, i see. i would say 107 degrees. >> 106. you were right the first time. >> okay. >> and rockford, illinois hit 105. those were all last hour. that was kind of the apex of the heat. the numbers are coming down. both records for the day. incredible heat. kansas city 103. these were the expectations for highs. even washington at 103. it was feeling like 107 last hour. so the heat is certainly on but there is relief in sight. it is coming at a price. i'll show you what that price is. there's the cold front or ...

countries these days. the turnout so far has been pretty good according to the electoral commission. we expect to hear more when the polls close. they're expected to close in about two hours. possible extensions to that. so far we are told more voters than expected have turned out. >> who's on the ballot today? >> well, that is one of the key issues here, gary, is people are overwhelmed by the choice. thousands of candidates are running in this election for the national congress. most of them are virtually unknown to the libyan population who, for more than 40 years, knew one man onl...

drought conditions but only one do te 6% of t.v. news stories about this hot weather have mentioned global warming. the media is not doing its job. we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on this morning's full-court press. but first, we get the latest. let's go out to los angeles and say good morning again to jacki schechner for today's current news update. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. your word is weather. ours is jobs. the jobs news is coming out today. it's going to forecast what the political messaging is going to be for the next coming month. president ob...