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Fall? >> reporter: well, people are hoping they might get a little bit of rain later this evening, but what everyone is looking forward to is this weekend when temperatures are expected to go down into the 80s and 90s and there should finally be showers here. today is about 105 and the heat index is likely going to be much higher than that and so, you know, people are coming out to places like this, running around in splash pads just trying to keep cool. not only is it dangerously hot but oklahoma has been in the midst of an almost year-long drought. those two conditions combined can be really...

Out. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. a very good morning from bbc london, i'm alice salfield. a major incident remains in place following a series of fires across london, where temperatures exceeded 40 degrees celsius for the first time yesterday. a large grass fire in wennington on the london/essex border took 100 firefighters more than eight hours to bring under control. it destroyed several people's homes and a church. across the capital, more than 400 firefighters battled at least nine major blazes, which began burning on tuesday afternoon. london fire brigade s...

Exceeding a0 celsius. it's not rained for more than a month and the grass is incredibly dry, like tinder, and it can catch fire very and the fire spreads very fast, and one of the great things about london is the amount of green spaces we have but one of the consequences of green spaces impinging properties is where there are these grass fires they can spread quickly and damage properties. some of these fires were because of the behaviour of us human beings inadvertently. leaving a match here, it could be because a glass bottle is on the dry grass and it magnifies the rays and a spark leads to...

Fireworks lit up the sky across Bell County on the Monday, but it wasn’t all fun and games for firefighters.

Fireworks sparked more than a dozen emergency calls last night, including four house fires in Nashville.