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Concerns. surfside 78 degrees. it feels like 81. take note of the easterly wind. that will increase through the course of the day as we get a gradual heating online that creates what we call a sea breeze and we sea the thundershowers become more numerous. you can see the hit or miss nature of the showers that move. in and let's get hyper local, and ability to do that with the radar and move into the surfside region and within the past 30 minutes or so, there was a shower and nothing concerning, this is the type of activity they expect to experience in the next 24 hours and beyond that, because...

This the first band that you started to feel? because when anderson was on earlier, there started to be -- he got some wind as well. >> well, following on radar. so looking at where the rain and the first thunderstorm cells associated with these outer bands, i hadn't seen anything form into the miami-dade county region where we're located. but that first burst of rain and the strong gust front that was associated with it that dropped the temperature, increased the winds to 35 miles per hour. that came in very quickly. we saw the lightning off in the distance. it was illuminating the sky and ma...

It happened yesterday in phoenix. phoenix though does see these on average about three a year between summer, between june and september. so here is what happens. what you need first is a dusty terrain which we certainly have around phoenix and arizona. the second ingredient is a thunderstorm. within a thunderstorm there are updrafts and there are downdrafts. the updraft happens, then the downdrafts happen and the downdraft creates this gust front and the gust front is what kicks up all the dust. when you look at this, it's like a wall of dust. it can be pretty scary coming at you almost in sl...

You need dusty terrain. we have that in the southwest. you also need thunderstorms and with a thunderstorm within it, there's an updraft component. but there's also a downdraft component, and with the downdraft component, the winds press down and out, and when they do, they form a gust front, and that kicks up all the dirt. that's what creates that wall of sand which really you could barely see through at all. quite scary and ominous looking at it. today around phoenix no threat for thunderstorms. we won't see that until webs, but today the temperature there will be 107 degrees. so in the sout...

good morning, we're happy you're with us this morning. welcome to "early start", i'm zoraida sambolin. >> we're bringing you the news a to z, get it? big story in d.c., roger clemens to be judged by a different group of people, baseball writers, the men and women who choose the hall of famers after he was acquitted on all of the charges in his perjury trial yesterday. the rocket denying all along he ever used performance enhancing drugs. yesterday his attorney insisted again that his legendary pitching career is not tainted. >> i hope those in the public that made up their mind befor...