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crumbled little bits or big chunks here and there. and my guess is there will be something of size that can be looked at forensically. >> i know it's a very grim topic, but david gallo, thank you for coming on with us tonight. >> my pleasure. let's turn to that massive heat wave baking the southern plains with dangerous triple digit temperatures as a heat dome causes temperatures to soar. miguel almaguer in houston for us tonight. miguel, good evening. >> reporter: lester, good evening. unbearable, miserable, and brutal only begin to describe the conditions here. this region has been cooking for a week, and now the national weather service says there's no end in sight to this oppressive heat. tonight a blistering record breaking heat wave is scorching 26 million across much of the southern plains. the potentially deadly conditions pushing temperatures as much as 15 degrees above normal. >> literally we're having to sit in the doegt baths just to cool ourselves down. >> reporter: the extraordinary heat and
polls, afraid of retaliation for expressing opinion. faculty 34%. this poll says faculty will sensor themselves, 25% say yes in publication and writing and 45% on social media. kennedy, not at college, go to k-12 in houston and local leadership is being removed because of poor performance for students. they can't pass tests, they are not reading and writing and doing math at grade level. 79% of houston students are economically disadvantaged, 62% hispanic -- 10% white and the governor and local leadership say we are taking over schools because kids deserve better. >> kennedy: so many kids have their dreams evaporate and
gunned down at home in a quiet neighborhood town. bill spencer, who does work for nbc kprc affiliate in houston, was -- just after you picked up the story of who killed greg smart? >> he's got a whole high ahead of him. he's a successful ensured salesman. and now he's been, for some reason, shot to death at the doorstep of his own home? why? >> police were asking the same question. and trying to learn more about greg. sonia knew him well. >> greg was the life of the party. he was always big dimples, smiling, having all the jokes, and acting a little crazy. >> police learned that greg met her in new hampshire for years earlier when she was home from a holiday break in college. they got along so well that he moved with her to tallahassee, where she was a sophomore in communication at the state school. >> he followed you there? >> we would go to the beach. we will travel.
northern vermont. it's negative 4 in cleveland. this is the last of the warm air. it's warmer in northern new england right now than in south texas and for that matter in some areas of florida. 172 million people, more than half of the population of our country, is feeling the brunt of the windchills. here it is. still at 11 in san antonio, in houston. tallahassee now below freezing. the cold air is heading to florida. where it's dangerous, where you can get frostbite in the northern plains and through the great lakes. we said going into this storm it was so far reaching. nashville had its coldest temperature since 1996. houston, second coldest since 1989. water rescues from coastal flooding in the queens area of new york city. it keeps going. so many aspects of the storm. everybody has a story. >> wow. incredible. bill, we appreciate you tracking
fascinating one to watch, but huge challenges ahead. >> part of the history is that we will now have a black mayor in americas four largest cities. in chicago, in new york, in houston and now in los angeles. mayor eric adams a former police officer, you know that well, and he has tried to reposition the democratic party on policing and crime. i want you to listen to mayor-elect bass talking to wolf blitzer yesterday. sounds like she's trying to do a bit of the same here. listen. >> i don't believe putting police officers on the street alone solves -- will solve crime. there are some neighborhoods that want to see an increased police presence and that should be the case, but there are other neighborhoods that want to see other solutions. you have to stop crime when it happens, but you also need to double down and triple down on preventing crime so that it doesn't occur again. >> walk through that challenge as she comes out of the progressive movement, a lot of republicans have used the defund the police lines from some progressives against the democrats. she seems to be saying it's a mix of things there. >> yeah, some real nuance on
thanks to a push for workers to return to the office. major u.s. cities including los angeles, miami, chicago seeing more commuter traffic congestion and it is growing. cnn correspondent pete muntean joins us live in i-395 outside d.c. with the details. look at it. it's already slow behind you, pete. >> reporter: traffic everywhere, john, here in d.c., but in major metros across the country. so interesting here. after labor day, kids going back to school, but more people are headed back to the office. the latest data from travel analytics firm. travel growing in all ten major metros. up 10% in just the last month. in miami alone. traffic is above pre-pandemic levels in miami and dallas, in houston and in phoenix. still below pre-pandemic levels here in d.c., also in new york, l.a., chicago, atlanta,
century. >> these are not designed to run full-out year-round. everybody built these for august and september. everyone in texas knows that's when it gets really hot. >> the record usage here, even more stark when stacked up to other large states. texas at 80,000 megawatts, and a recent doubling new york's projected summer peak and california's current usage. power generation is keeping up right now with near record temperatures. right now there is about 4 or 5% extra capacity but last week the available levels dipped low enough, texas was asked to conserve. ercot says the strategy worked. >> i am always working because the system can be overtaxed and that's why i'm prepared, so wednesday last week the conservation efforts prevented us from going into emergency. >> texans are counting on the health and reliability and still struggling to keep up with costs. >> 83-year-old eva cooper in houston has seen her energy
>> the reality is nobody is monitoring him electronically. not in real time. >> martin horn, the former commissioner of probation for new york city and a critic of gps monitors is not surprised by any of this. is this a false sense of security? >> oh, absolutely. it is not an electronic tether. all it is, is something that after the fact, will either tell me where you were or where you weren't. and even then, it is not foolproof. >> it's a great monday morning quarterback tool. >> yeah, and it's, also, i think, a tremendous liability for the government agencies that use them. because now, they are holding the bag. >> there are no national statistics on crimes committed by people wearing gps monitors. but we did our own search of news reports and found numerous cases over a two-year span. armed robberies, rapes, and more than a dozen homicides. for instance, a man in virginia allegedly murdered his cousin while wearing an ankle monitor. a similar story, in houston, where a parolee, with a monitor murdered his mother. and, in
those are the textbook ways law enforcement is supposed to respond, to go to the sound of gunfire, also important to point out particularly in that dallas incident, it's not just law enforcement that's being applauded. authorities are also praising the work of those camp counselors who quickly sprang into action after the sound of gunfire, getting the kiddos to safety, thankfully no one other than the shooter in that incident was harmed. >> josh campbell in houston for us, thank you so much. >> coming up, a look at how the same kind of technology being used for covid vaccines could produce treatments for some kinds of cancer. stay with us. clean ingredients... in a buttery brioche roll. made fresh, to leave you..... speechless. panera's new w chef's chicken sandwiches. $0 delivery fefee for a limited time. (mom allen) verizon just gave us all a brand new iphone 13. (dad allen) we've been customers for years. (dad brown) we got iphone 13s, too. switched two minutes ago, literally right bere this. (vo) now everyone can get a new ipho 13 on us on america's most reliable 5g network. for ery customer. current, new, everyone. to show the love.