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first we begin with a look at today's eye-opener as we do every morning. your world in 90 seconds. record breaking heat smothers the heartland. >> 24 states are now under heat advisory. >> the extreme heat caused some roads to buckle in chicago. >> i've always heard it said it would be hot enough to fry an egg. to actually see it. >> also 56% of the lower 48 is in some level of drought conditions. >> our paycheck is going to be short this year if we don't get some rain. in east tennessee, search crews are looking through smoky national park as violent storms hit the area. tens of...

didn't exactly hurt. closures are a reality of budget cuts and the department credits agreements it has with surrounding areas to help extinguish yesterday's fierce flames. >> as we struck out additional alarm assignments, they came in and engaged in firefighting as well. so it worked as the system should. >> reporter: a system the union insists is broken, without rotating foreclosures, they say -- closures, they say, four more baltimore fire companies would have been on shift last night and there would be no need to depend on crews from as far away as hartford county and d.c., a mov...

meteorologist tony pagnotti is in for steve fertig and he has a look at the rest of the day. >> we're going to keep it cool, but each day it's going to get warmer. warm tooard the weekend as we say goodbye to august in the next six days. >> i like the weeeend forecast, very nice. >> we had a peek of it, if you haven't seen that, we will show you in a little bit. let's take the pres dense i!! aú it's up there are a little bit and the humidity is up there and will start to wane as the day wears on. we had the clouds and the cooler temperatures. we will get the clood cover hanging wwth...