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The threat of tornadoes has been racing across the nation's mid section. the east coast is expected to get slammed tonight. in new zealand, rescuers are pushing into the suburbs of christchurch to search for more victims of tuesday's deadly 6.3 earthquake. the death toll now stands at 113. 228 people are still missing. and business is back up and running at the london stock exchange after a technical glitch forced investors to suspend trading for four hours today. the outage is only the latest in a string of blackouts as the exchange tries to implement new training systems. oil prices are st...

Just kind of sporadic. you won't have them all day and all night but they will pop up and ruin a bit of your plans. for tomorrow though we expect the focus to be across parts of the great lakes for severe weather and there you can see that heat trying to shrink a little bit further on down towards the south. i want to show you where we've got the heat advisories in effect for today and it still covers 17 states so this is a lot of folks and it's not just the nation's mid section either. take a look at this. we've got a few problems out west. where the west has been -- oh, my little button does...

50 to 75, a tape measure can be a good indicator of what's going onthat, when they found that someone's waist size actually increased by 4 inches, men and women alike, it increased their likelihood of dying from some sort of problem like heart disease or stroke and dying sooner than people who did not have those additional 4 inches, again, along the waistline. 18% in men, 25% in women. you think about fat, you think about the subcutaneous fat that everyone has i think to some degree around their mid section, that's not really what is important here. it's not so much what's on the outside but o...

Southeast. yesterday we were talking about the waterspouts and we showed you the waterspout video out of florida, a couple more yesterday and that's going to be a possibility again today as well. our other top weather story is the heat, look at the current temperatures, these are the feels like temperatures, you add in the humidity, 88 in dallas, hello, it's what, 5:15 in the morning for new dallas and already feels like 88. 80 in oklahoma city. 85 in shreveport, 81 in new orleans. there's no recovery here and the heat is really going to start building now, the next couple of days into the nat...

Because they also can suffer from overheating just like humans can. contessa? >> rehema, thank you very much. for more on the temperatures around the country let's go to the weather channel's heather tesch. good morning, heather. >> we have some very hot conditions that are going to persist for us here in the mid-section of the country. you can see here, the areas where we have excessive heat warnings or advisories. basically which ever you have, it's going to mean you have some very hot conditions and it's really one of those days where you need to take it easy. what you want to do is drink p...