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Here we are, downtown des moines -- no, no, that the new york city. i get confused easily. i'm old. we're been here on the planet mercury for a couple of days. here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> no way that arm is reaching all the way over here. not bad. i'm impressed. made it through the heat wave, that's good. very concerned about the elderly during the heat waves. the heat continues to be the story in the northeast. it will all be over with this afternoon. some big thunderstorms will roll through. that will be the end of our heat wave. the weekend looks nice. this morning, some showe...

The peak heating. tonight is not going to cool off much either. finally we'll get relief in the northeast with thunderstorms tomorrow. today, though, those thunderstorms are cooling you off in kansas city. chicago after five or six brutal days in a row, you get your relief today. notice that the southeast really isn't that bad. there's a lot of clouds and thunderstorms in florida, but even atlanta is only at 89. some of the hottest temperatures out there will be found right there in the northeast. >> 100 degrees. i thought yesterday was bad. we turn to sports now. you are almost there, colle...

shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttle's engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. they'll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosphere, it heats up to about 5,000 degrees on the outside. when it breaks through the atmosphere, ma...