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>> residents are warned to brace for extreme heat. temperatures expects to soar to 115 degrees. let's check in with adam klotz for the fox weather forecast. what do you have for us? >> adam: wild weather across the country. eastern half of the country, something similar today. you see every afternoon storms explode, expect to see something this afternoon. the rain continuing to linger across new england, at times fairly heavy. that takes heat of the day. rain from mississippi and georgia to the carolinas. potential for severe weather today, including areas like charlotte, norfolk, dc...

Historically violent few days. >> rachel: dc and baltimore seeing several attacks leaving several dead and dozens hurt. >> steve: alexandria hoff live in washington, d.c., not every weekend on monday morning we come in and talk about how somebody tried to bomb two businesses in dc and threw a molotov cocktail. >> alexandria: that is a head scratcher, or it is not. an atm is attempted to be blown up. anything goes this time of year, summertime, when crime heats up. the victims of the crime, children, adults, dogs, properties and peace of mind. most cases, the actors are still on the run. in chi...

Newark, laguardia and kennedy within a couple miles. when there is bad weather, it is hard to fly in, they use instrumentation. they rolled out the new 5g this weekend. they had been moving it down, they moved planes that do not have updated systems to places where it doesn't rain. >> rachel: taylor riggss the faa is not equipped for this. >> the faa is just not right now equipped to handle events we used to be able to handle. united airlines ceo kirby said the faa used to be able to handle these, no longer due to staffing and shortages, not able to handle it. that is frustration with passenge...

We don't have enough places to park the planes. >> rachel: they need more pilots and flight attendants. there were mandates and many decided to retire because they didn't want vaccines. it is important to have a transportation secretary who is an expert in the field and pete buttigieg isn't. pete buttigieg is saying, it's not me, it is the weather. even though there has been perfect weather, not bad in the northeast. listen to this. >> we had a hard few days with severe weather at the beginning of the week and that definitely put enormous pressure on the system. on friday, we saw, according to...

Thank you. >> rachel: thank you. this week in the wake of the supreme court justice decision on affirmative action, we heard a lot of the usual suspects come out and talk about systemic racism and oppression. i don't hear the voices speaking about what happened in chicago, which is unbelievable, and in dc, as well. this is affecting african american communities, wish they would pay attention to that as much as getting into harvard or yale. >> socio economic factors see this violence for sure. >> steve: 8:14 on this which is not technically a holiday. carley joins us with news from paris. >> ca...