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Triathlon this weekend, but with the extreme temperatures expected to be near 100 degrees, the race day has been canceled. meanwhile, horse races in new york and maryland also canceled this weekend. chad myers, our meteorologist joins me now. this is really, really serious stuff, especially for little kids and elderly people. >> absolutely. this is not as bad as what we saw in 1995 with the heat wave of chicago, but not far from it and we know how many fatalities happened, like over 700 there in that five-day heat wave. this is a three-day heat wave, but it is still dangerous. when the heat in...

The snow but also poor visibility and very gusty winds. the thing is it's not just the areas with blizzard warnings have gusty winds. the red area you see here over 100 million people under a high wind warning and over 50 million people under the orange color. that is a wind advisory. here is the reason why this is so important. those wind gusts in the yellow area, about 40 to 50 miles per hour. the orange, 50 to 60 miles an hour. you're looking at widespread power outages and flight delays not only today but also for tomorrow. lake shore flooding along the great lakes and tree damage as well....

But he's from a very rural, red area. i remember when tom vilsack's wife ran against him for congress. she came i think within 10, which is amazing when you think about that. that was a few cycles ago. i think the guy that ran against him was a veteran or a former baseball player who came back and didn't have much of a shot but he came closer than christine vilsack did. so i think the republicans maybe clean up on aisle 5, let's get rid of this guy so we can get another republican in there so we don't lose the seat. because if steve king is their nominee they're probably going to lose the seat...

Region that the republicans were worried about? because now you have his local newspapers saying resign, you're useless to us, they've kicked you off the committees, you can't really represent us. >> well, i just think what happened, there was obviously a cumulative effect. and i think as time went on and no one really reined in steve king he just went further and further and further. and then finally he went so far that he really couldn't look the other way anymore. it was compelling even to his local newspaper. but he's from a very rural, red area. i remember when tom vilsack's wife ran agai...

Of the year, monday is it. this red area you see here, this is the only area we expect severe weather on monday. and even with that said, it's likely going to be damaging winds. we're not expecting a tornado outbreak. because of that we expect to keep our tornado numbers where they are. when you look at this map, this is all the tornado reports so far this year. the number may seem high in some of the states but for the year we're actually below average. the number of ef 4 and 5 tornados, what we deem violent, we have zero this year. we average about seven every year, this is fantastic. becaus...