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>> shep: especially not to the west of new orleans. a whole different story in the southwest? >> take a look at the weather maps. you can see what is going on. in areas of the west it feels much cooler. areas of new mexico we're talking about temperatures that feel like mid-60s or mid-70s, even 98 in phoenix. big upper level disturbance is breaking record-breaking rainfall. that is great news. that is good news. they desperately need the rain and there will be lot of happy ranchers that will get rain for the cattle. a little too much coming too short of a period and you do have flooding threat...

Wildfire threats remain for some parts of the region and rick riechmuth is live tonight to let us know. will it be as bad? >> conditions are improving a little bit. there is an overriding drought in areas of the west and that keeps with us the threat of fires, but as far as strong winds go, that is dying down a little bit. now it's regular gated parts of nevada and idaho where the fire danger is tomorrow and sunday. it weakens just a little bit and we wait for the monsoon season to begin where we see the changing of winds that bring in strong rain and thundershowers, it's partially what cured ...

Going -- it only lasted seconds but something she will never forget. the couple of lynchberg says it was important to take a minute and counted their blessings without josh seeing her in her wedding dress before they walked down the aisle because that would be bad luck. >> mike: it kind of gives you goose bumps. >> it says a lot about our values. >> mike: ready to rev up your engines? rick is in monster truck jam. hi, rick. >> yes the second year that monster jam has come to new york city. out here it's rutherford, new jersey. you make your living doing this? >> yes, i am one of the lucky ones...

To 300 miles wide. tho those storms will move through chicago and potentially move all night long through the ohio valley. tomorrow the same storm system moves off to the east. we have a moderate risk of severe weather from southern parts of jersey to philadelphia and down to washington, d.c. so two-day event we're going to continue to watch. >> megyn: rick, thank you. more controversy at the irs, it's accused of targeting certain conservative groups and wasting money on taxpayer funded presidential suites. they find itself sued in a class action complaint alleging that it illegally seized t...

Government and that is protecting the lives of its own citizens. that is the highest priority that an congressional investigation can have. >> kelly: that is why the investigation continues and we're y we're trying to find out and what caused those systemic failures in the first place. ambassador thank you sir. >> jamie: extreme weather alert. monstrous storms is tearing across the heartland. four reported twisters. look at the size of this one. whipping across several counties. storm chasers catching the tornado as it blew out windows and number of buildings. rick riechmuth in the weather cen...