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nbc senior white house correspondent chris jansing is traveling with the president. she joins us now from austin. the president bushed back on republicans for not covering comprehensive immigration reform. >> reporter: we have already seen rick perry go to the border. he's with mcallen. the president has said he's not going, he will be leaving texas later today. so i think the focus shifts from will he or won't he, the president being 242 miles from the border but not making a visit. here's what rick perry had to say, start with sending out the national guard, we need to secure this ...

8:00 hour. temperatures, you know they're hot. 97 degrees today and winds out of the southwest at 10 miles per hour and that heat index still above 100 degrees and 103 in washington, 102 in baltimore and 111 in fredericksburg and we still have the heat advisory in effect, but guy, the storms mean we'll see things change a bit over the next couple of days and yesterday i told you, i didn't think we'd get close to the record. we did it. i'll talk about it coming up. >> more to come. a lot of people had to deal most unfortunately with power outages in the heat. the lights and air-cond...

on our web chat. go to nbcwashington.com and you'll find our web chat and veronica johnson will be standing by for an hour and a half to answer any questions you may have about the weather. guys? >> some were coping with today's heat, but some just couldn't handle it. first responders have been busy tending to people who did venture out. derrick ward is out with that part of the story. derrick? >> well, you know, to say it's hot, i think that's a given. take a look behind me here. there are folks dealing with a hot topic on capitol hill and any topic that you're outdoors for is a hot...