it does include parts of st. louis for the next hour or two. cluster of thunderstorms rolling down i-70, could produce heavy rain and also some gusty winds. cluster of thunderstorms moving off the del marva and the eastern seaboard will be in the soup today as far as the steaminess is concerned. little drier. look at the heat across texas. 117 in childre is. s. all-time record high. amarylill amarillo, 111. that is baking, baking hot. traveling today chicago to st. louis, you saw those storms. we expect delays there. detroit to atlanta, we see storms fire up in the afternoon. early morning fog in san francisco may slow things down as well. 101 in dallas. 96 degrees. hot in memphis. 78 in boston. just up the road there, beaches of new hampshire. this is what they were doing over the weekend. sand sculpting. you want to cool off, head to a down east booch. that will get you going out there in their hoodies, jeans and on their hands and knees. that's probably a trubt to the bruins, i'm guessing. >> wow, look at that. >> amazing. >> cool to the inn

minneapolis 97 and st. louis, it can get hot there 97 as well. the heat will continue today. couple in the humidity as these temperatures measured in the shade, 98 degrees is what it will feel like today at least in st. louis and tomorrow we're looking at really no better situation there. temperatures in new york, 89 degrees. 92 in chicago. so almost everybody having to endure this. how about a cooling thunderstorm? that will be nice not if severe. rough weather moving through northeastern ohio right now from cleveland up to ashtabula along i-90 towards erie, a severe thunderstorm that has probably golf ball sized hail and potentially winds gusting to 75 miles an hour. thunderstorm watch has been issued by the storm prediction center across eastern ohio and western parts of pennsylvania. let's go south into the southern home miss fear, chile where the volcano continues to erupt and spectacular photos taken from it. lightning flashes seen in the ash cloud. such turbulent updrafts and downdrafts and the nuclei the dust causing the static electricity. this about 600 miles south

louis, crammed with little air, no way down, one of the trams in the famed st. louis arch, stalled yesterday. >> this is why i can't go on these things. i'm afraid of heights. >> it happened in new york. >> more than an hour they were stranded. hoist the tram to the top and rescue the tourists. no word on what caused that glitch. >> i do it for other people because if you're already terrified of heights and being trapped, can you imagine what a peach you are if you get stuck. >> scared of heights and claustrophob claustrophobic. >> it was smiles for 20 costco employees yesterday. they collected their powerball jackpot winnings, $202 million which they chose to take in a slump sum. the co-workers chipped in for lottery tickets in may and remembered that exciting day. >> we started as a group when the powerball hit about $144 million and as a group we decided to put $5 a week in and said group of 20, got a month now, we've been playing, that's how we came as a group. >> the morning i checked the ticket, went through the numbers one by one, shaking my head, clearin

here's where double plays are high, rain falling from st. louis to springfield. some will sneak into chicago. should be pleasant. 74 degrees in chicago, 65 still unsettled, little cloudy, showers around the northeast today, but you'll take that over the 90s which will be prevalent across the deep south. dallas may hit 100 degrees again. stay cool up there guys. it's a little chillier than last week, that's for sure. >> all right, rob. we'll take it. >> when you dress in a three-piece suit every day, 65 is perfect. >> you don't need the 90s. >>> seems like size really matters when it comes to how much you make. according to a study in the "journal of applied psychology" women who are 25 pounds below the average female weight take home more than $15,000 more than other women a year. >> you know what we have to do before we do this again, find out what these average weights are. >> skinny women make more money. >> but men 25 pounds below the average male weight, take home $8500 a year less than the average man. >> bigger men make more money. >> that's right. >> all

louis up towards kirkwood and down towards chesterfield. we're looking at thunderstorms, most of which have hail with them, have a little bit of gusty winds, 50 to 60-mile-an-hour winds with these. this watch box in effect until 1:00 this afternoon local time. we'll look for this to be extend ed farther to the south and east as we go through time. a slight risk of seeing more severe weather in this area, stretching back toward northeastern colorado. stretching back toward new mexico, eastern arizona, we've got that fire that's still burning. 10% containment there. it's in there for the long haul. obviously we don't see any rainfall until the monsoon in the next few weeks. bad air quality with the smoke, obviously, coming from the southwest toward the northeast. and we still have a critical fire danger in effect for parts of new mexico and northern texas today because of the wind and the dry weather associated with this storm that will fire off the thunderstorms along the front. cool. comfortably cool across part of the northeast after a ver

and the eastern corridor, a lot of bright colors on the map there. 99 expected for a heat index in st. louis. 95 degrees expected in nashville. 90s across the board and 100 or better potentially across d.c. and farther up towards the north. we don't expect to see a lot of relief with this. certainly, across the southeast. there will be some cool fronts that try to come through like chicago, upstate new york, over the next couple of days. it is not going to make it very far south. here is the forecast showing that the big dome of high pressure that's been keeping the dry air in place and the heat baking kind of just sits there and all the front that will bring it cooler and some rain to the north will stay that way. so certainly unusual for this time of year. we are not even officially on the first day of summer by calendar standards. as far as the exercising, that happens a lot here at piedmont park, especially this time of day. there are some folks that are trying to get their workout out early in the morning. later on this afternoon and evening, it is going to get a little bit steam

the high humidity it's going to feel like it's beyond the century point with st. louis 96, 96 your high for atlanta, 84 washington, d.c., 80 new york, 75 boston, salt lake city with 82 and san francisco into los angeles, highs into the 50s and 60s. that's your forecast, guys. let's pitch it back to you in new york. >> thanks, reynolds. >>> a couple weeks ago he was raising money for tornado victims. now star trace atkins dealing with his own tragedy, his home in tennessee burned to the ground on saturday. atkins and his wife were not there at the time but their children were. his wife says everyone got out okay and that they followed the plan the family had in place to meet at a tree outside of their property. the nanny reportedly said she heard the spark and got everybody out before the fire. it's not clear, though, what caused it. >> when we come back we have a new presidential candidate joining the gop field. we'll tell you about that when we come back. >> and we want to know what are the issues motivating you, but we're also going to talk about the issues moti