issuing a state of emergency for san francisco and the cities, and it gives you a sense of how wide the impact is and how big the fire is and how wide of an area it is affecting, i should say. nick valencia, thank you. at first glance you might think that this is snow, but actually it s not. this is hail. it s a blanket of ice chunks coating parts of denver, and the hail hit the streets so much that the snowplows had to be called in. it came with toreants of rain, and one driver said the water came up so fast it quickly covered the hood of his car. let s talk hail and fire with alexandria steele. this is the time lapse from thursday night into friday morning when the incredible storm moved through, and it s
far north and as far west. we ve seen this push into predominant west, that s why it s gotten to yosemite. there s the storms there, a lot of weather happening around the country, guys. we ll get to that. minneapolis, how about record heat this weekend. and what s happening in the northeast and the soggy conditions in the south how that s abaiting a little bit. lots to get to. maybe that is sort of the good news, abating in the south. alexandria steele, we ll be checking back with you. now, check this out, no, that s not summer snow for denver. that s hail, a blanket of ice coating parts of the city. the snow choked so much snowplows had to be called in in august. here s the view from above. the hailstorm came with torrents of rain. prompts flash flooding in some
outdoor concert in vegas yesterday. more than 30 people had to go to the hospital. alexandria steele is live for us in the cnn weather center. it is hot and only getting hotter. you mentioned death valley. if death valley hits 130, two degrees shy of our forecast, it will be the first time in 100 year, so we are in some rare air here. essentially, it s an atmospheric blast furnace. it s that high pressure ridge that s kind of acting like a dome, kind of trapping this heat in it. high pressure means sinking air, which means compressing air and thus, warming air and pretty rapidly. the problem is, it s not going to budge for quite some time, really until july 4th. so we ve got a couple of days of this that s for sure. extreme heat. at least eight states in the west under some type of advisory watch or warning. phoenix, at this hour, it s
however you want to say it, it is hot in the west. we ll tell you how high the thermometer will go today, next. and the woman who helped raise trayvon martin for 14 years finally speaks out about his death an the murder trial of the man who shot him. her comments straight ahead. president obama didn t meet nels nelson mandela today, but spoke about the leader to a youth town meeting. we ll tell you exactly what he we ll tell you exactly what he said. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a dangerous heat wave carrying temperatures well over 100 degrees is baking part of the west. it could hit 128 degrees in death valley today and people are doing whatever they can to stay cool. alexandria steele is live in the cnn weather center. what is causing this? it s a jet stream extreme.
forecasters predict some areas could see as much as six inches of rain. and as you see in this picture taken in florida after andrea, brighter days will come after this long, wet weekend. now officials have not issued any evacuations for this area. we ve seen residents out for their morning jog, another handful of residents enjoying the view. but there are other residents, christine, who have gotten out of town anticipating some wet weather to come here to north carolina. christine? after it leaves you, it will be moving up the coast where it will hit us. nick valencia. find out where it s going to hit after it is done with nick. check in with alexandria steele. good morning. we are going to see this rocket north and east. that is the good news. it s going to move northeast. 28 miles per hour now. could even increase in speed. two threats with this. the rain and thus the flooding. again between 2 and 4 inches locally, even more than that.