so there s a guy standing next to a weather map and he s going to tell us where it s raining. alisyn: who are you? it s not raining enough. 81 degrees in kansas city now and it s 5:30 in the morning, that s not good. and it s going to be another extremely hot day across the central plains and get ready the next two to three days, continuing to be extremely warm. not of that much rain and continued scattered showers in the south and significant in minnesota and as well as continuing to see the monsoonal activity, brought that dust storms we were showing pictures of across the phoenix area and that kind of activity. your high temperatures. 104 in kansas city and take a look the next three days, the baking going on here across the central plains continues, tomorrow, omaha, 107. tomorrow, kansas city, 106. and farther towards the south, heat continuing, all they a little bit of a break towards areas of texas, guys. those looks like zip codes not temps. rick, thank you very much.
out. and eventually officers trapped the 120 bear between two automatic bears and sedated and carried away, they think that the bear was lured to the mall by the smell of food. who is it? and we re guessing it s going to be on shepard s show tomorrow. didn t fall, no trampoline. there might have been a craftsman mower, another story altogether. alisyn: let s bring in rick reichmuth. he had a collar on, did you see that? the bear m a collar on, maybe somebody s pet? i think so. maybe brought him on a leash. alisyn: strange. rick: big storms across parts of the southwest, take a look the at video out of the phoenix area, another dust storm hitting areas ever phoenix desert area and amazing thing, i m from arizona and lived in phoenix and you see these kind of dust storms come in a few times each other and spectacular, and causes problems, but a sight to see. strong winds in front of big thunderstorms that will happen
and you get a downdraft of wind and it kicks up the dust and moves it in. today, another chance for some showers moving across the area and get behind behind this and that s good news and they will have more of that today. and this is the time of year you get some of the rains across parts of arizona. there you go, there s the rain, and the other story is very high temperatures across parts of the plains and it s going to continue here to see temps as you re waking up this morning, 82 right now in dallas. we have a lot of drought going on. the darker the color the worse the drought it. 81% of the u.s. is abnormally dry and 64% of the u.s. is moderate drought. the largest area under drought since 1956 and we re going back about 56 years since we ve seen any kind of a drought like this. it s a pit short-lived. it s not years into this. and hopefully we won t see that kind of drought, but at least the next month or so, conditions certainly looks like they will remain dry across the plains
arizona and we re not sure exactly who the president is going to meet with, but we should know by the end of the day today. stay tuned for that. alisyn: peter doocy, thanks so much. we get to the important stories, how can we ever identify the warning signs if someone is about to snap? well, after losing his sister, rachel scott, in the columbine high school massacre back in 1999, her brother started rachel s challenge along with the rest of the family and they traveled to schools around the country to educate parents and student how they can identify the common warning signs. the columbine shooting survivor craig scott, rachel s brother, joins us now from aurora, it s nice to see you this morning, before we get to your sister and how you travel the country. tell us how that area is doing this morning in light of what happened with columbine and now, years later this horrible
tragedy like the shooting in aurora, colorado occurs in places that are meant to feel safe like shopping centers and schools and offices. and there s a chain reaction of emotion, that can cripple our daily lives and here with advice how to cope with these emotions, author of false alarm, the truth of epidemic of fear, dr. siegel, it s great to have you here, obviously, everybody in the aurora area is traumatized, but there s a ripple effect for us across the country and we re experiencing trauma as well. what do we make of that. fear is a very powerful emotion, from the center of the brain something we get from animals because we re supposed to be protected against danger and fear protects us. if you re in the theater, fear