Looking at the twinkling lights. It is 47 degrees on the strip. Winds are calm. 45 percent relative humidity reflective of cloud cover aloft. Moisture aloft. 27 is dewpoint cooler on the east side. Washington and eastern 39 degrees. It is 40 on the westside. At charleston and 215 with southwest wind at 8 miles an hour. Winds in 5 to 10 miles an hour range this afternoon before picking up tonight. You can see 40s predominateing across the valley. You have to go up to blue diamond to get into 30s. 42 pahrump. And 45 over at boulder city. Clouds are around. Skies cloudy. And moisture up in the talk about that. Afternoon. But definitely the clouds are around. Low 60s. There. With lack of sunshine. I think we will do it, clearing overnight. Gusty winds. And shower possible. Front comes rumbling through tonight. Cooler. Be cooler tomorrow. So it will be an interesting weekend. We will look ahead to that. And entire work week ahead. And talk about all the events back east. Anchor not a bad fo
Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod with a special western edition of the broadcast. We begin tonight with the brutal heat thats gripped much of the eastern half of the nation last week. Its about to break. The heat and humidity has claimed at least 15 lives in the last six days, including five in milwaukee. In the northeast, the average temperature this week was ten Degrees Higher than the normal average temperature in july. At least 75 record highs were set at airports east of the mississippi. And yesterday, it felt as hot in lakehurst, new jersey 123 degrees as it did in death valley, california. But this blast of heat is about to run its course. Im joined now by meteorologist Jeff Berardelli of miami station wfor. Jeff, millions of people waiting to hear about a break in the heat. Are they going to get what theyre looking for . Theyre going to be very happy, especially as we head into tomorrow. Temperatures are going to drop by about 10 degrees, but the humidity is really going to
We begin with jeff pegues. Reporter with nearly 900 killed in five days of clashes with the Egyptian Military the call to end the flow of u. S. Money are getting louder. South carolina senator Lindsay Graham believes egypt is looking more and more like a failed state. Were going to have to suspend our aid because we cant support the reaction of the military. Reporter historically the u. S. Has been a sponsor of the Egyptian Military with 1. 5 billion dollars in aid the u. S. Sends egypt yearly, 1. 3 of it is for the countrys security forces. It was the military that ousted the elected president Mohammed Morsi and is shooting the president s supporters. Middle east analyst mohsin khan says even if u. S. Aid is suspended it will have little affect. Egypt needs something close to between 15 and 20 billion to get by. 1. 3 billion is not really going to be much. An theyre going to get a lot more from the arab countries. Reporter for decades the u. S. Has relied on egypts military to stabili
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