Qukly. Straight ahead, what the video from the rally shows about those very moments. All that, p new protes erupt in puerto ricoovernight with more expected this weekend. Lunar lessons. The apollo astronauts weigh in on the importance of that one leap. And from memories to maverick. The world gets its first look at the newraers for cats and top gun today friday, july 19th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Good mornin nice to have you with us on a friday morning. When i look at some of the numbers were going to see this weekend in the forecast, i cant believe my eyes. Its going to be crazy hot across much of this country. A concern as well. We want to get right to als what do we have . Basically,oo were lng at very toasty temperatures. Well hear from blayne alexander in a second. 31 states und heat alerts. 153 Million People from the southwest all the way to new england and up to the canadian
G od morningd welcome to news 4 midday. We begin with our weather alert. Right now were under anxc eessive heat warning. In fact, 31 states are under some kind of heat alert. That means 150 Million People are impacted by this weather. And the feels like temperatures are going to t 100 degrees today. Yo think thats ba oh, baby just you wait until tomorrow. Lets get the stage set herem storm t4 meteorologist chuck now. Joins us breakdown what we can expect. Heat indexes running 105 to 110 degrees for three days in a row. , tomorrow and again on sunday. Hazy skies an code orange air quality. So folks that have respir ory or cardiac sensitivities, this is not the weather you want to be spending outside. Theres the excesse heat warning outside for all of the listening areanow. Heat index values over 110 degrees, onespecially saturday. Saturday i think will be the peak of the heat wave. Right now itslready 90 degrees with the heat index close to 100 degrees at 11 02 in the morning. Ur theres