residents are warned to brace for extreme heat. temperatures expects to soar to 115 degrees. let s check in with adam klotz for the fox weather forecast. what do you have for us? adam: wild weather across the country. eastern half of the country, something similar today. you see every afternoon storms explode, expect to see something this afternoon. the rain continuing to linger across new england, at times fairly heavy. that takes heat of the day. rain from mississippi and georgia to the carolinas. potential for severe weather today, including areas like charlotte, norfolk, dc and philadelphia, up to new york. that is two on a scale of five, large hail and wind possible and isolate tornado is not out of the question. out west, it is the heat. you are seeing 115 in phoenix. 113 in vegas, 106 in bakersfield. showers here for eastern half of the country. everything in green, risk for rain for today s forecast. for the 4th of july forecast, maybe a chance of severe weather.
the day before independence day and celebrating what makes us proud americans. joey: amazing innovations and views. steve: we told you about balloon fest and now abby hornacek is in a balloon in the gondola. introduce that guy and tell us where you are going. this here is kirk, we are about to lift off, what does it take to be a balloon pilot? a certificate, pilot s license, this is an aircraft. go through light school, check rides, solo flight, get a regular license and get a rating in a balloon. shall we launch? okay. wait up. don t turn. while you take me up what
transport pilot certificate. here you have a young man at 21 years old, he goes through burnout, takes a hiatus and now he s back in his training program into the cockpit of a commercial airliner. i know that he has met supposedly all the rigors of training and passed his check rides, but does he have really the maturity one, to make the decisions that are necessary, but two, it s obvious there were some psychological and possibly physiological conditions that he wasn t being forthcoming with the airline that he was flying for. what do you think of claudio s question of opportunity. maybe he didn t know. but if the guy hadn t gone to the john what would have happened? they wouldn t have crashed. at least not that flight. what do we make of this? was this premeditated or impulsive or opportunistic or somewhere in the middle? you re waiting for your chance you don t know what day it s going to be. i think from the standpoint
mechanism, a self-reporting and confidential reporting mechanism by other people that they can report if they are concerned about it. that to me seems to be a far more satisfactory solution. yes, there will be let s be clear, there will be the occasion, the lone wolf the rogue case that comes out of it but you will not solve that i guarantee you, with setting up some massive structure of constant psychological screening. you can bet these companies to go along with what richard s saying is that i do agree that i came from the navy. by the time a person gets to be a commercial airline pilot in the united states there has been a very big vetting process. you have to want to be a commercial pilot and you have to have gone through several layers of proving yourself and taking check rides. by the time you get to be a commercial airline pilot, if there is something really wrong, somebody would have noticed it along the way. thank you both so much for being with us. appreciate it. c
nothing. it could be him wanting to prepare for future check rides, training events, things like that, it s something interesting, yet i wouldn t put a lot of faith on to something earth shattering at this point yet. what do you think, as a tsa investigator do you believe the same thing? i believe the key lesson from 9/11, we have to protect the integrity of the cockpit at all costs. it seems in this case, something went awry in the cockpit. we have an aircraft that has gone off its assigned course. we have controls that have been manually turned off, it appears, that tells us in this particular flight. the maintenance of the integrity of the cockpit, it failed, malaysian authorities fails to do that. i think the key to finding out where it is would be to continue