captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. i just want to announced i m wearing a container of johnson s baby powder under this suit. thank you so much for sharing that. that s right. i m ann curry. we re in the channel gardens and outside because we re crazy this morning. the heat index is already 95 degrees this morning. it s supposed to be about 102 degrees in new york city, matt. we ve been talking about this heat wave for a long time now. today the east coast is getting the worse of it. you re going to have a heat index of about 111 here in new york city, 118 down in washington, d.c., 107 up in boston. power grids struggling to keep up with all the demand. al is going to have the very latest on this situation coming up in just a couple of minutes. also coming up this morning we ll be talking about lindsay lohan. she s in court, was in court on thursday. she s saying she can t afford cour
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