more funding for health care and education and an increase on corporate taxes. the president this weekend now saying the two bills are not directly linked. but progressives in his own party are demanding both, saying they won t settle for one bill focused on roads and bridges if it means their wish-list items like paid family leave and universal pre-k get left behind. we really need to understand that this is our one big shot, not just in terms of family, child care, medicare, but on climate change. reporter: linsey, the senate is out of session for the next two weeks and clearly there s a lot of negotiating still to do on the finer points of these bills. linsey? abc news learned president biden ordered precision of a strikes on militants on the syrian border. this is the second such attack under the biden administration.
spots. with expected highs like 117 degrees in palms springs, california. 110 in medford, oregon. 98 in boise, idaho. 104 in seattle, an all-time record. official temperatures are measured in the shade. but here in the street, this is measuring at 157 degrees. feels like a furnace. heat is the number one weather-related killer, especially threatening to the homeless and elderly. volunteer groups are now loading up water to anybody that might need it. the county has 80,000 bottles ready to be delivered. more than 200 people now sheltering in the oregon convention center, serving as an emergency cooling center. doing what they can to stay cool. rob joins us now. when do we expect the heat to peak? reporter: linsey, today and tomorrow, but lasting all week. we hit another record in portland. we have this blocking pattern in place. another heat wave building on the east coast. this is the one that s historic, climate change amplified. it is expanding.