in the u.s. and around the world. it is thursday, august 4th and i m brianna keilar with john avalon in for john berman. good morning. good morning. we begin with a surreal intersection of the defamation case against conspiracy theorist alex jones and the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. jones is on trial in texas for the lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre and in a jaw-dropping moment in court a lawyer for the sandy hook parents revealed this did you know that 12 days ago 12 days ago your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cellphone with every text message you ve sent for the past two years and when informed did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected in any way, and as of two days ago it fell free and clear into my possession and that is how i know you lied to me? cellphone records appear to show jones had, in fact, texted about the sandy hook shooting even thou
the people that i hear complaining on twitter the most are the people that are saying, hey, i can handle 90, but at least get it below 75 in the morning. things just aren t cooling off at all. this weather is brought to you by safelight your vehicle glass and recalibration experts. heat index today not as ban been as you ve been oklahoma and texas, still 100, 104, that s hot and the cold front doesn t get to you at all. some showers along the front will cool down the northeast over the next couple of days. very heavy rainfall over st. louis in the overnight hours with more flash flooding that happened after midnight. there s the heat across parts of the northeast, all really all the big cities, 995 going to be hot again today with heat advisories and your heat index will run somewhere around 100. some spots could be warmer than that so be careful of yourself, be careful of the pets and kids and remember those numbers are always in the shade if you re standing on asphalt or standing in
yes. mr. nadler? too early to say. doesn t serve the purpose of the democratic party to to deal with that until after the midterms. ms. maloney? i don t believe he s running for reelection. that was democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney in the congressional primary debate in new york s 12th congressional district and she is with us now. you took heat for those comments. you did later say that if president biden does run for reelection you re going to back him, but why did you say that? why do you think he s not going to run for reelection? well, first of all, i think we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to president biden. he saved the country by running against former president trump and he defeated him and he has also done an incredible job as president, passing the build back better the american rescue plan, the infrastructure
bite in the air. let s talk about why it s going on. jet stream, nice and straight. that s when the weather is average, the way it should be. once in a while you get a big storm out there so it kind of looks like a roller coaster. now, we did have a big storm last week. it s a world, right, not just the u.s. the typhoon took the jet stream like a ribbon which brought it down by the line and what we ll looking at at the start of next week with the jet stream dipping down into the upper midwest and bringing colder air from canada, not the polar vortex, bringing temperatures a good 20 or 30 degrees. i see you shaking your head, michaela. highs, 20 degrees below normal, talking about highs in just the 50s, but the farther south you are, of course, you won t be feeling the effects as much. nobody wants that canada air. down in the southeast, scattered showers from the next couple of days. high pressure building in and that cold front doesn t make its way in through next week. i went like