really anything. so patients are more likely to have heart attacks, they re more likely to have strokes. reporter: in red bank, new jersey, a hospital racing to relocate some patients after the air-conditioning in the emergency room failed for a time. officials say all are safe. experts say climate change has made rare heat waves three to five degrees warmer in much of the u.s. and doubled the likelihood of record-breaking hot summer days. the heat alerts stretching from coast to coast with most of texas still over 100 degrees. fueling multiple fires. and officials say so far the state s power grid is holding. but for millions in the plains, no sign of relief any time soon. david, here in new york con edison is sending out text message alerts trying to convince people to limit their energy use to try to prevent any possible outages. they also say that they re mobilizing more resources to respond to possible problems with this heat wave expected to last possibly into next week that
business the same way for the oil drillers. con ed sends me emails, this is how to reduce your bills, they are letting you know it s happening, same thing the case with your electricity bills as well. and when people start plugging in electric cars, what do you think is going to happen to the cost of electricity when everybody is doing it. demand will go up, prices go up, all the while we were looking earlier, we have tapped the energy reserves to bring down gas prices, the strategic petroleum reserve at the lowest level inventory wise since 1985. i keep saying i hope we don t have a bad hurricane season, that s what it s there for. sandra: and that could happen, that would be tough. we have to replace the oil we pull out of the emergency reserves. great to see you. thank you very much. john. john: a funeral mass celebrating the life of ivana trump taking place this hour at a church in new york city. david lee miller is live outside the church on manhattan s east
an official heat wave. forecasters are now warning millions here in the northeast, this could last for six to seven days. boston tonight declaring a heat emergency. philadelphia extending that city s heat advisory through sunday already. and tonight no relief in the plains either. a grass fire forcing evacuations. these images tonight from oklahoma. dallas, oklahoma city and tulsa approaching 110 degrees in the days ahead. doctors and public officials urging caution tonight urging americans to stay incite if possible to stay cool and, of course, hydrate. make sure you re drinking water. power grids under stress and an anxious eye on texas and here in new york tonight con ed sending alerts to customers to conserve power and learned seven soldiers have been injured in a lightning strike at fort gordon in georgia and severe turbulence on a flight from tampa to nashville sending multiple people to the hospital. we do have it all covered. whit johnson leading us off here.
not going as moscow had planned. they failed to take kyiv. they are pulling back from around kharkiv. the major offensive in donbas has stalled. russia is not achieving its strategic objectives. ukraine can win this war. stoltenberg says he thinks ukraine can win this war, and you wrote an op ed saying the u.s. must embrace the goal of ukrainian victory. in your view, what more does the u.s. need to be doing? my starting point for this on ed was the fact that we have not done enough to avoid this war in the first place. arm ukraine, help ukraine defend itself in the prelude to the war, and now in these first ten plus weeks of war, we are too slowly putting in equipment, losing opportunities. ukraine was in a position to
her costs could jump again because of the energy crunch from the ukraine crisis. tiffany is not alone. lower income americans are feeling the brunt of rising prices. according to the latest polling, two-thirds report their family has had to cut back on spending in order to afford necessities. that includes 75% of those with annual household incomes under $50,000 as well as 60% in those, in the 50,000 plus household range. con ed, tiffany s company is far from the only company to raise rates. eversource in connecticut raised in january and now told 3.6 million customers they could see 25% increase through june. but in washington, the associate director on climate for the office of management and budget says the answer to combatting rising energy prices is investing in cleaner energy. but right now americans are