storm is a nuisance but nothing more. i was getting all kind of comments from other parts of the world that hadn t seen storms like this. people wondering how many people died, wondering if i died. i made sure to comment back that me and my gear were okay and that it was a cool experience. phoenix is no stranger to these storms. another haboob two months later leaves a bride and groom in the dust. congratulations. you may kiss the bride. and makes their day to remember beyond unforgettable. but no storm that follows can compare to the july 5th event, the haboob of the decade. look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. coming up, baseball-size hailstones. oh my god! leave one family with no where to run. it s in my room.
reporter: temperatures across parts of the midwest are soaring into the upper 90s with heat indices in the triple digits. many of the schools aren t equipped with air conditioners, causing some to call for early dismissals and others to cancel the day all together. we don t dismiss just cause kids are hot. we dismiss because learning suffers. reporter: parents say it s the right move. i think it s the right call. it s hot. there s no air conditioning. reporter: it may be a heat wave in the heartland but in the desert it was a wave of dust, a monstrous dust storm called a haboob swept through southern arizona monday evening with visibility less than a quarter of a mile. in southern california, residents are recovering from this weekend s flash floods that waterlogged stores and neighborhoods. the rising water stranded drivers and claimed one life. the national weather service reported a 77-year-old california woman was swept away in her car. you can see what a huge area the
firefighters finally able to slow the vicious wildfire tearing through the park. but, the weather today may not help. across the midwest, a brutal heat wave is forcing schooled to close. new twist in the george zimmerman saga. he s asking the state of florida to reimburse him for legal costs. we have the latest. your new day starts now. announcer: this is new day with kate bolduan, chris cuomo. good morning, welcome to new day. 6:00 in the east. check out this, a wild scene in arizona. this is a giant dust storm known as a haboob. it swept through phoenix. airplanes grounded. we are going to have much more on that and the weird weather across the country. another wild weather day. plus a story we have been
phoenix area. it rolled through during rush hour yesterday. along with winds over 60 miles an hour, rain and hail. no reports of any injuries or major damage. just apparently a few uprooted trees. but thousands did lose power. maria has more on what you can expect as you leave the house. and that dust storm is actually called a haboob. so that s the technical term for that storm system. and it s basically just a thunderstorm that produces a downdraft and picks up some dust and you you start to see poor visibility ahead of that storm system, so that s something that does happen across parts of arizona, new mexico. so anywhere across parts of the desert southwest. we could be actually seeing more of that type of activity and these storms can produce wind gusts in excess of 60 miles an hour and near zero visibility. you re actually supposed to pull over if you are on the roads during these storms and actually try to turn your lights off because you don t want that light to reflect acr
desert it was a wave of dust, a monstrous dust storm called a haboob swept through southern arizona monday evening with visibility less than a quarter of a mile. in southern california, residents are recovering from this weekend s flash floods that waterlogged stores and neighborhoods. the rising water stranded drivers and claimed one life. the national weather service reported a 77-year-old california woman was swept away in her car. unfortunately this huge dome of high pressure will continue to bring heat well above normal for days to come. minneapolis, minnesota, looking for heat warnings there, temperatures that feel like 110 degrees. let s talk about the temperatures, that dome of high pressure bringing them 20 degrees above normal and this isn t a dry heat. this is the warm, humid, hot air that makes it difficult to breathe, 103 expected in des moines. minneapolis, 96, that s 18 degrees above normal. barely a change, maybe one degree of cooling so still, 15