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are reported salt of these heat waves. the u.s. has set more than 2300 records because of the heat that we re seeing in different parts of the country. and unfortunately, there doesn t seem to be any relief in sight. camila bernal, cnn, los angeles. tens of millions of americans still under some type of heat watch, warning for monday. and that number will likely go up for your tuesday, wednesday and thursday. and i will show you why. corpus christi, though, look at you later on today, 112 for the feels like temperature. you don t need humidity out here to get the air temperature. these are numbers in the shade. vegas around 110, phoenix, still around 117, death valley right around 120. now, this heat dome that we ve been talking about for weeks will eventually begin to spread out a little bit. it s going to move out to the north and the jet is going to get pushed to canada and the temperatures begin to slide off
over the midwest and eastern u.s. this week. heat indices in many places forecast to be near or over 100 degrees. senior correspondent casey stegall is in dallas, a hot dallas right now. good evening, casey the heat dome only further to grow and expand. as of right now. 138 million people are under some kind of a heat watch or warning across the southwest and the great plains tomorrow it jumps to 200 million, expanding into the midwest and the ohio valley by wednesday. as the scorcher grows further north and east. more than 255 million will be in the zone. temperatures expected to climb into the mid 90 s for many. triple digits for handful of others. not quite as hot as the heat wave we have been experiencing here in texas since the end of
dally, monthly, and all-time records and we re going to break records today. 63 million americans under some sort of heat alert, whether it s a heat watch, heat warning and heat advisory, and we re looking at temperatures soaring into the triple digits today. 110 in el paso, 117 in phoenix, 101 in houston. and into the upper 90s in new orleans. we re going to have a record of 97 so we re going to either beat it or tie it. look at tampa 92 degrees. you factor in that humidity it s going to feel like 103. and that s because the ocean water into the upper 90s, so it s impacting the weather there. 105 in miami. feeling like 107 in houston. that excessive dangerous heat does continue. we re also looking at the chance for severe storms today. we re looking at flooding conditions as well. that s back into the north east. right now not too much going on in the north east, we do have