outdoor concert in vegas yesterday. more than 30 people had to go to the hospital. alexandria steele is live for us in the cnn weather center. it is hot and only getting hotter. you mentioned death valley. if death valley hits 130, two degrees shy of our forecast, it will be the first time in 100 year, so we are in some rare air here. essentially, it s an atmospheric blast furnace. it s that high pressure ridge that s kind of acting like a dome, kind of trapping this heat in it. high pressure means sinking air, which means compressing air and thus, warming air and pretty rapidly. the problem is, it s not going to budge for quite some time, really until july 4th. so we ve got a couple of days of this that s for sure. extreme heat. at least eight states in the west under some type of advisory watch or warning. phoenix, at this hour, it s
peoria, champaign, urbana, could be a rough day tomorrow, and it will bring a reinforcing shot of cool air, while that high pressure ridge is really holding tough across the southern plains, talking about 103 in dallas today, so 3 in san angelo. more of the same on wednesday as well. widespread 100s, that continues into thursday. chris, back to you. carl, thank you. now let s look at other stories people are talking about. the man charged with murdering breeann rodriguez is in, this is news video of shawn morgan entering the courthouse. police say he confessed to suffocating breeann, but her body still has not been found. reporter: good morning, chris. we are expecting a very dramatic day here in court. the family of breeann rodriguez,
southern gulf of mexico. the national hurricane center has just released its updated forecast on tropical depression alex. meteorologist jackie jaris. it is still a threat? it is still a threat. and the models have quite a spread on it meeting our kst confidence as to where the storm is going is a little smaller. the accuracy has been so incredible in the last five to ten years. but this time around, it s a little different ball game because of the high pressure ridge which is in place and very little steering on the storm down the line. so there you can see how large the cone is down the line. and this is the forecast position for thursday. and this is the area for friday. so at earliest, it would be late thursday, that we would see landfall. and more of a northerly track would indicate a later landfall. as well. so something to keep in mind. now we have seen a little bit of a shift in this track. a little farther on up towards the north as well. so this cone has seen a little