93, that s a hot day in atlanta, but it will feel a lot better than the temperatures around, breaking all-time record highs. eric: yeah. relief cannot come soon enough. thanks so much. as you saw, the red and the orange color shows the excesstive heat warnings for a large part of the country. the nation s capitol not immune at all today from feeling the effects of triple digits temperatures. that s where molly henneberg has been on the sweltering duty. molly is outside. how is it going? it s nearly 6:00 p.m., after 6:00 p.m. eastern time. is it getting any cooler yet? it has been 114 degrees in the shade in washington. very, very hot. but as you were saying, we ve been experiencing what you i guess could call a cool down. let s look at the thermometer. we are now below 100 degrees. we re about 99 1/2 degrees, which i guess is a cool down. this is a big tourist season and a lot of the tourists we spoke to were trying to get out early and stay cool, including one honeymooni
we still have rough weather to get through. we ll see more records broken today and probably a few more again for your day tomorrow. the biggest number you were showing there, 238 all-time record high temperatures. not for a specific date, but any time in history that they ve been recording temperature. the hottest they ve ever seen. it s been really big event for us. you can still see it s big here, all across the central part of the country. anywhere in the dark color, the excessive heat warning in effect. go out across areas of the mid atlantic and we are dealing with that as well. it will feel like around 105 to 115 for a lot of people. good news for areas up around new york city and in towards connecticut, those advisories drop. a little cloud cover move in. that drops the temperatures down a little bit, which is good news. here is what it feels like across much of the eastern part of the country. 108 is what it feels like in st. louis. much better in chicago. 83. tomorr