temperature for a lot of spots are getting up in the old digits you are seeing a whole lot of a 100 105 throughout the region. everything in the red across entire board a lot of people dealing with extreme heat. some of the warmest temperatures currently do continue to linger across the mid atlantic and up and down the east coast includes in major cities like d.c., philadelphia, new york and boston was the heat advisories currently in place. now cooler air is ultimately on the way it s because of a line of thunderstorms sweeping across the region. everyone of the yellow pollen count is a severe form of thunderstorms went up to 60 miles a little bit of hail, frequent lightning and absolute downpours for the heaviest light of storms is off to the east of i-95 corridor bird cooler heirs which by the backside of the system. you re going to track it as you can see all the chips for severe weather here. as i said it s a true cold front. what is that mean? tomorrow temperatures are in the 8
that s what s known publicly, we had him a while, interrogated him, the pakistanis wanted him back badly, we returned him, at some point after that, to the pakistanis or he escaped or let go by the pakistanis. jon: we were holding him in those secret prisons that the cia used to run in eastern europe. they closed those basically because of criticism from political leaders, right? right, exactly. we had guantanamo there, and that was under pressure, the secret prisons had been leaked in the press, there was pressure there to do something about it, pakistan was willing to take him barks so i wasn t there involved in the policy decision making but seemed like the bush administration may have thought it would get good will from the pakistanis, because the war on terror was still going on at a high pace at that point, plus we d have one less person we d have to deal with. jon this, is not the only says. recidivism among those individuals who are released is relatively high, like 20 some p
short ride, and they ll head out to the launch pad and start boarding the shuttle. let s talk about the weather. that huge system that brought all of those deadly tornadoes to alabama, to georgia, to mississippi, well, the tail end of it finally swept through the space coast last night at about 7 p.m. the day before there were fires out here burning, and then last night the whole sky turned black, lightning and wind and rain. but nasa cleared the shuttle, no damage, and everything went on as scheduled. as far as the scientific and technical checkoffs for this mission, everything is looking golden right now. it truly is about the wind. all of these clouds are anticipated to move out by about 1:00, so it should be blue skies, but it is windy. jon: we know that arizona congresswoman gabby giffords is there to watch her husband blast off. where will she be doing that? reporter: her staffers are keeping all of her activities and her location to watch her husband blast off into space on th
expected to make a statement in the next five or ten minutes. clearly they have a lot of troubleshooting to do here. they put on a 48-hour delay. it most likely is going to be longer than 48 hours. 48 hours was just the initial delay they put in there. they have to get to the bottom of this. this launch was certainly going well today, wind is always an issue, it is still an issue. it was borderline as to whether it was going to blast off at 3:47 eastern. the soonest it would blast off is after 3:00pm sunday afternoon. we are getting indications it may be a longer delay than that. the crew of endeavor is heading back to their building where they will undress and take off the orange flight suits and get their civilian clothes back on and try to figure out where we go from here. jon: i feel bad for the hundreds of thousands of people who knocked down there to catch one of the last shuttle launches.
despite the fact we are able to predict these storms and people had an average of 23 minutes of lead time the death toll is still so high which makes you think about three things, did they listen to the warnings, did they have a place to hide in their homes, so many homes in alabama don t have basements or is it simply when a tornado this big comes through your neighborhood regardless of the precautions that you ve taken, if you get hit you re going to die? jenna: unbelievable stories that are coming out, jon, the one you just told i didn t know which way it was going to go there. glad to hear that the family is together today. we ll be back with you throughout the day with your reports as we continue to watch this developing story. thank you. jon: a lot of sadness still to be uncovered it appears. we are getting a new look at the damage in hard hit coleman county alabama. very few buildings with windows intact. signs litter the streets. trees and utility poles ripped