74 million people are under heat alerts. we re talking temperatures up to 25 degrees above average in some places. and right now, texas is bracing for what was just named the first tropical storm of the season, tropical storm alberto, heading toward the gulf coast. and fast. meantime, out west, those deadly wildfires rage on with firefighters battling that relentless heat, and we have team coverage this morning with nbc s sam brock in galveston, texas, nbc s maya egoland in coney island and we have your meteorologist standing by with your forecast. storm prep is already under way there. this is now tropical storm alberto. what is the latest, sam? reporter: sam, we re having a hard time with your mic. let s work on getting that. let s turn to maya who is here in new york, one of the places experiencing these extreme temperatures. how are people coping, maya? reporter: hey, ana, as you can see behind me, some people are coping by taking a dip in the water, but it is ext
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In and come back and watch us and we will make you laugh. Look at you living in the moment. It was beautiful. That was being present. The bridge right there. We are all supposed to do that every moment, we rarely do so qued owes, chris murphy on a no surprise here, ten out of ten. We will do it again today. We will keep humidity low for yet another day, maybe even for part of the tomorrow but as you can see not the a cloud in the sky not a drop of precipitation, as we get started at 4 00 in the morning. 69 degrees right now. 58 percent relative humidity. It is dark. 6 miles an hour wind out of the west southwest. 5 52 is your sunrise time. Wind still light. Mostly coming from the northwest or west, at this point, in time, but once we get that solid southeasterly wind humidity starts to come back but it was july joy yesterday with a high of 83 degrees. Today we will be right where we are supposed to be at 87, that is average high for this time of the year with sunny skies and then tonig
Here we are again in the aftermath of another terrible, inexplicable, shocking and painful tragedy, this time in las vegas. Which happens to be my home town and cletos hometown and cleto sr. s hometown. As you know, 59 people are dead. Hundreds are wounded in what they say was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American History coming about 1 1 2 years after the previous deadliest mass shooting in modern American History, in orlando, where 49 people lost their lives. Of course, we pray for the victims and for their families and friends, and we wonder why, even though theres probably no way to ever know why a human being would do Something Like this to other human beings who are at a concert having fun and listening to music. Jason aldean was on stage, luke combs, who is here with us tonight, he played the show, too. Obviously no one could have ever expected that something terrible would happen, but it did. A very sick person smuggled 17 guns into his hotel room and smashed out the w
Here we are again in the aftermath of another terrible, inexplicable, shocking and painful tragedy, this time in las vegas. Which happens to be my home town and cletos hometown and cleto sr. s hometown. As you know, 59 people are dead. Hundreds are wounded in what they say was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American History coming about 1 1 2 years after the previous deadliest mass shooting in modern American History, in orlando, where 49 people lost their lives. Of course, we pray for the victims and for their families and friends, and we wonder why, even though theres probably no way to ever know why a human being would do Something Like this to other human beings who are at a concert having fun and listening to music. Jason aldean was on stage, luke combs, who is here with us tonight, he played the show, too. Obviously no one could have ever expected that something terrible would happen, but it did. A very sick person smuggled 17 guns into his hotel room and smashed out the w