year would we see more action, probably. politics complicate is a lot of stuff. moving on to weather news. eastern pennsylvania is roughing from another round of damaging storms. strong winds and heavy rain, rolled in over the weekend. knocking down trees and power lines like this one that caught on fire. thousands of folks in the philadelphia area lost power. and wildfire danger in new mexico is getting worse as beetles swarm a forest there nesting and feasting. they reproduce quickly with one adult female laying up to 200 eggs. the beetles were introduced to thin out the trees but weren t expected to move quite this fast. beetlejuice. don t say it three times. bugs will be here. three times. don t say beetlejuice three times. sorry. i just flashed back to my junior high days there. ha. here is your monday forecast.
searing 11-day heat wave. the images of those who have to toil in the heat. a pond that got so hot, fish died. and the millions of americans who look for some way to stay cool. and staying cool is nearly impossible for 4 million americans who lost power. some for a week after those massive thunderstorms. these nasa images show how the lights went out. heat kills more americans than floods, tornados and hurricanes combined. and so many days, so hot, has buckled our roads, bent rails, derailing trains, and actually melted asphalt. those tires of that jet at washington s reagan airport sinking into ruts. the misery is ending. david kerley, abc news, washington. the numbers say it here, folks, more than 3,400 temperature records have been shattered in the u.s. the past week from the 1st of july through the 7th. hard hit cities, st. louis, hard hit. chicago hard hit. rough couple of days, almost two weeks from this. 50 deaths the past week
hospice center in england. she made her first solo military appearance this weekend presenting st. patrick s day shamrocks to members of the irish guard. that s why she s wearing green. meanwhile, some airline passengers are probably very happy they didn t know this. air traffic controllers forced to walk pilots through their landings by walkie-talkie. it s all because an air traffic control tower at john wayne airport in southern california lost power. it had been running on a back-up generator since friday but even that clunked out. several flights were delayed as a result and they did apparently use the walkie-talkies to bring them in. wow! so you ve heard of the man cave, right? an australian beer company is going one step further. a man island. huh? men only island retreat. the beautiful location on an island on the southern great barrier reef is called pumpkin island now but in october, it
delays, though it was hard to tell considering the information boards were dark. blue sparks flashed as transformers lost power. leaving customers in the dark. i thought it was an earthquake at first. and then all of a sudden i heard this huge, huge rumbling sound and then the ground actually shook, shook bad. reporter: by far the biggest casualties of the wind were trees. just take a look at what one of them did to this shell station behind me. just one example of the kind of widespread damage these trees can cause. high winds hammered many western states. students on this utah campus struggled to get to class. new mexico is bracing for the same. and california s not in the clear. gale-force winds are expected to last through friday. diana alvear, abc news, los angeles. rough days out there. all right. let s talk day look at the rest of the friday forecast now. some snow showers in the san bernardino mountains near los angeles.
and penn state s president, graham spannier, released a statement reading in part the allegations about a former coach are troubling and it is appropriate that they be investigated thoroughly. protecting children requires the utmost vigilance. tim curley, and gary schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion. i am confident the record will show that these charges are groundless and that they conducted themselves professionally and appropriately. penn state s legendary head football coach, joe petrir pate not facing any charges. he did alert tim curley about one of the alleged incidents involving sandusky in 2002. joining us on the phone is sara ganim, a reporter for the patriot news. sara, what have you learned? reporter: we first learned about this in the summer of 2009, not long after the first boy came forward. i say the first boy, i mean the first one to really come forward to police and be believed by police. what we know from today is