meteorologist pedram javaheri has the forecast. the setup impressive this morning, starting off again in the lower 80s. guess what, the average temperature this time of year in boston, the average high temperature about 82 degrees. what it feels like outside right now, just about that temperature. sits at 81 in portland, 74 in new york. feels nearly 80 degrees, even presunrise yet again. and of course, the heat continues. some scattered showers across the northeast here. that will hopefully begin to give us a trend of a shift towards cooler weather, but still upwards of 40-plus million people underneath heat advisories. includes boston, includes new york, includes philly. you put in what it feels like into the afternoon hours, should be somewhere around 97 to 99 degrees in a lot of these areas, again, with the humidity. but new york, high temp around 88, boston around 87. down towards the south, widespread upper 80s, lower 90s as well. houston around 94 degrees. notice the trend, tho
be across the southeastern u.s. atlanta in the lower 90s, but relief is on the way. temperatures in the 80s, cold front in the middle of the week, closer to average, temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. by the way, still monitoring severe weather potential for today across the nation s heartland here, damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornados, as well, later this afternoon and into the evening hours. guys? all right, ivan, thank you for that. biggest star in basketball, if not sports, headed to hollywood. lebron james gets a four-year $154 million contract with the los angeles lakers. lebron sending a message to the hometown fans in an instagram story saying thank you northeast ohio, this will always be home. cavs owner dan gilbert, who slammed lebron when he left for miami back in 2010 with a different tone this time, saying in part he has nothing but appreciation and gratitude for everything lebron has done. wow. congrats to lebron. now they need more. not a great te
strong enough to warrant a jury trial. the 76-year-old cardinal pleaded not guilty. in a statement through his lawyers, pell steadfastly maintains his innocence. a dramatic rise in temperatures in the eastern half of the country. good morning, dave and christine. get ready for summer-like temperatures over the next couple days. high pressure beginning to build here. as it does, look at the trend across new york city going from 51 yesterday, 26 better what we expect today up to 77. how about the 40s to 60s for places like boston the 70s yesterday to the 08s of today across places like detroit and new york city. temperatures down into the 70s and not a bad weekend. it cools off, yes, but still very comfortable setup across much of the northeast. d.c., we do it a few degrees better than that, up to the lower 90s come thursday afternoon and spectacular weekend.
the potential for dangerous rip currents. heaviest rain stays offshore but perhaps a inof or two along the cape hatter russ. lower 90s. is it really fall. thanks for that. let s get a check on cnn money stream. global stockmarkets are lower after wall street finish mixed. dow is down. but the dow still headed second consecutive week of gains. that s still a concern will but they rebounded in the arn try driven by health care stocks. those jumped after senator john mccain withdrew support. t-mobile and sprint are close to a deal. reuters reporting a possible merger. they would have 130 million subscribers. they first attempted to merge
a big story across the united states developing, excessive heat, widespread over an area, home to almost 15 million people. the advisories stretch from ohio into kansas city, warnings in place for places like st. louis. and the reason for that is we get a multiday event set up here where potentially through friday, maybe even saturday, we have triple-digit heat, and this is just factoring in, of course, without the humidity. this is just in the shade into the afternoon hours, but you factor in the humidity, it could feel as high as 113 in a few spots across this region and we ll see that kind of expand off towards the eastern half of the country. so, by say thursday and friday, atlanta gets into the middle 90s, feeling like into the 100s. new york city also will get into the lower 90s, will feel like close to 100 degrees by the afternoon hours. and with all of this set, plenty of instability in the atmosphere, severe storm potential there into parts of minnesota, into western wiscons