chicago hit with severe flash flooding stunning drivers stunned by the sudden rushing water. nascar fans faced downpours for the city s first street race delayed by 90 minutes due to the weather and it was shortened by 25 laps. still exciting though, a lot of fun to watch and today on the west coast residents are warned to brace for extreme heat with temperatures in some areas expected to soar, get this, over 115 agrees so we check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. adam. very active weather across the country continuing to see at least some of that here early this morning and it will linger the next couple of days. all those thunderstorms have been largely on the eastern half of the country. this is a 12 hour radar loop and you see the explosion of thunderstorms every single afternoon and evening. expect to see something similar again today. early this morning you see those storms die down they pick up in the afternoon and evening hours but
think equal excitement on both their parts. steve: congratulations to the rickie fowler team indeed. carley thank you carley: you re welcome. steve: come to the tv listen to this one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in north america has shut down after a visitor spotted a crack in a support pillar. take a look at this terrifying footage of the fury 325 at an amusement park in north carolina. it shows the ride s support beam cracked and shaking the ride on the track. our guest tracked it and alerted staff. what happened? jeremy wagner joins us this morning jeremy how are you. good morning steve how are you. steve: i m doing okay. this had to be terrifying i know you had your family on the ride earlier in the day. what possessed you to take pictures of that thing? so i went out about 30 minutes early, because i cool down the truck and i told them, y all ride some more rides and
and said he reached out to david weiss s office to have a conversation with them and they never got back to him. you would think the investigators investing hunter biden s business affairs would want to talk to hunter biden s business partner but that ended up not happening. joe got to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. thanks joe. thank you carley and ashley good to see you. fox& friends starts right now. have a good day. steve: good morning everybody it is monday july 3rd, 2023. we start this hour of fox and friends with a fox weather alert. more than 110 million americans are currently under severe weather alerts this morning as strong storms, wind and extreme heat hit different parts of the country. those strong thunderstorms battering central kentucky yesterday brought down power lines and trees as well and look at those images.
make people cal las when they are s not taking care of children. that s another fatherless probe something i hope all candidates need to address because we need to. steve: crime wise a crazy weekend and we re only half way through the holiday. 6:20 in new york city and carley is with us on this monday carley: i certainly am, good morning. news out of china, verby secretary janet yellen heading to chinese for meetings with officials. candidate nikki haley concerned about china s growing military strength. if you look at the military situation, they now have the largest naval fleet in the world. they have started developing hypersonic missiles. we are just now getting started. they are modernizing their military. our military s taking gender pronoun clanses. a top biden official says the administration isn t expecting much of a break through out of yellen s trip.