air traffic control asking, are you okay? first tonight, the life-threatening heat across this country. tonight, more than 127 million americans under heat alerts at we come on the air. new york city firefighters in brutal temperatures battling those massive fires in manhattan and the bronx. philadelphia issuing a heat emergency tonight. fires breaking out along the new jersey turnpike during the come mute home. and amtrak passengers stuck for hours. service halted from philadelphia to new york to connecticut. our team on it all tonight. and ginger zee with the latest heat forecast. and now the storms we re watching from detroit right into parts of the northeast. we re also following the deadly fires in new mexico. at least 1,400 homes and businesses destroyed. tonight, president biden approving a major disaster declaration for the state. the scare onboard a southwest passenger jet. the plane suddenly dropping to about 525 feet above the ground, coming close to a school
They did not defund planned parenthood. They definitely dont want to build a border wall. But now almost ten months into the republican congress, Top Republicans on capitol hill have finally found an issue they can really rally around. Preserving President Obamas immigration policy. The Trump Administration has announced that next tuesday will decide the fate of daca, the Obama Era Program which apparently illegally gives work permits to Illegal Immigrants who arrived in the country as children. Killing that program would fulfill one of the term campaigns promise. It would also fit with the republican partys stated position against amnesty and in favor of enforcing the law rather than granting politicized immunity. Scrambling to preserve daca. This morning in a radio interview, Speaker Paul Ryan begged the president to keep the program in place until congress can pass a bill granting amnesty to the Illegal Immigrants daca covers. I actually dont think you should do that. I believe that
On Friday at 5:37 p.m. an updated severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the National Weather Service in effect until 6:15 p.m. for Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties.