meteorologist tyler mauldin joins me with the latest about the weather. tyler, i used to live about five minutes away from where the stadium is. i never remember any temperatures like this. not in february. what s it going to be like? yeah, it s pretty rare. the warmest super bowl on record was played in 1973. that temperature was 84. and we re going to be flirting with that, come sunday, on super bowl sunday. there s a heat advisory neck for southern california that includes los angeles, river cy, all the way down to san diego. temperatures will be in the 80s, nearing 90 degrees. so come later this afternoon, we ll be in the low to mid-80s. but then notice on super bowl sunday right around that 84 to 85 degrees mark. if we hit 84 it will be tied for the warmest on record. but if we hit 85 it becomes the warmest super bowl on record. breaking it down hour by hour, you can see around noon, we ll be 84 degrees. and then once we get to later on
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racial discrimination. meanwhile, with super bowl sunday just four days away, security measures have kicked into high gear. cbs carter evans got a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation. reporter: with eyes wide open from the air and even the ocean, security for the super bowl is so tight, it extends for miles. customs and border protection agents took us aboard this black hawk looking for suspicious activity. when you re in the air here, what are you looking for? any nurm movement of people that just seems suspicious or odd. reporter: one of the challenges of protecting sofi stadium is that it s only a couple of miles away from l.a.x., and that means there is a lot of traffic in the sky. and while workers prepare for the game inside the stadium, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas met us for an exclusive one-on-one. give me an idea of the scope of the security operation here. we in the department on homeland security dedicate more than 500 people to the effort.
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