but the russian capital has been red-hot this week, literally. scorching heat combined with drought conditions has triggered wildfires that have wrapped the city in smoke. moscow hit 100 degrees yesterday, the first time it s ever cracked triple digits. that s more like what we see in california. moscow? odd. seven minutes after the hour. let s get a check of this morning s weather headlines. reynolds wolf is in the extreme. wlesht f weather center for us. the southeast and into the central plains it is going to be a very warm day. plenty of heat. the watches and warnings, advisories stretched out across the landscape especially towards parts of the gulf coast. temperatures will really rise into the afternoon hours. southeast especially tough in the carolinas and georgia where the heat index will make it feel like 110 to 121 degrees.
77 degrees begin the day, later on today, downright hot 97 degrees. late july, heading into august. 48 minutes after the hour. let s get a quick check of this morning s weather headlines. reb reynolds wolf is in the extreme weather center for us. we re already talking about the heat where you are. it is unbelievable. as a guy who grew up in the southeast, this is really when the heat begins to build this time of year. it isn t even august yet. it will start cooling by the time we maybe get to october. brutal for parts of the central plains, gulf coast and carolinas and even georgia. this pinkish color is where your warnings happen to be. south of atlanta from hilton head island, over to charleston, it will feel like 110 to 121 degrees today. brutal stuff. something else brutal will be the heat across parts of the central and southern plains. dallas, 99 degrees. don t be surprised if you see some of those the sign up along parts of i-35.
curry, reynolds. i m a heat guy but that sounds a little bit obscene. i m feeling for you, man. i like spicy food as well but that s just cruel. you were saying, like i think i can handle it. i think is i eat curry literally every day because i live in del i had so my tolerance level is a little higher. i feel like someone s drilling a hole right about here. 13 minutes after the hour. private 1st class bradley manning is being investigated for possibly leaking thousands of secret afghan war documents. this morning, he s in the military brig at quantico, virginia. more on that story just ahead. stay with us. on christmas. and sitting next to us, chevy chase. and we really hit it off. we play golf, and then the luau. he s like da vinci with ice. and after, we help hang christmas decorations. wait, wait, wait. you flew last minute. on christmas. with points from chase sapphire? yeah. amazing. believe it.
morning s weather headlines with reynolds wolf who is in atlanta for us this morning. good morning. hey, guys. coming to you from atlanta, georgia where it is summertime an the big story happens to be the heat. plenty of it. from the carolinas all the way to the gulf coast and back into the central plains, extreme heat with the heigat index will feel like it is well beyond the century mark. in some locations, from 110 to 121 degrees is what it will feel like to the exposed skin, including parts of georgia and carolinas. the heat will spill over into portions of the central plains. dallas 99. kansas city your expected high 91. 90 in st. louis. 97 in atlanta. 84 for new york. 105 in las vegas. look for a chance of storms in parts of central plains and moving into the mid mississippi valley. we ll talk about how that may affect your travel coming up towards the bottom of the hour. back to you in new york. 105 in vegas and 130 in my mouth right there. we got to send you some of that
thing anyone wants to see is oil coming out of that damaged well head. back to you in new york. a lot of people thought perhaps we were turning the corner on that and just waiting out the relief well being completed. yet another setback today. reb reynolds wolf, thanks so much. a system drowning in paperwork, red tape redundancies and layers an layers of government too big for any person to actually manage. a new washington post investigation two years in the making is exposing an intelligence community that s growing out of control this morning. it says the top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of september the 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work. barbara starr joins us live from the pentagon now. the bulk of these intelligence