last a lifetime. just a ways up the road from stroudsburg, victor martins and his son jonathan run a family construction business. do you feel ready to retire in this economy? no. you ve got a 401(k) and an i.r.a.? yes. do you think that will be enough for you to retire on someday? i don t think so personally. reporter: and that s even though they are saving. nearly half of american families have no savings in retirement accounts at all. that retirement insecurity explains some of today s pessimism in a strong economy. economist tisza ghilargucci. we don t have a system designed on to last for as long as people are going to last till 90s and 100s and putting people on little boats and floating them off into the ocean and saying, you have to take care of yourself. reporter: for many
every corner in kabul. they were not hostile to us or anyone we saw. the taliban claimed to have found tolerance since they were in power two decades ago. the old tri-color afghan nag still 90s, and kabul for now is calm. traffic cops from the deposed u.s. backed government return to work. the taliban move among them and they re giving the orders. there is an old taliban expression that the americans have the watches and they have the time. it seems they were right and the americans time is about to run out. here if kabul, the taliban are extremely confident. confident that they won, that they are getting the united states to withdraw on their terms and they are very well armed. so people here in afghanistan now have two choices. get out, try to get on up with of those last flights in these last few days, or stay and accept the taliban at their word that they have really changed.
going to be a pretty strong cold front. 80s in minneapolis, down 4 degrees from yesterday. still 90s in boston. 99 in washington, d.c.. and it feels a lot warmer than that. several major cities remain sweltering today. the temperature in the ur in the 90s as i mentioned. it will feel like triple digits. extreme heat advisories across the country. fae million people on alerts and no doubt today more lives are in danger with additional warnings stretching from kansas to south carolina. this is the only way many people are seeing relief right now with plenty of power outages across the country. kevin park is in jamaica, queens, where things are fairly hot. and i see that some folks have found a little bit of relief. it is pretty miserable out for some folks. kathy. reporter: yes, it feels like
so for the rivers, they re still cresting in some areas, eastern north carolina, obviously, is a huge mess. we re going to start to watch him dropping, though. this is a little river. notice the peak as we go throughout the day and then by saturday, some of the other rivers take a while to collect. there s water that are in businesses and in homes and those people are not going to be returning to their property for a while. so the rainfall from florence, what s left of it is moving to the northeast today. and mountainous areas there, a little concern that we could deal with some flooding issues. new york city will have downpours on and off throughout the day. a lot of the day will be humid and dry. and how about about the heat in the middle of the country? still 90s. summer holds on and a chance of showers and storms today, minneapolis and chicago. we will dry it out in the northeast as we ll finally be done with florence after the heavy rain today in new england you re watching morni