long. it s been a rough start to the summer season, and we re seeing the worst of it now shifting. a lot is going to go where you have a lot of friends, heading toward the west coast. so far most of the suffering has been throughout the south, texas, a hot fourth in areas of the northeast, and today the hottest has been in the areas of south florida, miami feels like 105 degrees. the problem with miami is it s been very humid too, and hasn t had time to cool off. last week at one point, up to 15, 16 million. we re down to 14 million. a few spots in florida, and now we re focusing the dangerous heat into the southwest. you re going to start to hear wild numbers coming out of the desert areas as we head through the week next week. it looks to peak somewhere around wednesday or thursday. today, 111 in phoenix, a little bit warmer than it should be. normally it should be 106 this time of year. they ve had six days in a row above 110. just in the back of your mind, the record in
these are just the latest communities to grapple with gun violence. it s something highland park, illinois, understands very well after that community was ripped apart by a shooting last independence day. how that town is remembering the victims later this hour. let s start in texas where police are looking for a suspect in downtown forth worth last night that claimed the lives of three and injured eight others. the shooting occurred during a celebration called como fest. a motive is still unclear, and authorities are asking for any information involving this shooting. and then to philadelphia, a gunman wearing a bullet proof vest open fire. the latest victim found early this morning in a house. two people have been taken into custody and a motive has yet to be determined. george, what are investigators doing this morning? reporter: good morning, ana. investigators are back at the scene today looking for any witnesses, looking for video of this mass shooting. as you elu
trail. griff. hey, happy 4th, bryan and gillian. voters in those states are getting a healthy dose of old glory, gop candidates for the parades. ron desantis marched today in a parade in wolfboro, new hampshire, and another one in merrimac, he ll be joined by tim scott, doug burgum. only in america could the son of a single mother rise from poverty to be a candidate of president. america is the land of opportunity, not oppression. fire that burned in independence hall, 56 men pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to establish a new nation conceived in liberty. meanwhile out in the hawkeye state. mike pence taking part in urbandale, and francis suarez busy in cedar rapids, iowa, running a 5k race this morning and then making pancakes, noticeably absent from the trail today, former president and front-runner, donald trump, who leads in fox news latest polling among gop primary voters with 56%. desantis trailing by 34%, and single digits down there. we ll next s
of their son. we re going to talk to evan gershkovich s freshman year college roommate in just a few minutes. we ll talk about the person he calls a, quote, exceptional friend and journalist. plus, we have breaking news to share. the man accused of shooting and killing 23 people at an el paso, texas, walmart in 2019 has just been sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences on federal charges and that is just his first round of sentencing. we re going to have the very latest for you any moment when we get our nbc news reporter who s there on site for us. we begin this hour at the site where republican primary race begins, that being iowa. right now former president donald trump is hitting the campaign trail in council bluffs as he continues to campaign and fund-raise. the republican leader writing in a lengthy statement last night that the doj is going after him and claiming that special counsel jack smith, quote, purposefully omitted the presidential records act. are quote,
can be done with this violence. one doctor said they deal with it on an every day basis, but what happened over the weekend was unusual in terms of the type of weapon that was used, the number of people killed and the wounds reverberating through the community. we hear from the nurse who was a part of the emergency team that worked with the victims. listen to what she said about how even health professionals who deal with trauma on a daily basis, they too are affected. take a listen. it s just really hard to comfort them, and it really takes a toll on my colleagues and to go through this, like dr. caspin said, very frequently, just doesn t get any easier. doesn t get easy for anyone, and in fact, they talked about how these families now not only dealing with their grief, but trying to figure out how do they buried their loved ones when this is something they were not expecting at all. lindsey. rehema ellis, thank you. let s go to the white house, where nbc s mike memo