and fled the city. in chicago it was 105 and it felt like 112. we came up here to escape the heat a little bit. reporter: but a cold front is expected in the coming days. looking forward to the 8 0 agrees. even 89 degrees would be great. reporter: they say the cooler air will move into the great lakes, northeast and into the east. bringing comfort for hundreds of thousands who are still without power after last weekend s storms. in west virginia, more than 160,000 people remain in the dark and sweltering with no working fans or air conditioning. 93 degrees. reporter: refrigerators and freezers shut down when the power went out forcing some residents to rely on food pantries to get by. it s been a large request over the past few days. we re really scrounging around to try to keep up with the demand. two parents in indiana are accused of leaving their babies in separate incidents in hot cars during this blistering heat wave. police in greenfield say this man lef
today, wendell? reporter: listen, it s really not bad for me because i come out here for ten minutes, you know, and i ve got a fan blowing on me, and i go back into the air-conditioning. but i feel bad for some of my colleagues here at the white house only got power back the last day or so at their homes. and so they ve been living in this, sweltering in this without air-conditioning, without all the all the food is spoiled, they can t use their microwaves and, you know, you can only spend so much time at the movie theater. jenna: you better invite them over to your house, wendell. reporter: i think there d be too many of them. jenna. [laughter] jenna: great to see you today, thank you. jon: a top general who defected from syria reportedly on his way to paris right now where international diplomats are meeting today. secretary of state hillary clinton talking tough there, urging world powers to pressure russia and china into forcing president assad to step down. leland vittert is
comic-con, except the characters originated from japan. i don t know if you d ever catch me there. my animae character would have pigtails or ponytails or braids or something. all right. do it for me. i ll check it out. i m working on it. good morning, everyone. of course, the weather is the big, huge story out there this last weekend, but if it wasn t for the incredible heat, you had incredible storms rolling through. you really couldn t win as we went throughout just a sweltering, hot weekend. now, this is the storm reports. the storm actually started friday early in the day in chicago, and then one thunderstorm complex went in a path like this, and it did all of this damage, all the way down from d.c. through virginia, including ohio and west virginia, and that s what knocked out millions of power. now, when you have one big line of thunderstorms like this, it s called a derecho, and that s the meteorological term for when you have a line of thunderstorms that produces wid
intercom, and it is all caught on video. three major stories we are watching right now. record heat, millions without power, and a massive wildfire in colorado. we ve got it all covered. rob marciano is in colorado springs, meteorologist karen maginnes is watching the heat, and athena jones is keeping an eye on the outages on the east coast, which could be a very dangerous combination with the heat for people hours from now. this all after a violent line of thunderstorms swept across the east coast. you re looking at the fierce winds and heavy rains that pounded indiana. and in virginia, falling trees killed two people and over a million people are without power. there are widespread outages from indiana to new jersey. athena jones is in rockville, maryland, this morning, where the power is out and triple-digit temperatures are expected. athena, what kind of progress are crews making to try and get this power back on? reporter: well, good morning. it s happening slowly bu
midwest with rain from north dakota to michigan. sweltering, though, in the northeast with some severe storms by late afternoon. it is 88 here in new york. 89 in miami. 93 in dallas. 80s from kansas city to detroit. 55 in fargo. 63 in seattle. and 78 in sacramento. here s a tasty little story about one american doing something pretty delicious for the nation s men and women at war. she is candy bishop of chicago, and she s known to those in uniform for all the cookies she has sent to troops in iraq and afghanistan. she s been baking for a couple years, ever since sending some oreos to iraq and in return being asked for some homemade peanut butter cookies. they look yummy. thousands and thousands and thousands of cookies later, she is still going and has no plans to stop. nothing like homemade cookie. and i know those guys men and women have to appreciate that. absolutely. one of her secrets. never use margarine.