short of record territory in phoenix topping 110 degrees and well into the 90s for denver and albuquerque, even up to 140 degrees in el paso. now it is not surprising that this could part of the country s hot. what is surprising it is this hot, this early in the season, that has prompted excessive heat warnings and heat advisories that extend from california and arizona into nevada and then eastward into texas, and there is a fingerprint of climate change associated with this. a metric called the climate shift index quantifies how much more likely and extreme weather event like this heat wave is due to the influence of climate change, 2-5 times more likely for this particular event, this kind of heat this early in the season essentially cooks the vegetation and increases the wildfire threat, but j.b., there is good news, the heat wave is expected to break as we head into the weekend. james: paul heggen with a hot report, thank you so much. not to a cbs news exclusive, with a jewish-u
fire was 50 percent contained. the cause is still under investigation time now for whether more severe storm threats on the way for the central us this morning affecting millions from texas to wisconsin, or weatherman van dam joins us now, derek good morning to you. this has just been relentless. what are we going to see today? yes so. severe storms and are ongoing wildfire threat across san juan county. this is the corral fire and you can see the charred landscape across this particular area. you need to let this is a byproduct of a very wet spring and winter. so above-average precipitation now we re heading into the dryer months. the taps have been turned off and that vegetation that grew so abundantly has now started to dry out. and that s a recipe for fire. and the corral fire. the good news here is that the containment has certainly gone up from yesterday but it s all part of the bigger problem problem here because the temperatures are really starting to skyrocket. we have
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