With the latest. Anchorage hitting 90 degrees and more than 100 wildfires across the state. The hottest day of alltime. Heat and humidity combined for a sweltering day from the south to new england, with the heat index above 100 grees. T will be sizzling again. Spacey shocker, the young man that accused the actor of groping him against his will abruptly drops his civil suit with a hearing in the criminal case set fornd mo. From nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thank you for jning us on this morning. I am peter alexander. Good morning. Waking up to the news of yet another big earthquake hting our friends in california overnight. Exactly right. The state of california on alert this morning and we want to get right to the breaking news from overnight. The second major quake to hit california in two days, a magnitude 7. 1. This one containing 11 times more energy than the first. This one was centered near ridgecrest, california out in the Mojave Desert. But the quake could be felt from sacramento to san diego to las vegas. A series of aftershocks happened roughout the night and more are expected. Californias Governor Newsom called on the president to call a state of emergency. The big question f californiians, is it the big one. Nobody knows for sure. Seismologists say there is another chance of another magnitude 7. 0 quake in the next week. We will speak to Police Officials about any pressing concerns there. Molly hunter was there in ridgecrest when the quake hit. Molly, good morning. Good morning. That 7. 1 is unlike anything i ever felt and the ground hasnt stopped shaking sense. Dozens of after shocks. Officials say there were more. Injuries and damage they are going door to door right now. We might not know how bad it is until the sun comes up. Everybody okay . Gh panic thrt the city. Inside businesses and in the streets. The massive 7. 1 quake shook the town a day after being rocked by a magnitude 6. 4 on friday. Causing this home to go up in flames. You see that thick black smoke, firefighters working to put that out. Many residents sleeping on sidewalks after homes were damaged or destroyed. We are not going to leave. This is our home. Ry to same time it is s be in the house. I checked on as house. It w gon i lost my house today. I dont know if i Grocery Store owners barely finished cleaning up from thursday when fridays hit. I thought this is it. End of the world. It shook like crazy. Some 3,000 residents in the area are without power and the quake split the highway making it difficult for Emergency Services to reach residents. Fearing structural damage Ridgecrest Regional Hospital evacuated patients. The latest quake was centered 150ea miles northst of los angeles, the largest to hit the region in 20 years. 20 Million People in the quake zone felt as far away as las vegas and parts of san diego. A nb Summer League game had to be suspended. Officials at this las vegas arena worried about safety with the swaying overhead scoreboard. The quake was even felt at dodger stadium. I tnk we got another earthquake. Yep. We definitely got another earthquake goingon. A soberni war from scientist busy future seismic tivity in the area. Molly, you were already in ridgecrest asleep preparing to file a report on the last quake that hit thue. Ere effectively on top of the explain that feeling. It is like nothing i felt before. Terrifying. I was sound asleep. It was 8 20. The whole room started to violently shake. I couldnt quite understand what was happening. The room felt like it was on hin hinges. I was on the first floor and quickly got up. I tried to hold on to aall but you cant stand still because everything is shaking. The crew was on the third floor. The sound guy flew out o bed because of the force of the quake and we ran out of there immediately. The hotel alarms were going off. People were really, really freaked out. Ma i ine that is true. Stay safe going forward. Molly hunter, thank you very much. Was the parking lot tha hit pretty hard. That is right. Nobody out here has slept basically all night. The after shocks have been nonstop. Most of the town is in darkness right now and the power is out to a lot of ridgecrest. Wergave emecy lights inside of big lots. I want to walk you through what we see here. It is absolute pandemonium in here. Imagine being insid of this big lots or a Grocery Store. There are Grocery Stores in the satrip mall while the ceiling is coming down on you as you make your way t the door, debris that is blocking throughout. This was the scene in so many places. Around 8 00. There were people out and about when that violent shaking started. We saw it in restaurants. We saw the moments of panic. People pulling out their cell phones and videoing what happened. We saw it in Grocery Stores, Liquor Stores, a very, very terrifying few moments there. Afterwards when people come utside they find themselves in darkness. Now it is a moment firefighters are going around and putting out different hot spotsnd fires that flare up when a gas rupture finds an ignition source. Firefighters are waiting for first light to get out and assess the damage. So luc there were not more serious injuries reported from this. Quakes have been a major challenge for First Responders in ridgecrest,li rnia. We spoke to the Police Captain and asked him in addition to the aftershocks what are the most urgent concerns. Right now we have kern county fire dartment and doing protectiveweeps of the neighborhood. You mentioned that people in your area are bracing for the aftershocks, but a lot of them ynt have power. When do expect that to be restored . You know, imminent in the next hour they should have p restoreder to the remaining 800 customers. When you do turn it on, that is where you can learn where other problems exist. Well, initially we have a lot of gas leaks and there are a lot of open gas lines. We the power comes on if have broken fires, lamps that broke in the house and they werc on, they introduce some flammable materials. This was really scary for lot of folks. Have you had a chance to check in with their family back home . It has been pretty stressful. One of my family members was bringing me some food. We took that eventful ride together and everyone is doing fine. Thank you. The seismologists say that it is a near certainty there will be another major afrshock of some form in the next coming days or weeks there. What is the message you want to share with the people ling in and around your area . Ta sy alert. Soon as you feel a rumbling, you know, we have a few seconds warning. The environment changed. Get yourself t that doorway. Get yourself to the safe spot. Protect yourself. Protect your that is good advice. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you. That is ridgecrest, california Police Captain. We are following another big story, millions of people feeling the heat on the fourth of july holiday weekend, including in a place where you would not expect it to be a t scorcher thise of the year. Alaska. Dylan with more on what is turning onut to be a d gerous heatwave. Yeah. We are thinking dog sleds and snow. But they are stuck in the middle of a record heat wave. Unusual scene playing out in alaska. The hottest day of alltime. The temperature in anchorage hitting a record 90 degrees this is week. I like the sun because it is better thannything elsement. The heat wave continuing through the weend with temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above the 65 degree average and with more than 100 wildfires urning across the state, some caused by lightning alaskan firefighters are battling weekend. The holiday use your experience, your knowledge, keep your awareness up. In the continental u. S. An intense blast of wind from a microburst blew the roof off of this home in iowa. In wyoming there were twisters. Florida, streaks of lightning painted the sky and rain delayed races at the daytona inte ational speedway. R scorcher from san antonio to raleigh, the combination of heat and humiditm wie it feel like it is in the triple digits. And it is going to be very warm again in alaska. The average high is 65. Temperatures will be running 10 to 20 degreesbove average. Anchorage 83 and likely will break more records going into the weekend. And also in the southeast we have not the heat but also the humidity. We are looking forward to feel like it is 108 in mobile, 97 in orlando. Re the northeast we are looking for the temperatu to be just as warm and it will feel like it is 95 to 100 degrees. Cleveland will feel like it is about 90. Even in tomorrow in the northeast, temperatures drop off to 77 on monday. Thank you. L we wilet the rest of the naonal forecastn a moment. Now to politics. President trump is not backing down in his battle over the 2020 census saying he might sign an executive order to add a question about citiz to the questionnaire. Good morning. Good morning, peter. The challenge for the president this morning as well as his legal team is to settle on a legal strategy on how to include a census question. Thelock is ticking because the census forms have already been printed without one on it. Before leaving washington for his golf club in new jersey esident donald trump refusing o surrender on including a Citizenship Question raising a possibilityf an executive order to do so. One of the ways. We are thinking about doing it very seriously. His lawyers are playing for time, telling a judge on friday sayinghehey know what want to do but not how they want to do it and trump is interpreting last weeks 54 ruling as only a hmporary setback. Ie a lot of respect for justice roberts. He didnt like it. He did say come back. Essentially he said come back. Trumpsocus coming on the controversial salute to military might on the national mallai ng a verbal slipup in which he suggested there were airports in the revolutionary war. The tel prompter went out and athe t end it went out. It went kaput. He responded to joe bidens claim he is a bully. He is the bly that maked me i dont like being taken advantage of b other countries. By pharmaceutical companies and all of the people that are taking advantage of the country. The president looking for victor on another field wishing the womens World Cup Team good luck in france. But admitting he might not watch the final. I hope they do well. There is nothing on the president s public schedule this weekend. A lot of time to meet with the legal team or get in a round of golf. Now to the teenager who might be having the best morning of any of us right now, 15yearold tennis sensation cori gauff. A day after winning her third round match at wimbledon. It looked like gauff was about to lose before turning it around in dramaticfashion. Now she made it to the round of 16. Blaine alexander has maybe the best assignment in the business this week, good moing to you. Cori gauff is so much fun to watch and we arech still watg her. Shooey is set to take the court later today for a doubles match bu it is that performance that has people talking. She came back from a real squeaker of a match to victory. It seemsi corgauffs fairy tale run was all but over. Doesnt quite have the control. She was down a match point when suddenly the 15yearold fought back. With g center court another win and a spot in round 4 and a crowd that couldnt get enough. The people in the crowd were behind me every step of the way, and that i something i really appreciated. The youngest player ever to qualify for wimbledon, coc os first tournament win v game againsus williams, someone she grew up idolizing and she ke winning turning everyone into a tennis fan. Number one trend onwitter in the u. S. And uk. A whos who of celebrity congrats from samuel l. Jackson and Magic Johnson to abby wambach and michelle obama. Coco isterrific. There is the video from tina lawson, beyonces mom. Am screaming. I hope she told her daughter about me. Now coco has t ahriving fan basef her own built in less than a week. Everybody wasaying my name. It was pretty surreal how life changes in a matter of seconds. Enjoy themoment, you know. You are 15 years old. You are playing wimbledon. We didnt expect to be here. It is a great opportunity to see how good that y can be. Soaking it in but not slowing down with her eyes towards the next match. And monday she takes on simona halep. That player twice ranked number one in the world. If esterday shows us anything, she does not give up easily. Now to the national forecast. I dont even follow tennis and i am rooting for her. Lets take a look at what is going on across the country. Some storms could be severe. Across the eastern rockies. Hot and humid. That is a look at the weather across the country and now here is a y peek atr window. Interesting view out of our window. You can see the sunshineeut theright now. A lot of cloud cover out there this morning. We will have a mix of sun and cloudsas we conti the day. Hout it is warm. We have places in the lower 80s. As you wake up we should be around the 80 degree mark. Now it will be feeling like the upper 90s. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Some strong after 2 00 or 3 00. That is your latest foretist. Sll to come a legal shocker in the civil lawsuit against kevin spacey. Could itea m the criminal lawsuit is unraveling. The womens soccer team headed to the World Cup Finals. More on that after thi we are back on a saturday morning with the weekly download. The headlines were dominated by the california quakes and ttle over the census. First iwas time to party on. Happy birthday, america. Celebratio across the country for the fourth of july. The Nations CapitalPresident Trump beefing up festivities with a display ofilitary flight, tanks and a fly over by fighter jets. Our nation is stronger today than it ever was before. Not guilty. Thank god. Decoratedavy seal Edward Gallagher acquitted of killing a wounded isis prisoner. Bombshell testimony likely helped the defense. Scott admitting under immunity it was he and not gallagher that killed the detainee. He was released for time served. A fiery plane crash in an airport near dallas, tex. Crash killing all ten people on ard and leaving behind a pile of charred wreckage. The pilots comments signatug confusion and three aomatedwa rnings that the plane was banking hard. Nikes newest recall. Critics called the betsy ross ag a symbol of slavery. Colin kaepernick spearheaded the call to get nike to pull the shoe. And the governor ofrizona called the recall a shameful retr victory. The u. S. Womens soccer team is headed to the World Cup Final after taking down england 21. The cocaptain celebrated her goal and enraged britishy fans b pretending to drink a cup of tea. He american women will play for their fourth world cup title tomorrow. Some of the weeks wildest moment. A freak storm in mexico burying the city in three feet of hail. A scary sight in daytona beach, florida as sharks com within feets of unsuspecting swimmers. A wildcat charging from a nearbe fost and finally. Best brother ever. Youngoy caught a foul ball and immediately handedt i to his little sister who left her glove at home. Mom and dad did good. Parents did something right in that family. Lookingbout the parents at the kids with the shark swimming next to them. Dont disrespectnature. I am putting a drone over my kids. Hightech. Still to come here ont ay what you need to know to keep your family healthy this summer from sun burns to food poisoning. And in florida a lizard take over. Iguanas everywhere. This is a news4 today newsbreak. Good morning everyone, the time now is 7 26 on this saturday, july 6th. Straight tohe headlines we are following for you this morning. A major rally could get heaind the district because opposing demonstrators are also planning to protest. The demand free speech freedom rally will take place at Freedom Plaza at 11 00 and one block down an Antifascist Group is gathering. Police are embracing for large crowds that may try toclash. And drivers in virginia, a stretch of route 29 will close monday at noon to improve one of the regions most dangerous intersections impacting if riley road to vint hill road. They will remove a hill to make it easier to see the traffic light on the other side. The southbound lanes will not be affected. And we are in weather al what will our wkend forecast look like. St. Loe have c cover out there now and sunshine. If you want toead out to the pool, go early. We could have nats games delayed. Exercise, look at the temperatures out there. 78 here in d. C. Any time after00 or 3 00 is when we will see more storms bubble up. That is why we are weather alert. We will have to watch for flooding concerns. We will have rain early in the morning and dry. Oh, rock slide in the canyon. We are backs on thi saturday morng, july 6, 2019. That is r ak slide near the epi center of last nights earthquake. Right to the breaking news overnight. The second major earthquake to hitalifornia in two days, magnitude 7. 1, this one containing 11 times morerf powe than the first one. Like the quake that happened thursday, centered near ridgecrest, california in the Mojave Desert but it could be felt fm san diego, sacramento vegas. N to l molly hunter was in ridgecrest when this quake hit. Molly, good morning. Good morning. 7. 1 was massive. You mentioned 11 times more average. 11 times, so much bigger tn the 6. 4 on thursday and people were really freaked out. The aftershocks keep coming. There have been dozens since the 7. 1. The first thing that we saw right afterhe quake is a house fire. We know the woman that lived in e house did survive but none of her belongings did. Grocery stores, Liquor Stores were cleaning up from thursdaye quak when than one struck. D check out this. A huge crack in the cement. We spoke with someone that said the entire road to the town is damaged. We are standing outside of the Regional Hospital and a couple of hours ago they evacuated all of the patients outside. They were p treatingients in the parking lot because they wereut worried a damage internally in the foundation. Officials are warning there are 6. 4 but we will not e than know the extent of that. The after shocks can continue for days or weeks. Good morning guys. We are s