captions by vitac www.vitac.com good mornings, everyone, i m randi kaye and thank you for starting the morning with us. we begin this hour with the h t heat. it has been so bad that 30 deaths across the united states are blame hed on the heat wave. we get more from melissa rainy. reporter: saturday brought another day of blistering heat and in some areas that is more triple temperatures. people are looking for relief wherever they can find it. it feels great. it feels so wonderful. it beats the heat for sure. reporter: in chicago, the heat buckled roadways and some residents gave up and fled the city. in chicago, it was 105 and felt like 112, so we came up here to escape the heat. reporter: but a cold front is expect ed expected in the coming days. looking forward to the 80 degree weather and even 89 sounds great. reporter: forecasters say that cooler air will move across the upper midwest and into the great lakes and the northeast which brings some comfor
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his legacy, birthday, and, of course, his music. it is sunday, july 8. good morning, everyone, i m randi kaye. we start with another day of record temperatures across the country. the triple-digit highs being blamed for at least 30 deaths across seven states. the extreme heat has also led to power problems. more than 300,000 people were without electricity and, more importantly, air conditioning. some relief may be on the way. a cold front is moving down from the great lakes, heading south. a warning the front could bring with it some strong storms with hail, lightning, and damaging winds. extreme heat and more possible storms, of course, seem to be on the way. meteorologist sarah dillinger joins me now. where and when is this cold front going to hit? well, the good news is, we ve seen this drop through chicago already. your temperatures are going to be back into the 80s today. as we looked at the map of the heat advisories, we re already seeing a big chunk of the count