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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firms say one thing and do another. we re watching the story for you and will have more details as the details come in. the rest of the day s top stories, right to brooke baldwin with an update on headlines. welcome back from the beach. good to see you. good morning, everyone. about 700,000 people waking up to another day without power. look at the map. you see 11 states and talk about the nation s capital. it has been six days since powerful storms fueled by extreme heat zapped trees and knocked down power lines and take a look at this picture. this is washington s massive power outage. this is from space taken from a nasa satellite showing extensive power outages and swinging westward to west virginia, it has led to a food crisis. the red cross expects to provide 25,000 meals today. 22 people have now died in the storms and the dangerous heat. major progress in the battle against the most destructive wildfire in colorado s history. the wald owe canyon fire is now 90% co
410,000 customers in west virginia didn t have power as of last night. ohio, 400,000 folks in ohio without. 340,000 in virginia, same deal there. power authorities and local governments say many of those people might be in the dark until this weekend. those people are going to have to deal with more soaring temperatures, 12 states under heat advisories this morning and the heat wave is forecast to last all week long. sandra endo is live in arlington, virginia, looks a bit of a mess behind you there. do people there have electricity? i m guessing not. reporter: not in this neighborhood, brook, it s been four days since the violent storm swept through this region. you can still see the devastation left behind. the power lines have downed because these toppled trees ripped the power lines from the tell phone poles and crushing car and struing debris about. this violent storm swept through this neighborhood. this area is without power as are tens of thousands of people sufferin