also new this morning, surrounding new details surrounding former president trump s efforts to overturn the election, a georgia district attorney tells 16 so-called fake electors they are now targets of this ongoing criminal investigation in fulton county, georgia. it is a notable escalation. we ll explain why. and it comes as another election denier just secured the republican primary for governor in maryland. trump-backed candidate dan cox known for encouraging former president trump to seize voting machines will face off against the democratic nominee there in november. let s begin with the single text exchange that the secret service has provided to the january 6th committee, our justice correspondent jessica schneider is with us. just one back and forth, that s it? that s it. the committee members here continue to be dissatisfied with the secret service response. what we learned from this letter overnight, obtained by jamie gangel, the inspector general requested a m
what type of ripple effect does this have? do the heat waves happening in asia and here in united states, do they have impact on each other? or are these all separate heat dome s acting independently of each other? they are all separate, but they are all a consequence of the changes that are happening in our atmosphere. as we add more and more co2 to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels it is heating up our atmosphere, which is changing the kind of dynamics. the arctic is hitting four times faster than the rest of the planet, which is changing where the jet stream goes. the jet stream kind of gets wiggly, and it creates these heat dons where the heat, the high pressure zones are locked in. so they are separate but they are all a consequence of this new climate we are creating by loading it up with co2. so, mr. goodell, experts say
increase in heat waves in places like europe and parts of the united states that we think is due to something about climate change, which set the arctic, forms faster in the tropics, and it means the whole global wind pattern relaxes a little bit. that s allowing these meanders in the wind pattern up high in the atmosphere and what we call the jet stream and what we re seeing now in both the united states and europe is partly a response to that. as this jet stream kind of gets lazy and meanders a bit more, it can stick around with these patterns that block air flow or sometimes bring air flow in from the south, and we re seeing that in the condition of the extreme temperatures. that s a great description. helps me, right, sort of like the world needs a breeze and it can t get a breeze. our climate correspondent bill weir will often make the point when he describes this that if you went back ten years, what is happening now in terms of droughts and heat waves like this would have been
we have a jet stream kind of stuck where it is, a lot of he very hot air in the southeast, along this jet stream we re going to continue to see storms fire up as the pattern we re stuck in it from today, taking you into tomorrow, eventually into monday, not a lot of movement with that jet so all of the storms will keep popping every afternoon in the same areas, again and again and again. for today, already some severe thunderstorms firing up in the region, stretching all the way to the midwest and off towards the mid-atlantic as the jet stream runs in that direction. isolated tornadoes are possible with this. a similar setup on sunday as we see from nebraska to texas, where you could see some spin-up tornadoes, but definitely hail and strong winds. flooding risk continues across the entire region, everything in the green. those are flood watches and warnings throughout that region. models bring perhaps in those areas another 4 to 5 inches, taking you into next weekend as we stay stuck
new york. the storm is also the cause of a tree that killed a child eight other children were injured. nearly 300,000 customers waking up in the dark in pennsylvania. a tornado touched down in mercer county. that s in western pennsylvania. that s during the severe weather. gusty winds, heavy rain left downed trees. homes and barns damaged. people running for cover in the rural area there. nasty pictures. three tornadoes in ohio. one in valley city about 20 miles outside of cleveland. winds near 100 miles per hour there. look, that s nasty, nasty pictures. what s going to happen today? let s go to indra petersons for a check on the forecast. a very scary evening, right? a line of storms kind of pushed through the region. today, we re still looking at a similar power where we have the jet stream kind of dipping down.