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we ll tell you how a new budget will make a difference in the fight against drugs. good morning. this is nbc nbc 10 news today. i m katy zachry in for tracy davidson who is in cleveland for the republican national convention. she joins us live. how is it going out there? reporter: the excitement is building. in place, the quickens loan a he rein a are or the q as they call it is really starting to come alive with the republican national convention starting in just hours from now. we talked to some local delegates and we ll have that coming up, but first we have issued a first alert today because of the excessive heat. let s get an update on that with erika martin. we do have hazardous conditions for today. temperatures already in the upper 70s. 77 for philadelphia. 75 wilmingtowilmington. rising dew points. so when you mix the two, we do have the hazardous weather outlook as far as heat goes. so heat indices in the hundreds. so first alert heat hazard includes f ....
looking around the region we see that heavy rain we had has moved off the coast up to the north and east but we still have showers in spots so we re seeing them through norristown, malvern you want to watch for that in glassboro he in new jersey, medford lakes, browns mills, some showers around. today is not a terribly wet day but we are going to see lots of clouds and some showers at times. here you can see on satellite6 and action radar had that heavy rain that has moved well to the north but we are having clouds in the wake and we ll have showers here or there. the temperatures certainly mild. 76 degrees right now. we are already above our average high for this date. it s 73 in allentown, 74 in millville and atlantic city airport but with all the clouds in place, temperatures just aren t budging very much today. so, it s kind of going to feel like this all day. 76 right now. by 8:00 a.m., 76, clouds and a shower around. by noon still feeling damp and 78. by 3:00 p.m. ....
in washington. the social security administration, warning that checks to millions of americans may be in jeopardy unless the debt ceiling is raised. just over $2 billion will be lost in worker productivity will be lost by the end of today. and the plan to give back pay to furloughed federal workers has stalled in the senate. abc s tahman bradley is tracking it all for us from washington. reporter: good morning. this is getting dangerous. in just nine days, the country will run out of money to pay its bills unless congress acts. and that, of course, is just one problem in washington. the other, getting the government back up and running. president obama upped the pressure on house speaker john boehner to hold a vote on a clean bill that would extend government funding. the reason that speaker boehner hasn t called a vote on it is because he doesn t apparently want to see the government shutdown end at the moment. reporter: the speaker says a funding bill cannot ....
republicans have said publicly they ll vote to fund the government with no stranges attached. more and more republicans are backing down because they re losing ground against the president, and blame over the shutdown. a new abc news/ washington post poll shows 70% of americans disapprove of how house republicans are handling the negotiations. that s up seven points in one week. 51% disapprove of what the president has done. on wall street, there s growing worry on the shutdown s impact on the economy. the dow is down 193 points since the beginning of the shutdown. a one or two-week shutdown is manageable. start getting into two, three weeks and longer, and the impact is significant. reporter: and a bigger economic threat is looming. on october 17th, america will go into default, unless congress raises the debt ceiling, the amount of money the country can borrow. the obama administration is warning that social security benefits for millions of americaning could be ....
good morning, welcome back to al jazeera america. i m morgan radford. al qaeda s effort to exploit the lack of security in iraq and syria appears to be gaining traction. in iraq two cities are under siege by al qaeda-linked fighters. more alarming is the violence could set off an all-out sectarian war as sunni anger towards the shia-led government intensifie intensifies. despite how bad the fighting has gotten secretary of state john kerry says, this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis, we are not contemplating returning. al qaeda-linked groups have taken control of fallujah. the other province, ramadi, is under siege. it was one of the most dangerous places during the iraq war, where 1300 coalition soldiers were killed. the the group calls it s the islamic state of levant and wants to set up a sunni state in iraq, and across the border in syria and other countries. it s taken control of parts of syria. we go imran khan for more on the fighting. fighters fro ....