degrees upwards. here the heat index. st. louis. 104. 89 fore new york and d.c. and charlotte both at 97. you can see a bereave brief cooldown before the warm setting settles for the second half of the week. new york city comfortable by saturday finally back to you. thank you, my friend. if you haven t had breakfast, folks. brace yourself. joey chestnut, nicknamed jaws and for good reason devoured a record breaking 74 hotdogs and buns. i can t even watch the video. it s gross. it s plain nasty. that happened in 10 minutes to win the 4th of july hotdog eating contest. the 11th time in 12 years. that s more than 22,000 calories. the third time he broke his own record. well done, joey and the women s contest mickey pseudo winning third title.
sections of tennessee. now that s a different story. triple digit heat this weekend but without the humidity. this will be a big story. high temperatures from 110 degrees upwards. here s today s heat index. st. louis 104. 98 for new york and d.c. and charlotte at 97. you can see a cool down before warmth starts to settle in next week. comfortable temperatures by saturday. back to you. thanks. if you have that breakfast, brace yourself. joey chestnut known as jaws devowered 74 hot dogs and the buns to win the contest for the 11th time in 12 years. more than 22,000 calories. just nasty. in the women s contest she won the fifth straight title downing 37 dogs and buns.
entire professional career covering her as an olympian. that s an amazing story to cover. good morning to you. thank you for being with us. hi, everybody, nice to have you with us. we re bring you the news from a to z, it s 5:00 eastern. let s get right to it, shall we? this is unbelievable, unrelenting, unforgiving, it is a heat wave, and it is devastating from k.c. to d.c. and it s going to continue today too, tomorrow, as well. all the way through the july 4th holiday. in some places, it s going to feel like 115 degrees, particularly in parts of the midwest today. and for millions of people without power, sorry to report this, there is not a whole lot of relief coming your way. at least 19 people now have died in the last week after deadly storms swept through the nation. about 1.7 million people still haven t gotten any power. this is days after the storms went through. many expect possibly it s going to take until friday to get their power restored. take a look at th
these temperatures. this is the heat index so that s the temperatures with the humidity combined. what it feels like. it s going to feel like 108 in louisville. 107 in st. louis. 104 in kansas city and feel like 106 in d.c. today. really dangerous. people need to be really careful r, really careful. tomorrow s heat index 101 d.c. 108 in louisville. it s just hanging around and not getting any better. people are urged to take precautions and make sure you re indoors where the air conditioning is. severe threat today across the northern plains, great lakes, midwest area where we could see some hail, perhaps damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. we actually had a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of michigan and a few thunderstorm warnings already this early morning so hail, damaging winds certainly we don t have any tornado reports. we ll keep you posted and one piece of good news, if i can deliver that this morning, we ve got some moisture moving into