if you re traveling anywhere across texas, make sure your car is ready for it. mid-land, 107. the wind is blowing. it feels like a blast furnace out there this should be a fourth of july map, not memorial day map. everywhere we go it s hot and it s going to continue to be that way. it only got down to 80 degrees in dallas. you can t even cool your house down. here are the winds. back out towards pueblo, las vegas, new mexico, 283, 1 miles per hour. and that s the wind that could fuel a fire, if you smell smoke, you need to get out of the house and see what is going on.
joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, we wan