effect at midnight. the president s tight new restrictions limiting the number of asylum seekers, allowing him to temporarily close the border when the daily average goes above more than 2,500 in between legal ports of entry. also developing tonight, those cell phone outages reported across the u.s. millions of at&t customers saying they cannot make calls to phones on other networks. erielle reshef with what we know so far. the life-threatening heat wave tonight. this early in the season. multiple states from california to texas. triple-digit temperatures and a new round of severe storms possible, including tornadoes from mississippi to minnesota. ginger zee has the forecast. in new york city, two young girls shot and wounded on a playground, just 9 and 11 years old. on capitol hill, the combative hearing. attorney general merrick garland defending the justice department from allegations of political bias, reminding lawmakers they had no role in donald trump s convict
To our viewers here, we have a mesoscale discussion talking about the tornadoes continuing through the overnight period. and isolated tornadoes, this is a big storm to watch here. derek, carlos, thank you both. joining us now, mayor of gainesville, florida, harvey ward. thanks for joining us. thank you for having me. so gainesville of course not on the coast, it is inland, and this storm will cross the state of florida. so i wonder what kind of dangers from the storm you are preparing for most now. as you heard governor desantis say, we are going to have impacts outside the cone. so i worry when people pay too much attention to exactly where the cone is. the national weather service tells us that even though we may not be inside the cone he, we have a 93% chance of sustained
Hurricane irma remains an extremely dangerous category 5 storm in the dominican republic and haiti bracing for the worst after this storm tore through and devastated the island of barbuda yesterday. chad myers is there to give us the latest sense. chad? i m seeing a slight wobble to the right. it s a wobble in the eye that a computer model can t predict. it s too broad of a model, compared to the mesoscale or microscale. there s the eye of the storm. we zoom right in. notice the last couple frames, how it tries to turn to the right a little bit. does it turn back to the left? likely. is it enough to miss one city or maybe hit another? we ll have to see. this is still now, obviously, a