with lester holt good evening americans feeling the heat tonight in ways and places they maybe never have where they live as high temperature records are expected to fall across much of the country. it is where we begin tonight. 38 million people across 20 states from california to the mississippi river right now living under heat alerts. record highs in the forecast today from cheyenne, wyoming where the forecast high is 99 to dallas/ft. worth airport which could reach 109. between now and wednesday nearly three dozen new record highs could be set the heat wave working its way to the east tonight, leaving the most vulnerable in its path at considerable risk experts are warning it is not summer as usual but rather another global gut check moment from a changing climate just as we face new obstacles in dealing with it. we ll get to that and the forecast from our team standing by in just a moment. let s start with miguel almaguer. reporter: shattering records and threatenin
every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva
Two and a half. North wilmington bell ka two and a half. Kenneth square two. Philadelphia international, one inch of snow. Most places had between oneandone and a half inches and it doesnt take much to cause those problems when it is anyway the morning rush and its also 20 degrees when that happens. And speaking of temperatures its going down a whole lot more than that. Meteorologist seena mar convenient has more on that. Reporter the snowfall we had today im outside the studio on the patio, its very light, fluffy snow. So you really see how light and fluffy it is but when you walk on the sidewalk and cars drive on the road it creates slush and overnight tonight that will be refreezing. Temperatures well below freezing overnight tonight and then the winds pick up tomorrow and it becomes even colder. First alert weather day out into thursday morning. Refreezing tonight. High winds tomorrow and then into thursday we have negative wind chills setting up. Negative feels like temperatures w