0 north s every move. you know there are ships, destroyers, just off the coast of korea tracking that, but the tension today, at least, doesn t feel like it s mounting. the u.s. is trying to dial it down. the f-22 super fighters, the bombers, we don t see them now. they have been put on hold. there is even talk again, craig, of diplomacy, cousouth koreans looking to spend a special envoy to reengage with the north, secretary of state john kerry is expected to be looking for newer approaches as well in north korea when he arrives here in the region next week. craig, feels today, like a breather, everybody wants to step back and create room. who knows how long that will last? jim maceda from seoul, south already won this round. why is that? how did they do it? the nra and other groups on their side have been pressuring key republicans and some red state democrats who were interested in some compromise on background checks, never assault weapons ban or limiting high-capacity magazines
spending today viewing the damage and cleaning up debris in very hot conditions. farther south, atlanta escaped storms, but lived up to its nickname, hotlanta, reaching an all-time high. with a look at today s temperatures, weather channel meteorologist ray stagich joins me now. thanks, richard. more heat the big weather story as we head through the south central part of the u.s. big dome of high pressure in place. large and in charge. take a look at numbers from yesterday, and in some cases, all-time record-high temperatures . over 40 daily records, at least 4 all-time records, and at home base in atlanta for the weather channel, 106 yesterday was an all-time record high. the extreme heat through monday will be continuing, this upper level high stays in place, plenty of sinking air, plenty of hot temperatures, even on sunday, no treat. 104 atlanta, 104 nashville. 104 in washington, d.c. the story on monday, still pretty steamy. upper 90s to low 100s. we ll continue to see
republicans blasting the president s health care law as a new tax. it s a penalty. it s a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1% perhaps of the population who may decide they are going to be free riders, but most people not affected. a new tax on the american people? no, not a tax on the american people. a penalty for free riders. also new today, house speaker john boehner saying hey, not so fast. even though the president tried to admit for over a year that it wasn t a tax, nobody believed it, and now we know it. but it s getting in the way of employers hiring new workers. because of these increased costs of government-run healthxd insurance and the fact that if they don t, they have to provide a tax. president obama, asking supporters to shell out more cash. a new daily beast reportñr that describes a late-night conference call from air force one asking donors to send more money and send it now. and governor scott said it won t expand the medicaid
winds. and it may last until mid-week. meteorologist maria larosa from the weather channel has more on what we can expect. maria, hello. good day to you, alex. yeah this is going to be a very high-impact storm. so many levels, whether it s the rain and the wind and eventually for some of us, it will be the snow. let s start with the wind. i ll show you how that s going to be driving the rain and the moisture off the atlantic. and you can see the timing, how the heaviest rain will be pushing into philadelphia, new york, on into new york state. after midnight, towards tomorrow morning, you ll notice the snow beginning to expand. this our clipper system beginning to come in and supply the cold air and the snow could be coming down at one to two inches an hour in places like johnstown, up into buffalo as well. that snow continues to fall through monday afternoon as the rain ends from philadelphia to new york and into boston. by monday evening, still snowinç potentially from pi