hurricanes of course feed on the warm waters. makes them stronger, more powerful. tom sater is outfront live in the weather center. tom, if dorian hits florida on the course that it is, third major hurricane in as many years to hit the peninsula there. tell wlaus we are rerng. yeah, i mean we just had michael last year and irma the year before. i expect this to be a category 2 late tonight or overnight. it s small in size but should grow in the days ahead. puerto rico is getting a lot heavier rain today with thunderstorms than they did yesterday when the center was a lot closer. as we take it though in the future, what has changed for our viewers from yesterday, we had it the national hurricane center had it making landfall at category 3. increased that to a 4. that s not a surprise because yesterday we had a category 3 well out into the waters. so that s plenty of time for it to really surge in the warmer waters going from the mid-80s to the upper 80s.
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and good morning to you. boy, the temperatures, top story again. wow. sizzling heat, and most of the country right now is dealing with triple digits or at least feeling like triple digits. as we ve been saying, not just uncomfortable, dangerous and deadly. welcome. friday, july 22nd. let s get right to it. intensely hot against across a huge portion of the country. it started in the midwest, it s come heeft. washington, the high, 103 today but it s going to feel like 115 with the humidity. triple digit temperatures are expected across the mid-atlantic, up and down the east coast and into the ohio valley and as many as 2,000 related deaths now reported. utilities around the country are bracing, asking you to conserve energy as people crank the ac. in new york, the power company said that store owners who leave their doors open could be fined. wow. trying to stay cool. match fn you re a polar bear in this heat? animals in the detroit zoo were treated to popsicles with
king george v100 years ago. to live pictures, she s making symbolic trips. a meeting and tree planting ceremony with ireland s president. still ahead on american morning, governor scott waushg of wisconsin joins us live. he took on the unions but did he create more jobs? he s going to be joining us from milwaukee in a few moments. arnold schwarzenegger s confession, the former governor telling the los angeles times he fathered a child out of wed locke more than ten years ago with a member of his household staff. we want to know if a politician s private transgressions matter to their public life. tell wlaus you think. you can e-mail us, tweet us, go to our blog, and find us on facebook. we ll be reading your comments in ability ten minutes. you love money