Portland, oregon, today. Breaking Yesterdays Record of 112 degrees. To state the obvious, it should not be 115 degrees in portland. Normal high temperatures at this time of the year in the city are in the lowtomid 70s. This is not just happening in portland. Oregons Capital City Of Salem also reached 114 degrees. Seattle, washington, Hit A recordbreaking 107 degrees today. The weather across the Pacific Northwest of the United States is down right dystopian right now. Like something out of a climate Science Fiction Knowledge but a peak into the future that is made present. All this is happening because of the Heat Dome where High Pressure in the atmosphere traps hot Ocean Air Kind of like a lid. Heat domes are not uncommon in the summer. But this one incredibly intense and vast. The kind of extreme Weather Event that Climate Change is making more and more common. The national Weather Service in seattle put out this straightforward warning last night. Quote, with morning lows already st
I think its going to be the longest and deadliest Tornado Event in u. S. History. Ive got towns that are gone, that are just i mean, gone. You think youd go door to door to check on people and see if there are okay. There are no doors. The question is, is somebody in the rubble of thousands upon thousands of structures . I mean, it is devastating. Words can hardly describe some of the pictures weve seen. At any moment we are expecting another update from the governor along with local, state, and federal officials. My colleague Boris Sanchez is on the ground in mayfield, kentucky, helping to cover this story from every angle. Reporter thanks, phil. And youre absolutely right. You are at a loss for words looking at the magnitude of destruction across eight states. Its difficult to fathom when you see the power of Mother Nature to wreak havoc and to erase entire communities from the map. In Dawson Springs, kentucky, the list of missing people is now eight pages long, singlespaced. And her
The damage. It spans a good number of miles. So its a lot of ground to cover. But i did do an Aerial Survey yesterday, and i could tell you that the track is continuous from south of casey in Fulton County all the way to at least beaver dam when we finally turned around. So the damage that we have surveyed so far indicates that the rating is at least an ef3. However, we have experts who are on the surveys right now, and also experts within the National Weather service that are looking at the data and will be looking at possibly upgrading that rating as well. On behalf of the National Weather service, our hearts go out to each and every person that has been affected by this tornado. And that affects us locally and across the entire Weather Service where weve had numerous people come to us and say how deeply sorry for everything thats happened here. But as we get more information, we will definitely release that to you. We have lots of surveys to continue to do over the next couple of da
children s books are to be printed in their original form after a backlash against editing them for modern audiences. president biden has ruled out sending f 16 fighterjets to ukraine, saying the planes are not needed for now. it comes despite increased pressure from ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky for urgent air support to help protect its skies from russian attacks. president zelensky has marked the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine by hailing his nation s year of invincibility. james waterhouse reports from kyiv on how the first anniversary was marked. the morning war rained down on ukraine. air raid siren. a shadow with haunting consequences. the once unthinkable playing out as the world looked on. 150,000 russian troops moving in from three directions. ukraine s leader had offers to leave. but he stayed. ..and is still here. this is a bittersweet day for ukraine, a reminder of remarkable survival and extraordinary loss. i kindly ask everyone to obs