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to hit the highest temperature ever recorded on earth. plus, the dangerous heat wave in europe as many americans travel overseas. the record-breaking heat temporarily shutting down popular attractions. >> gio: suspected serial killer arrested. a long island man charged in three of the mysterious gilgo beach murders. gone unsolved for more than a decade. the advancements in technology that helped track him down, the suffolk county district attorney joins us for an interview that you'll see only on "gma." >> janai: pressing pause. the hollywood actors strike shutting down production on big budget movies the economic impact stretching past the picket lines. >> whit: 2024 candidates compete for support in iowa. how they're courting voters and who got a standing ovation. >> gio: cluster munitions. a u.s. shipment arriving in ukraine despite a ban on them in 120 countries. the assurances on how they'll be

used. >> janai: student loan help. the education department wiping out loans for 800,000 borrowers. the $39 billion program announced as alarms are sounded about student loan forgiveness scams. what you need to know. >> whit: loud quitting. the new data on the workplace trend. frustrated employees openly venting their anger. is this the right move? experts weigh in. >> gio: wnba all-star weekend. sabrina ionescu smashing records in the three-point contest ahead of tonight's big game, plus brittney griner back on the court as "gma" goes one-on-one with the star players. ♪ money, money ♪ >> janai: and giant jackpot. more than a billion dollars up for grabs this weekend in mega millions and powerball drawings. what an expert says you should never do if you strike it rich.

>> whit: and good morning, america. great to have you with us on this saturday. we do begin with the dangerous and relentless heat wave affecting tens of millions of americans. >> janai: plus, the threat of severe weather moving from the middle of the country to the east. according to flight aware, more than 9,000 flights were delayed into or out of the u.s. on friday. more than 1,200 were canceled mainly due to thunderstorms. >> gio: and europe is feeling that emption treatment heat too. some big spots for tourists had to be closed down because of the hot weather. let's go ahead and start off with somara in the deep south where records could be broken in just a few hours. good morning, somara. >> somara: good morning, gio. yes, it's the longevity of the heat that's the real concern here. the impacts are far-reaching from heat-related illnesses to the grid capacity and just simple daily life. this morning, 90 million americans are bracing for another brutally hot day with heat alerts spanning from coast

to coast. skyrocketing temperatures in texas causing an uptick in heat-related illness as record energy use is putting a strain on the power grid. the extreme heat not only in texas, phoenix seeing 15 consecutive days of 110 plus degree temperatures. u.p.s. drivers gear up for possible strikes as conditions become more extreme. volunteers staffing this outreach tent offering help to the city's most vulnerable as phoenix sees a rise in heat-related deaths. in nevada temperatures in las vegas over the coming days forecast near the city's all-time record of 117 degrees. >> the last thing i want to do is pass out. >> reporter: in florida it's so hot, the boardwalk here in hollywood, nearly empty as people stay indoors. >> everybody is on alert. >> reporter: california experiencing record heat. sacramento now under an excessive heat warning through this weekend. our affiliate kxtv is at the california state fair gearing up for the weekend. >> here at the california state fair, it is just getting

under way, and we are expecting to break 100 degrees for opening weekend. >> reporter: and despite death valley temperatures soaring awfully close to the 1913 world record of 134 degrees, tourists still flocking to the hottest place on earth despite officials warning everyone to stay away. now, death valley has only reached 130 plus degrees five live times since 1913, so that will be one to hot but also up and down the west coast take a look at the state of washington, we're looking at 101 degrees possible up there, and then you head farther south, 118 in palm springs. heat advisories across the gulf coast states. the next four days even hotter and we head into phoenix where they could be looking at their 18th consecutive day at 110 degrees or higher, and that would break the record on tuesday if we make that, and then in las vegas they could be looking at a record high of 117 degrees or tying heir all-time high there. finally, the marine heat wave in florida, what you are looking at on the screen right now is actual water temperatures. extremely uncanny for this time of year as those trade winds

relax and we're seeing temperatures around 96 degrees out towards bob allen, even towards the keys in the low to mid-90s. >> janai: starting seeing those triple digits from washington to florida. somara, we'll check back in. to a long island suburb reeling after a neighbor was arrested and charged with three of the gilgo beach murders. abc's aaron katersky joins us with a break in the case 13 years of bodies were found. good morning. >> it is stunning. after more than a decade of hiding in plain sight, an alleged serial killer is behind bars this morning because of burner phones, a distinctive suv and pizza crust. this is the moment rex heuermann, a suburban dad who took the train to work at his architecture firm in new york city was arrested outside his office and charged in the gilgo beach killings. >> rex heuermann is a demon that walks among us, a predator that ruined families. >> reporter: ten bodies

were discovered in 2010 and 2011 terrifying quiet shore communities along island. heuermann is accused of three women, amber costello, megan waterman and melissa suspected in a fourth, maureen brainard-barnes. all founded in a wooded stretch of beach, their bodies wrapped in hunting burlap, each in their 20s, petite and working as escorts. prosecutors said took this selfie he sent using disposable phones to solicit the women for sex. >> they've compared the victim's phones with the burner phones, and they immediately honed in on some similarities. >> reporter: they linked him through the cars, his car, a chevrolet avalanche, and dna lifted from this pizza box in a trash can outside his manhattan office. 13 years after the bodies were discovered, police seized more evidence at his home in massapequa park where neighbors were stunned, saying it's shocking, an alleged serial

killer lives so close for so long. >> they never really were up. i'd see the wife come up and down the block in the car, but that's about it. >> the fact that this guy is only a couple doors down or so from me is really -- it just makes me tremble a little bit. >> reporter: rex heuermann seen here in an old youtube video boasting about his career in architecture. >> rex heuermann, an architect, i'm an architectural consultant, a trouble shooter born and raised in long island. >> reporter: he appeared in court disheveled. his attorney entering a not guilty plea on his behalf and says heuermann denies being the killer. >> you said he denied it to you? >> correct. >> what were his exact words? >> i did not do this. >> i did not do this. >> correct. >> reporter: a judge held him without bail after prosecutors said heuermann was still using burner phones to keep tabs

on the investigation, search for child pornography and solicit sex workers. his arrest bringing hope to allie pratel, the sister of megan waterman, who disappeared from this motel leaving behind a daughter. she spoke exclusively to abc affiliate wmtw. >> just a normal person and she had a normal loving heart just like any person you walked down next to on the sidewalk and she didn't deserve this. she really was a fabulous person. >> reporter: and police say they are not done. janai, there are at least six more victims whose murders have gone unsolved all these years and families of those victims say they hope this arrest is only the beginning. >> aaron, thank you. and joining us now is the suffolk county district attorney raymond tierney. for more than a decade this case went cold. you created a task force, and 18 months later you have a suspect in custody. what do you attribute it to? >> i think it's the collaboration between the prosecutors' office and the

various investigators and agencies, and we formed this task force and we had analysts, investigators, and attorneys working together every day. >> janai: i mean, how strong do you feel this case is between the burner phones, the pizza crust, the car identification? heuermann's attorney said that he hadn't had a chance to look at the evidence, but it seems circumstantial. you feel strongly about it? >> you know, we've done a good job of getting all these disparate pieces and putting it know, the case is 1 years old, so that's the only real way to solve a cold case. >> janai: so, you said that heuermann did google searches about the crimes, about the investigation on these burner phones and that the case is ongoing with more evidence anticipated. what do you expect to find, and what about those other murders? >> first off, what we do as far as our task force is we gather information, and now this arrest affords us an opportunity to get

a whole, large amount of information, because we're executing search warrants simultaneously with the arrest, so that information is going to start coming in. as far as the other murders, you know, i think what's been traditionally called the gilgo four, i think those murders, patterns are very similar, and that's what this grand jury investigation was all about. we'll work through this case and continue to investigate all those other bodies, as well. >> janai: will you say whether you think they could be connected? >> you know, it doesn't matter what i think. it matters what i can prove, and right now we're focusing on these four cases, and that's what we're going to do. >> janai: this has shaken a long island community. a father, a husband, a neighbor. was this guy hiding in plain sight? >> yeah, i think he was leading certainly a double life. you know, he had a series of burner phones, fictitious email accounts, and he definitely bifurcated his life as to, you know, what he did behind closed

doors and what the public saw. >> janai: all right, suffolk county d.a. raymond tierney, we appreciate you being here. >> thank you. whit. >> whit: fascinating case. all right, janai, thank you. now to hollywood on strike. actors joining the picket lines with the writers guild as they fight for more compensation and protection from major industry changes. abc's zohreen shah is in l.a. with more on the impact and where things stand now. zohreen, good morning. >> reporter: whit, you just have to drive by any studio in l.a. to see where things stand. the actors have joined the picket line and tell me the hollywood dream is a far, far reach. for most working actors, many are barely scraping by, and so for the first time in six decades, they are joining the writers in strike. [ crowd chanting ] this morning, day two of hollywood actors joining writers on strike bringing the entertainment industry to a halt. >> we are speaking on behalf of workers all across the nation

and around the world, the eyes of workers are upon us. >> reporter: picketers yesterday stretched across the entrances of major studios from hollywood and l.a. to new york city. many movies and tv productions from "wednesday" to movies like "deadpool 3" indefinitely delayed while "house of the dragon" while cast is mostly british may continue filming. actors are looking for better residual pay and higher wages for streaming shows and protectness of their likeness from the use of a.i. these issues largely affecting actors barely making living wages. >> you are typically having to work a second job in order to subsidize your income. >> i was living check to check to be honest. i had a friend who lived in his car for a year. >> reporter: and the strike potentially crippling the los angeles economy that relies so heavily on hollywood. "forbes" estimating the cost could top 3 billion and thousands of jobs. >> a hollywood production brings

a lot of money to a lot of different businesses. we're talking hotels. we're talking restaurants, so there's going to be a huge economic impact from this strike. >> reporter: a far-reaching impact. as for the association representing the studios and streamers, they say they offered actors historic pay and residual increases and a.i. protection for actors' digital likeness, but that offer was not accepted. gio. >> gio: so many workers and industries affected by this. zohreen, thank you so much. we're going to turn now to the battle over the defense authorization act. it is intensifying after house republicans tacked on amendments that many believe have no chance of passing the senate. abc's jay o'brien joins us from capitol hill to break it all down. good morning, jay. >> reporter: gio, good morning. this is a must pass bill that funds the military and getting it through congress is typically pretty routine, but this year with republicans now in control of the house, the legislation is loaded down with hot button

conservative amendments including scrapping a pentagon policy that covers abortion-related expenses for service members barring the dod for paying for hormone treatments and gender-affirming surgery, eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion offices and banning military installations from displaying nonapproved flags like pride flags, and they approved 886 billion in defense spending including a more than 5% pay raise for troops and passed the house yesterday with broad republican support and the help of four moderate democrats and getting it passed was a win for speaker kevin mccarthy and house republicans, but now it tees up a showdown with the senate, which is controlled by democrats and still has to pass its own version of this legislation, and those conservative amendments almost certain to be rejected by the senate, which would then set up this possibly tense scenario where the house and the senate

would have to settle the differences between their two bills, janai. >> janai: all right. thank you for that update, jay. to iowa where the republican caucuses are six months away, and several gop candidates were making their case to a leading group of conservative evangelical activists in the state. our maryalice parks was there and joins us now from iowa. maryalice, good morning. one big name skipped the event. >> reporter: yeah, janai, good morning. this was a high-profile event. several leading candidates from former vice president mike pence to governors ron desantis, nicky hail -- haley all gathered here trying to win over that key constituency of conservative evangelical leaders here in iowa. but, yes, former president donald trump skipped the event. he was notably not here. he is slated to speak at a big event in florida today, and i have to tell you, a lot of these evangelical leaders were not pleased. many attendees were very blunt with me telling me even though they voted for him in the past, they are shopping around. on the issues, the candidates

were pressed about whether they would continue the u.s. support of the war in ukraine. vivek ramaswamy, the entrepreneur businessman was very blunt. he said he would immediately end any u.s. support of ukraine. he would end any nato expansion and those lines landed in that room. he got a standing ovation, and he has been climbing in these polls. his team tells us that he already has reached that threshold of unique donors needed to qualify for next month's debate. now, today is a big filing deadline. the candidates have to tell us how much they have fund-raised these last few months. mike pence's team tells us that he's only raised about a million dollars so far. that's a teeny fraction compared to some of the other candidates, but he says that he got into the race late, and his team telling us he will still make that debate stage, janai. >> maryalice, on another political note, iowa's governor yesterday signed the state's new six-week abortion ban into law right there at that event. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. that was met with a lot of fanfare in this crowd, and on the issue of abortion there is a little bit of daylight between

these gop candidates, some like pence really campaigning on this issue talking about how he's excited to sign a federal nationwide ban should he be elected into office, whereas others including trump a little bit more guarded on that issue of a federal ban. whit. >> janai: all right. maryalice, thank you so much for that. whit. >> whit: all right. let's get a check of the weather and back to somara theodore in atlanta, and in addition to all of the heat, we're still watching the smoke. somara. >> somara: the air quality compromises more than 900 fires burning in canada right now. take a look at this visual we have from rapid city, south dakota. real eerie picture here with the sun glowing an orange due to the smoke, and the thing is, we have these northwesterlies driving it down into the lower 48, so let's time this out for you. particularly we're looking at minneapolis where they're expecting to see a good amount of snow -- i'm sorry, a good amount of smoke as we head through this morning, but then

by this evening that dips further south, so cities like minneapolis up towards bismarck, you'll start to see clearing, but notice areas like chicago is where we start to see the smoke thickening up, and we see that becoming more widespread into indianapolis and louisville, as far south as nashville and even here in atlanta by sunday evening. that >> somara: you know it's worth noting the smoke is actually

aiding in keeping areas cooler in the upper midwest. >> whit: a small silver lining, i suppose. >> gio: thank you so much. hope is still alive for those with multimillion dollar dreams. there was no winner in last night's $560 million mega millions drawing. now that jackpot is growing higher with a larger powerball jackpot at stake. tonight just look at those numbers. elwyn lopez is in atlanta there with lottery fever still so strong. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, gio. the bad news, no one won. the good news is that no one won. that means that billionaire hopefuls like myself still have a chance. >> good luck. >> reporter: this morning, more than a billion reasons to get into the game. >> i would pay off my student loans, help pay my mom's car off, my car off. >> reporter: and she will have a lot left over. tonight's powerball jackpot, the third largest in history, now at $875 million or 452 million in

cash, and last night's mega millions drawing without a winner growing to $640 million with a cash value of 328 million. >> because you say 875 million, i say, okay, let me go in here and just take my chances on this 875 million. $2, that's fine. >> reporter: the chance of winning both the megamillion and the powerball, 1 in 88 quadrillion, but if you do hit it big, some experts suggest keep your job and keep it to yourself. >> the first thing they think of, i won't show up for work on monday. the commitment you should make to yourself i am for sure going to show up to work on monday and i'm going to behind the scenes put together a team who is going to help advise me. >> reporter: tamara blount, 1 of 200 co-workers split a million dollar jackpot in 2018 has this to say to the next lucky winner. >> work on ways to make it residual income so that you're better off than you were before

you won the lottery. >> reporter: guys, this is hard to believe, but about 70% of lottery winners blew through their winnings in just five years. i bet you i could make it last a little bit longer. >> whit: five years? wow. >> gio: we would be a little more responsible, right? >> janai: a little bit. >> whit: you could still pick us some tickets while you're there, and janai is requesting a bag of chips on the qt. >> reporter: they have some flaming hot cheetos. >> janai: got to love a quiktrip. >> whit: thank you. still ahead on "gma" advances in technology helped crack the 13-year-old gilgo beach murders case. coming up, a closer look at the tools used to help arrest an alleged killer. >> janai: plus, student loan relief announced for some as a new warning comes about debt forgiveness scams you need to know about. the red flags to keep an eye out for. >> gio: and it's the wnba all-star weekend. the player who stole the show overnight. we'll be right back. you're watching "gma" on this

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building a better bay area. moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >> good morning. i'm gloria rodriguez. an eight year old boy is in grave condition after he was caught in the crossfire of a rolling gun battle in oakland. the shooting happened on eastbound 580 around 6:30 p.m. authorities say the shooting first involved two cars, a dark gray sedan and a maroon colored suv. chp tells abc7 news the eight year old boy was riding in a car that was not involved in the shooting. we are waiting for an update on the boy's condition . and we're expecting a very hot weekend. let's get a check of your forecast with francis ding lawson. >> hi, gloria. temperatures right now are 68 in ukiah around the bay. lots of 50s. so it's

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saturday morning. that, of course, is "jerry maguire." >> gio: janai lost it. >> whit: oh, man. not going quietly after getting fired. a new trend shows that more and more people are following his lead. instead of quiet quitting, about one in five disgruntled employees are letting their feelings be known, why it's happening and what it says about the state of the workplace. we're going to have more on that coming up. >> gio: all right. >> whit: going out with a whole lot of drama. >> gio: absolutely. let's take a look at some of the other big stories we're following. law enforcement officials say a man opened fire on police officers on a busy street in fargo, north dakota, killing one and critically injuring two. two others were injured in the shooting, and the suspect was killed. cluster munitions supplied by the u.s. are now in ukraine according to a top military official. cluster bombs have been outlawed by more than 100 countries because of the risk they pose to civilians. american officials say they have

received assurances from ukraine that the cluster munitions wail not be used in civilian areas. in wimbledon's, women's final, number six seed ons jabeur will face marketa vondrusova. the first unseeded women's finalist at wimbledon since billie jean king back in 1963. you can see that match starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on espn and espn plus, and then tomorrow, novak djokovic will try to score a 24th major singles championship when he faces carlos alcaraz in the men's final. exciting tennis happening. >> gio: a lot of people are excited. we are going to start this half hour here with a closer look at the technology that police say they used to crack three of the 13-year-old gilgo beach murders leading to the arrest of an accused serial killer. abc's aaron katersky is back with more on what led authorities to their suspect. aaron, good morning to you, again. >> reporter: gio, good morning. it is fascinating how they put

it together. cell phone records narrowed the area where the suspect could be. dna technology advances convinced investigators they finally had their man. >> we have never stopped working on this case. >> reporter: this morning, cracking the case. investigators say how modern police work led to this. court records making clear advancements in dna technology and phone analytics led investigators to the suspect, rex heuermann. detectives say they used phone records to tie the burner phones to locations near the suspect's home in massapequa park and his office in midtown manhattan and creating what investigators call a box. >> and they looked at an area of a confluence of four cell towers and realized that this had significance, because the perpetrator of these crimes was probably located within this area. >> reporter: and advancements in

dna technology helped investigators allegedly tie the suspect to hairs on the victims once considered unsuitable for further dna testing. >> those hairs were degraded so you couldn't use traditional dna analysis on it. you would have to wait and use mitochondrial dna, and back in 2010, the technology wasn't there for mitochondrial dna. >> reporter: authorities say the mitochondrial profile of a male hair found on one of the victims now determined to be the same as a sample taken from heuermann's pizza crust and police say they pulled it from a garbage can after they watched heuermann throw the pizza box away. dna advancements have helped solve other notorious cold cases. some genealogy websites are open source, meaning investigators can cross-reference decades old crime scene dna with modern public dna databases, sometimes turning up family members of suspects or even the perpetrators themselves.

of that, that is what helped lead to the capture of the golden state killer in 2018 for murders dating all the way back to the 1970s. genetic genealogy helped with the arrest in a cold case dating back four decades. this 68-year-old was was arrested for the death of a girl murdered in 1975 after police picked up a coffee cup he had dropped in the trash at the philadelphia airport and ran the dna. it was a match. after all these innovations in the gilgo case, police are back to basics this morning searching the suspect's home for any lingering clues. whit. >> whit: all right, aaron katersky, thank you so much. joining us from washington is abc news consultant brad garrett, a former fbi special agent. brad, good morning to you. it's always great to have you. so, police used cell phone tracking to find their suspects when he used can you tell me about the varnss advances in that area? >> so, the ability to at least go to cell towers, in other words, i'm not sure they had

geolocation back then, and the records may not be available, but the point being, you can place an individual within proximity, for example, the south tower that's close to the defendant's -- where he worked in manhattan, also to his residence. what's more important, whit, is the ability of connecting that burner phone to victims' phones, in other words, he had to arrange the pickup of these victims, and so they have that. so they created basically these triangles or boxes between -- it's more than one burner phone. burner phone to victim, victim back to burner phone and the location of the burner phone as it moves between the residence and his office in manhattan. >> whit: it really is amazing how they match all this together. let's talk about the dna technology, the mitochondrial dna we're learning about and how authorities used a pizza crust to allegedly connect it to the

suspect and the crime scene. >> so, mitochondrial dna is really unique because there are hundreds of thousands of mitochondria in a cell, so that translates into the ability to have a very small amount of it to test against a suspect, and in this case, there was a hair apparently as aaron talked about left on the body of one of the victims. they were able to take that, extract dna and then following suspects to pick up items that they've dropped, cigarettes, coffee cups, food that they've eaten. i've done surveillance in restaurants where we've picked up plates and glasses. you take that, you pull the dna off of that, and they got a match, and so it's all -- it's the combination of dna, as aaron said, the vehicle, and the cell towers that basically put this case together. >> whit: really is fascinating.

brad garrett, thanks for your time this morning. we appreciate it. janai. >> janai: all right, truly fascinating. time for another check of the weather, and somara theodore joins us there in atlanta. hey, somara. >> somara: good morning, janai. so, we're talking about severe weather, and yesterday we saw four reports of tornadoes and over 200 damaging wind reports and today the threat for severe weather reignites, so we're tracking two main zones out towards texas. we could see more storms erupt in oklahoma as well. not just there, up into the northeast, we are looking at the threat for damaging wind, as well as isolated tornadoes possible. isolated tornadoes could actually pop up in the northeast and then the flood threat is the big threat we have our eyes on. see from the atlantic city up into areas like new hampshire and vermont, anywhere from two to four inches, but the hot spot down towards the delmarva peninsula could see four to six plus inches of rain. that's a look at the weather across the country. let's see what's going on closer

>> somara: guys, we got to keep a close eye on the northeast, because, remember, we just had vermont and new hampshire hit with copious amounts of rain and grounds are saturated and now up for another two to four inches. >> gio: yeah, just unbelievable how much weather we have to watch all across the country. somara, thank you so much. coming up on "good morning america," a warning about the possible rise in student loan scams following the supreme court's decision to strike down president biden's forgiveness program. how to protect yourself when we come back here on "gma." down president biden's student loan forgiveness plan. how to protect yourself when we come back on "gma." well i got an instant-er offer on my car. even faster. instanter? that's not a thing. it is. not even a word. i think you get “instanter” offers when you've had nine all-star appearances. um, thirteen.

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>> janai: welcome back to "gma." some new relief for nearly a million student loan borrowers enacted by the biden administration, this amid warnings that loan scammers are out there pretending to help you. abc's alexis christoforous is here with the details. good morning, alexis. >> reporter: good morning, janai. nearly a million federal student loan borrowers are in for a pleasant surprise. while the supreme court shot down biden's efforts

at widespread debt forgiveness, these borrowers are about to get an email notifying them their student debts will soon be automatically erased. this morning, the department of education wiping out $39 billion in student debt for 800,000 federal loan borrowers. the government fixing mistakes loan servicers made when collecting payments from income-driven repayment programs where they're linked to earnings and family size. the education secretary saying by fixing past administrative failures, we are ensuring everyone gets the forgiveness they deserve. from now through the end of the year, the department of education will contact borrowers to let them know their outstanding debt has been erased, the move coming after the supreme court struck down president biden's broader plan to forgive student loan debt for more than 40 million borrowers. but all the confusion around loan repayments prompting the better business bureau, the fcc and the federal trade commission to issue an urgent warning to borrowers about a likely rise in student loan scams.

>> people are losing a lot of money because they're paying money to a fraudulent company that they think they're getting their loans forgiven. >> reporter: authorities say, beware of unsolicited emails, phone calls, text messages for social media prompting debt relief or loan forgiveness. attorneys general teaming up with the robo response team to warn consumers about the increased rick of scams. >> they call up, and they tell you that if you don't give them money right now, you'll lose the opportunity to discharge your student loans. that's a lie. >> reporter: authorities also say, don't provide your social security number, birth date, bank details, or federal student loan i.d. number to unverified companies, and never pay for help with your student loans. >> the government will not ask you for a debit card because a lot of government programs are, in fact, free, so they're not going to ask you to pay up front, but scammers will. >> reporter: of course, if

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here in las vegas ready to tip off for tonight's wnba all-star game in what feels like the most anticipated in this young league's history. >> welcome to the kia wnba skills challenge. >> reporter: bow down, las vegas. the queens of the court have arrived, the 2023 wnba all-star weekend is finally here. what better way to kick it off than with a skills competition. sabrina ionescu dominated the three-point contest with a record-setting 37 points, the highest ever recorded in wnba or nba contest history. the king of three-pointers steph curry tweeting, ridiculous. >> the energy is at an all-time high. >> reporter: for the second straight year team wilson will square off against stewart, the two sides named after their captains, a'ja wilson and breanna stewart. >> people think it's stacked but

i think we're all great players. >> reporter: wilson will be playing alongside her fellow gamecock alumni aliyah boston. just the eighth rookie in league history selected to start an all-star game. >> i mean it's special because this league is full of talent, and so for them to recognize me as that and being a rookie, i mean, it's just a great feeling. >> reporter: but team wilson will have its hands with team stewart with jewell lloyd and alyssa thomas though all eyes will likely be on the phoenix mercury's brittney griner making her first all-star appearance since her december release from a russian prison. >> being here right now, it's a little surreal, a little bit, you know, just taking it in. but definitely appreciate it even more now. >> reporter: well, for the first time in its history, tonight's wnba all-star game will be televised on primetime network tv right here on abc, a pretty clear sign that this league has arrived.

now, if you ask both teams, both will tell you that they should be the favorite in tonight's game, but since we are in vegas, i should note that the oddsmakers, gio, the oddsmakers are giving the edge to team wilson. >> gio: oh, okay. we're team mola though because we're all talking about your grip on that basketball. >> whit: yeah, the one-palm grip is impressive. >> reporter: that's the extent of the skill. that's where it ends. >> janai: no shake and bake. >> whit: that's right. you're looking good, though. >> gio: mola, thank you and we'll be right back on "gma." go. >> whit: mola thank you, we're right back here on gma. wayfair's got just what you need... performance fabrics, stains don't stand a chance. no chance! -woo! dog friendly and wallet friendly... pug-proved. get nice things with nice prices at wayfair. ♪ wayfair, you've got just what i need ♪

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>> janai: coming up on "gma," 90 million americans under heat alerts. >> gio: and our "gma" cover story. can dancing help with symptoms of postpartum depression? >> whit: and then savoring summer. the top tips and tricks to get ribs at your barbecue done just right. yummy. summer, the top tips and tricks to get those ribs done at your barbecue done right.

building a better bay area moving forward. finding solutions this is abc7 news. >> good morning. i'm gloria rodriguez. new this morning, california leaders banned state funded travel to three more states after they recently passed anti lgbtq legislation. state attorney general rob bonta added. missouri. nebraska and wyoming to the list banned called those states actions described minatory and an act of government overreach. now, 26 states fall under california's state funded travel ban. that's more than half of the states in the country. residents kicked off the weekend with a cold pint at the 12th annual blues and brews festival in pleasant hill . today is the main event of the blues and brews festival filled with a variety of food vendors, 20 local breweries and live music. and you can go to the festival from 3 to 9 p.m. that's

during the height of the heat. tickets are still available at blues and brews. festival.com. let's get a check of that forecast for today with frances lawson. >> oh yeah, it's warming up. in fact, we're already seeing lots of 60s for some of our interior locations like concord, 64, brentwood, 67, some upper 50s around the bay, san francisco and half moon bay in the mid 50s and excessive heat warning starts in a few hours, continues through tomorrow night where the areas away from the water can reach near 110 degrees. that's going to be hot for a couple of days. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. so we've got records possible today and the heat holds on tomorrow, triple digits inland today and tomorrow. the heat eases by monday, much cooler by tuesday and wednesday. gloria, that's when we will be closer to average. but if you can head to the beach to get some relief from the heat, the coast will be in the upper 60s, today and tomorrow. gloria >> all right. thank you, francis. the news continues right now with good morning

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>> gio: good morning, america. it's our second hour. 90 million americans waking up under heat alerts with california's death valley on track to be the hottest place on earth. the tourist spots officials say to avoid at home and abroad as a dangerous heat wave sweeps