>> i found a voice i didn't have. i became empowered, and feel like i can have some peace and get on with my life form team cover's on "news4 at 6:00" right now. breaking news now, a metro train derailed at the west hyattsville station. it happened about an hour ago. >> service has been suspended on the green line. shomari stone joins us live. what's going on? >> reporter: well, first le me tell you many of these passengers are telling me they were very scared. why? because number one, it is hot, number two, the train was shaking. number three, one woman told me the lights were out and they were escorted out of the

training through the tunnel. that tunnel, guess what, we're going to show it right now. we have some still photos that came into news4. many walked through this tunnel to outside. they said it was, you know, kind of scary. why? because you had some parents with their children walking through this tunnel, the kids are crying, the kids are scared, but the good news is no one was injured. that's always a blessen. however, i must point out there was a woman i just spoke to her husband, and she tells me she was six months pregnant, obviously scared. her husband is scared. we're first going to tell you right now we talked to some passengers. let's hear from one of them. go right ahead. >> well, the train just crashed. we didn't really understand. i was in the last, so i was a bit shaky for about two, three minutes, and then it stopped.

leadership they led you out through the tunnel? >> yes. they really well organized. we were down there no more than 20, 25 minutes. >> reporter: back out here live, i must add that green line service is suspended to prince georges plaza. let me move a bit to the left. the firefighters are decompressing, i guess, this is breaking news. i have new sound, a new interview. this is a father i just spoke to. let's hear what he has to say here as well. >> nervous, you know? you last year the train that crashed, my mea cousin's fiancee was on there. >> my son is cries. my 10-year-old is nervous, because he knew what happened to her. >> reporter: what was going through your mind? >> fear. you know, we didn't know what was what.

>> reporter: that was james murphy. he was on the train with his two sons, one 23467 he was holding. he also had his fiancee with him, six months pregnant. in a cool ambulance with a lot of air conditioning. fire fighter/ems are treating her. she's obviously scared. she has a baby inside of her, and the firefighters are heading to the trucks, going to their suvs, drinking a lot of water. as we've told you all week lodge, it is very hot. that's the main concerned. when you're underground, you don't know what's going on, you're hot, and the firefights s did a great job. we'll continue to bring you live updates and you can follow nbcwashington.com on the website and twitter, @nbcwashington. that's the latest.

i'm shomari stone, news4. it is awfully hot out there, as noted. it's only going to get worse we're told. doug kammerer will tell us about that. but we begin with melissa mollet. who is in alexandria. >> reporter: if you just can't stay inside. a pool or splash park is probably your best bet this weekend. >> it's kind of cool, and it's so relaxing. perfect for an umbrella without any rain, a week where you tote water everywhere you go. it is blare road community garbleden in northwest, 89-year-old bill johnson is tending his potato, zucchini and

squash before the temperatures get too hot. >> i do it for exercise and, you know, just keep going. >> are you going to get out of this heat soon? >> as soon as i water this plant here, i'm going. >> reporter: as the temperature goes up, so do trips to the e.r. another concern during some of the hottest days of the year, pets, especially dogs with shorter snouts, like amber rose, who have a harter time breathing. signs of heatstroke, which is life-threatening includes severe panting, lethargy and vomiting. >> if you get a dog to a veterinarian quickly, but the problem happens when you wait or you don't recognize the signs. >> reporter: tesz washington sports clubs in clarendon, they have been slammed all week. ands anyone without power is welcome to any of the clubs through sunday. you don't have to be a member, just over 18. >> charge up the cell phone

quick, or take a shower, towel off, just take a breather. >> reporter: on the one of the hottest days we have seen some advise from matthew palmer. i've been standing out in it all day. >> get in the water. >> reporter: easy for him to say. he didn't have to go back to work. something you might not have thought of. it looks gorgeous out here is heat pavement, buckling. v-dot sent out a notice today, if you see any spots, let them know. of course that can be dang are you. >> melissa, you're free, go ahead. the water is waiting. >> reporter: is that okay? >> it's okay now. >> reporter: okay. all right. thanks, melissa. how hot did it get today? what's going to happen the rest of the weekend? doug kammerer has the heat warnings, all the bad news, doug. >> that's really the unfortunate thing.

this is the current temperature out there. winds are calm, and there's no heat index. today is not going to feel anything like tomorrow. tomorrow is going to be a much different stories as we get hotter. now where we do have that heat index. 102 in la ray, and 103 in culpepper. i think you can add 5 to 10 degrees during the day tomorrow. that's the kind of heat we have tomorrow. that's why we have that heat advisory becoming an excessive heat twarng during the day tomorrow for a heat index above 110 degrees. tomorrow will be some incredible heat. i know it's a saturday. if you don't have to be outdoors, you may just want to

stay in and try to give it one more day, especially if you have power. >> or go get in the pool like in melissa's report. >> like that guy said, you betcha. the latest on the power outages. some people are still struggling in this heat. dominion power in virginia is down to 200 customers in the dark and the heat. that company expects to get everybody to get their power by midnight tonight. pepco and bge still have a few. richard jordan spent the day with some of the unlucky ones. >> reporter: it is down to the wire. most of the power companies said it would take a week before everyone had that power restored. now the last-minute push is on to get every single household back online. the lights are on for most, but there are thousands still in the dark and sweltering in the heat. courtney fletcher says the week has been exhausting. a 3-year-old and 1-year-old to take care of without electricity

has forced the family to pack up and stay with relatives. >> with the heat, you can't major bottling, warm milk, food, no refrigerator. >> reporter: but pepco workers are restoring power. those that did without for so long are thrilled. >> we're glad it's back on. >>ed powerless feel helpless. they are the last in their rockville neighborhood without power, the only house on the block that's dark and hot. their pets can't stop panting. >> we're pretty disgusted, we're worried about the health of the dogs. >> reporter: last friday, a wire outside their home was knocked out. now the temperature inside is just a degree out of from the outside, but everyone else nearby had the lights on three days ago. >> it makes me feel picked upon. >> reporter: but for those who left while the power was out, it's good to be back. >> we had to go somewhere else to live. no place like home.

>> reporter: pepco has one of the highest outage rates. they say they expect them back online, and they'll try to have every single customer restored by 11:00 p.m. sunday. that storm knocked do you trees all over the place, including arlington cemetery, where shst headstones were knocked off. the cemetery is already working on ordering replacements. in all, eight large trees were lost. 17 smaller trees had to be removed. cleanup crews have been hard at work. the jobs report for june shows another month of disappointing jobs growth. president obama was in ohio, a state doing better than most. steve handlelsman has the lates. >> reporter: the president probably wouldn't campaign in florida or nevada, say, and tell

people that our economy is headed in the right direction, but in the buckeye stays states, where he was again today, their recovery is stronger than most battlegrounds. continuing his tour, he went to a restaurant in akron around the time the bad news came in on u.s. jobs in the month of june. just 80,000 new hires, the third straight month of weak hiring. unemployment stuck at 8.2%, but at a rally, the president looked on the bright side. half a million manufacturing jobs in states like ohio have been regained. >> that's a step in the right direction. . that's a step in the right direction. but we can't be satisfied because our goal was never to just keep on working to get back to where we were back in 2007.

>> reporter: mitt romney was in new hampshire. >> the president's policies have not gotten america working again, and the president's going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it. >> reporter: romney says he would cut taxes and regulation to encourage hiring. >> finally it means having a health care plan that focuses on bringing down the cost of health care for american families, not just adding new expenses and new taxes to the american people. >> reporter: back in ohio, the president toured a plant that makes pasta sauce, and noted he's cut taxes $3600 on middle-class families action and pointed out no one pays a health care penalty tax if they guy coverage instead of refusing to. since the supreme court ruled it constitutional, president obama's gone from barely mentioning the health care law to bragging about it on the campaign trail. from capitol hill, i'm steve handelsman, news4. still ahead on news4 at 6:00, gunfire on the streets not far from the college park

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we continue to follow the these are photographs that viewers took from underground. metro says three trains derailed just outside the west high jazzville station. people were taken out through an escape hatch. right now green line service is pantied between fort totten and pring george's plaza. buses are on the way. the north texas toll way authority just released the video. the bus plowed into four cars sending car parts flying all over the road. there were no passengers on the bus at the time. two other people were hurt. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. the bus driver is on paid leave while that happens. chris christie isn't

commenting after a video shows him in a heated back-and-forth at the jersey shore last night. tmz obtained the video after someone criticized his education policy and kept walking. >> you're a real big shot. >> stop shooting your mouth off. >> you're a big shot. keep walking away. >> keep walking. keep walking. >> governor christie recently signed legislation to expand public funding for charter schools. critics wanted that money to go to struggling public schools. doug's here with more about our weather. >> to that it might be cool today compared to tomorrow, that's saying something. the highest i sauce was 99 at

the haired. i think we'll be setting some records. we'll show you how things are shaping up. plenty of sunshine, not even a cloud in the sky today, in order to give us a bit of shade. there was fortunately a bit of win, though, a bit in the way of atmosphere around the airport. that did help with the humidity. we did hit a high of 99 degrees at the airport today after a high of 100 yesterday. today's record high, by the way, 103, so nowhere close to that record. tomorrow's high 102. this morning, how about 81 degrees to start off the day. that very close to a record low high temperature across the region. just simply amazing how warm we have been. 98 right now, dew point of 60 degrees, humidity level of only 28%. not too humid in most of the area. talk about a record heat wave. we've been 95 or higher for nine days in a row. we've seen three streaks of

eight days in a row, but i think we'll make it to 11 on sunday. out there right now, it is 95 in leesburg. a pair of 95s along the eastern shore. this is star the heat index goes -- add about 10 degrees to these numbers, you could be at 115 at leesburg, 108 in manassas, that's what we expect during the day tomorrow, and that's why we have that excessive heat warning. storm4 radar, we're all clear as far as the rain is concerned. not going to be the case, maybe tomorrow a chance of thunderstorm -- any storms that develop in this intense heat will become strong very easily. i think it will be sunday we do assistant to see a best chance for rain. i think sunday we could see some severe weather. we'll be watching this scenario play out very, very carefully on

sunday. now, still hot, more humid as we move through the evening hours, temperatures 86 to about 93, with rather light winds. tomorrow morning. we'll wake up to what i think could be a record high low temperature -- that one always gets me. very warm, extremely muggy, then we move into what could be the hottest day of this heat wave, very hot and humid with record heat, i think. temperatures 99 to 104, if you remember last week on friday, we were at 104 degrees. we could be there again tomorrow. right now i'm keeping us at 103. your beach forecast, down there towards ocean city, you will see some relief. right now only 88 degrees, so a bit of relief there tomorrow. 87 and humid on your sunday. 83 degrees. a good chance of rain sunday need, month, into tuesday, maybe

even wednesday. you may get some of the rain for you, but we need that rain, especially across our region where it's been so dry. 97 on sunday, 86 on monday form the relief comes in, temperatures of 84 on tuesday, and i think we stay in the 80s all week longs. remember last night we were talking next friday as gaithersburg is expected to have their fire wok. that wouldn't be too bad next friday night. maybe not a bad thing that they waited friday night. >> they may have a big crowd because of the people who may have stayed in on the fourth of july. >> i might have to go. coming up next, it's against department rules, but that's exactly what caused this huge fire. who shot what? >> he was shooting. we'll hear the dramatic 911

calls, as officers goat into a shootout. plus hundreds wait in line for hours just to hug this woman. the reason why straight ahead. coming up in sports, bryce harper helps the nats rally. a local boxer is going for the heavyweight title, and a little redemption in the process. and native son annie murray continues a historic run at wimbledon, giving the home crowd big we spend a lot of time on the feed because a chicken is what it eats. [ jim ] this seal verifies we feed my fresh all-natural chickens an all-vegetarian diet including corn, soybeans, and marigolds. no animal by-products. no meat and bone meal. when you put my chicken on the table, you know where it came from.

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[ jim perdue ] we believe in a better chicken. right now there's still more than 9,000 people in our area who do not have power. the largest are from pepco. bge dominion is working to restore power to the last 400 customers. it seems like the entire washington region suffering after any powerful storm. more needs to be done. tom sherwood has the story. >> reporter: whether it's snowstorms, or even an earthquake, whatever the event

the national capitol region seems slow to respond to any damages. on the radio show on wamu radio with guest analyst jim vance of nbc 4, two local leaders said the region can't keep being surprised by imagine threats to the infrastructure here. >> look at the earthquake. that was completely unexpected, but that's what a terrorist attack would be, something completely unexpected. >> that's what got me at the earthquake. that then everybody -- everybody fled for the same essential exit. >> reporter: norton, a form are member of a security committee said she had the homeland security department set up a specific liaison to the region, but has had little contact. >> there's a person appointed to deal with this region. do you all get to interview him? >> you haven't heard from him?

>> i haven't heard from him in so long, they probably have a new one by then. >> isaiah leggett greed the region is not prepared, but said evacuation is not the answer itches there's not adequate form of evacuation that would allow that to happened orderly. >> reporter: he says he supports stronger efforts to get people to shelter in place when their impulse is to flee disaster. >> we need to convey the message you may by safer by simply staying in place for an appropriation period of time rather than to rush to the scene. >> reporter: in the district, tom sherwood, news4. and leaders agree that power companies just react more quickly. overseeing to relax its ban on beverages. passengers will be able to bring nonalcoholic drinks on local buses, light rate and mobility vehicle thus next wednesday. metro is also lifting its ban on drinks.

they'll allow water on trainings and buses on the weekends. tonight we're hear a mother's frantic call that led to her son being arrested near the university of maryland last night. there was a shootout and chase with police before it was over. derrick ward has more on what led up to a chaotic confrontation. >> antoine was afraid of her son. he was threatening and armed. >> it's my son, i think he's smoked some pcp. >> reporter: in seconds police had arrived at the house and they gathered in the adjacent firehouse parking lot. >> unbeknownst to the police officer, the gunman walks his mother out of their home at gunpoint. >> please don't shoot him. please. oh, my god. >> reporter: there was an exchange of gunfire, the first of several. the suspect's mother is out of the way now. >> some of the shots take effect on our police officers,

thanksfully or police officer we believe did strike the gunman. >> reporter: but he doesn't stop. other officers join in, he's tased. >> the taser is deployed with prongs. he ripped the prongs right out of his body. >> reporter: he continues running up the middle. police think they see him pull a weapon. he had already dropped his gun, but they didn't know that then. >> we shoot him again sever times with our firearms. it doesn't take effect. he runs to a grassy spots where he takes hi pants off. >> reporter: now he's tased again, but just jumps into a police cruiser seen here on a surveyian video. >> see how he backed it in? >> reporter: it all ends with a crash into this wall where he was finally arrested. neighbors who know him are baffled. >> to me i'm trying to figure out what was on his mind. >> the pcp provoc super-human strengths. we see it, people take their clothes off.

they sweat profusely. they're difficult to get under control. >> he's hospitalized and the only one injured. derrick ward, news4. >> and andre mccoy faces multiple charges. including attempted murder. they're also reviewing their policy but when it's okay to leave keys in the cruiser. the metro green line service has been suspended between fort totten and prince george's plaza. omari stone has more. >> reporter: all the passengs that were on the train are no longer here at the scene. i'm jon by prince george's county fire chief mark bashir, what is the status here? >> all the fire/ems units have finished their mission. we've talked the people up and out of the tunnel, we're rehabbing all of our folks right now to make sure everybody's okay. we transcripted one patient along with three family members to the hospital, just for a

checkup. >> reporter: thank you for talking to us first. >> okay. >> reporter: underground there were a lot of folks on the train, they get off and start snapping photos of what it was like. you just heard from the fire chief it was approximately 100 degrees underground as those folks are walking through the tunnel, walking up the ladder to the surface. there's a hatch right over there. it's also important to point out a lot of folks were obviously scared, but no one was injured, but we had one woman who was pregnant. you had her husband with her. you had a family, then they walked over to the ambulance. you're now going to hear from them. >> nervous, you know? you know, because last year got my son, he's crying -- he knows what happened to her, you know. >> what was going through your mind? >> fear. we didn't know what was what.

>> reporter: now, the cause of this derailment is under investigation. the fire chief is on the scene. he will be talking to the firefighters and metro rail efficiency to figure out exactly what happened. hyattsville, i'm shomari stone, news4. thanks. a woman is facing child neglect charges after police discovered a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old child living in deplorable conditions. police say sharon maynard had everything from sharp objects to open pill bottles, even a butane torch laying around the house. they're holding her on $3,000 bond. 100 people cannot go home tonight in woodbridge, virginia. investigators in pring williams county say a propane grill on a

balcony started a four-alamb fire. firefighters worked for hours last night. three of the firefighters were treated for heat-related illnesses. the flames spread quickly from one building to another. the fire marshal's office says grills are not allowed to apartment balconies if there's a roof over the balcony. she claims she has embraced more than 32 million people worldwide. over the weekend over 10,000 people are expected to line up to get a hug from amma. erica gonzalez has more on the so-called hugging saint. >> she's a spiritual leader and humanitarian dubbed the hugging saint. amma is in the midst of her 26 summer tour of north americas. people have traveled from all over. >> i have come from altoona, pennsylvania. >> reporter: the sick and elderly. the heavy-hearted.

orders with child-like faith. it begins with a token or numbers to get into the center. then they sit and wait, take their chutes off and preparrepas to receive their darshin, or ble blessing. >> i am overwhelmed with grace. >> reporter: people like david have come with high expectations. others unsure. >> i didn't know what to expect, because it was my first experience. >> reporter: barba was enkurned to meet amma. she describes the tender moment. >> she felt warm. there was something that just passed through her, just a nice tight hug of love. >> reporter: amma tells me her religion is love. and that she doesn't believe in a god who sits on a throne and rather all living beings are her

god and she believes in serving them. erica gonzalez. news4. coming up next, a mix-up at a hospital during a transplant has future operations on hold. a close call when an out-of-control truck flipped over -- whoa -- at a gas station. what do you got, doug? >> whoa is right. iskt some woe for you. how about 105 in st. louis? whoa, that could be our number tomorrow. we'll talk more about the heat

. a hospital in texas has stopped kidney transplants after they realized someone got a kidney intended for another patient. the transplant happened last week at the methodist dallas hospital. the hospital says a employees made a mistake. a spokesperson for the hospital says the patient who received the transplant is fine, and has no complications because the kidney was a match the person who made the mistake no longer works there, according to the hospital. a scary moment for a people at a gas station in ohio. the truck seen in this video blew through an intersection, smashed into a pole and then toppled over right next to a pump. it happened yesterday in akron. nobody injured. the driver and his passengers had to be pulled from the cab. they're saying tess bad breaks. the driver walked away with

nothing more than a citation. those were some bad brakes all right. >> bad brakes, bad luck. amber theory harris is down at gnats park. what's up? >> well, coming up in sports, jim. two heavyweights are getting ready to battle in the wimbledon finals. meanwhile, a local heavyweight is getting ready for his shot at the title. here at the park, the nationals are looking f matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters.

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they say when it's this hot, can you fry an egg. we had a scientific experiment we've been doing all day log. we just baked these cookies inside a car. >> okay? >> during the day today, a three-hour ordeal to bake these. they're not quite finished yet. i'm going to give them in just a second, so you can try them. >> you think we're going to eat them? >> you're more than welcome. we documented this all day long. you guys are going to love them. they're great, fantastic. 98 degrees out there right now. it does take about 3 1/2 to 4

hours to cook those things. this has been the saving grace today, not a lot of humidity across the area. tomorrow will be a lot different. turnedly 98 in rockville. you see those numbers sxhangs. we saw nothing but sunshine. it's been ought sunshine, i think that's what we'll see during the day tomorrow. it's sunday that has the best chance of storms. 78 in gaithersburg. 82 in washington. it's going to be a very warm and muggy start to your day tomorrow. then tomorrow afternoon, look at the numbers. i'm going 103 for a record high temperatures. 104 in culpepper. you add in the heat index, and it could be between 110 and 115. that's why we have those excessive heat warnings all

across the area. we'll get back to you guys with the seven-day forecast, some relief, and maybe some cookies, in just a bit. amber theoharis is down at gnats center where the weather is hot, but so is the team. >> reporter: it's definitely hot down here. doug could have basically cook those cookies on my forehead in probably an hour, but the team is as hot as 9 weather. things are going good, looking to wrap up a solid first half as the all-star break is around the corner form right now the nationals have the best record in the national league, thanks to the come from behind win last night. taking on the giants, and they're wearing the 1924

throwback senators unis, looking good, going for the sweep. bly harpers -- mark derosa scores, and we have a one-run game. he chips one into right field. tyler moore comes in to score. the nationals come back to tie it. adam laroche, and it looks like a double-play ball to end the inning, but the throw to first is low. so bryce harper comes in to score the game winner nats win. and after the win, the reaction. >> hopefully -- i know adam is not fast enough, so hopefully

they miss up, i guess, is the best thing. but you know, those are the things that have happened this year. we've had some opportunities and caught some breaks, and more importantly we've taken advantage of those breaks, you know, good teams do that. >> speed kills, right? you know, it was a great moment, definite lir. any time you beat out a ground ball and win a ball game, utake that any day of the week. >> reporter: nats going 230 five in a row tonight. let's go across the pond form it appears there's another power shift in men's tennis as roger federer knocks off novak djokovic today in the men's semifinals today. federer, a six-time wimbledon winner, djokovic looking for the repeat. after splitting the first two sets, federer in the near court, looking to break djokovic and win the set. watch the overhand winner from roger. he takes a 2 sets to 1 lead.

to the fourth now. federer with match point. federer advances to a record eighth wimbledon final, he will go for his seventh title at the all england club on sunday facing the winner of this match. andy murray trying to become the first british man in a wimbledon singles final since 1938. in his way is iassogson iassogn. tsonga. we move on to the fourth now, murray looking to break tsonga. that he does with the cross-court winner -- wait a minute, is it that? the crowd erupts, the shot is actually called out, so murray would challenge, and guess what, he wins 9 challenge and the match. so it's andy murray and roger

federer on sunday, trying to become the first brit to win wimbledon in 76 years. well, on saturday, silver spring native tony "the tiger" thompson -- you've got to love the name. he'll have a chance at a title and redemption. four years ago he was knocked out by vladimir clech ko, and he's had five fights since then, winning all by technical knockout. he gets another chance, a rematch with klitschko. this one is in switzerland. even though the odds are against them, tony "the tiger" is confident. >> i give him all the kudos in the world. 9 you couldn't pick better people. they have education, they're businessmen, what's not to like about him? you've never heard him getting in trouble. i love him, but i love my

brother, but i would beat his [ bleep ] if they gave me a chance to win the championship and pay me. i broke myself down mentally, i was emotional about it, i cried like a baby a few times aloin to myself. i cried after that lost. when i got home and watched it, i cried all over again. nobody's done that, not even in -- everybody knows i have a tough life. i've never been broken mentally, and to have this man come and take that away from me was a shock to my system, but i was honest about it. you know, i'm not going to relive that fight, but i'm going to go back to being not the old tony "the tiger" thompson, but we're going to throw a bunch of punches and be the boss of the ring. >> reporter: one final note. after winning the at&t national last weekend, tiger woods is in danger of missing the cut at the

greenbriar classic. after a weather delay, he is three over right now, and the cut is expected to be at 1 under, so we'll have highlights at 11:00. and adam oates, the capitals' new head coach, will be throwing out the first pitch as the nationals go up against the rockies. back to you guys in the studio. thanks, amber. c

an update on the metro train derailment we've been telling you about outside the west hyattsville station. this is video from chopper4. you're looking at the cause of the derailment on the right side of your screen. officials are calling this a heat kink. the rail is not straight. this is what is believed to have caused three train cars to go off the tract. 50 people had to be taken out from an escape half. green line is suspended between

fort totten and prince george's station. metro is telling operators to go nor faster than 35 miles an hour because of the heat, that's systemwide. we will continue to following this story and bring you the latest. a flight out of new york headed for trinidad had to be turned after because of an unrulie passenger. authorities say the guy wouldn't stop singing. they say he kept singing very loudly despite 1e6r8 request by crew members to pipe down. when he wouldn't shut up, the pilot turned the plane around, took everybody back to jfk so they could get the guy off the plane. no word what he might have been singing. we assume it might have been "deo." our response was to bake

cookies. >> you go first, doug. >> i'll go first. >> doug will eat anything. >> three hours inside a car, and you come up can cooked cookies. >> they definitely smell like baked cookies. >> they probably needed you look at it and go, wow, that was a hot one. 103 for a high temperature tomorrow, but a heat index. and then relief could come with stroke storms on sunday night with temperatures in the 80s as we move into next week. >> thank you, doug. thanks, doug. there she was in the checkout line at giant, a young woman fanning herself with a "people" magazine, just carrying on about the heat. in the absence of air conditioning, oh, the horror of it all, just in front of her another woman, more mature, both

figuratively and literally listening can diminishing patience. she turned to the youngster and said, honey, i hear ya, but at least you ain't got to wear a girdle. to which the whiner replied, huh? she doesn't have a clue what her older friend was talking about or how lucky she in fact was not to have to wear a girdle. now if you're listening and you don't know what that is, ask your grandma. she'll tell you there was a time when fewself respecting women would leave the house without one, even in a dress or bermuda shorts, even if the mercury was at 90. talk about inconvenience. now, nobody is crazy about all this heat we're having, but i know i'm not the only one who remembers a time when we all just kind of dealt with it, because nobody had air conditioning anyhow, at least not in the house. but there was one day and one place that all the kids looked forward to, and that was saturday at the movies. the one place in town that was air conditioned, the only place,

with the big a-frame sign outside, remember, with a block of ice painted on it with the words "it's cold inside." for 15 cents you go in around noon, don't come out until about 4:00 or so, because for your 15 cents, you got the newsreel, at least two, maybe even three seerial where clyde beattie and flash gordon or somebody, mare zorro, then at least ten cartoons with bugs and porky and -- beep beep -- and lash larue, or johnnie wise mueller. then around 4:00 or so you went home, you got something to eat, went to the playground, and played some basketball, then you sat around on the front steps, caught lightning bugs, and waited for your parent. if they had any moan left, they went to the movies to see barbara stanwyck, and the first thing your mom did was go

upstairs and take