meteorologist bonnie schneider in the weather center. bonnie, are the temperatures falling? >> they're falling but very slowly and they're not falling fast enough for many people that are still without power. we even have the threat of severe weather. i want to also mention about leaving anyone in a car in this heat wave. even with the window cracked, the indoor temperature can get up to 120-plus in a matter of seconds. so it is very dangerous. heat stretches from missouri through illinois, across the entire state of kentucky, into the ohio valley ohio valley and dangerous heat through the carolinas and virginia. this is a region where people are still without power. there is a cold front so i was hearing on twitter from people in michigan, we're getting some relief, it feels a lot better. the temperature today in chicago is 82 degrees. as we get to monday, this front will slowly drop to the south and everybody it touches it will make things just a little bit better and a little more bearable, more typical for summertime weather. washington, you drop down to 87. as the front

meteorologist bonnie schneider is in the weather center. >> when you are looking back over the past 30 days we have 4,500 daily records. nearly 240 all time record highs from june 23rd to july 5th. we will see that for denver and nashville, tennessee with an all time record high of 109 degrees. wow. currently the temperatures are a little bit better in some places. chicago at 84 degrees and kansas city at 81. that is better than where it has been. just to the south of this region because the cold front hasn't pushed through yet the heat advisory impacting states from the midwest to the south including the carolinas and into norfolk, virginia. this is the region impacted by the power outages. let's take a look at when this will break. for sunday we are seeing improvements as the front drops down. by monday a lot of places are out of the triple digits even out of the 90s. so gradually slowly but surely we will watch for the front to drop down and slightly cooler air more typical for this time of year will spread across much of the region. that is some good news. as it comes and this is t

collins, meteorologist bonnie schneider, some parts need the rain, but it seems they are getting way much at once. as they say, when it rains, it pours. >> it does and that's really the the last thing folks in colorado want to have to deal with because when you're talking about an area that was just severely burned, no trees, no shrubs to slow down the rush of the water. when you look at the rainfall totals across the fire zones, imagine an inch and a half after recall in ft. collins. this rain would have been nice over the past couple of weeks gradually, but all at once, definitely a problem. there are still scattered showers in the region and that runs the risk of lightening anytime you have a fire danger area, but i think flash flooding will still continue to be a problem today and tomorrow. looking across much of areas further east, we have a new threat. thunderstorms. severe thunderstorms with deadly lightening. large hail and very damaging wind and these watch boxes extend all the way from kentucky to the coast of maryland and delaware. so it's a pretty expansive area that we'r

meteorologist bonnie schneider in the weather center. we are talking serious heat.is very dangerous heat for the most vulnerable, the elderly and the young. >> we are also talking about prolonged heat. we had an excessive heat situation across the u.s. for the past 30 days. take a look at the numbers to back it up. over 4,500 daily records including yesterday washington, d.c. had a big high. and these aren't just daily record highs. these are all time record highs meaning it never gotten to the numbers you see for atlanta, denver and nashville. we have many cities talking about consecutive days and weeks in the triple digits. it is a prolonged event. heat is a silent killer because it can creep up on you and linger. here is where we stand right now. temperatures looking a lot better today than yesterday like in chicago and kansas city in the 80s. look what is happening in atlanta, areas along the coastal carolinas and georgia looking at temperatures in the upper 90s. the heat advisory extends across the midwest to the coastal region of the mid-atlantic and the south