k at air force one. joining us to talk about air force one is ken walsh. he is also the author of of a " air force one, the history of presidents and their planes." what are we talking about? guest: it is the call sign for the play in the president is on. a lot of people think it means it is a specific plan. it is not. president bush was on the aircraft carrier. he was on a navy jet. that became navy one. since the president flies mostly on air force jets, that is the name for it. it started when president eisenhower was on his own aircraft flying to florida. it was briefly confused with a commercial jet because the tail numbers were the same. the air force never wanted that to happen again. they decided whenever the president is aboard a plane, the call sign is air force one. nobody confuses it. host: tell us about the history of air force one. guest: it has become the most famous airplane in the world. it has a mystique about it. franklin roosevelt was the first president to fly back in 1943 when he was going to meet winston churchill and they were going

warm air from the south and southwest, met the cool air from the northwest.he storms air masses started to collide. basically who had a change in the direction of the air as it started to move up from the ground to the upper levels of the atmosphere. we call it wind shear. what we started to deal with was basically the spin in the atmosphere that created it. the storms have sense started to move offshore. to the north and northwest now. what we have is a dimp in the jet stream, that is for cool, dry air to move into the region. first warning weather doppler radar gives you an idea of what is moving through now. most of the activity now has completely cleared the region, ocean city, the eastern shore, the last to see any of those storms. there is still clouds lingering as a result. for the most part in the clear today with showers tomorrow. here is the forecast, 77 degrees today and mostly sunny and breezy conditions. tonight, 79. partly cloudy skies. then tomorrow, partly sunny early in the day. a chance of thunderstorms in spots in the evening. 78 degrees is

at about 9,500 feet is when he says, i need the nearest air strip.possible. >> he's maybe two or three miles closer to dade collier, but at his rate of speed and altitude, he can easily make miami, and miami has services. we have fire equipment. there's medical. collier is out in the everglades and there's nothing there. >> walton little is fishing in the everglades and can see that something is going very wrong for flight 592. >> when i hear the loud jet noise, i look to my left shoulder. i see a large aircraft, unusually low to the ground. >> we're like, okay. this is probably going to be a crash on the airport now. >> i realize that the bank angle is getting steeper and steeper, and actually approaches and exceeds 90 degrees such that it's rolling over on its back. >> when the plane banks at that angle, the wings can't provide enough lift, causing the plane ç to lose altitude. >> if the wings are level then 100% of the lift is counteracting gravity. when you have a 45-degree angle of bank, then only half of it can be counteracting the lift. so the

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france flight, a routine cowell-out with flight cord nats and then air france 447 vanishes. no one would ever hear from the crew again. it wasn't until 4:41 a.m., six hours later that french air traffic controllers finally realized something is terribly wrong. by now, friends and family of the passengers are already waiting in the arrival terminal when word began to spread. flight 447 has disappeared. >> this never happens. losing an aircraft is just in itself extraordinary. >> reporter: for hours, french air traffic control tries in vain to locate the a330. no other commercial jet in history has vanished so completely without a witness, without a distress call, without even a trace on the radar. as news of the missing airplane whipped around the globe, now it fell to the crash investigators to solve the mystery. they sent a dozen search and rescue ships to the crash zone. it would take them five days to find anything. by then, much of the wreckage had been disbursed by the ocean's current. only a fraction was recovered, and just 50 of the 228 people who were on board that n

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way and i opens the air way. this young lady is in the classic position and take first aid and take cpr class and ther is any and she'y annie and she' and in a disaster you don't fin people in this position and sometimes i walk up and i can't tell whether they are breathing or not and you have to get closer and you have to touch th person and shake and shout "are you all right? " and no response and then you touch annie and shake her and n response, and what you do is pu the person in a neutral positi position, on the back so you ca open the air way if you think they're not breathing. if they are breathing and you shake annie and she says "go away, i'm sleeping here" you don't have to move her. how much blood do you have? about 6-liters and how much of the red fluid would it take to soak the front of my shirt? not much and one of the little lobes in the bottom here, half an ounce would coat my shirt an if i were to take this and pore it out on the wooden flee floor make a mess and all over the place and difficult

he boarded air force one.he question was, could air force one provide safety and command and control in a crisis? it did pass the test. that is what everyone in military was hoping for. it provided a secure communication and safety. he made to the steps coming back to washington. a lot of people think that was a very important moment in air force one's history. it showed the aircraft could do the job in a crisis. host: this says it is capable of refueling in mid-air. it has unlimited range and can carry the president wherever he needs travel. the on board electronics are protected against electromagnetic pulse. guest: there are two jets we think of as air force one. a primary and an alternate. when they were constructive, president reagan ordered the construction of the two planes. he never rode on them because it was delayed for what you just mentioned. constructing the skin on the plane to ward off electromagnetic pulses and the communications took a lot longer than thought. the plane was delayed for a numbe

fortunately federal clean air protections established by the clean air act have been created to right that wrong. these were forged by democrats and republicans who believed that playing fair and doing our share when it comes to cleaning up america's air is profoundly important. the clean air act signed by president richard nixon in 1970 and updated in 1990 by george herbert walker bush was approved by congress with overwhelming bipartisan support. many in this congress on both sides of the aisle supported message of the clean air act amendments of 1990. those include my friend senator boxer, senator inhofe, and me. this landmark law to protect public health and the environment has proven time and again to be a success. in fact, i'm told the clean air act clifers about $30 of health savings for every dollar that we invest in clean air, an bad return on our investment. moreover, the clean air act has created hundreds of thousands of jobs in new technologies as america develops clean air solutions to export around the globe. the bipartisan vision has been translated into healthier, long

we are still on the air. "nightly news" will follow us at 7:30 tonight at which time we expect the tornado warning will hopefully have been dropped. stay tuned because whatever happens, doug and veronica are going to be right on top of it and we'll be right here. >> stay tuned for "nightly news" right after this at 7:30. and now we are going to talk about the flash flooding. >> reporter: that's right. we're here at kenniworth avenue and if you thought you could come off of 295 and go through the flooded water, that's not the case a semijust plowed through, ripping off the yellow tape that is stopping people from going into the flooded water. some folks thought it was okay. i tell you, there are some good guys over there. they saw it was a potential hazard a danger. what did they do? they took that yellow tape and extended it across the roadway to make sure these cars don't go into that flooded water. you know, we cover these storms all the time. we hear about firefighters and police saying, now, stay away fro

then here comes that hot air. in the 90s by wednesday and thursday with the chance for an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. >> not too shabby. thanks so much. mark is here filling in for stan. >> not too shabby are the orioles. >> they've had a couple of moment. >> they've been playing well in 162 games you're not going to win them all. last night was one. we'll hear from the birds coming up next ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> mark is here with the sports report. you can't win them all. it's a marathon, not a sprint. >> even the best team will lose at least 60 games in a baseball season. the orioles have been in first place or close to it all season. they've played more good games than bad. tonight in atlanta they're trying to bounce back from one of the bad ones. buck showalter saw his team winning streak end at five in a row. most frustrating was this 8th inning play. adam jones got picked off 1st base. it was a game in which the o's did pitch well. they couldn't score enough in what ended up a 4-2 defeat. >> you get oppo

that's very close to bell air area. just south of that downtown bell air.e'll get some, obviously some people up there to make sure to look at the damage and they'll determine whether or not in fact, there was a small tornado funnel or possibly a tornado. we'll continue to watch this area. eventually the next 15 minutes it should be entered -- entering lancaster county. if you're in mccann corner, pool and dublin that cell are viable. but let's look into it. we'll take another look at the velocity which looks inside these storms. and you can see some, not a whole lot between 80 and dublin. some contrast there between the radar site or against the radar site. we're not seeing reds and greens in opposition but it's probably enough that could mean there's still rotation with that particular cell. even earlier we did not have a lot but it may have produced something that did touchdown. however we don't have any verification, there's still activity all around the region. we're going to be dealing with these storms this evening. we may have a bit of a break for a

i mean that was one of the issues in the colgan air case. the amount of time and commuting, pilots showing up after long distance travel. >> every pilot has an important responsibility to report to work fit for duty and safe to fly. this was a high priority to address in the pilot fatigue rule. there's a responsibility that we have all to ensure that pilots can report to work fit for duty. it's a large and complex rule. i pledge my own personal commitment to push our team as quickly as we can to get this done expeditiously. >> thank you. may have more questions. but mr. chairman, ranking member hutchis hutchison? >> let me start with the office of special council and also the relatively-large number, according to the special council, of whistleblowers at the faa. and what oversight measures are you putting in place in response to that report or what measures are you taking to assure that there is some way to assure that an air traffic controller isn't taking a nap on the job or leaving the tower, those kinds of things are obviously very trou

. >> well, air traffic controller fatigue, 4,000 violations. we read about in the "washington post." required nine hours of rest. my question, i think i'm going to get the same answer. what's the agency done to address these violations to make sure we don't hear more about this? i understand you're standing up for an air traffic control tower or in one of the ground based, or underground-based places and things are difficult and people get tired and all the rest of it. nine hours of sleep helps. but i just -- please tell me what you are doing to make sure that this happens? i don't think that's that complicated. >> it's not. what we did last year was we put in place a requirement, as you noted mr. chairman, for nine hours of rest between shifts, and to ensure compliance with it -- >> does that nine hours include the time to get home? >> it's a nine hour rest opportunity. that's correct. >> so that means maybe 6 1/2 hours and then an hour and a half commute? >> it could mean 8 hours if you had 30 minutes each way. >> right. >> what we have done

that brings some cooler canadian air in. will form out here in the plains and run southeastward along a big canadian high that will send northeast winds in late in the weekend, but the humidity will creep up ahead of it that that system will bring us some rain perhaps late saturday night or sunday. watch out for the big pride parade coming up this weekend. 80's in the area as you can see many spots but 42 mile per hour gusts in downtown chicago. glen view off our weather bug network it's been a windy day across the metro area with an 83 -- 84 on the northwest side and 80 elsewhere across the metro area. and in mchenry. a warm night. you don't want to turn off the air conditioner yet. look at the thunderstorms with the color. cumulonimbus clouds big towering thunder heads. we'll show you a model of what will happen. these are coming eastward and they will fall apart before they reach our area. we'll watch these storms tracking across iowa right there across western illinois where they will be quite formidable. here's the fore

it blew some 25 feet into the air.ght back with a we're sitting on a bunch of shale gas. there's natural gas under my town. it's a game changer. ♪ ♪ it means cleaner, cheaper american-made energy. but we've got to be careful how we get it. design the wells to be safe. thousands of jobs. use the most advanced technology to protect our water. billions in the economy. at chevron, if we can't do it right, we won't do it at all. we've got to think long term. we've got to think long term. ♪ ♪ prentixx my forecast worked out pretty good for today. can i give you a guarantee about the weekend? i am confident it will be 80 to 81. lots of sunshine. a nice weekend with a comfortable humidity. but no rain. the next chance of rain around wednesday or thursday. everything looks ok. >>

that's with respect to tack air. with respect to lift, all of our modeling shows that we have excess intertheaters strategic left. that excess interfeet ter lift is not maintained. can't afford it. we don't need it. we have extra affecting the c-130s. they have an important use not only to our conin the gaengss but also in defense support to civil authorities. very important role. so they need to be present in adequate numbers for our contingencies. and they need to be in useful locations within the country. to provide appropriate support to civil authorities. where they are is of less concern for national defense. we're prepared to be flexible. the president indicating he was to be somewhat flexible to the number of c-130s though we have excess. over all we need to be able to retire older single purpose aircraft and aircraft in excess of need, that's what makes room for the new. likewise, with the navy if we hold on to older ships it will come at the expense of the new. we don't want that. we don't want to hold on t

right by airing it on tv. you don't want to miss details on the next casting call for the bachelor. >> strong to severe storms are possible today. i will tell you what the biggest threats are coming up. >> reporter: no problems to report on the beltway know what 95 looks like coming up in the abc2 timesaver traffic report. >>> now "good morning maryland." >>> 5:39 a couple odd legal stories this morning. utah woman filed a complaint against a juvenile court judge after he told that mom he reduced her 13-year-old daughtersentence if she cut off her ponytail in court. the daughter and a friend were sent to court after cutting off the hair of a 3-year-old girl in march. and harassing another girl by telephone. the girls were previously ordered to serve 30 days in detention and perform 275 hours of community service. >>> a 45-year-old new jersey woman is suing a 13-year-old boy claiming he intentionally hit her with a baseball game. he was warming up a pitcher in the bullpen and overthrew the ball and hit the woma

now they want an air conditioner. >> it's true, air conditioners are expensive, but we're going to buy one, just because it's so hot. >> i can't concentrate on my studies because of the heat. that's why we need it. >> about 4 million air conditioners are sold every year in india. the refrigerants in them are extremely bad for the climate, like in most air conditioning units worldwide. the harmful gases often escape into the atmosphere through leaks in the appliances. 200 kilometers south-east of mumbai -- since april 2012 the indian company godrej has been making air conditioners that are better for the environment. they're 600 percent less damaging to the climate than conventional units. in air conditioner manufacturing, that amounts to a revolution. about a million euros for the manufacturing plant came from the german environment ministry. godrej itself invested about half that amount. >> the carbon emissions the consumer saves with this unit are equivalent to the entire amount of carbon emitted by your average german car driver in a year. >> there's a disadvantage -- the refrigeran

air flight including the captain are killed.gers and two crew members in the small sky west plane also die. >> i wouldn't expect that the -- anyone on the sky west to have ever understood what happened. it was instantaneous. >> investigators immediately begin the grim task of finding out what went wrong. john kox, who is now an msnbc aviation analyst, was an investigator for the airline pilots association at the time. >> as an investigator it is one of the tougher ones i had worked. because there were still some of the bodies were still in there. these things are always catastrophic to work. it is absolutely vital that a group of people do this job so that we understand what happened and don't have a reoccurrence. >> while poor visibility from the tower to the runway and glare shining into the tower are part of the problem, investigators focus on air traffic control. >> air traffic controllers, as a matter of routine, multitask. they are issuing landing clearances, take-off clearances, so the multitau)r'g on that evening would n

over the past 40 year the clean air act has shown we can have clean air and a vibrant economy. since 1970, air pollution has decreased by more than 0% while the economy had grown by more than 200%. but this bill is likely to eliminate jobs while making the air we breathe more toxic but that doesn't seem to matter to the majority in the house. it does so by eliminating standards for clear vehicles -- cleaner vehicles and cleaner fuel, likely costing nearly 25,000 jobs a career for -- a year for three years. yet more backward motion. the public lands policy put forward today and in yesterday's legislation is an insult to the previous generation's -- generations whose foresight and concerns for future generations granting us a rich inheritance of natural resources in our wildlife ref refuges, h r. 4480 drastically alters -- the chair: the gentleman yield back. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: i am pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from colorado, mr. tipton, author of one of the provisions in the bill. the chair:

it is a fresher air and cleaner air. we have a question here in the back.ut i'm a big fan of natural ventilation myself. >> a lot of people are concerned, i'm going to get cold. how do you deal with it? >> put on a sweater. >> put on a sweater. that's what i do, too. >> has anyone invented one of these types of things that will operate with the new plastic framed windows? >> a lot of these new so-called plastic windows are -- >> they're vinyl. >> are wood covered by some kind of vinyl. it's a pretty low-grade wood, it is a vinyl that has got a limited life expectancy. i can screw into the wood, whatever it's made out of. they work with that. electric resistance heat. is a terribly inefficient way to heat a building. basically what you're doing is short circuiting the electricity in your house to create a wire that heats up. and that's what this thing does. very, very inefficient, extremely expensive to operate. the heater cost $18 or something. it's cheap to put it in whereas if you put in a gas furnace it's going to be expensive. this is part of our electr

when seen from the air this morning, the choking smoke remains. but there is less of it than on sunday. this fire is in a wooded area, but floating embers endangered homes. folks in southern kemp county awoke sunday to the smell of smoke. >> i came outside and look and found the smoke. >> reporter: soon, hundreds of firefighters are battling a 40- acre blaze with winds fanning the flames and thick, dry brush providing plenty of fuel, and the firefighters called in help from surrounding counties and the forestry service to gain control. >> we have bulldozers cuttings pathways and taking the firefighters back to the paths. but it's a long and involved process with a heavily wooded area. >> reporter: the winds out of the southeast carried smoke, ash, and embers into a neighborhood, and officials ordered the evacuation of 20 homes. >> it's scary. we didn't know it would come to this. but here we go. >> reporter: wendy canter and her family are among those who grabbed what they could and left. >> we are getting in the cars and getting up the road and t

warning in central harford county in bel air. that includes bel air, jarrettsville. we're looking at pictures of incredible stuff. where are we? we're at -- this is port avenue. work has been going on. we'll go to i-95 and 43 where the road has been backed up all afternoon. we had a combination of weather and an accident at 152. 95 has backed everything up. traffic is parked northbound on maryland 43 right at i-95. that's because of an earlier truck fire that was caused by an accident, caused by all the rain. traffic is at a standstill f -- stand still. if you have a loved one who hasn't left downtown, you might want to tell them to take another route. let's go over to mike masco with a look. >>> maryland's most powerful radar is detecting rotation over central harford county until 6:30. also a warning, i believe over west central baltimore county until 6:30, an active tornado warning, an active situation on going. if you're in the town of bel air or within the region from jarrettsville to king wood, you need to take cover now. you need to move to an interior room an

it was the original wichita air terminal from 1934 to 1954. it's 1 of 12 buildings like this built during the first round of air terminal construction that still exists. it's the only one built in what's known as the indian art dekko style that exists anywhere in the country. at that time in the mid '20s when local officials started beginning to think about a grand air terminal, charles lindbergh was traveling the country and he came to wichita with the idea it would be on the major way between los angeles and new york and he worked with local official l.w. clapp. together he and lindbergh went all over the area looking for an appropriate site, and they finally settled upon this one. is the highest point in wichita and one of the reasons they picked it, but also the particular type of grass that grew here had a very tight weave, if you will, and it made for a good landing strip, and the first six or seven years this air terminal was in business, it had no runway. it just simply out in the field had a big circle of white rock and an air sock an

hot, humid air over us. sets up. these storms travel across the top of edge of that bubble and they develop in these ratios and have a tend city to last a long type. they don't necessarily produce tornado most of the time straight line winds. this one developed in iowa. it started the morning in iowa, moved across chicago, ohio, then hit us. what the radar looked with the storm coming in. impressive radar echoes. s with a strong storm in chicago and it stayeded that way all the way into the mid atlantic region. along with high winds and in some cases, some heavy rains over an inch. >> i was thinking, the first time i heard you use that term. yeah. again, they are more common out west than they are here. yeah. thank you. thank so you much. still to come. more coverage of that devastating torm and the damage it left behind and could we be in for another round of storms tonight we'll get the 11 insta-weather forecast and all those detailsth >> welcome back to "11 news at 6:00". in our continuing coverage of last night's

just west of the mountains, some very hot air.we could get close to the 100 degree mark tomorrow a lot of places. right now most of the activity bell to our north -- well to our north. by tomorrow afternoon, hot and humid conditions. maybe a shower or thundershower. the same thing going on for saturday and probably sunday. we get not much in the way of relief as far as temperatures. tonight a warm and humid night compared to the last few nights. there can be a thunderstorm over night. 99 tomorrow. it's going to be a hot and humid afternoon. maybe a thunderstorm, at least that might give you some temporary relief. if the clouds come in earlier it might keep downs down in the mid 90s. >> thank you very much. >>> still to come on eyewitness news tonight. >> a local health clinic, what maryland are saying about the supreme court's decision on health care. that's coming up that's coming up on eyewitn,,,,,,,,,, [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more and more for cable -- and enjoying it less? upgrade to verizon fios internet, t

air tanker at this base. on saturday the crews were getting ready to take their first flight of the season when they were dispatched to the winter and grass fire off of highway 16 near cache creek casino. >> it was a good decision by cal fired to bring not see the air resources early.

and then warm air.emperatures out west, increasing temperatures still pleasant conditions however, every day this week, really, tuesday, wednesday and thursday we do have a chance of a shower in the afternoon because of this cold air, coming in aloft, the sun is kind of self- defeating and heats up the ground, moisture rises up, 10, 20, 30,000 feet you get clouds forming pretty good breeze here 10 to 20-mile an hour winds, you see, which makes it feel chilly for this time of year. down south, dividing line between cool air and very warm humid air, showers and storms, this afternoon from oklahoma, down to georgia, pretty strong activity there across south carolina and georgia this afternoon for the most part we are seeing sunny skies late in the afternoon, clouds begin to build to our north. scattered -- widely scattered shower, thunder shower activity might make it into northern maryland later this evening as we saw last night most activity right now, across new york and new england, possible yet this e

an air force association non-profit dedicated to studying all forms of air power. as well, she's president of iris independent research. performing strategic planning for both aerospace and government clients, including the air force and the navy. then we'll hear from mackenzie egland. she received her masters from georgetown university and served as the presidential management fellow in the office of secretary of defense and joint staff. then she served as a research fellow over national security at the heritage foundation as well as a staff member on the 2010 defense review independent panel. she's currently a fellow in the maryland ware center for security at the american enterprise institute. finally, we're welcoming back to brookings tom davis, who is notably a former brookings federal executive fellow. behind that, a graduate of the u.s. military academy, has a masters in international security economics from harvard. as an army officer has was a program analyst for the army, military assistant to the second of the army. he also commanded in the third gulf wa

air force museum in dayton, ohio. this is a 1920 swallow, a very important plane in wichita aviation heritage. it's the first production aircraft in wichita. so there were 43 of these built between 1920 and 1923, and it's the first time in wichita and very early in aviation heritage where people recognized, hey, if we build more of these, the economy of scale, we can sell them to a wider audience for less money. this is the only 1920 swallow that exists. there weren't any, and this particular one is a replica, and if you look right here, our volunteers started with about 10 or 15 of these brackets, and these are original brackets, and they used those to scale photographs, and from the photographs, took hundreds of measurements and with the measurements krafted the working drawings, and then built the plane from those drawings. and so this is very representative of the amazing skill of our volunteers here at the museum. what i wanted you to see over here is, where the pilot would have sat in this basket, if you can see

air quality in the poor range. take it easy outside today. >> mother nature not wasting any time with summertime temperatures. >> health officials are spreading to action to make sure people stay cool and save. jennifer franciotti joins us live with more details on the story. >> you and tony can sweat. we're going to glisten. it is time to take some precautions. it's what summer is all about -- long, fun days in the sun. but as the temperatures rise well into the 90's and feels even hotter, it's not always so fun anymore. >> look for those people who are at risk. >> health officials are stocking emergency cooling centers with water and preparing for some dangerous conditions. >> we also worry a lot about people who live in isolation, people without air conditioning, people who are in need of shelter and in cooling shelters. those are the folks who are especially at risk. >> there were 34 heat-related deaths last year in maryland. 32 the year before that. health officials urge people to stay inside with air conditio

tool to deal with them, if you have congress on the record and giving our air carriers some relief of what is something that is unfair and a violation of the law in the united states. >> the fact that there's widespread opposition in our government is significant. we are committed to working with congress on how best to respond to it. >> all right. well let me one other question quickly. there's a recent report that he said that the faa has not set a baseline for the six next next-gen programs? when will they do this since we will not have information on how they will be delivered and how much they will cost the american people until it is delivered. >> it's critical to get it right, as we deploy the aviation system of the future. my own background as leader of a large technology company, i think has served me well as i got into the faa, one of the first things that i did when i arrived at the faa was establishing a management office with the responsibility of delivering next-gen programs as their major area of focus and to strengthen our next-gen organization to make sure they had th

the drier air is moving in. the showers are moving out. we're going to have a good day albeit a bit breezy. wind gusts at times in the mid- 20s. highs probably in the low 80s but a lot less humid than it has been. right now here's monika with your time saver traffic. >>> on the beltway in bethesda, no problems on 270 heading down to the point where the lanes divide. on the inner loop the ramp to southbound georgia avenue is reopening after overnight construction. in my next report, a closer look at maryland roads at 4:47. >>> the time right now 4:42. i am watching your money. we'd like to see more of the same today. stocks staged a relief rally after monday's big sell-off despite lingering concerns about the health of european banks that is not going away any time soon. the dow stands this morning at 12,573. it added 162 points on monday. a nice pop -- rather tuesday. nasdaq was up 33 points. the s&p 500 rose by 15 points. >>> facebook's growth appears to be slowing down. "the wall street journal" reports that the number of unique visitors

plenty of very hot air that's out to the west of us. and it looks like that stuff is going to make it into the chicago area by the weekend. in fact by sunday we should have a high temperature in the low 90's. it will be quite a change from this 70 to 75 degree temperature range that we've seen. right now, it's falling to 60 degrees at o'hare and you can see all across the area temperatures cooling off rather rapidly in the upper 50s in many locations. the winds, dying down wind speeds generally five to 10 miles per hour. after midnight the winds probably will be for the most part calm. now, look at this. the cool air will move out over the next couple of days. then coming in at about, say midweek into friday temperatures will be moving up fairly rapidly. and then, by sunday, we're looking at probably the heart of the hot air before a little bit of relief comes in with some

it's a spare the air day. so that to be aware of with the poor air quality over santa clara valley as well as inner east bay. today going to be the warmest. we're going to cool down as early as tomorrow. some cooling i should say. still quite hot in some areas. near 100 degrees in some spots. high fire danger. we touched on that at the top of the hour. a red flag warning in place till about 9:00 this morning for the north bay hills for dry gusty conditions and napa and sonoma, that lasting all day. 59 degrees in napa. 67 in fairfield. low 60s in concord. if you can't stand the heat, right now may be the best part of the day for you. 54 in san francisco. 63 in mountain view. a look at the satellite radar. we'll have a cyst --system kind of just brush to the north of us. we're expecting a southerly surge with low pressure over southern california. that will bring back the sea breeze as well as a little bit of fog to the coastline. so a gradual cooling expected. the inland will feel it eventually. for today, the

air guitar championship.es, the -- splendor one of the judges, the shred will be competing again. stay with us, we'll have more in a couple of moments. >>> time now for a facebook fan of the day and we start the weekend saying hello to jenny. jenny tells us she's been a fox 5 fan for more than 20 years and her kids -- love watching her -- or love watching every morning. she says her 8-year-old even wants to be a meteorologist just like tony and tucker. >> oh shoot higher than that. >> for your chance to be monday's fan of the day. just log on to the facebook page and leave a comment under jenny's picture, thanks jenny. >>> warm and humid today and much better for the weekend. loots of sunshine and -- lots of sunshine. if you're going to be out jamming with the guitar. >> he was air singing and you can't do that right in the competition? >> oh really? >> that's okay. >> put on different guitar now. this was lance -- that's paul. the shred. fender splendor. >> you have it all to yourselves. >> we got something

the 1990 clean air act says look, there is problems with toxic air emissions.we're not sure really where they are coming from, but let's spend a little bit of time and have e.p.a. figure it out. they spent about ten years trying to figure it out. in the year 2000, the last year of the clinton administration, the conclusion was reached that a lot of the emissions of these toxic to air emissions, mercury and arsenic and heavy metals, acid, gases, a lot of it comes from utilities, a lot of it comes from utilities. the bush administration, brand-new in 2001 said let's go to work and figure out what to do about it. five years later, in 2005, the bush administration said here is a rule to deal with, not with the 70 toxic emissions but with one -- mercury. just one. and immediately lawsuits were filed. and of course the federal court said in 2008 what about the other 70? you didn't do anything about the other 70. mercury. and what you did with mercury was a cap and trade system which doesn't really work for mercury. so the courts remanded it back to e.p.a. and said le

now with the warmer air moving in we're going to see a gradual warm up. this way it shapes up today. we will call it 87. there's nothing to stop this air from moving in. 87 today, down to 59 tonight. can still probably enjoy those windows open. tomorrow 89. if you have a deck, crabs on the deck this weekend. >> you bet. >> you have to call us before you you do that and we will be there. we will bring the beer. >> just remember sunglasses and your sunscreen. >>> still to come, another reason to hit the gym. how exercise may be tied to the size of your bank account. >> wjz 13 is always on. here are the top stories on wjz.com at this hour. for instant updates log onto wjz.com. ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope t

air force a fight on the ground. the air force academy is shutting down today as the fire near colorado springs bears down on the campus. >> that is one of almost three dozen wildfires stretching from montana to arizona, fueled by record heat and wind. it's a bad situation out there. tahman bradley has the latest. >> i ran over as fast as i could. absolutely scary. we were petrified. >> these pictures overnight show the colorado springs wildfire ablaze. a firestorm of epic proportions. winds gusting at 65 miles an hour and it blew the fire over containment lines forcing the evacuation of 32,000 people including at the air force academy with 700 cadets and personnel told to leave. >> flames a block away from the house. we went door-to-door. >> evacuation notices were sent to 2400 residents in boulder. the fire started about 6 acres and quickly grew. >> you can hardly see up there. >> over 100 degree temperatures is complicating the job of the men and women on the front line. >> we don't see anything in the immediate w

a warm air getting pushed up the planes. rapid city, 65. warmer than us, 66. 58 in the district. it's all because of our weather patterns, the jet stream. a bump in the jet stream over north central canada that pulling the warm air north. we have been entrenched in the trough, pulling the cooler air south into washington for the past several days. another day below average in terms of temperatures. the average high is 82. we will be 80 degrees this afternoon for the high temperature at 3:00 p.m. a few thundershowers possible of between 2:00 p.m. and 9:00. not everyone will see them. isolated embedded downpours. through the weekend, dry weather, good amount of sunshine. 90 degrees again by sunday. you will hear the air conditioners all over the neighborhood buzzing on sunday and and even on saturday, 87. increasing humidity as dew points climbed into the 60s by sunday and monday. good swimming pool weather for the weekend. now to lisa baden. >> pretty good drives around the beltway, 66, 95, normal volume, in and out of baltimore looks good o

the other thing we're seeing for the first time is a spare the air alert. our first unhealthy air day, even on a saturday, we may even see another one for sunday as temperatures climb on up moving through the weekend. tomorrow we're talking about air quality, high fire danger and a rapidly heating forecast as we go through the weekend. we'll let you know how many places we expect to climb above 100 degrees tomorrow. >>> we're also following developing news in contra costa county, a gas leak in rodeo that started this morning. officials are worried about the air quality in that area and can also slow down the commute. a gas line ruptured on san pablo avenue. there are some reports that the gas has sickened a few people. hazmat crews say there's no cause for alarm. >> they would be referred to as nuisance levels. again, 10 parts per billion is much lower than the 3 to 300 parts per million that we would be calling for a shelter in place for. >> county health officials are telling people with asthma or respiratory sensitivity to avoid the area. >>> new tonight

the american forces then called in an air strike. only later they found out the blast killed women, children and old men who gathered there for a wedding party. a spokesperson for president karzai said afghan investigators told him u.s. troops were caught in the air strike without consulting afghan units that surrounded the house and were given no chance to flush out the militants. raids in residential area are a major issue for the alliance and the karzai government because of the danger to civilians. the alliance said they are key to capturing and killing taliban leaders. president karzai spokesperson said the latest air strike was the 5th incident since they signed a security pact but it seems to have gone terribly wrong this time. back to you. >> that was david piper reporting. >>> just ahead, how high low tide mercury climb? gwen has the full forecast up next. >>> healing internal scars from the battlefield. veterans step in front of the camera to cope about pss -- ptsd. when it comes to gardening, we're, well, inexperienced. is

louis the air temperature is 108 degrees right now. the hot air is moving eastward and building in the process. the heat index values are pretty impressive. it feels like 112 in chicago right now, 109 in annapolis -- indianapolis. these areas are under excessive heat warnings. we are one category below that, with the heat advisory for tomorrow. we are still talking about temperatures approaching 100 degrees and feeling like 105. the purple areas are that areas where the he ended the jigger the heat index will hit 110 or rejection areas where the heat index will hit 110 or 115. the system will come through and stall out ahead in the next few days. check out one computer model here giving us a temperature of 83 in the city in the morning. then it will climb close to 100 tomorrow and saturday and sunday. remember the humidity values will make it feel in excess of 100 degrees. through the weekend into monday, there will be chances in the late evening thunderstorms. the fourth of july looks hot and dry. there may be more showers and storms

we'll work our way over towards bel air road, bel air road bypass and harford road. we have a little bit of good news for you. they're in the process of trying to open that road up at the present time. they've got one lane that's opened up going southbound. it looks like they got one lane opened up northbound and then the process of cleaning up the rest of the traffic so the good news is that they're in the process of getting route 1 now opened up between that harford road and 152, the bypass. mountain road and bel air road. tongue tied up here. between jones junction and mountain road, it looks like it will be opened up here very, very shortly so people trying to get to wal-mart and everything else should be able to do that. the damage, they've cleaned it up as best as they could for right now. everything is still pretty much as we showed you before, they've got a lot of tarps on the top of the roofs, there's not much more to say than what we showed you earlier here. so reporting live in sky team 11, i'm captain roy taylor. we'll send it to ava marie to tell you mor