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in fact, bacc to the normal temperatures, by thursday, 71 degrees. cleaaing out.. and etting back toonormal for sundayy with a high of 70. just in time for the game. i will have a look at the a few.day forecast coming up in back to you. >> thh scary ircus performance may be hard to watch. get this. ú% ukrainian lion tamer loses control of the lions in the cage and atttcked. the crowd is watching in horror. aalot of kids. asssstants sprayed water trying to stop the attack. and is in stable condition tonight. >> get this. a canadian highway turned into a pig pen. after a truck carrying hundreds3 offhogs, flipped over. some 60 pigs escaped. bbocking the road in toronto. while the cops and everybody else moved in quickly to roundu3 the pigs. police say the driver was speeding anddlost controo of hii pig rig. >> you think u.s. politics here is bad. francisso civilva a professional clown and newest member of the brazilian congress. he ran under the sllgans it cannot get any worse. voters apparently agreed. ú%lver's stage name is grump he, receiving 1 and a half million

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that should be wednesday through sunday as we returr bacc toward normal temperatures.wind at 5-miles per houu. 83 degrees, and more sunshine %-clouds to build later in the afternoon or evening. bbck to west, we get a lot of3 sunshine with a high temperature of 83 degrees and a weet wind of 5-10. -ostly sunny and partly cloudy at 6:00 p.m. with a temperature of 79 after reaching the highhof 83 which will come aroundú 4:00 this afternoon..3 overnight loo which is fairly3 mild, still for this time of year which is not qqite s warm as it was last night to this morning. ú%chance for a late shower overnight or evee a thunderstorm as we see the thunderstormsnds 75 degrees for the high tomorrow, a transitional day as temperatures remain aboveenormal tomorrow but cooler than today. 68 degrees, cooler still for -ednesday as nnxt cold frond comes and modifies things and %-they should be for this time f year. 66 on thursday, aad 65 on fridaa and a lot of sunshine for the weekend. 66 degrees for saturday's high and 68 for sunday's. it won't be the warm that we had this past weeeend