now let's go straight to bonnie schneider. bonnie, talking about all of those storms, all the dangerous heat, record-breaking heat. we need to remember it is still early for these kinds of temperatures. and we've got days ahead. >> that's right. when you take a look at the storm damage a lot of people are going to want to go out and gather their belongings because we've had tremendous storm damage from the system and unfortunately ten people were killed as this large swath of thunderstorms worked its way across so many states. take a look atd th this radar. it began yesterday on friday. it actually is a large wind storm that just brought a tremendous amount of wind over 600 miles in ten hours and millions of people unfortunately are without power today. states of emergency declared in virginia, west virginia, and ohio at this time. really at the worst time ever. in fact, i just got a report in from our weather producer that we were talking about record high temperatures today. get this. atlanta, it says here, 105. the temperatu

meteorologist bonnie schneider is in the weather center watching it. do we have an idea where it's headed? >> to the gulf but you're right. they describe the track of this storm as extmely challenging to recast some models are taking it one way and others a different direction. let's show you where it is now and the official track is at this moment. right now, the official center circulation is 260 miles from new orleans. you can see the movement so slow to the north at 3 miles an hour. most of the precipitation has been heavy for florida and places like pensacola, they don't need all that rain. a lot more in the forecast. winds right now, maximum speed, 50 miles an hour but gusts higher than that. here has the latest track. notice changes if you're just waking up. this is a different track we showed you yesterday. now, the hurricaneintensity is up to a category 1. this storm wasn't forecast t be a hurricane yesterday. the latest track shows a widespread movement to the west. we're still talking about this storm in the gulf of mexico as late as thursda

. >>> let's check with our bonnie schneider because we have been talking about that threatening storm in the gulf but now there is another potential disturbance and this is taking place in florida. what is it? >> it's actually related because we're getting some of those outer band from the disturbance in the gulf and onshore in florida and what happens is you get, when the storms come onshore we often get tornadoes and we've had one law enforcement official report the sighting of a tornado near tamiany trail and rattle snake road in collier county in southwest florida. you can see this tornado warning actually had twop, one just expired, but this is for central collier county. northward still some very strong thunderstorms in ft. myers as well but as i open up this wide you can see some the heavy bands of rain coming up from the south as this system, which is so widespread, really is enhancing moisture. so the threat for tornadoes will continue into the afternoon and evening hours with this system. any moment now we could get word from the national hurricane center on whether or not t

bonnie schneider is tracking it for us this morning. good morning, bonnie. so what's this about?di, we do have an update for you. the latest report shows this area of weather is likely to become a tropical storm in the next few hours. it's bringing substantial rain off the shore of florida. not quit hitting the coast yet. it's coming. we are expecting this to be a rainmaker along the gulf coast. where is it right now? it's very loosely organized. a noaa buoy offshore. it will see if we have winds strong enough to give usa name for the storm. this will likely be debby before the day is over. we're monitoring it for you. everyone along the gulf coast needs to be aware of this system because the computer models are so widespread. look at the divergence, randi. some taking it towards texas, others the gulf coast, into louisiana and more headed towards florida. so a widespread area of divergence. we'll be monitoring for you and have more data as the morning goes through. >> bonnie schneider, thank you for the update. >> sure. >> the hunt is on for a bear that is attacking people in ar

in the severe weather center with bonnie schneider, what is going on in terms of heat? i know this is prolonged. >> we expect record-breaking numbers to continue through sunday because the heat advisories you see for extreme heat that go from missouri to new jersey down to florida and even to the gulf coast will extend to sunday and we've already had many records broken across the country today. just now in atlanta 106 degrees, poppy. that's the hottest temperature ever in the city of atlanta. so it will continue for at least the next couple days. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. that does it for me here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for spending your day with us. my good friend don lemon continues cnn newsroom at 5:00 eastern. >>> hello. thanks for joining us. a very important week here. i'm outside bellevue hospital which is the oldest and one of the largest public hospitals in new york city. you know what i'm here today to try and answer your questions about changes that are coming to your medical care and your insurance. this is something that affects all of us. i

it is fitting that we go to our meteorologist now bonnie schneider. bonnie, of course the question is, any relief in sight? >> well, don, it is not going to happen any time soon. here in atlanta 106 degrees. if that sounds hot it's the hottest it's ever been in this city ever since record keeping has began. you can see we have record temperatures in raleigh, st. louis, little rock, colorado springs and of course where the fires are burning we've had six days of consecutive high temperatures breaking records. today the record was shattered. records also for other cities across the south and the midwest. and, unfortunately, this big dome of high pressure that's dropped to the south and spread across much of the country where one in three americans are impacted by this heat, this continues to be a problem not just for today but for the next couple days with the heat indexes up to 105 to 115. when you look at the forecast for st. louis or louisville, even though it drops a little bit you're talking about from 104 to eventually 93 or from 96 to 98. not much

let's bring in bonnie schneider. bonnie, what's shaping up out there in the gulf?s area of disturbed weather that is likely to become tropical storm debby within the hour. the next advisory is likely to indicate that because hurricane hunter aircraft has found a lot of indications that we are seeing tropical storm force strength winds. you were mentioning about the oil rigs. i want to show you on google earth. we plotted where most of the oil rigs are and notice where the storm is. mainly to the east of that. nonessential personnel, some oil companies have done evacuations already because of the increase in winds but it looks like with this storm most of the precipitation and convection and thunderstorms are managing to stay east at least right now. let's look at this storm a little closer and show you where it's going. hurricane hunter aircraft as we speak are inside the storm. they have been flying since earlier today from keisler airforce base in biloxi, mississippi straight south and then they dip further north and kind of get different readings including surfa

that involves one of the cabinets, you know, who -- candidates who represents the brothers of bonnie schneider. >> muslim brothers. >> muslim brotherhood, but then this coinciding. might this interfere in any way with the runoff election? >> there's been a great deal of speculation how one particular verdict or another would impact the elections. if mr. mubarak was acquitted no question that would have angered millions of egyptians and that they would have more likely then voted in fave of the muslim brotherhood anti-regime figure. this verdict is a kind of, as you said, glass half full, glass half empty situation. so the regime candidate, mr. mubarak's last prime minister, who was in the runoff, can say, look, the revolution has suck ceded. mr. mubarak is now in jail for the rett of his life, and let's move on, and elect me as president. as i mentioned, i think many egyptians, those who favored change, who decried corruption and authoritarianism are unsatisfied with this verdict and are likely, i would think, to be skeptical at the very least about ahmed jaffe, mr. mubarak's last -- >> thanks

meteorologist bonny schneider is joining us. will the weather hurt or help their efforts? >> unfortunately, randi, i think it will hurt their efforts. it's been so hot and so dry over not just colorado, but really the entire region. when you combine that with strong, gusty winds that bring about those sparks into the air and the embers can catch on, plenty of vegetation in advance, that's why you see such a widespread areas of concern. and ft. collins randi mentioned, that's one place that will heat up in terms of temperatures, all the way to 100. colorado is not the only state. we also have it in utah. a lot of people have been evacuated due to the wildfire burning. incredible pictures of widespread flames. when you look at the hyde park fire in colorado, you can see the tens of thousands of acres that have been burned and how much containment has already been contained, but really the cost to date is over $21.6 million. so the wildfire costs have been a huge concern this season and we're still early in the season. temperatures are likely to go up as we go into the summer

bonnie schneider joining us live here in the newsroom. what can you tell us, bonnie? this heat is prolonged and very dangerous. >> that hasn't happened. in fact, poppy, when we look at the record numbers we saw. 109 in nashville, tennessee. that's not only a record high, it's an all-time record high. it's never gotten that hot in nashville. we saw records in kentuckies are arkansas, and literally, there are hundreds of records that have been shattered this week and more likely will be shattered today. the day is not over yet. the temperatures are in the triple digits and 100 degrees in wilmington, north carolina, and memphis, tennessee. high temperature temperatures over the next few days and there will be some relief eventually and when you look at the forecast for st. louis, 104 today and tomorrow, and it doesn't start cooling down, and i use the term loosely because it's still hot and tuesday, when you have temperature tchss at 92 and the rest of the heat wave will be continuing throughout the weekend and when we saw sandra's report out in colorado about how the te

. >> i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider, tracking thunderstorm debby which has formed in the gulf of mexico. the track moves westward over the next few days. gulf coast residents need to be on alert, because it is coming close enough that we have the cone of uncertainty, stretching out to louisiana and texas. we don't know exactly where it will hit when it makes landfall or how strong it will be. that's why it's so important to keep monitoring cnn to let you know the track. in the meantime, the immediate threat right now, tropical storm force winds and heavy rain, occurring in the next 36 hours. so a tropical storm warning in effect westward to morgan city, louisiana. that does not include the city of new orleans. don? >> bonnie, thank you. >>> take a live look now at cairo's tahrir square. huge crowds have packed the square just hours before we learn the outcome of egypt's presidential election. and here's a live look at the beverly hilton in beverly hills, california, where the stars are arriving for the 39th annual daytime emmy awards. they're getting ready. we'll check in on all

bonnie schneider is in our meteorologist center this mornin morning. >> randi, right now, we are king quite a bit of extreme weather. let's look at the tropical threat. morgan city further to the west. you can see new orleans is not in the tropical storm warnings. we are expecting tropical storm force winds within the next 24 hours across much of this region, meaning winds as strong as 39 miles an hour. let's take a closer look at debby, where the storm is right now. you can see a lot of the convection is impacting florida at thitime. this storm is forecast to work its way to the west. maximum winds at 50 miles an hour, 55 miles an hour gusts slow movement to the north at 3 miles an hour. that storm is barely moving. let's look at the track. the track is westward. here's something interesting we have today we didn't have yesterday. it is forecast to become a category 1 hurricane within the next ce of days. even by es possibly b tuesday. it's a slow, slow movement south of louisiana. we don't know where the storm will actually pact. that's a good point because the cone of uncertainty d

let's bring in meteorologist bonnie schneider.ditions cooperate, in trying to put out that fire? >> lightning strikes actually ignited two fires. that, plus these hot temperatures we've been experiencing and dry conditions, it's so dry across the southwest, that any little spark of flame innights a huge fire. that's why it's only 17% contained because it's so large and massive. it's about 250 miles south of albuquerque. this is a lot of thick smoke. unfortunately it might get worse before it gets better. because the fire is so widespread and conditions are not favorable in terms of getting a heavy burst of rain, we'll get that in the monsoon season in july, i think the fire will continue to be a big problem over the next couple weeks. you can see very little change in the weather conditions with high temperatures at 91. this is better than last week where we had numbers in the triple digits and more gusty winds, fredricka. but definitely not the kind of weather they're looking for. on the positive side, though, without a thunderst

let's check in with meteorologist bonnie schneider with more on that. >> i hate to be the bearer of bads, right now at the airport if you're watching cnn, you probably already know you're waiting at laguardia airport and waiting. there is a ground stop there. the whole area has been impacted by nasty weather. newark facing delays. jfk. and op the west coast we have delays in san francisco. boston impacted by the rain. it's actually worst further north you go. let's look at some of the airports impact right now, and what we can expect for monday. an area of low pressure is rotating around. it's bringing in lines of showers and thunderstorms. some of that is going into the new york area right now. the low clouds and strong winds will enhance the delays into the overnight hours, and certainly for tomorrow. for monday's commute, we're also looking at delays, possibly a little bit better. but still it's not going to be fun. we're watching for delays at washington, d.c., vegas facing some wind and thunderstorms in miami. miami has seen rough weather. looking at monday's travel weather as a wh

let's bring in bonnie schneider right now. go through all of this for us because the heat is only exacerbating the problems across the country right now. >> it is. you mentioned records broken. this just in, we have brand new records moments ago that have already been shattered. lexington, louisville and kentucky are now past the triple digits. lexington hit 101 which broke the record and islip on long island in new york, at 93. it's important to note for all three of these places, the temperatures are on the way up and the day isn't over yet. we broke the record, but it's still going to get a lot hotter and this is one of many, many record-breaking days that we've been talking about. we're expecting records to be shattered tomorrow, as well. currently, look at this. 105 in nashville. just in the past hour, the temperature has gone up there and yesterday it hit an all-time record high of 109 and take a look at the forecast, you can see some cities will get out of the triple digits and it will stay pretty hot into the 90s for m

let's turn to bonnie schneider in the weather center and if it does it will have a name. >> the nexto the letter "d." not quite a tropical storm and if you're wondering is because the hurricane hunter aircraft is still flying through. preliminary data indicates this is a tropical storm, but not officially yet. as you can see, it's loosely organized and it's impacting the state of florida, but at this point we're monitoring it because we could see an impact anywhere in the gulf of mexico and it's important to keep things focused and watchful for what changes we can see. i want to show you something they think is really neat. we'll take a look at the air force base where it took off hours ago and follow it on its route southward, southward. there we go. here's the storm. the wind speed right now 38 miles per hour. if it was 38 miles per hour, we're really close. watch what happens. the plane makes a quick turn to the north and it loops back around and these are incredible with what they can do. look what's happening to the east. a lot of convection so it's working its way on the perime

and now let's go get an update from bonnie schneider. >> well, it is the east side we are getting morereat. you will see the rain is sweeping on shore, and this is for eastern charlotte and northern lee county until 9:00 a.m. a wider spread look showing the heavy rain to the panhandle of florida down to south florida and fort myers, and this is the region we had tornadoes reported in collier county yesterday, so look for the risk to continue today, and incidentally the coastal flooding will extend for a large portion of the gulf coast from debby, and all of the way to louisiana where we have tropical storm warnings from florida and alabama and mississippi and notice the rain which is up to 10 inches and not just louisiana, but particularly for florida, because this is incredible. we could see six inches plus over to the next couple of days and some parts of florida need the rain, but others saw a lots so that could lead to lots of flooding. >>> and egyptians are awaiting word on the first democratically elected president. unless you have the right perspective. bny mellon wealth managem

bonnie schneider is tracking for us. give us the latest information. a tornado sighting in southwest florida? >> that's right. we had tornado warnings in southwest florida but we have a lot more information about debby than we did just moments ago because now the national hurricane center has officially named the storm as tropical storm debby with maximum winds at 50 miles per hour. this is a strong storm with a center of circulation 220 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the mississippi river. let's take a look at the track. this one really had us on the edge of our seats literally. it's now going to move west. look at this track. we are watching this storm over the next few days. let's take a closer look. you can see it stays as a tropical storm but a very strong one. by wednesday the forecast takes it south of houston, texas, but winds are at 70 miles per hour. remember 74-mile-per-hour winds are greater. it means hurricane force strength. we're going to be watching this storm throughout the week because now the track is following the model that