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105 yesterday in denver, colorado. that tied the waefrmt temperature ever corded in denver. ever. that goes back a lot of years. also in the 100-degree club new orleans, texas, even galveston island hit 100 degrees in texas. amazing stuff with this heat wave that now is going to start to spread. everyone in the eefrt, enjoy your weather today because this heat is going to move your way by the end of the week. once again, the triple digits from denver all the way to texas. enjoy the beautiful weather to chicago. you'd be to 100 or 105 by thursday. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look outside your window. 80 degrees in chicago. that's why i'm telling everyone to enjoy the beautiful air mass. nashville, tennessee. you're a little better. a little cooler today. oklahoma city, no such luck for you. yeah, is that wasn't misspeaking we could probably head into all time record territory near thursday. >>> thanks so much. coming up, stocks change on spain, orbitz makes max users pain and benefactors says meaty is unmaxed. your early morning business headlines are stra

denver colorado, 99 degrees but relative humidity is only 5%. it is bone dry but hot is hot. for tomorrow, partly cloudy after some low clouds in the morning. warm and humid. 85-90 with an isolated storms or two. 95 wednesday. 97 thursday. the way it deals outside, it will be over 100 at times. friday still 93 with a chance of storms. partially cloudy and '86 saturday. a chance of sunday afternoon showers and storms. >> the toyota sports desk. brought to you by your local toyota dealers. moving you forward. >> it's not really that surprising after antipoetic changed his testimony this last time around. roger clemens has been found not guilty on all charges in the perjury case. he was acquitted on all charges by the jury deciding he did not lie to congress when he denied using performance enhancing drugs. they delivered the verdict after 10 hours of deliberation. 49-year-old roger clemens was accused of perjury and lying to congress. again, clements found not guilty. >> i thank them for showing their strength and support. really, all of the media guys that have known me and al

look how dry it is in denver, colorado. dupont are into the 30's. watch the general pattern and jet stream over us. that will continue. there are some of the showers and thundershowers. the way out into the north dakota area. as we go through the weekend, a little area of low pressure off the coast general area of high pressure so sun dried up and down the east coast. the humidity will begin coming in a little bit as we get related to the weekend but especially next week. in the meantime, another beautiful day tomorrow. to bridges into the low 80's. look at chicago -- 94 degrees. for us, low humidity continues. also on father's day, a great cook out whether. after that, though, watch as we get into the middle part of next week. temperatures continue to increase. finex thursday and friday, hot and humid. near 95, but feeling about 100. enjoy the weekend. >> if you are a baseball fan this is the night to be in washington, d.c. this is going to be a lot of fun. >> we are starting a great series. >> a lot of excitement here tonight to see the first-plac

. >>> this comes to us from kusa 9 news in denver, colorado where beaver creek a group of wounded war veterans played dirty and they loved every minute of it. the vets were among 10,000 contestants in the tough mudder competition. they ran 11 gruelling miles clearing 4 brutal obstacles. some rather messy all in the name of testing strength and stamina. not only did they try to overcome their injuries they also raised money for the wounded warriors program. very nice. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> good morning, everyone. after a very nice weekend, we have a little rain in the forecast. let's look at h.d. doppler. temperatures in the low 60's right now. scattered light showers in the western suburbs. heavier rain moving eastbound. it is going to arrive in baltimore. some good chances for rain showers as we go into the weekend. forecast for today, variable clouds. off and on rain showers. when we come back, we'll look at the seven-day forecast going

they're also having record high temperatures, denver colorado 105 today.hat ties the all-time record for any day in any month for any year for denver, colorado. 105 today. they also had some lightning with some of these thunderstorms. some of these thunderstorms are so dry, they don't rain. high park fire, 83,000 acres are now burned. 130 square miles. it's 90 degrees on the fire line. there are 2,000 firefighters on the fire line right now. tomorrow's high gets to 98 degrees. have you to understand, it is probably hotter near the fires, of course. the waldo canyon fire at 3,400 acres. 0% containment. >> looks bad, all right, chad, thank you for the update. >>> coming up or counting down, the top five ridiculists so far. there was one silver fox and one cougar. that's up next. all energy development comes with some risk, but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect wat

. >>> this comes to us from kusa 9 news in denver, colorado where beaver creek a group of wounded war veterans played dirty and they loved every minute of it. the vets were among 10,000 contestants in the tough mudder competition. they ran 11 gruelling miles clearing 4 brutal obstacles. some rather messy all in the name of testing strength and stamina. not only did they try to overcome their injuries they also raised money for the wounded warriors program. very nice. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> 4:28 is your time now. 64 degrees. another cool, comfortable morning in your nation's capital. good morning to you. i'm eun yang. >>> we begin with an alert from metro riders this morning. you may get to work faster today. rush plus opening today. here's a look at the new rush plus map which shows the extra service with dash lines. six extra trains will be running on both the orange and yellow lines, meaning 21 stations will be seeing more trains flow through this morning. there will be different destinations.

new chicago, see the heat spreading. 30 degrees in denver, colorado. all right, into europe. a potent storm just about to move across the british isles. this will bring heavy rain and strong wind. and it is exactly what we don't want. it is really going to be an issue. there is a serious flooding situation here. the rest of the continent is looking fairly fine and settled. and temperatures will be warming up to about the 30-degree mark for central, southern locations. here is your extended forecast. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> before we go, let me give you our top story. police arrested the last wanted member of the aum cult, the group carried out the deadly sarin gas attack on the tokyo subways in 1995. police found takahashi at a tokyo comic book cafe. they confirmed his identity using his fingerprints. they arrested him on charges of murder and other crimes. an employee of the cafe tipped off police. he said a man who looked like takahashi was at the shop. investigators rushed to the scene and detained the suspect. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm aotani yuko. thank you f

he joins us live from denver, colorado where you are on safe ground this morning.hese are incredible pictures. intense picture that is you have witnessed. terrifying moments this week as well. any particular situation for you, trevor, that really stands out? >> tuesday, when the fire rolled down the mountain into the mountain shadows neighborhood was terrifying. i was standing there by the loaf and jag that is 30th street and garden of the gods road. seeing the fire come down the mountain as the helicopters were going back and forth from a nearby reservoir to dump water on houses and, you know, to protect the structures was just, it was something like i have never seen before in my life. >> we have been showing some of your pictures. let's look at one in particular. tell me what was going on here. we see the helicopter and the road black out. how difficult is it to get around in something like that? >> they do have a lot of roadblocks set up. you know, they obviously don't want you getting anywhere near the fire. just about anywhere you try to go to get a good shot

. >>> denver, colorado, where pitchers eras go to die. affects the flight of the ball. it's been scientifically proven that baseballs fly 10% further in denver than at sea level. see, you learn something. >> the nats play the infield back. >> a runner on third base. >> wow. strasburg nailing him with a 90 miles per hour fastball. he was remaining conscious and able to walk off. but he was shaken up, too. it looked like he would win easy but colorado tacking on another run in the next inning. rockies beat nats 4-2. >>> good news here, baltimore's michael phelps looking to qualify for his fourth olympics going against that guy in the 400 intermediate. it was phelps first loss in a finals at the u.s. trials since 2004, but phelps did qualify for london, making him the first member in u.s. history to qualify for four olympic games. >>> finally, a bad day for american tennis. venus williams bounced out of wimbledon for the first time since her debut 15 years ago. on the men's side, isner defeated as well. he won the longest match in tennis his

. >> reporter: in denver, colorado, another boomeranger has started her own business from home. her parents' home. 29-year-old lindsey hunt came back to live with her parents last year after leaving her corporate job in boston. >> i think the first month was probably the hardest as i adjusted to being back and kind of got my feet under me. >> reporter: her parents were supportive of her move back and have given her the time and space to think about what she would really like to do with her life and her work. her bedroom has become her home office. lindsey created her own company in corporate advertising, using social networking platforms like facebook and twitter. she now has ten customers, both local and international. her earnings top $3,000 per month. >> coming home to live with your parents is that for me, it enables me to have some freedom. if you view it more as an opportunity and less of a, you know, a bad thing that has happened to you. >> i think that we need to start thinking out of the box and looking at things in a different way because the world is different now. >>

. >> reporter: in denver, colorado, another boomeranger has started her own business from home. her parents' home. 29-year-old lindsay hunt came back to live with her parents last year after leaving her corporate job in boston. >> i think the first month was probably the hardest, as i adjusted to being back and kind of got my feet under me. >> reporter: her parents are supportive of her move back and have given her the time and space to think about what she would really like to do with her life and her work. her bedroom has become her home office. lindsay created her own company in corporate advertising, using social networking platforms like facebook and twitter. she now has ten customers both local and international. her earnings top $3,000 per month. >> coming home to live with your parents is for me it enables me to have some freedom. i think, you know, viewing it more as an opportunity and less of a, you know, a bad thing that has happened to you. >> i think that we need to start thinking out of the box and looking at things in a different way because the world is different

. >>> yesterday, some pretty cool pictures of hail in the denver, colorado, area. it was coming down hard. we even had a couple of reports about tornadoes out by the airport. that was some of the smaller hail pictures. it did start to accumulate almost looking like hail in douglas county. let me show you a picture sent in by andrew nielsen. this is what happens when you have the heavy rain mixed with the large hail. these were cars submerged. almost looks like a winter picture. this is what they were dealing with. i imagine the owners of those vehicles not too happy. severe storms rolled through dallas-ft. worth. numerous reports of wind damage and large hail there. and those storms are finally pushing to the south and weakening. just a lot of lightning strikes out here by stephenville and brownwood. this is the dallas area, ft. worth. thousands of lightning strikes. up to almost 5,000 in the last hour. dallas and ft. worth looking okay. just some showers left over for your morning commute. here's the forecast for today. looks and feels a lot like summer out there

i am from denver, colorado. i have been here 28 years. i understand how a school should be ran. you sit here, you talk about money. the school is constantly going on, day-by-day. the teachers are there. the students are there. they are not getting a fair shake. these kids are feeling miserable. all you are talking about is money. giving honor to god, who is the head of my life, superintendent garcia, you are laying your burden down. but i am sure you have a conscience. under your supervision, there are children that will never be able to lay their burden down. can and do you sleep at night? there are houses of people, children, that do not never get sleep at night. sleep in heavenly peace, all of you on the board. [applause] >> my name is oscar james. i am a concerned parent in the bayview hunters point community, a property owner, a business owner. my problem is, when i went home from the last meeting, that the principal at martin luther king did the same thing at new school she is doing at martin luther king. we want her removed. we demand her to be removed. i am retired. i ca

. >>> but first it's happening right now, in denver, colorado that area take a look at this. hail hammered the area in the past three hours and also been reports of tornadoes too. we're working to gather new information and any video and when we do we're going to bring it to you as soon as it becomes available. it's thursday morning and thank you for joining us. i'm megan pringle. >> and i'm charlie crowson. let's get a check of our weather. say good morning once again to amongst lynette charles -- meteorologist lynett charles. >> i have a picture of my own this morning. little tin, colorado you can see it looks like know but basically pea sized hail all plumped up together. i'll have more pictures as the day goes on. the big view here still some thunderstorms popping arnold colorado. they will begin to dry out throughout the day and that's some good news. that severe weather will calm down. in severe weather aross the area for this morning and even into the afternoon, mainly clear skies. and sunshine as we go into the morning and then possibly a thunderstorm to pop up in the

policy focused so whether president obama grew up in harlem or whether president obama grew up in denver colorado it's still incumbent upon those in the african-american community to ensure that our interests are being articulated and that our interests are being acted upon no matter who is in the white house and i think that that to me is is the point that your audience needs to take away from this conversation is that the fact that there is an african-american in the white house is a wonderful thing but for us for too many of us to sit by and expect that because he is african-american he is then going to address the issues that we need to address is a fallacy we have to be out in the streets we have. the civil rights movement was a movement and it was part of a process and too much of that process has been forgotten and so now because we have had the sixty force voting rights act and sixty four civil rights act in sixty five voting rights act we think that progress that progress has been made in that so now we don't need to engage in those politics anymore but now is the definite time that we n

the only former inmate from the limon correctional facility who we discovered living in the denver, colorado, suburb of aurora. >> we've got 60 days to polish you up. i don't know if we can do it. >> i'll tell you -- >> doesn't look good. >> when we met michael gill during our "extended stay" shoot at limon, he was two months away from completing his sentence and nervous about the future. >> when i go home, it's going to be so much different. i'm going to move up here. is there a lot of work? are they hiring at denny's? >> at the time, gill was completing a two-year sentence for sexual assault. he maintains the conviction was improperly handed down, but during our shoot, gill frequently displayed a volatile temper. >> probably head-butt it because i don't get a shower. >> gill's flare-ups and disciplinary problems added six months to his sentence and landed him in segregation. but when gill's anger retreated, his sense of humor seemed to always re-emerge. >> i got my shower in, so i'm good. >> how's your head? >> my head's fine. >> really? >> yeah. how's your head? >> two years after his rel

the temperature yesterday in denver colorado was 105 degrees it is a tie for the highest ever temperatureecord their ... we're it's 79 degrees at 6 degrees warmer than it was yesterday ... we will see these temperatures increasing in the coming days ... we are pushing 80 degrees right now wind is traveling from the southwest ... humidity is 30% the water temperature in lake michigan ... 64 degrees ... the dermatologist says that 17- 42 minutes on sunburn * at 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. respectively the pollen counts arm lowe relatively speaking florida has been getting bombarded with that tropical storm ... toronto downpourtorres ... let's look at some of the totals: 30 in. in some places ... those heavy rains have extended to tampa st. petersburg this past weekend and thunderstorms are crossing over the state going into a tornado watch ... heavy rains from jacksonville to st. simons island and eastward an amazing situation there ... we will be in the '80s to date into the '90s tamartomorrow ...d we will have twice the normal moisture over the next several days ... this is all because of tha

denver, colorado feeling like 100 degrees. that's the current heat index. they have dry conditions in the west, especially the southwest where they are fighting the terrible forest fires. as far as the rainshowers, they have been making their way through the area since early this morning. noontime, still showers. we are getting a break now. off to the west, a line of showers and thunderstorms. this will not be severe weather. as it comes eastward, what holds together is hitting areas around fauquier county at 7:00 or 7:30. in the next three hours, approaching d.c., scattered showers isolated thunder with it and moderate rains, also. here is a look at tomorrow. partly sunny conditions. anywhere you see the blobs of green for tomorrow and wednesday afternoon, a bit of isolated showers and thunder coming through. it will cool us down briefly. 68 to 74 degrees. take the umbrella if you are heading out. you will need it until midnight. dry tomorrow morning. it will be milder not just for the afternoon but to start the day, too. we get the heat at 85 to 90 degree

galveston, houston, all-time june highs, and i told you about denver, colorado, coming in at 105 todaytemperature ever recorded in denver. guess what? that heat will move our way. 82 on tuesday, beautiful weather overnight tonight into the day tomorrow. 87 on your wednesday. that is a good day. 93 on thursday. and we were talking about the congressional, it looks like on the hot side friday, saturday, even sunday, temperatures will be close to 100 degrees. i flirted with going with 100 today on saturday. i think we could hit it in some locations. the next couple days are great, the last couple will be on the hot side. if you are plans to go ko congressional, make sure you take a lot of water and definitely hydrated there. >> thanks. >>> yves rossi is a swiss adventurer. check it out. he did this today, in the skies above lakes lieu certain in switzerland. he took flight with a contraption he's been working on the past ten years. it's a kevlar wing powered by four engines. he flew past a propeller plane. reached speeds of 130 miles an hour, this is not the first time he's pushed the bou

denver, colorado feeling like 99. it's going to get sticky and oppressive later this week. especially wednesday through friday. clouds for tomorrow. there you are at 4:00 p.m. partly sunny skies with isolated showers and storms off to the west. it will be more terrain type of showers and storms building. a better chance on wednesday. again, with heat building over 90 degrees on wednesday. the evening forecast, you are going to need the umbrella heading out. possibility of showers and storms through midnight. sunsets at 8:34. 68 to 74 degrees. while tomorrow -- while today started cool with showers around the area, tomorrow is going to be milder. i think tomorrow morning, the rain will be over. maybe patchy fog over parts of the area. 62 to 69 degrees to start the day. the heat, again, it starts building. 85 to 90 degrees. warmer, more humid with sunshine returning. here is a look at your four-day forecast, folks. wednesday, 95 degrees for a high temperature. there could be neighborhoods south of us that are over 95 degrees. now is the time to think about all you do to arm y

. >>> new this morning, a police officer in denver, colorado has died after she was shot while trying break up a fight at a jazz concert in a popular city park. this happened sunday night. the denver post reports the officer was a single mom. police say one person is in custody but have not said if that person is indeed the suspect. >>> at least eight wildfires are burning in colorado. 11,000 people were forced to leave their homes over the weekend. so now, some have been allowed to return home. nearly 250 homes in northern colorado have already been destroyed and several popular tourist areas have also been hit. >>> a new government study found sea levels are rising much faster along a stretch of the east coast than they are around the globe. the 600-mile area goes from cape hatteras, north carolina to just north of boston. sea levels in the region have been rising at an annual rate that is three to four times faster than the rest of the world. levels in norfolk, virginia have jumped 5 inches since 19906789 the global average is 2 inches. scientists are now blaming rise on climate ch

. @@ >>> a jazz concert in denver, colorado turns deadly. police say and store was shot and killed trying to break up a con front station last night. -- police say an officer was shot and killed. the denver times is reporting the victim was a singe mother. police say the suspect is now in custody. >>> three freight train crew members are still missing this morning after two trains crashed on sunday. this happened in goodwell, oklahoma. two engineers and a conductor are unaccounted for. a team from the national transportation safety board is on its way to the scene to investigate. >>> one person is still unaccounted for and feared dead in the collapse of a roof at a mall in canada. the collapse happened saturday in elliot lake, ontario not far from the border with northern michigan. crews are still working to stabilize the debris so that it is safe for rescuers to go inside the area where the most damages occurred. twenty-two people suffered minor injuries. >>> coming up this morning, a new study about teenaged internet use shines a light on t

that smoke getting into denver, colorado.e weather not helping but it's getting better than what it was. >> alexandria, thank you for that. it is seven minutes past 6:00. opening statements expected in the trial of jerry sandusky. he could be confronted by some of his alleged victims today. he's charged with sexually abusing ten boys over a 15-year period. up to eight alleged victims expected to testify during a trial that's expected to take three weeks. >>> happening now, former british prime minister gordon brown testifying before the inquiry. we have live pictures here for you. he is facing questions about his past ties to rupert murdoch and media empire. brown has accused news corporation as being as criminal media nexus that engaged in law breaking in an industrial scale. here's some of his testimony. >> the whole weight of the coverage was not what we have done and whether we have done the right thing. it was that i personally did not care about our troops in afghanistan. and that's where you conflat factored opinion an

. >> lady from denver, colorado, when clark griswold had to replace and cut down the tree in the front what was inside of it? a chipmunk, skunk, possum or a quarrel? >> skunk. >> this is one of my finest. i think you will find it. >> the correct answer is the squirrel. >> such a great scene. >> such a great scene. and who does it land on at the end of the scene, julia louis-dreyfus. it latches on to her. it never gets old. pf. >> yes. back across the street to kath. >> these darling girls are from one of my favorite places, gulf breeze, florida. right near pensacola on the gulf coast. gosh, it's beautiful. okay, ladies, what was the patriarch, jim anderson's profession on "father knows best"? you weren't even born yet so take a guess. >> any ideas? >> car salesman. >> you'd be wrong. i'll try to find my pop record for you. is there one -- >> they're so hip. >> you know, out of 16, it's hard to find the right one. we'll go with this one for now. >> he was actually an insurance agent. >> that's right. he worked for the general insurance agency. but he never seemed to be at work, was alwa

get up there in that thin air of denver colorado. they were up 10-1 after one.hammers this one with a couple of men on. that will fetch them both and finally the a's within two. continuing on, check this shot out by brandon moss. just up from the minors it lands in the third deck. he hits two tonight. colon settles in, wins his sixth. 8-5a's take care of their business. that is the sporting life for a tuesday night. and like i said it could still be a great series,miami and oklahoma city. a lot of youth. a lot of strong legs, i think it's going to go six to seven. >> and there's a good golf tournament in town. >> thursday, i can't wait for the real stuff. >> should be good weather too. >> it's going to be great. >> mark, thank you. both thank you. and thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news we will see you the next time news breaks. >> the ktvu morning team will be following tomorrow's nurses strike at 11 different bay area hospitals and we're always here for you on ktvu.com and mobile ktvu. good night.

get up there in that thin air of denver colorado. they were up 10-1 after one.smith hammers this one with a couple of men on. that will fetch them both and finally the a's within two. continuing on, check this shot out by brandon moss. just up from the minors it lands in the third deck. he hits two tonight. colon settles in, wins his sixth. 8-5a's take care of their business. that is the sporting life for a tuesday night. and like i said it could still be a great series,miami and oklahoma city. a lot of youth. a lot of strong legs, i think it's going to go six to seven. >> and there's a good golf tournament in town. >> thursday, i can't wait for the real stuff. >> should be good weather too. >> it's going to be great. >> mark, thank you. both thank you. and thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news we will see you the next time news breaks. >> the ktvu morning team will be following tomorrow's nurses strike at 11 different bay area hospitals and we're always here for you on ktvu.com and mobile ktvu. good night. dude you don't understand, this is my dad's car. l

correspondent alicia acuna is live in denver, colorado, with the latest. >> reporter: hi, bret. u.s. forest service is keeping tabs on 2 large uncontained fires in 1 -- 29 large uncontained fires. eight burning in colorado. the waldo canyon fire west of colorado springs is where more than 4,000 people are evacuated right now. it's about five miles from the air force academy. all of the firefighting for the state has been costly. coloradans are already frustrated with the state budget crunch and the governor who has a business background is mindful of that. >> trust me, i'm not sure there is anybody any cheaper than i am, more frugal. i'm concerned about costs like anyone is. i treat the budget like it's my own, you know, life savings. >> we're in this together. and we are going to keep fighting fires and protecting people's homes and making sure everybody is safe. as hard as we can. we're not wasting any money. >> hickenlooper says there will be a partnership with the federal government with some cost sharing. north of denver, the high park fire is burning near fort collins. 257

john kerry's numbers based on the democratic increases they had in 2008 if he took a place like denver, coloradoll as you you would predict. that's where the search was at a low. very little racism and obama does as the model predicts. if you take a place like west virginia obama lost nine points off of what he should have it. it's a fascinating concept. he goes further and says the higher the racially charged search rate in the area the worse mr. obama did. that's interesting. finally, do you know if you lose two percentage points in an election, it reduces your chance of winning a popular vote by 33%. so if you lose just twonts based on racism, that will effect an entire election. so that's why it's an absolutely critical issue for the 2012 election. now let me bring on a guess. sheryl, one of the cofounders of jack and jill politics.com. sheryl, it's great to have you hear. the resurfaced the survey because they said, look, in 2008 president obama had actually really for a democrat an ideal situation. tailwind behind him. the iraq war was a disaster. the economy was a disaster. that's part of

colorado fire has burned more than 30 acres of west of fort collins. smoke can be seen 70 miles away in denver. the colorado fire is spreading as fast as 1.5 miles per hour. one person is missing and fire officials say for now, they don't have the resources to keep up. >> we have thousands of acres of fire, hundreds of homes threatened and dozens of fire engines. so you do the math and you see what kind of problem we're on. >> some 2,000 residents have been told to evacuate. stan bush of kcnc is in laporte, colorado, with more. >> reporter: terrell, this fire has grown more than 12,000 acres in just the last 12 hours. and it's getting worse. it has been raining ash. that's forced an evacuation center to close because the conditions have become too dangerous. it was standing room only where evacuees tried to learn if the fire had destroyed their home. stewart already knows hers is gone. >> shellshocked. as far as my friend, i feel like there's no solid ground underneath me right now. >> reporter: stuart says she only had ten minutes to escape. >> we got our animals out and our families out. we'

denver, colorado where pitchers' eras go to die. high altitude affects the flight of the ball. it's been scientifically proven that baseballs slide 10% further in denver than at sea level. so you learned something this morning. the high altitude wasn't hurting stephen strasburg. he was cruising still this scary incident in the 6th. >> it sounded like -- >>-- >> strasburg nailing scutaro with a fastball. he remained conscious and was able to walk off. you could tell stras was shaken up. colorado tacked on another run in the next inning. rockies beat the nats 4-2. >> at&t national, all eyes on tiger woods of course today. he was the 2009 champion of the event, itself last time the tournament was here. woods says he loves congressional and the d.c. area. jim furyk will be here. interesting side note. his caddy is a member at congressional so we will see if jim furyk can show his stuff as he has done here before. of course, we're going to be wall to wall with tiger and at&t. live team coverage throughout the week. we have a special wrapup show each evening at 11:30. >>> michael phel

they're also having record high temperatures, denver colorado 105 today.lso had some lightning with some of these thunderstorms. some of these thunderstorms are so dry, they don't rain. high park fire, 83,000 acres are now burned. it's 90 degrees on the fire line. there are 2,000 firefighters on the fire line right now. tomorrow's high gets to 98 degrees. have you to understand, it is probably hotter near the fires, of course. the waldo canyon fire at 430 acres, zero% containment, and 93 right now at this hour. >> looks bad, all right, chad, thank you for the update. >>> coming up or counting down, the top five ridiculists so far. there was one silver fox and one cougar. why not make lunch more than just lunch? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? he

heat wave is packed full of storms, we have seen temperatures setting records, all the way from denver, colorado, earlier last week and now, into our nation's capital about the now we have the storms in the midst of it and not a good combination and lots of damage yesterday and we'll be seeing more complexes similar to this the next couple of days as well. >> before i get to my next question, i had alicia acuna on and we talked about how finally with one fire burning since june 9th they got a break and colorado, what is the forecast going to look lik immediately, so maybe they can get a second fire out? >> reporter: some good news and some bad news. the good news is we don't have the gusty winds which has been simply spraying the flames here, the past several days. and, we do have the heat, and, of course, we do have the low relative humidity, so, 2 of the 3 ingredients, are still present and temperatures, unfortunately, will stay in the 80s and 90s, the next several days. >> justin, we appreciate your forecast for us. thank you, justin. >> reporter: thanks, harris. >> new fallout from the u.s.