let's bring in meteorologist jennifer delgado. she's in the cnn center.hat's it look like for today? >> hi. for today, we don't have any red flag warnings in colorado springs but still a lot of dry air. right now, things are pretty nice as we go through the afternoon, we're going to see that air working through and humidity values are going to be dropping. high temperatures are going to be generally in the lower 80s. now, notice, we are going to see a chance of showers and thunderstorms throughout. the problem is, if we do get some of these storms out there, we're not expecting significant rainfall. but the other problem is when you get lightning bolts out there, those could trigger again potentially more fires across parts of colorado. right now, as we talk about some of the rain, well, it's coming down right through the midwest including chicago. as we go through the afternoon, once again, a severe weather threat. slight risk. some of these storms will be producing damaging winds as well as hail. that includes chicago all the way down towards denver. so

let's bring in meteorologist jennifer delgado in the cnn severe weather center. jennifer, what is the sunday forecast? >> i have to tell you, alison, we're going to continue to see more rain coming down through parts of the midwest, and we still have flood watches in place across parts of kansas as well as into missouri. you can see areas in green, and that means, of course, the ground is saturated. so, once again, we could continue to see themes of flash flooding like we just saw, coming out of the springfield, missouri. to give you an idea how much rain we're talking about, some of the areas, 8 to 10 inches of rainfall came down. keep in mind, flash flooding the number one weather-related killer. so, certainly, if you are seeing flooded roadways, don't drive through them. save your life as well as those first responders as well. looking at the radar, still some rain coming down through parts of missouri as well as into kansas, so that's why we had those flooding watches in place. so, some of these locations still could see potentially, let's say 4 to 6 inches of

let's bring in meteorologist jennifer delgado in the cnn weather center. what is the sunday forecast? >> hi there, alison. >>> the sunday forecast means more rain, especially for parts of the midwest, an area that does not need more rainfall. we do have flood watches in place, as you can see, for areas including parts of southern missouri as well as into kansas. that is wide receivafter all the down yesterday. flash flooding is the number one weather related killer out there. so don't risk trying to go and cross these flooded roadways. it's just too dangerous, certainly can be deadly. over the last 24 hours, eight to ten inches in some areas just to the north of springfield. four to six in parts of kansas. as we go through the day, yes, we'll continue to see more showers and thunderstorms popping up. with that, some of these locations, we could still see roughly four to six inches of rainfall as we go through the next 48 hours. we're also going to be looking for severe storms to pop up into the midwest and across the plains. that includes parts of kansas a

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jennifer delgado is live to show us what happened there. what is it like. >> reporter: i am in gillespie, illinois b an hour and a half away from st. louis. they suffered their own storm damage last night as severe storms came through. what are you looking at behind me is what's left of the gymnasium. you see the bricks down on the ground. we're still waiting to hear whether the national weather service is going to say what type of damage this is. based on me looking at this, it looks more like straight line winds. you can see how the debris is all in one direction. when you talk about tornado damage you see more debris spread around, but residents here said they heard the tornado warnings last night. a lot of them took safety and rightfully so. a lot of damage here reportedly 70 homes were damaged and 7 to 10 of those were destroyed. luckily there were no injuries here. we do have mayor john hicks here. if you can step over and talk about you're a proud town here of gillespie. this is incredible seeing that you had a tornado pretty close t

let's bring in meteorologist jennifer delgado in the cnn weather center. nnifer, the winds in the early part of the week is what were causing the biggest problems found that they just need humidity? >> yeah, that's right. the rain that they got yesterday that helped them out has come to an end. and we are looking for a chance for showers and thunderstorms to pop up. in colorado springs, it's still dry out there. as we go through the afternoon, relative humidity values will be dropping so we are still looking at not favorable conditions but certainly they are improving. as we go for saturday and sunday, a 40% chance for showers and thunderstorms. yes, we want the rain, but the problem is if we get some lightning out there that should trigger more fires across the region. keep in mind, areas including colorado springs, they're not under warning but in the southwestern parts of utah, as well as into areas including colorado we do have a red flag warning in place. we are expecting winds to gust up to 45 miles per hour with a dry air in place. yes, we could see

jennifer delgado joins us now in the weather center. are conditions going to improve there even more? >> hi, alison. you're right. they are getting a break right now, but as we go later into the day, with he have a chance we owe could see some thunderstorms popping up. right now on the radar it's very quiet. nothing happening across colorado, but for today as i said, we are going to start to see the relative humidity values dropping just a bit and then we're also going to see wednesday in between 10 and 20 miles per hour. right now temperatures 70 degrees from the north, 13. that's showing you the dry air in place. as i said to you, yes, there is a chance for some storms out there. we're not expecting significant rainfall, but, unfortunately, some of these storms could cause lightning. of course, that could trigger some more wildfires so we certainly will be watching that. another feature that we're watching, storms moving through parts of the upper midwest, all the way down towards the southern plains, and chicago, it's wet out there.

we want to go to the cnn weather center and jennifer delgado live in the weather center. i would imagine where tory is it's air conditioning appreciation day. >> absolutely. i can tell you honestly, i am totally not jealous of her live shot and going out on that story. it is brutally hot in parts of the southwest. look at some of these numbers from yesterday, don. for las vegas, new record, 115. 117 was the record back in 2005. death valley 128. the all-time record for the warmest spot on earth 134 degrees in death valley. getting very close to that with temperatures once again right near 130 degrees. look at the numbers right now. as you said, air conditioners are working in overdrive. imagine a lot of people are in the movies trying to get relief from the head. needles 118. 112 in phoenix. the heat is going to continue tomorrow. even potentially some of these areas through wednesday. that's why we have these excessive heat warnings in place. anywhere you are seeing in the pink shading, this is going to last until tuesday. now we add in the pacific northwest. they are go

jennifer delgado right now in the weather center. cooler temperatures, that helps a little bit, but they are still dealing with winds? >> yeah, the winds have actually subsided a bit. we just looked and last observation, they were around 5, but looking at the radar, for parts of colorado, very quiet there. lot of rain through parts of the planes. a lot cooler than it has been and winds at 3, but the relative humidity has been dropping over the last couple of hours. of course you don't want to see that because you want to have more moisture out there. we are going to continue to see those dew points lowering and that is going to lower the relative humidity. we could see some late day storms popping up. we don't want that really because we could see some lightning out there and if we don't get these storms producing a good amount of rainfall, we could see lightning triggering more fire, but for saturday and sunday, high temperatures in the lower 80s. now, the action we've been following across the midwest and plains, still looking at s