the problem in these midwest small towns is an aging population.hat dissuades cubbies from expanding their and young people tend to leave and not come back. host: we have one of those rest piled -- rust belt places, oil city, pennsylvania. overhearing this, i've got to tell you, i don't think there is much hope for the rust belt in general. it would be great to see it come back. i know the people who have worked here for years in the 1940's, 19 50's, 1960's, 1970's, a very hard-working people. the brain trust leaving the area because they leave in a multitude. i cannot see how anybody would want to come in and invest in these areas when you have the opioid crisis and so on and so forth. it seems like it is too overwhelming. thank you for having me. host: go ahead, simon. guest: i think you make a very good point and i am not pretending this will be a solution everywhere. i found it interesting that one place in particular that has been through very hard times seems to be building their way out of it and it is not a done deal. i think there will be

in fact, those smaller places can find a home in these midwest cities. a setback for akron when they did not get the goodyear plan and it went to mexico. there is a strong political debate to be had over whether to have stronger incentives. but that is beyond the scope of this story. this is not a story about trade policy or tout shoring or off shoring or about import substitution. it is what you do in the current circumstances if you are a city in the rust belt like akron. host: we are talking with simon montlake. susan is calling from earlier, massachusetts. caller: great job as usual. i love stories like this. i come from many generations of its berger -- of pittsburgh ers. grandfather worked closely caring for a mill workers and built a great life for himself and his family. and i remember being in high school in pittsburgh in the late 1970's when the death knell of and manufacturing was becoming readily apparent. but anyway, i wanted you to tell us about the progress -- and you can use mathematicians as an example of industry collaborating with coll

there's nothing but sky in the midwest — it'sjust sky, sky, sky.e my name is lucy barton, as soon as i understood that her mother had never been on a plane before, something about that made me realise, 0k, i see lucy as having grown up in a tiny, little house, surrounded by sky, and so that's her place of origin and then she moved and left and ended up living in new york city and crossed all these class lines. so is this what we — people talk about the flyover states, you fly over and forget about it. so in a sense you're talking about forgotten places and people? yes, exactly. do you mind reading a little extract? the book isjust studded — anything is possible, lucy barton, olive kitteridge too, the book is just studded with place and geography. i think you've got a passage that does it for us. this is just from the very first part, where the man who used to be the janitor in lucy barton's school is driving around. this morning tommy drove slowly to the town of carlisle for errands. it was a sunny day saturday in may and his wife's 82nd birthday w

the heat is building across the midwest and that heat will be sliding to the east. look at the storms right now into i lightning as well. we're watching for 23 million americans at risk for severe weather and that does include the potential for damaging winds. as this big dome of heat works its way across the country look for hot high temperatures in the triple di triple digits. that's a look at the weather story today. now here's a closer look at the day ahead. very warm in parts of the midwest. but not too bad in new york city. the 90s in d.c. the heat builds as well as the storms across much of the southeast. we'll be watching for the warmer temperatures to really heat up across the midwest and the mid south, frances, with highs climbing into the 90s. watch out for heat advisories in kansas and missouri. >>> thank you. now to one of the worst crashes during the hitting another rider. he was taken away on a stretcher. he fractured both his pelvis and collarbone and will not be finishing the race. >>> kids snorting chocolate, is that a good idea. >>> and flooding h

, cooler than average across the upper midwest in the northeast, we have potential for heavy rain andlooding across the southwest today. you can see showers and thunderstorms perking up, a threat for severe storms including large hail and isolated tornadoes in portions of the upper midwest. the other story not so cool across the center us, he didn't the seas over 100 °. a sweater in new york city. rob: not for long. heather: it is 12 minutes after the top of the hour, horrible story continues, human smuggling, the grisly discovery in texas as brand-new proof sanctuary cities are not working. >> a message i have been trying to get out, illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. >> smuggling survivors took the steps to stay alive. rob: donald trump is an artist. you never guess how much his signed sketch of the sideline is going for. >> now that he has been replaced people are wondering house on spicer's handling the news, he will be okay and will survive which explains why he released this music video earlier today. >> i will survive as long as i know i will stay alive. all my life

i put them in the midwest, its own kind of geography.ng about sky in the midwest, it isjust geography. there's nothing about sky in the midwest, it is just the sky, sky, sky. and when i wrote my name is lucy barton, as soon as i understood that her mother had never been on a plane before, something about that made me realise, ok, i see lucy as having grown up in a tiny house surrounded by sky. and so that's her place of origin and then she moved and left and ended up living in new york city and crossed all these class lines. people talk about the flyover states, you fly over and forget about it. in a sense you are talking about forgotten people? exactly. do you mind reading a little extract? the bookiesjust started with place and geography. i think you've got a passage that does it for us. this isjust think you've got a passage that does it for us. this is just from think you've got a passage that does it for us. this isjust from the very first part, where the man who used to be the janata in lucy barton's school is driving around. this

severe thunderstorms develop late in the day from the complex of storms across the midwest. flash flooding possible with all the moisture in the air at this point. it's easy to get the drenching downpours like wringing out a sponge. 80 degrees in philadelphia. dewpoints, 74. that is extremely high. winds out of the east/northeast at 6 miles per hour. the ocean temperature, inviting, 76 degrees which is warmer than the air temperatures. reading and allentown, 72. lancaster, 74. close to 80 degrees in allen torn. philadelphia is already there. trenton, 76. 76 is the number for millville and on the boards in atlantic city, high dewpoints, low to mid 70s, very comparable to the gulf coast, orlando this is what you see everyday. dover, 77. wilmington, 74. here's the break right here, if you're sick and tired of all the humidity, relief arrives monday night. the heat wave officially breaks tomorrow, but it will be humid as we head into sunday and monday. it's monday night when the humidity leaves finally calm back down and drop into the 50s and 60s. we still have a couple of more

>>> this friday morning on "world news now," severe weather causing havoc in the midwest with roads under water in several states. wisconsin's governor calling a state of emergency. we're tracking where these storms are heading right now. >>> president trump in paris for a second day, he's answering questions about his son's controversial meeting with a russian lawyer. how he's defending don jr. >>> and new this half hour, the new republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare on life support. >> reaction pouring in already. but do republicans have the votes they need. >>> and i can barely contain myself. huge breaking news, beyonce's babies, america's babies are real. twins. beyonce just posting the first image of them with name confirmation. "the skinny" is jam-packed on this friday, july 14th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> the news just broke moments ago, and i'm barely able to contain ourself, but we want to welcome linda lopez to the set. >> i get the slow clap. one more time. >> we should just get, can we just address the big elephant that's in the room and your

the midwest we're also tracking some heavy, heavy rain. of course, flooding occurring in wisconsin, these are strong storms with a big dome of high pressure. the heat is building across the u.s. we're talking about triple-digit numbers across the midwest, parts of kansas and missouri, this is the first day of a heat wave. o and in fresno. frances, that heat is building across the midwest. we'll see temperatures in the upper 90s in st. louis >>> now to one of the worst crashes during the tour de france. he slid along the road before hitting another rider. potter was taken away on a stretcher. he fractured both his pelvis and collarbone and will not be finishing the race. >>> just ahead -- kids snorting chocolate. how could that be a good idea? >>> and flooding hits a critical mass as the ground gives way. details ahead. noo introducing the easiest way to get gillette blades text "blades" to gillette on demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand... ...and get $3 off your first order the bathroom. when things go wrong here, you rem

>>> part of wisconsin is under a state of emergency as much of the midwest deals with severe floodingle on road in, their homes, flooding in burlington, wisconsin threatened a damage cut power to nearly every business. much of the midwest flood warnings extend throughout, this weekend. >>> i know we're watching storms but do we need to be aware of flooding. >> we at this point will need to think bit. we showed you earlier in the show flash flood watch has been issued lasting until midnight for southwestern half of the region and philadelphia is included in that. we could get doused here. we had a couple round of rain roll through earlier this morning. anything else we do find out there is certainly going to cause some headaches. i know we just want to get weekend started without any problems. you have to keep in mind these storms could be quite dicey, toward the typical evening rush hour. lets just get out there and start off with storm scan three to recap here, all this is coming courtesy of a cold front, this is catalyst that will finally send us back into some more pleasant territo

i don't think we'll see images like that like across the midwest. live looking at ben franklin bridge. note the haze. we're seeing extremely high dewpoints. an uncomfortable morning feeling like the gulf coast states. the heat wave comes to an end tomorrow, but the humidity will not break until tuesday. we have a few days to deal with this. at least the high heat indices over 100 degrees will come to an end tomorrow. one lone shower is over lbi racing out to sea. 93 degrees is the forecasted high. we're ten degrees below the record, but ten above the seasonal average. starting out at 80 degrees, not much relief this morning. with the dewpoints in the low to mid 70s it fellows lousy. wilmington, 79. reading, 73. poconos, 61 the only location that's comfortable this morning. cape may, 74. millville, 75. heat indices, by lunchtime 95 or 96 across the i-95. 5:00 p.m., 99 in philadelphia. wilmington, 98. trenton, 95. all the excessive heat warnings and heat advisories have been dropped. once woe topple the 100-degree mark that's when they issue a heat ad

at this time, i want to introduce someone who is no stranger to the potential of midwest manufacturing. that is my old colleague as well and great friend, a great advocate for american workers, that is my friend and our vice president, vice president mike

representing 12 states throughout the midwest. it is a collaborative association whose mission is to develop and recommend strategies to prevent and control gang crime, administer professional training as well as assist criminal justice professionals, educators, probation, parole and public regarding gangs in their communities. the last 17 years, i have been employed as a full time sworn law enforcement officer in the midwest with extensive experience in investigating street gangs on both the state and federal level. street gangs today are different than the gangs of 10, 20, even 30 years ago. presently street gangs are more violent, more technological savvy and glorified. street gangs have increased their prominence over juveniles and drug addicts in their day to day operations. social media, the internet, television and the explosion of gangster rap culture has glorified the gang lifestyle to juveniles. african-american gangs has become the norm in the street gang life with no longer a strict hierarchy. presently gangs have fact

12 states throughout the midwest.t is collaborative associations mission is to develop and recommend strategy to prevent and control gang crime administer professional training as well as assist, just a professional educators, probation parole and public regarding gangs in a committees. for the last 17 years i've been applied as a law-enforcement officer in in the midwest with extensive experience in investigate street gangs in both the state and federal level. street gangs today are different than the gangs of the past 30 years. resume street gangs are more violent, more technological savvy, glorified. street gangs have increased the prominence over juveniles and drug addicts in the day-to-day operation took social media, the internet and television explosion of the gangster rap culture has glorified the lifestyle to juveniles. an african-american game has become the norm in the street gang life with no longer a strict hierarchy. presently gangs of actions that number into the hundreds. in chicago one gang is over 20

barn storm across the midwest, get it done. on tax cuts, he is taking the lead. and the plan, dismal approval ratings, the delay in the health care bill and russia, russia, russia, hurting his agenda. mr. trump wants to come back strong. investors seem to approve. 21,637, friday's close, 26th record of this calendar year. we'll open higher again, only just. this monday morning, how far we go and we're off to a start. and the world of money, don't you love it? "varney & company" is about to aga again. stuart: i'm going to call it a muted open for the stock market this morning. look, no selloff after last week's series of records. this, by the way, is profit reporting week and that's going to be important, especially for the big tech companies, we'll open mixed this morning, but no selloff. look at the price of oil, $46 a barrel and no impact on the stock market this morning. how about this, blue apron falling 8%, that's premarket, okay, down to $6 a share. is there an amazon link? >> following a news report at that amazon filed a trademark application for prepared

we have to do that more than just in the industrial midwest. gerri: liz, ford was mentioning the creation of manufacturing jobs. 18,000 jobs donald trump has created since he has been in office but people out there are saying 18 people have died in foxconn manufacturing facilities overseas. is that what we can look forward to or will it be different in the u.s.a. >> clearly it will be different. our unions will be setting down the rules how we treat our workers as they always have. the important message is we are a manufacturing country. and that's something that has been lost in all the conversation. if germany can manufacture, the united states can manufacture. compared to a rival like china and germany our energy costs are bargain basement levels. and the biggest consumer market right here. i would like to point out one more thing. 10 electoral votes? wisconsin, a state trump won by 1 percentage point. extremely close. this is an incredibly important thing to have happen. scott walker is up for reelection next week. gere require want to ment

we will scale up that system with computer science in engineering students all across the midwest looking at that ecosystem. >> [inaudible conversations]

severe thunderstorms expected throughout the midwest of the country. sioux falls, des moines and green bay. but that's not the only place with problems with rain. big time problems in the desert southwest. because we're looking at monsoonal moisture affecting flagstaff and tucson with sudden flooding and desert washes and widespread urban flash flooding part of the mix. in addition to that, that moisture's going to make it better with the fire danger in this part of the southwest but for the west coast and northwest, dry, summer heat will continue to prevail so we will have a high fire danger in these areas shaded in red. >> let's talk about happy news. britain's youngest royals at it again. this time stealing the spotlight and warming hearts. >> oh, cute. >> all across poland. prince george and princess charlotte traveling with their parents. the british press says the kids are part of a charm offensive to soften the plea from brexit. do you believe that? >> i think it's working. kate joked that she may have a third child after receiving all the gifts

[laughter] janice: yes, bad hair day alert across the northeast back through the upper midwest.very slow-moving cold front is the problem here. let's take a look at the temperatures, 75 in new york, 67 in minneapolis. past six hours, you see showers and thunderstorms developing across the midwest, ohio valley up towards the northeast as well. scattered storms along the golf -- gulf coast. our future radar shows the showers and thunderstorms perhaps some severe storm later on this afternoon, again, the bulls eye really for upper midwest, western great lakes but we could see scattered thunderstorms from this region across the mid atlantic and northeast, we have a slight risk for tornadoes over the upper midwest. highs today very warm specially across the southwest again we have dozens of fires burning but the central u.s. is going to bake as well with heat indices well above 100-degrees, we will be watching that as well. bring your umbrella, laid united states, back to you. lauren: thank you very much, janice. cheryl: i actually have my umbrella. coming up as you're still waking u

. >>> then to unprecedented flooding in parts of the midwest. in wisconsin, the governor declaring a state of emergency, with streets submerged in water, bridges and roadways closed and thousands left without power. >>> and get ready to get your feet wet. because that's about allou it's a stand-up water slide with the break neck speed of a airn airport moving sidewalk. they're thrilling europeans, and one american town may be the first in the nation to have its very own, so shall we suit up? on this friday, july 14th. >> maybe that's for people who are afraid of water slides. >> we should say welcome to linda lopez, who is from gma after hours. >> thank you so much. i got the slow clap. >> the official slow clap. >> what does that mean? >> that means we like you. >> thank you so much. >> if you're doing gma after hours, is this considered gma pre-hours? >> before hours. >> before hours. >> we'll come up with a name. >> which hour do you think is naughtier? >> after hours is always naughtier. >> just wait. but thank you soap f much for b here wit

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so we're going to need people from all across the state of wisconsin and throughout the midwest to help us out. foxcomm will build the first facility in the united states that will build lcd panels for everything from the automotive business to health care to entertainment and all tri induss combined. going forward, i want all of you to know, but particularly the president to know that these panels will be made in america proudly in the state of wisconsin. [ applause ] >> foxcom m's new echo system will transform wisconsin. in fact, terry and i came up with a name. we call it wisconn valley. the region we will call wisconn valley will become the new leading edge for technology. it will help us with one more tool, to keep our college and high school graduates in the state of wisconsin instead of going beyond our borders. this exciting in transformation. [ applause ] >> and in addition to thanking terry and his great team from foxcomm and sony -- sharp, excuse me. to sharp having seen their great facilities, i want to particularly thank the president of the united states because as terry

. >>> beyond california, we're following severe weather in parts of the midwest and mid-atlantic tonight. scenes like this outside chicago have been hitting the region for days now. many towns in iowa, wisconsin and illinois are under water and flood warnings continue. severe thunderstorms are in the forecast again tonight and tomorrow for wide areas of the midwest, mid-atlantic and the northeast. >>> new fallout tonight from the shooting death of an australian woman by police in minneapolis as the victim's family and public demand details about what led to her death, a shakeup at the police department is triggering calls for even more changes. nbc's ron mott has our report tonight. >> reporter: chaos. >> i hear and understand your objections. >> reporter: minneapolis mayor betsey hodges sought to restore confidence in the city's police force with protesters urging the mayor be next to go. >> we're not going to be tricked by this effort, right? the former chief wasn't doing her job but we understand it's beyond the chief. the problem is institutional. >> the fiance has fought back tears.

if you are living in new york city that is not too much money but in the midwest that is a good amountf money. heather: it is not over yet. the house plan that may come together and vote in favor, the senate situation right now the president meeting with senators today, perhaps maybe still there could be a solution versus just repealing and replacing later because a lot of people not in favor of that. heather: rob: so much criticism of being insensitive to the poor and working-class but a great argument that the more welfare you create the more people you put on welfare and a wonderful bite from i can't remember if it was mitt romney or who it was running for president saying it is not our goal to see how many people we can put on the system. put on welfare plans, we are trying to get people off. heather: that is why there is a push to get people to work to get food stamps, you have to work. rob: there is nothing wrong with that. that can help people. it is tough luck versus let's see how much we can give away. everyone is on the system, part of the machine and going under. heather: th

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veronica: people in the midwest are waking up to some very heavy flashhis morning and flooding across area, about half a foot of water fell in areas for wisconsin to illinois. the fox river more than three feet above its record hi it front of the governor to call for a state of emergency. hundreds of homes have been damaged. you are seeing some of the water rescues. water covering area roadsd. . that cold front that brought that heavy rain is now eastbound and it headed -- and is headed this way. it is not going to have the same impact but we could still see heavy rain. high winds ande scattered power outages across the yard. this is a look at the latest guidance showing you 6 p.m. this evening, areas across northern maryland a possibility of seeing some power outages. then watch what happens by 9:00. into d.c. as the cold front comes through and the winds behind it, too. we could see locally high winds here. today, 94 degrees to heavy downpours later today. that means the possibility of flash flooding. if you ever see heavy rain covering a road, turnaround. don't dro storms ending by

the rain has been coming down so heavy and hard across the midwest. take a look at the area at risk today. 20 million people at risk for severe storms in the afternoon and evening, and strong wind gusts are likely. further off towards minneapolis, even into fargo, we're looking at six million people at risk for severe weather today. parts of the plains and the midwest dealing with storms as well as the gulf coast. lots of gulf moisture coming up. tropical moisture. we're likely to see storms from new orleans all the way to tampa. really across much of florida. some of that rain could be heavy at times as we go through the forecast for today and even into tomorrow. torrential downpours are possible. be careful if are you driving on i-10, particularly right here along that gulf coast region. well, the heat is a huge story, and it is going to build. i know we've seen some beautiful weather. especially sunday in the northeast. things are changing. this big dome of high pressure is pushing to the east, and unfortunately, it's going to bring about dangerous

it's tough dealing with this. >> reporter: mother nature's furry displacing thousands in the midwest tonight, claiming lives in arizona. steve patterson, nbc news. >>> president trump has been pushing congress to move quickly on a health care bill, but a vote is on hold tonight because of a health emergency involving a key senator, john mccain. he is recovering at home after having surgery to remove a blood clot in his head. we get the latest from nbc's kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: for a second day, the president played host to world class golf at his bedminister club, but his shot at repealing the health care law is on hold, and delivering on his pledge, uncertain. but that's a boost to protesters near the president's property. the delay follows unexpected surgery for senator john mccain, who had a blood clot removed. he's doing well, but must remain in arizona this week. >> i believe as soon as we have, we have a full contingent of senators that we'll have that vote. it's important we do so. >> reporter: but senate republicans are struggling among themselves. divided over the scop

cooler in the midwest and northeast. >>> well, still ahead right here, the country with a plan to ban all gas and diesel cars. >>> and an alarming new study showing evidence of brain disease in nearly all former nfl players. >>> plus, trapped in the woods for days. how a woman survived and the hut that she made out of wood. >>> a georgia couple plans to sue a day camp after their 5-year-old son drowned during what they call insane negligence. now police say benjamin hosch died friday during an outing near a waterfall. the kids were eating lunch and splashing in the water when a chaperone noticed benjamin was missing. he was later found a short distance away. >> my wife called me, said your boy is face down -- >> their negligence killed my son. they robbed him of his life, of his potential. >> that emotional press conference there from the family. camp cricket, by the way, outside atlanta was operating without a license. it has since been shut down. the family attorney says benjamin wasn't wearing a life jacket and did not know how to swim. >>> more than a thousand people a flood kille

the heat is building across the midwest and that heat will be sliding to the east. look at the storms right now into iowa and into milwaukee. they are powerful with lots of lightning as well. we're watching for 23 million americans at risk for severe weather and that does include the potential for damaging winds. as this big dome of heat works its way across the country look for hot high temperatures in the triple di triple digits. that's a loo ss as the ground gives way. details here on "early today." noo introducing the easiest way to get gillette blades text "blades" to gillette on demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand... ...and get $3 off your first order the bathroom. when things go wrong here, you remember. quilted northern is designed to work so well, you can forget your bathroom trips. but daddy gator can never forget. "i've got to motor out of here. this is no place to raise a child." the ultra-fine mist startstoms working instantly "i've got to motor out of here. to deliver up to 12 hours of ahhhhh get fast relief with vicks sinex. ito beco

you know, people say, are you going for the trump voter who was a blue collar worker in the midwest or the old obama coalition? what we're talking about appeals to both. you don't have to choose. it will appeal to the worker in akron who is only being paid $11 an hour, it will appeal to the young woman getting out of college in los angeles and wants a bright future, it will appeal to the single mom in buffalo who is cleaning toilets for minimum wage. >> do you worry that your party is too fixated on the russia investigation? >> no. >> tim kaine of west virginia said that donald trump's ideas are simply treasonous. do you worry that you're playing into donald trump's hands that way? >> no, i believe we're spending our time fighting this health dare bill where we're resonating with average voters and average workers and we've been spending time putting together our better deal which we announced today. those are our two big focuses. obviously russia is in the news. we want mueller to be able to pursue and our committees to be able to pursue their investigations unimpeded, but our focus i

diane, from where you sit, does president trump understand midwest labor and midwest economics? a big question. i cannot certainly say. i cannot get into the president's mind. what we're seeing is the auto industry is laying off instead of hiring. that is not something he was h oping for. what you are seeing is the home move from brixton clicks, i just did a big show -- a big interview on the move of amazon warehousing sites and how they are moving into rural america. they're setting up jobs in areas where they weren't. right around chicago, you can see a lot of them. as a backdropabor here. nobody is talking about this in the fed meeting. have one minutes ago before the statement comes out. are we going to get some kind of turning date for the balance sheet unwind? will not get that. we will get a little bit of a hits within the next few meetings or relatively in. the market will be focused on the link which of evolution for the balance sheet. a lot of expectations that you will have that. they think you will get the announcement in september, so this is setting up for that wit

this line of storms produced a lot of damage earlier today in parts of the ohio valley and the midwest this was all associated with a big storm system that is still kicking off severe storms coming out of parts of the midwest and right through ohio where they had a number of tornado warnings earlier today. all of this activity is going to make its way in our direction. what it's associated with is a frontal boundary and this is the first of several little disturbances that are going to move by. watch what happens. as that frontal boundary sag nz our direction, we start to pick up some of these stronger storms and that's going to happen tomorrow in the afternoon. let's time it out for you. watch what happens, here it comes, it's going to sag through. once it's gone, it looks like wednesday will be a decent day. maybe just a few instability showers, but then we get a bit of a break before we hit thursday. thursday will be another busy day. it will abe a hot day tomorrow, too. we get showers coming in tomorrow night, still well into the 70s after midnight, then tomorrow morning we wake up

on a midwest lake. ==take vo== take a look at this frightening >>> a dangerous scene on a midwest lake. take a look at this frightening video. it shows the boat running in circles after the person behind the wheel and nine other people had been thrown off. the 20-year-old operator was speeding. he made a sharp spin and everyone on board flew off. it ended up ramming a dock and then a patrol boat. eventually it slowed down. wow. and an officer was able to hop aboard the runaway boat and stop it. several people were seriously hurt after they were thrown into the water. scary stuff. >>> the northern lights putting on a show in parts of the united states this weekend. take a look at some time lapse of the lights in the sky over south dakota. this is the best view you'll get. the vibrant purples and greens some courtesy of a solar flare. getting caught in the earth's magnetic field. it continues tonight. people living in northern states have the best chance of seeing those lights but the show can be seen far

flooding is still a major problem in the upper midwest. in northern illinois the fox river is expected to keep rising until tuesday. people in the area say it is the worst flooding they've seen in decades. near eight people were killed this weekend when a flash flood swept through a swimming hole. several others are missing. officials say they had no warning. they heard a roar and then flood waters slammed through the canyon. powerful storms damaged buildings and knocked out power across the phoenix area. dozens of wildfires continue to rage in at least ten western states. i a fire near santa barbara, california, destroyed at least 50 buildings. and now the company that owns the world's largest firefighting plane claims federal officials are keeping it grounded putting homes at risk. here is mireya villarreal. >> reporter: firefighters are using every tool, waging war on the whittier fire just north of santa barbara, california. >> a lot of uncertainty, but you're going to northbound another firefight today. >> reporter: after more than a

. >>> now the midwest flooding, a powerful wave of storms left chicago's northern suburbs under water and thousands without power. and wisconsin's fox river swelled to over 3 1/2 feet above flood stage. homes and businesses are impacted, knocking out electricity to 20,000 customers. let's turn to meteorologist bonnie schneider with what's ahead for us. >> all of that rain that hit chicago is pushing to the east. it's impacting michigan at this house. lansing getting powerful thunderstorms. temperatures will climb into the mid-90s, but it's going to feel even hotter than that. expect temperatures to feel like 100 degrees. now here's a closer look at the day ahead. it's hot as well into the plains. 92 in rapid city. highs in wyoming in the 90s. storms for cleveland with highs in the upper 80s and 90 to new york city with a hotter heat index. storms are impacting michigan right now. >>> now to footage from china. a mud slide swept across a busy road. the wave of mud suddenly washes over several cars pushing them right off the road. eight vehicles were buried trapping 16 people. three of

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we're watching a cluster, a series of these across the midwest whipping through cincinnati now.hat will push into our neck of the woods as we head into the overnight hours tonight. that will bring severe weather to the area, strong gusty winds and cloud to ground lightning strikes and torrential downpours. 79 in philadelphia. wilmington, 82. millville, 82. allentown, 78 degrees, the day planner looks like, lots of clouds and limited sun, peeks of sunshine, the thunderstorm threat is not until the evening hours. 84 degrees by 3:00 p.m. 85 degrees by 5:00 p.m. another check of satellite and radar. note here's the last cluster in the series that we've seen over the last several days. note there's nothing going on across the high plains and the heartland. nation. once this pushes through, the weather will shut down. we'll see comfortable temperatures and quieter weather pattern sets up. how much strong will the cluster be? we have ground to cloud brightening strikes reported, heavy drenching downpours, as the afternoon gets going we get the heating from the sun, that will change. ri

meanwhile in the midwest, unprecedented flooding. after days of severe storms. officials in illinois say close to 7,000 structures are damaged. now massive sand-bagging operation as rivers continue to swell. >> it's a lot of work. hopefully, it will protect our things. we don't destroyed. it's tough dealing with this. >> reporter: mother nature's fury displacing thousands in the midwest. >>> in washington, opponents to the senate republicans' health care bill may have just gotten the opening they needed. a vote on the bill was postponed following the health emergency of a key senator. it comes as president trump's approval ratings reach record lows. just as hi pushes congress to act. kelly o'donnell has more. >> reporter: for a second day, the president played host to world class golf at his bedminster club. but his shot at repealing the health care law is on hold and delivering on his pledge is uncertain. it's a boost to protesters. >> health care is a human right. >> reporter: the delay follows unexpected surgery for senator john mccain who had a blood clot bu

. >> reporter: tonight, destruction across the midwest. powerful floodwaters ravaging entire towns and the storm is not over yet. this home carried two football fields away from it's foundation in kentucky. >> we looked around, seen the outside neighbor's house and our neighbor's house was turned and we just got out. >> reporter: dozens more, rescued from the raging waters. >> be advised, woman in her car the water is up to her knees. >> reporter: tonight, the missing after his house was swept away. >> this is epic for us. we've never had anything like this. >> reporter: nearly the entire town of fairbank, iowa desperately filling sandbags, trying to barricade their homes. a similar scene in in illinois. the galena river rising. and in indianapolis, race officials temporarily suspending the brickyard 400 after lightning was reported in the area. the storms moving east. in new york, we're under a flash flood watch. in the midwest, a painstaking wait for the waters to recede. >> kait parker is filling in for rob marciano tonight. >> reporter