. >> we're from pottstown, pennsylvania. >> celebrating mom's 60th. >> welcome back to "today."rsday morning. it's already hot out there. good reason to come back tomorrow. >> kacey musgraves, one of the biggest stars in country music, is going to be right here, singing songs for us. >> rocking the should be a good concert. >> let's get to the news at 8:00, and the weather is at the top. the heat and humidity soar to dangerous levels across most of the country. it's going to get ghworse, ri >> unfortunately. when you look at the heat indices map, we're talking 29 ea states under h alerts. 2,000 miles worth of this, and we have been seeing this heat building all through the month of june. in fact, june was really a new record, breaking the record glebally a alloss the world, 1.7 degrees above average. and greenland ice shelf is near a recordune melt. severe european heat wave, extreme warmth in siberia, and closer to home, the ht ison. dangerous combinations of heat and humidity. it's going to feel triple digits in st. louis, chicago, nneapolis, wichita, dallas, atlanta, raleigh,