on the first day of summer, it's fire and rain across america with surfside beach, texas, still soaked from the far sweep of tropical storm alberto, which made landfall in new mexico earlier today. >> really weird looking out your living room window and just seeing water. >> everywhere. >> everywhere. >> reporter: driving around this texas town you see palm trees protruding from pools of water and vacationers perched on decks like erica fine waiting to retrieve her car. >> we're waiting for high tide to go through. >> so current status is trapped? >> yeah, yeah, we're just a little bit stranded. >> reporter: the storm leaving a wake of damage along texas' coastline with a tornado ripping this roof in rockport. >> it was all over the place. >> reporter: while flood waters remain in surfside beach. >> we thought everything was going to be clearing up pretty good this morning, but about 5:30 high tide hit and storm surge came back in, and we were right back to where we were yesterday. >> reporter: record breaking heat elsewhere in the u.s. living up to the term summer solstice. >> brutal.

back to you. >> sam brock in surfside beach, texas, thank you very much. antonia, how hot is it going to get there? >> reporter: temperatures are about to start climbing into the 90s here in the new york area. the real feel could potentially feel like it is almost 100 degrees. so, new yorkers are still trying to enjoy the city and their summer. they're spending a lot of time in the shade. people out here are wearing hats, carrying sun block and every family that i've spent time with, they tell me they're carrying lots of extra water on them. that's because this kind of heat, you know, in this region, it is going to be about 10 to 20 degrees higher than what they're used to at times here. and, you know, it can be a silent killer for the very young, for young kids, for the elderly and also people with certain medical conditions. as well as your pets who don't have the ability to tell you that they're feeling too hot. take a listen to a conversation i had with one woman about how she and her dog are planning to beat the heat. >> the afternoon walk, which is u

el viejo de houston con su familia para pasar unos días en surfside.cen lo posible para salir de allí, ya que, según las autoridades, la situación podría empeorar. aquí en esta área, si si, pero todavía como. pues pues ola que viene más agua y que no se va a hacer mucho más hondo aquí. cuál es el mayor temor? pues que se moja las casas, no más. ese es so it's definitely like you know. Él lleva más de 40 años viviendo en la zona we have equate y sabe que si la situación se intensifica, tendrá que evacuar. muchos temen perderlo todo. hículos han terminado bajo el agua. otros están a salvo en lo más alto del puente de entrada a la costa hay zonas intransitables y muchas familias intentan salir de sus hogares con sus mascotas. otros desafían el peligro para cruzar hacia el otro lado, donde están sus viviendas y el mayor temor que tienen algunas personas que viven en este lugar es que la situación continúe empeorando y se vean obligados a dejar sus hogares. la información que tenemos desde surfside, rubén guzmán, noticias, telemundo, lo. atención ahora esta

and beach towns like surfside, texas, under water. this driver stranded in flooded streets forced to abandon her car. but police were able to safely help the young women get to higher ground. >> it's definitely worse than i expected, or i'd been gone, you know? so -- i should have been more prepared. >> reporter: tonight, the texas governor issuing a disaster declaration for 51 county, and activating the national guard as the coast braces for up to ten inches of rain, flash flooding, and possible tornadoes. with tropical storm alberto now headed for landfall in mexico overnight, officials here in texas are urging residents to hunker down. >> stocked up on water, everything, did all that. we pretty much did everything we were able to do to take precautions, bought extra batteries, lights, bought a couple of generators just in case. >> reporter: and david, as you can see here, some parts of corpus christi impassable. this as we wait for alberto to move through. there is still a real threat of more flooding across south texas. david? >>

in surfside beach, a town on a barrier island floating following the storm damaged roads and left some houses with our power, locals or pricing for more storms to come. he'd waive in saudi arabia, has led to the deaths of more than a 1000 people in the city of mac. i during the annual hodge pilgrimage, according to the s p news agency, at least 2000 were hospitalized as temperatures rose up of 50 degrees celsius. the hatch is one of the largest gatherings in the world with an estimated 1800000 people attending this year. following in the footsteps of profits of religious journey in blistering heat beneath a burning sun. more than 1800000 was in his travels to saudi arabia, to make the holy pilgrimage from mecca to mount to have a fat and back again. it's a journey of more than 20 kilometers, meant to be traveled on foot over $5.00 to $6.00 day period. to the pilgrims. it's a profoundly spiritual experience that helps white provides send but this yeah. temperatures in isms hardly as city mecca reached a scorching 51.8 degrees celsius. extreme heat took its toll, leading to thousands of

in surfside beach 60 miles south of houston a police officer in a raft rescued people in flood waters. the rains left two feet of water in the streets. some residents were forced to evacuate 3 about 40 mile was in galveston, juneteenth events had to be rescheduled due to flooded streets. a unicorn float was spotted drifting through the flood waters. >>> 18 states are sweat ing through this blistering heat wave with more than a dozen cities hitting new record highs. and today will be much of the same. temperatures will rise to the middle of the upper 90s from columbus, ohio, to boston. heat indexes will make it feel well above 100. we have a report from a brutally hot philadelphia. >> reporter: in the city of brotherly love, the heat came early. >> it's super hot. >> emt says he's bracing for a busy season. >> yeah, last summer it was actually summer when we started getting our heatstrokes. >> reporter: the city has already declared its first heat health emergency of the year through saturday. in vermont -- >> we are out here for the next couple days trying to beat the heat. >> reporte

comunidades enteras como surfside aÚn estÁn incomunicadas por los altos niveles de agua en corpus christirescate recorren hoy las zonas mÁs afectadas en busca de damnificados y autoridades. le piden a la poblaciÓn quedarse en casa porque el peligro aÚn es latente. >> queremos decirle a las personas que no bajen la guardia, que la. la verdad es que esta alerta de inundaciÓn continÚa hasta esta noche. >> por fortuna no se reportan fallecidos, pero los daÑos econÓmicos pueden ser muy cuantiosos, pues muchos negocios cerraron sus puertas por la tormenta y otros tienen daÑos por los vientos y el agua. esta noche los dos incendios en ruidoso nuevo mÉxico siguen fuera de control. mÁs de 800 bomberos trabajan para poder contenerlos. hasta el momento, hay dos muertes reportadas y mÁs de 1500 estructuras calcinadas. por otra parte, en california hay nueve juegos activos y los dos mÁs grandes uno es colosa y el otro estÁ en los Ángeles. superan los 35.000 acres quemados tambiÉn en nuevo mÉxico, una enorme tormenta de polvo provocada por fuertes tormentas elÉctricas se abriÓ paso a lo largo de mÁs de

por las fuertes corrientes que las cÁmaras de noticias telemundo captaron esta tarde en el Área de surfsideua. los niveles subieron hasta dos pies con la amenaza de mÁs lluvia. esta noche, este hombre quedÓ atrapado en corpus christi. joÉe lo describiÓ como una pesadilla bastante carros hay abajo del agua dorados. >> algunos que se parqueÓ aquÍ en el lago. ya, ya no nos funcionaba porque era elÉctrico. >> el gobernador greg abed activÓ a miembros de la guardia nacional para asistir a posibles damnifica dos, al tiempo que ciudades como robson repartÍan sacos de arena para tratar de detener el paso de la corriente en las zonas mÁs bajas. esta primera tormenta da una muestra de lo que se anticipa. serÁ una larga y activa temporada de huracanes. el gobernador de texas, greg abbott, ha hecho una declaraciÓn de desastre en 51 condados en toda la zona costera de texas y estÁn pidiendo que todos se queden en casa en corpus christi, texas. francisco cuevas noticias, telemundo. >> y ahora, para saber cuÁl es la trayectoria y lo que se espera de alberto, pero tambiÉn la otra emergencia que enfrenta el

take a look at these photos from surfside beach. i talked to the assistant director of ems there and he tells me that they rescued a woman yesterday, that they had about four foot swells there and that today they're expecting said six foot swells, so they're on high alert to make sure that all the residents are okay. we also have photos from matagorda. this is between surfside beach and corpus christi. here where i am and you can see that those homes are on pilings the water is flowing underneath and that's why those homes are designed that way because of rising waters when they're storms, this usually happens now, sarah, as you can see behind me, there's homes here too, that are underwater from talking to officials here in corpus christi the they tell me that they're counting their blessings, even though you see a lot of water here, because there are no deaths, there are no injuries, there is no major damage. and they tell me and so they are hoping that what happens today is that these waters can seed that they can drain away, and

. >> there is how bad the flooding is in surfside beach. the top of this abandoned car was almost submerged. we have seen people break out kayaks but someone decided it was the perfect time to use their unicorn floaty >> did you ever see the unicorn floaty? >> i don't know that i did. but i saw my fair share of tropical storms and flooding. >> oh, yeah, you shared those stories before. that part of the country. withy got our different types of headline making events. we are mildly experiencing one of them now. the smoke. we looked at that at the top of the newscast. i want to switch gears, first thing is first. tomorrow, an old friend is coming back with a little more intention than it had today. did you notice the marine layer this morning? searching it back in tomorrow. we are going to wake up tomorrow to june gloom. more than today. and, this morning it was pretty good. by 10:00, 11:00, this all melted back. just over just the peninsula. it gets everybody tomorrow morning >> and you can have a cold start. you may have noticed some of the

i know you showed that dramatic video from surfside beach, texas. i talked to ems there may say that they're expecting six foot swells. jim's, so just imagine those folks trying to make sure that everybody there is safe. jim, back to you that is wild. >> well, there's me a huge cleanup effort there for days to come where you are, rosa. thank you. and ed, how are things where you are well, it looks like they're starting to get the upper hand or possibly will be able to get the upper hand on this wildfire here in ruidoso, new mexico and in the coming hours, because that cloud cover you see behind me has brought a great deal of rain overnight and this morning and one local fire official says that has really helped dramatically stopping the spread of this massive wildfire near ria dosa. >> there's actually two massive wildfires that we've been reporting on since monday that have burned more than 23 thousand acres, forcing more than 8,000 people to evacuate their homes. we were in ruidoso yesterday. it's essentially a smoke-filled ghost town from what we

we also have photos of matagorda, texas, which just between surfside beach and corpus christi. here where i am. and you can also see that the water is going underneath those homes again, that piling design where the our homes are raised some of those homes have something called breakaway garages. in other words, any thing that's underneath those homes when there's water, it breaks away. that's by design. so that the that the home can be safe back here in corpus christi sara, i can tell you i talked to officials and they're counting their blessings today because they say, look, there's no deaths, there's no injuries here in corporis and there's some damage, but it's not major damage. and the other big sign, sara and you'll know this from working in the field that the storm has gone all the birds are out i don't know where they go during a store, but you probably hear them around me. we're seeing all the birds this morning coming back. they're smarter than humans. >> really good indicator. that is absolutely true but this is really a coastal story and it shows just how powerful t

i mean, the storm was 300 miles away from surfside beach in the pictures there are just unbelievable. we will continue to see the rainfall here. go ahead and push the map ahead. we will see that rain kind of spin around into parts of texas also into mexico right now, only a 35 mile per hour tropical depression here is surfside beach, texas water over the top of the jd, there should be a beach here. well, there is a beach there. it just can't see it because there's so much water on top of three-and-a-half woods, serge. and so that's what's happening here. water coming over the top of these levees and into the cities. and for the most part, this is going to be with us for the next day or two, then things kinda slack off. we will take the rainfall. in fact, jake, i know you're just talking to 11 deir out there in parts of new mexico and the good news overnight, the relative humidity was 100%. some of this moisture, at least the humidity got into new mexico and all that didn't stop the fires, at least some of the plants got some humidity. so the fires it's may not spread as quickly do we

. >> sintiendo los efectos de a alberto, comunidad enteras como surfside aun estan incomunicadas poreles de agua. >> en corpus christi, otra zona afectada, residentes se ven obligados a utilizar todo tipo de transporte para navegar las calles que quedaron convertidas en rios. >> jose tuvo que salir en una canoa en busca de medicinas para un familiar. >> ¿como esta tu casa? >> hasta alla de agua y luego los trocas se y el agua se entra a la casa. >> equipos de rescate recorren hoy las zonas mas afectadas d damnificados, asistiendo tambien a personas que han quedado atrapadas en sus autos, al t tiempo que las autoridades continuan pidiendo a la po poblacion, que se quede en casa porque el peligro es aun l latente. >> queremos decirle a las p personas que no bajen la gu guardia, que la verdad es que esta alerta de inundacion continua hasta esta noche. >> no se reportan de fata fatalidades, pero los danos economicos podrian ser grandes. >> no nos dejan entrar por la cantidad de agua que ha entrado, ha saturado las calles, las entradas, entonces por el momento no podemos tener acceso. >>

sam brock is in surfside beach. >> really weird looking out your living room window and just seeing water. >> everywhere. >> we're waiting for high tide to go down to drive through. >> reporter: current status is trapped. >> yeah, yeah. we're just a little built stranded. >> massive wildfires continue to burn in new mexico. the whipping winds triggering a dust storm near albuquerque, leaving nearly a dozen people injured. millions are still sweltering under a heat dome. in bangor, maine, the heat index climbing to 106. and the heat could climb even higher today. let's get right to michelle grossman with more on what we can expect and when we're going to finally get some relief, michelle. good morning. >> good morning, frances. i know, it keeps going on and on. we're going to see this lasting throughout the weekend and into next week. let's take a look at what's happening this morning. 64 million people from the great lakes to the ohio valley into the northeast, also parts of new england. northern new england getting a break today. that's good news. heat advisories, heat watches, heat warn

. >> reporter: in surfside beach rescuers coming to the aid of stranded residents by boats as texas prepped about 20 agencies for emergency action. the flooding in our south coming as heat and fire impact millions across the country. raging new mexico infernos have claimed the life of a talented guitarist while a heat wave smothers about 65 million people from the great lakes to the northeast. few tonight feeling good about this weather nightmare. >> we've just never been through anything like this before, and we're just going to have to take it one day at a time. >> and sam, it looks like this isn't over yet. >> reporter: no, lester, it's not. we are expecting more rain. but looks like high tide projected tomorrow about 5:15 in the morning higher. down this road about a half mile is the bay. you cannot tell right now where the bay ends and the road starts. >> sam brock starting us off, thank you. >>> in north korea the growing alliance between kim jong-un and russia's vladimir putin was on full display, raising concerns in the u.s. tonight. here's janis mackey frayer. >> reporter: tonight

brought heavy rain and storm surge flooding to parts of texas, including the beach community of surfsideighborhood streets were underwater. in galveston, the storm surge was over 4 feet, inundating blocks and blocks of the beachside community. the flooding in jamaica beach caught patrick wilson off guard. >> they said jamaica beach was one of the worst, i guess. >> reporter: in nearby san leon, neighbors say this storm is bringing out the best in people. >> we keep an eye on each other and take care of one another. >> reporter: here in corpus christi, this rv park was a few feet above sea level on tuesday. this is what it looks like after alberto. residents who rode it out here ended up isolated on an island. this family was making the most of it in a raft, while tourists stuck in high water pushed their family van up hill. are you stalled out here? >> stalled out. and i can't even put it into drive. >> reporter: this as americans in 18 states are under heat alerts. records broken in several northeast cities. the high temperatures forcing some schools to close early. the sun was way too

in surfside, south of houston, rain totals have already topped nearly 4 inches.rch-and-rescue teams were out on the water rafts looking to rescue people, and they found two women stranded in a car. the water nearly up to their tires. they both got out. some residents were forced to evacuate. >> oh, the whole trash can got moved. >> reporter: overnight, water started gushing from the ocean onto the roads, and the forecast calls for even more storm surge. this is an abandoned vehicle. you can see the water sweeping almost all the way to the top. in galveston, several juneteenth events were rescheduled due to flooded streets. in jamaica beach, flooding closed most streets to traffic. in corpus christi, our crew drove closer to the marina. you could see the water almost spilling onto the streets. but the rain did not stop essential worker tony juarez from delivering porta-potties in the tropical storm band. what's it like in the middle of all of this? >> just raining rain, you know? it's not fun. but we are out here doing it. >> reporter: this street in the city now

por las fuertes corrientes que las camaras de noticias telemundo captaron esta tarde en el area de surfsidemuestra la co comunidad de treasure island, al sur de houston, en peligro de quedar de quedar bajo bajo agua los niveles subieron hasta dos pies con la amenaza de mas lluvia esta noche este hombre quedo atrapado en corpus c christi. >> jose lo describio como una pesadilla. >> que se parqueo aqui en el lado, ya no funcionaba porque era el electrico. >> el gobernador greg abbott activo a miembros de la guardia nacional para asistir a posibles damnificados, al tiempo que ciudades como robson repartian sacos de arena para tratar de detener el paso de la corriente en las zonas mas el golfo bajas. >> aqui a veces consolo de que hayan tormentas en el golfo, sin que haya llovido, aqui se inunda. >> esta tarde, la costa tejana continuo bajo alertas de inundaciones, esta primera tormenta da una muestra de lo que se anticipa sera una larga y activa temporada de huracanes. >> en corpus christi, francisco cuevas, noticias telemundo. >> acelera su paso, se espera que toque tierra cerca de t tamaulip

brought heavy rain and storm surge flooding to parts of texas, including the beach community of surfsidetreets were underwater. in galveston, the storm surge was over four feet, inundating blocks and blocks of the beachside community. the flooding in jamaica beach caught patrick wilson off guard. >> they said jamaica beach was one of the worst, i guess. >> reporter: in nearby san lyon, neighbors say this storm is bringing out the best in people. >> we keep an eye on each other and take care of one another. >> reporter: here in corpus christi, this rv park was a few feet above sea level on tuesday. this is what it looks like after alberto. residents who rode it out here ended up isolated on an island. this as americans in 18 states are under heat alerts. records broken in several northeast cities. the high temperatures forcing some schools to close early. the sun was way too hot for high school graduation in clifton, new jersey, so students had to wait until night. not a bad idea. >> i'm actually so happy about it because it was going to be like 90 degrees out at 3:00 p.m. >> reporter: wi

in surfside south of houston rain totals have already topped nearly four inches.ere out on the water rafts looking to rescue people and they found two women stranded in a car. the water nearly up to their tires. they both got out. some residents were forced to evacuate. >> oh, the whole trash thing got moved. >> reporter: overnight water started gushing from the ocean onto the roads, and the forecast calls for even more storm surge. this is an abandoned vehicle. you can see the water sweeping almost all the way to the top. but the rain did not stop essential worker tony juarez from delivering port-a-potties in the tropical storm band. what's it like in the middle of all this? >> just rain and rain, you know. it's not fun. but we're out here doing it. >> reporter: these bands are not only dumping water on top of us but it's also lapping up all this storm surge. this used to be a street right in the heart of corpus christi on north beach, but now it looks more like a river. you can't even tell where the street stops and the bay begins. >> that was cbs's dave malkoff

americans are dealing with another dave, extreme weather look at this new video of the storm surge at surfsideeach in texas this morning. >> wow. >> all of this from tropical storm alberto that made landfall in mexico just hours ago, one state over areas of new mexico devastated by wildfires are now at risk of flash flooding also on our radar today, the dangerous heatwave that won't let up. it's putting around 80 million people at risk across the midwest and the northeast were tracking at all. cnn's rosa flores is in corpus christi for us ed lavandera isn't capital in new mexico ed, let me go to you first. what's what's happening on your end of things well, jim, overnight and into this morning, there has been significant rainfall were told by a local firefighting official jill here, that that has really helped in terms of helping keep and prevent the spread of this massive wildfire. >> wildfires around the ria dosa, new mexico air korea, so that is some good news, however, that rainfall has come in such heavy bursts at times that it is triggered mudslides and the other foot flash flooding even

now, we also have video of sun surfside beach here in texas, because this scene is duplicated all along the texas gulf coast. you can see those dramatic pictures. these are homes that are on pilings that are designed for the water to roll underneath just because these people are used to the water rising, especially during thunderstorms, are other weather events. but briana, that just gives you a sense of the situation here, even though this storm is hundreds of miles away from where we are. and yet we are still seeing water rising here. brianna, back to you. >> what photos, what pictures we have coming in there, rosa, thank you so much. and we'll continue to follow this as the water water is rising there and corpus christi still to come, louisiana public schools and colleges will now be required to display the ten commandments in classrooms after a new bill what was signed into law by the governor, their civil liberties groups are vowing action. the state's governor says, bring it on. we're going to talk to one of the coauthors of the bill the belief that is meant to unite the round you

the gust whipped up strong storm surge that overwhelmed the barrier island city of surfside beach, texasre than 600 miles away. >> i came here to have fun for vacation, but we can't have fun because there's a lot of water everywhere, and our plans didn't go as how we planned it. >> other texas coastal communities, including brownsville, corpus christi and galveston weren't spared by the downpours and flooding either. over in mexico, officials say alberto is responsible for at least four deaths. but while the storm brought showers as it moved further inland, washing out a section of a major roadway in the city of monterrey, some residents in tampico say the system still didn't bring enough water to areas impacted by drought. >> la esperanza de q what can i say? >> we had hoped that it would come because water is so needed here, but as far as i can tell, it went somewhere else. >> as affected communities focus on cleanup efforts, fox's forecast center is reporting alberto triggered above average coastal flooding, then expected. i'm chanley painter, fox news. >> thank you. chanley millions