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Tonight, tens of millions of Americans swelter in triple-digit temperatures as Tropical Storm Herald hits Texas, bringing flash flooding and possible tornadoes. Here are tonight's headlines.

We're talking heat index values 120, even 130 in some cases.

The double weather threat tonight as a heat dome bakes a third of the country.

Plus, the developing situation as

Tropical Storm Herald makes landfall.

The big cleanup is begun and neighbors are helping neighbors dig out. And out west,

hundreds of patients moved after a hospital loses power. And look at this, sparks fly as a plane lands during tropical storm Hillary.

A tragic start to the school year. After a bus full of kids is run off the road, killing one and

injuring more than 20. The status tonight on their conditions. Former President Trump says he will travel to Georgia Thursday to face charges of trying to overturn

the results of the 2020 election in the state.

Former White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, asked for an extension to surrender, and

the district attorney basically slapped that down.

We're all watching. The world is watching. Maui's mayor faces backlash for his role during

the fire. Our new reporting as recovery efforts enter a new phase.

In New York City, a new center is just opened up on Randall's Island.

It's expected to house up to 3,000 migrants.

This is a sign of a crisis, greatest, I believe, humanitarian crisis the city has ever witnessed.

Shakari Richardson has won the world title.

And Shakari Richardson becomes the world's fastest woman.

I had to come with it because they're going to come with it.

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