In the day's other headlines, this week's life-threatening heat wave is peaking in some parts of the Northeast,

with more than 160 million people enduring brutal conditions. The purple you see represents extreme

heat warnings. They cover much of the eastern seaboard, including major cities like New York,

Philadelphia, and Boston. All three have declared heat emergencies with temperatures

hitting triple digits. Meantime, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season has

formed. Tropical storm Andrea is not expected to hit land and is set to dissipate by tomorrow night.

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told lawmakers today that he's hired

back nearly 1,000 staff who'd been laid off from the CDC and the National Institutes of Health.

Kennedy had vowed to cut 10,000 jobs across those agencies, plus the Food and Drug Administration.

He acknowledged today that some who were let go are needed after all, even as he

maintained that shrinking his department remains a priority.

Throwing money at this agency has not worked. We need to realign the agency. We need to recalibrate its trajectory,

so that it transforms our health care system from a sick care system into a health care system.

Also on Capitol Hill, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told a House committee that the Fed is, in his words, well positioned to wait and see how the economy plays out before making any adjustments to interest rates.

That's despite intense pressure from President Trump, who often criticizes Powell personally

for not cutting rates immediately.

The National Transportation Safety Board says failures at several levels led to a door plug panel

to come off during an Alaska Airlines flight last year.

An accident like this only happens when there are multiple system failures.

In a hearing today, NTSB chair Jennifer Homandy blamed Boeing, its supplier,

and the Federal Aviation Administration for the incident.

She credited the heroic actions of the crew for preventing any fatalities.

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