Heat wave slams the Southwest

All right. Here's a live look at Las Vegas right now for record-breaking heat that is continuing through the weekend. Meteorologist Jessica Burch has another look at your national weather. And that's your hometown. Oh, my gosh. Viva Las Vegas. It's hot out there today, not just in Vegas, but widespread throughout the Southwest. And at this point, it's just another day of record-breaking heat in communities like Phoenix, Arizona, Las Vegas, Nevada, Dallas, Texas today, and another day of record-breaking heat all the way into New Mexico. This goes on three days now of breaking records set way back in 1971, for example, in Albuquerque. So we continue to watch this area of high pressure just dominate the South. And daytime highs today are sitting about 20 degrees above average in Las Vegas from that live shot. It's hard to tell, but you head over into Albuquerque. We're about 25 degrees above average today. Similar conditions all the way into Louisville, Kentucky, 86 degrees today. We turn the page tomorrow. They're going to start seeing some relief in sight the more north we go, but it's still hot and above average, anywhere from Tampa stretched all the way over into the Southwest too, where daytime highs are actually going to start changing as we head into the next six to ten days. Now the Climate Prediction Center has been on top of this temperature outlook. Now you see all that red. It's shifting off into the east. Day by day this week, we've watched this area of high pressure kind of dominate all the South but move slowly closer to the Gulf. We'll see some relief in sight along the West Coast-- West Coast, excuse me-- which is much needed for this time of year. And they're actually about to get some moisture right around the corner, too. But when you're talking about these hot temperatures in places like Denver and Phoenix, and then you factor in low relative humidity down to about 4% today in some of these micro-climates, on top of gusty winds forecasted anywhere up to around 40 to 50 miles per hour, it really takes a toll on these communities with dry conditions and gusty conditions. We have red flag warnings in effect right now from Colorado into Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas as well. We'll talk more about this coming up in just a bit.

All right, Jess, thank you so much.