This could be one of the hottest Fourth of July holidays on record, and experts are advising pregnant women to make a plan before heading out to celebrate.
Firefighters working on the nation's largest current wildfire, burning in southern Utah, are being challenged by historic weather conditions. Extreme wildfire behavior is expected to continue through the weekend.
On the waterfront in Lucerne, Switzerland, soccer fans watched jumbo TVs showing a World Cup match played an ocean away. But the air felt more like the tropics.
In May, a sudden burst of rain in Atlanta snarled parts of the city. It also overwhelmed a wastewater tunnel on the Chattahoochee, dumping untreated sewage into the river and killing thousands of fish. The city says it's investigating, but could it happen again?
PBS Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) provides a vital back up path for the delivery of FEMA emergency messages (including severe weather and Amber alerts) to Cellular Providers across the country via the PBS Satellite Network.
See PBS WARNin actionwith a map showing all active Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) in the US, which WARN is broadcasting in real time.
