Nightly News   |  August 04, 2011

Extreme weather lingers

Tropical storm Emily has been downgraded to a rain system, while elsewhere in the country temperatures were well above 100 degrees from Oklahoma City to Dallas, and touching the 100 mark in parts of the Southeast as well. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: More hot weather to contend with in parts of the country today. Temperatures were well above 100 degrees from Oklahoma City to Dallas . Touched the 100 mark in parts of the Southeast as well. And some good news tonight for our friends in southern Florida . They've downgraded Tropical Storm Emily . After slamming into Haiti , where, remember, there's still so much suffering going on after that quake, the core of the storm has largely fallen apart. It's now a big rain system. It could do some regenerating, but it's still good news after all those scary projection maps for this first big storm of the season.