 With that sort of news, I'm Bob Agnew in Washington. Barrel has begun leaving Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The next stop will be East Texas after the storm grows stronger over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. That's leading to some very serious storm warnings. People are being warned to prepare. A slow-moving and potentially record-setting heat wave is spreading across parts of the West. In Portland, Oregon, some people are finding it a very hard time trying to keep cool and going into air-conditioned office buildings if that's what it takes.