Welcome to Friday’s Bronx news roundup. Let’s get down to business, starting with the scorched earth we are all living through here in the Boogie Down and elsewhere around the country.

Weather: The National Weather Service says temperatures could reach 104 this afternoon and have issued an Excessive Heat warning. (My question: is there an Egregious Heat warning?) Tomorrow it is supposed cool down to a high of 100. We won’t see any real relief until Monday when temperatures are expected to drop down into the relatively frigid low-80s!