 This is America in the Morning. Welcome back. Intense heat wave in the west. Here's AccuWeather.com meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. This Independence Day holiday will mean yet another day of extreme heat spreading across portions of the west, especially within a zone from eastern Oregon and Idaho southward through Nevada, California, and Arizona. Winds off the water are expected to fight off the worst heat from coastal cities like San Francisco, but strong and deepening high pressure ensures that areas from much of Arizona to the deserts of southern California