Chris Cantell Discusses US News: It"s getting hot by Claudia Sonea

Washington is melting down. Overwhelming temperatures and high humidity made the residents feel like they are a Sunday pie baking. In the morning there was reported a temperature of 31 Celsius degrees, but due to the level of humidity the heat index rose at 37, breaking all records. At Reagan National Airport, near downtown Washington, the record established in 1930 was beaten by a 39 Celsius degrees temperature. Unfortunately the heatwave made victims and a railway worker in Oklahoma (according to chief medical investigator Kevin Rowland he was hospitalized with 42.2 degrees temperature) and an elderly person in Arkansas died. It is extended on an area from the Midwestern plains of Kansas to the Atlantic coast. Also there were power cuts and the city transport slow down, because railway tracks started to bend. The hot weather is about to change according to the National Weather Service, severe thunderstorms with damaging winds are expected in the areas of Washington, Maryland and West Virginia. In Washington five air-conditioned "cooling centers" opened to provide relief for the homeless and the geysers on fire hydrants at city-run housing developments were opened. Rosalind Redmond of the Washington Shelter Hotline said that bottles of water are shared too. Actions took place in order to make sure that there won't be anymore deaths reported. However, the weather cast is nor reliable and people are getting restless. Because residents switched on air conditioners, the problem of the power has entered in the Tennessee Valley Authority attention. The sun is up and shinning, but it's getting too hot to enjoy. Still, drink a lot of water and eat fruits.

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