WARNING: Record-breaking heat wave
Record-breaking heat is expected across the US this weekend in Las Vegas and Southwest.
Dangerous and deadly heat wave sends temperatures soaring past 100F from the California desert to the hills of West Virginia. Record-breaking heat is expected across the U.S this week. In Arizona, including Phoenix, temperatures could get as high as 120F. The heat wave in the Southwest starts this weekend and won't break until the middle of end of next week. Meanwhile, another heat wave is sweeping the Midwest and Plains states...
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California on fire, polluting air
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(ABC News) Firefighters are battling a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of campgrounds and ranches.
They were struggling with strong overnight winds and bracing for rising temperatures as an extreme heat wave is expected to sweep across the Southwest this weekend.
They were struggling with strong overnight winds and bracing for rising temperatures as an extreme heat wave is expected to sweep across the Southwest this weekend.
The fire was 20 percent contained but so-called "sundowner" winds that rush down the mountains in 40 mph gusts were beginning to kick up again Friday night, fire officials said.
"It's very hot and dangerous," Susan Klein-Rothschild with the county health department said of the blaze. "The last couple of nights...it's calmer during the day and the eruptions and explosions and expansions have happened during the night hours."
Weekend fire dangers already were expected to worsen as the heat wave will bring potentially record-shattering temperatures across the Southwest. More
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