Tens of hundreds of thousands struggling by way of brutal warmth wave throughout Midwest and Northeast

Around 80 million Americans within the Midwest and Northeast are nonetheless underneath excessive warmth alerts after greater than a dozen cities noticed record-high temperatures Wednesday. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano has extra from Philadelphia, the place a warmth well being emergency has been declared. And Dave Velazquez, president and CEO of vitality firm Peco, joined CBS News to debate the warmth’s impact on electrical energy grids.

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