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again, it was very valuable. reporter: there were three separate cooling sections set up along this parade route and we understand that almost 10,000 people all told by the time the parade was over had gone through and gotten cooled off in that water. back to you, doreen. looks like a good idea to me. thank you, jackie benson reporting. that heat advisory remains in effect and it will get worse before it gets better, we re told. doug kammerer, tell us about that. any time you add on another day of heat and that day is coming tomorrow where i do think the temperatures will be at the level they were today and the heat index could be more and that will put the heat index to 100 to 105 tomorrow and you put that back-to-back and you could be talking problems. 94 degrees, the current temperature with the heat index of 99 and that s the way it feels when you step outside and that s why the entire area under the heat advisory all of the way through the night tonight and in th
hello, jim, not just people watching parade, but participants in the parade. you remember that a lot of these marching bands are high school students and they re wearing the heavy uniforms made out of wool, the hats and the bass drums and the tuba. we have a whole bunch of young people there just enjoying the cooling tower that the d.c. fire department has put up, trying to get everybody cooled off as they try to get everyone in a safe situation down here because it has been a situation where temperatures have reached very dangerous conditions. i am joined by pete perringer, d.c. fire and ems. can you tell us what the preparations were for heat and normally, i mean, this is like the fourth of july. it couldn t be 50 degrees and raining. liquid gold proved its worth, but we had a couple of cooling stations where the paid pa raid started. of course, they were staged and i don t know how long before the parade and by the time the parade ended at about three or four hours later